Bram Tollick

Bram Tollick keeps a door. The Casimor watch-post on Krilzat is the one hereditary command in the Kingdom that still means something on the ground, held on service rather than blood and filled the way the Sergeant tier has always been filled, and the service it holds is the Castle: the old keep inside the watch's own stone, with one door, which the watch has kept since before the Kingdom's count of monarchs begins. Bram is the keeper's son and has had the bar of that door in his hands since he could reach it.

What the Record Holds

He has seen the Castle's people all his life. They go by at their hours in the long hall, each the same way each time, seen as light, never answering, and the watch has never had names for them, because the watch keeps no chronicle; the names are the court's, learned on Vellamar by children who have never seen the Castle. When Knight Pellam's youngest came up to the post at the start of a storm season with the first names by heart, he gave her, for the first time in his life, which way each one walks, and she gave him their names. The record holds it in The Names Go By (S13E01C01).

The watch keeps a count rather than a record: a notch cut in the door-post for every room a keeper has stood in. The post has more notches than Bram can count, and the last keeper to cut one was his grandmother. Nobody has walked to the end of the Castle. Bram's account of why is the watch's: it has none.

What the Record Does Not Carry

What he thinks the Castle's people are, beyond that they are the Castle's. Whether he has gone further in than the notches. Anything the delegation knows of him, since the delegation has not been to Krilzat.

Character Notes

He is the court's strand's second young keeper, the watch's half of the pairing the strand runs on: the house's youngest brings the names, and the keeper's son brings the seeing, and neither record is whole without the other. His reading of the Castle is the watch's and never the record's.