Taylor is a young tailor and monk of Nesut Biti, heir of the Taylor & Co. tailor shop. His first words of himself: “My family is missing, brother.”
| Type | Character |
| Spanish entry | Taylor |
Description
Taylor is “very handsome”, charismatic yet “really more than quiet”, in a “somewhat violent red” tunic. He is known as a tailor only in the provinces. He descends “from storm titans, or from the ancient lords of the storms”, and is said to be preparing for Nibiru.
He carries a two-handed axe, a wooden staff, a cold-iron sword with interlocking edges, and a longbow with strange arrowheads, but fights with the staff and flying kicks.
The serpent
A tiny burrowing serpent always accompanies him. It grows wings; in another situation, “more of Arkela”, it shows tentacles on its head: “it’s a medusa”. It carries a composite bow, magic dagger and a glaive so long that “even she, though she is big, struggles to use it”, its point always wreathed in smoke. Amid flames the monk seems to talk to himself.
Taylor & Co.
The shop belongs to Ramadán, the one with the whip, who resembles his son, and Cornelia, with “her bun well set, the little glasses” (“it’s a bit cold next to your mother”). Its made-to-measure suits are proven; a commission can cost 1,900 coins. The three-story building holds a reception floor, a hall, a workroom with the cloth, and a basement for secret meetings.
His separate home is “a normal house” of thirty by twenty, with a back exit and a barred kitchen window. It was his companions’ fixed point: they rested there, studied what they recovered from below, and fought to defend it.
The parents
His parents worked for the temple. Accounts differ: he says his family is missing; on returning he finds them gone; later both appear alive in a dungeon (“I thought they had been kidnapped”). A tie between the basement, the temple and templar power is suggested, unproven.
Open questions
- Who meets in the basement; why a provincial tailor carries such an arsenal.
- What “Arkela” is, and whether the serpent’s change is voluntary.
- The units of the measures (house thirty by twenty; the mother’s clothing nine feet).
- Whether “Es Ut Viti” is Nesut Biti; how needle, monastic order and storm lineage relate.