Ilvane

Ilvane is Krenyi, one of the Quiet-Built, and a boundary analyst of the Survey Corps. Nai before her name is the state-marker her people use, a courtesy meaning still relevant here, and not part of the name. She is the author of one document in the record, The Cloth, as Taught, set down at the Division's request and received in 2825 UCSD, and the record holds her as a Champion, selected by field signature, as every selection is filed.

The document exists because of one sentence in a recertification log. Certifying a boundary post's fold approach, she wrote that the fold was a privilege of the cloth, and the Division could not place the phrase. Asked, she said it came from a Levril. She agreed to write the teaching down on two conditions, both kept: that she would write what was taught in the terms it was taught in and nothing of the teacher, and that the Division would hold the account at the grade it holds and no higher. The grade is carried.

Known History

• Four sittings with a Levril at a boundary post, in the year after the post's instability, on dates she can place to the day and will not. She was made to sort the constraints of the approach she was certifying, take away the one that had never once failed, that two regions can be brought into adjacency at all, and say what was left. What was left had a name in the survey registry, and the name was Wholecloth. The Cloth, as Taught.
• Received by the Doctrinal Division, 2825 UCSD, and held as the source the registry's entries on Wholecloth and Selvage were drawn from. Every statement in it is marked told or derived. Three questions, where, whether the teacher had seen it, and why, are recorded with their answers, the last declined in the registry's own words, insufficient basis for any finding.
• Field-signature analysis at the post for the year returns a Levril presence at low salience on dates she declines to give, and places no subclass. The teacher is not identified.

Character Notes

She writes as the record says her people answer: the material terms, the distortion named, the rest declined. She will not describe the teacher, since what a Levril looks like is supplied by the witness and she declines to supply one. She marks the one sentence that was neither confirmed nor corrected, that if anyone dreams there they dream only of home, as hers and not the teacher's. The use she wanted from four sittings is the use she states: she signs fold certifications and knows what she is signing, a constraint that never fails read as a constraint and not as a floor, after a career spent reading constraints. That, she writes, is enough.

The record gives her no age, no posting by name, no history before the recertification log and no account of the selection itself, which is filed by signature only; from inside time, the Division notes, a Champion's record and an avatar's are indistinguishable. The post is not named, and the dates are hers to keep. The record places her in the Survey Corps in 2825 UCSD and carries nothing later.

See also

• The Cloth, as Taught
• Wholecloth: The Unfolded Formcluster and Selvage: The Seeded Edge of Wholecloth, the registry entries drawn from her account
• The Krenyi, Levrils, Champions / Heroes, Formcluster
• Standing Claims, where the genus carried is defined
• Syra and Toval, the Survey Corps' other Krenyi on the boundary desks of the record