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Valenth Cardonald

Summary

Valenth, Velenth, Cardonal, Cardonald, or Cardenald was an old friend of the Freeport Baroness, Brutor Ruby Eye’s best friend, and one of the five creators of the Dome / Barrier, connected to sentient-item work, automations, prison repair, and the desert laboratory.

Known Details

  • The Baroness knew Velenth/Valenth Cardonald and was shaken by revelations about her.
  • The Dome / Barrier was created by Everard Browning, Ennuyé, Brutor Ruby Eye, Valenth Cardonald, and Lady Evalina Hartwall.
  • Valenth wanted to transfer herself into an object.
  • Valenth Cardonald is the same person described as Ruby Eye’s best friend who wanted to craft herself into something and continue in that form.
  • At the desert laboratory, Cardonal communicated through a copper astrolabe with a red gem after 907 years and later took over Silver’s construct body when Silver was thrown into the Barrier.
  • Cardonal wrote Instructions for creating sentient jewellery in Celestial; sentient items needed a soul.
  • She could provide teleport-circle codes for prisons, labs, and Grand Towers levels, and could be contacted with fixed Enwi.
  • Later she repaired prison systems, helped calculate the Tri-moon shard trajectory, fixed Salt/Seaward issues, resisted mental intrusion, resurrected Rubyeye, and repaired Errol.
  • Valentinhide/Valentinhide is also recorded as a prisoner or prison, with Galetea/Galatrayer as an automation guard; whether this is the same name or a related being remains uncertain.
  • Day 32 auction art included Valentinhide's Betrayal, showing a crab claw and talon shielding Throngore over a featherless female; skull visions also showed Vallententide grabbed by a crab claw and disappearing, and later notes say Valentinhide had been attacked by Throngore with darkness.
  • Cardonald did not answer Eroll on Day 32, which was strange because Eroll contacts her directly; whether Cardonald is Cardenald is uncertain.
  • Day 42-44 evidence increasingly points to Valentinhide / Valentenhule as a separate high-sky or betrayed figure, but the spelling collision remains unresolved and is not silently merged.
  • Day 43 Cardonald / Cardenald coordinated Ashkellon, searched unsuccessfully for Ruby Eye and Errol, and gave Geldrin teleportation circles for prisons, Grand Towers, labs, Menagerie, Ashkhellon, and pylon sites.
  • Day 44 old-school scenes identify Valenth Cardonald as Matron / Nurse Cardonald’s daughter and a student in Geldrin’s year, while Valenth also appears in Ruby Eye’s old student group.

Timeline

  • day-20: The party discusses Valenth/Velenth with the Freeport Baroness and receives laboratory code or permission.
  • day-23: The party meets Cardonal’s voice and learns about sentient jewellery, Silver, prisons, labs, and Grand Towers.
  • day-26: Cardenald repairs prison damage while Valenth reports a barrier surge and Joy leaving Envi’s lab.
  • day-27: Cardenald helps calculate the shard trajectory and is sent to destroy the Salinus statue.
  • day-30: Cardenald resurrects Rubyeye and investigates Valentinhide/Galatrayer.
  • day-31: Rubyeye takes Valenta back to her lab for repairs after the battle.
  • day-42: Cardonald helps interpret Emri’s missing soul-parts after Ashkellon and reports Tradesmells empty.
  • day-43: Cardonald cannot locate Ruby Eye or Errol and provides the party with major teleport-circle intelligence.
  • day-44: Cardonald variants appear in the old mage-school timeline, while Valenth is named among Ruby Eye’s group.

Open Questions

  • Did the object-transfer plan succeed, and if so what object contains her?
  • Are Valenth/Cardonal/Cardenald and Valentinhide/Valentinhide separate beings, a spelling collision, or a person-prison relationship?
  • How does the old-school Valenth Cardonald, Matron Cardonald’s daughter in Geldrin’s year, connect to the later Valenth/Cardonald identity cluster?
  • What exactly happened to her body, Silver’s body, Valenta, and the sentient jewellery experiments?
  • What was Valentinhide's Betrayal, and is Valentinhide/Vallententide part of the same identity cluster as Valenth/Valentinhide?