Lenka

An archivist from the eastern lowlands tradition. She understands systems. She studies how things connect, how power flows through structures, how old agreements hold weight across centuries. She is not evil. She is institutional. She sees a person and sees a resource. She calls the seeing scholarship. Her argument has weight: the things these old systems preserve protect thousands of people. Understanding them serves the greater good. Whether the greater good is worth what it costs the person inside the system is a question she would prefer to answer theoretically. More will be revealed in Book 3.

Research. Archival knowledge. She can read the binding system's notation, its architecture, its connections. She is the only living person who can.