Sphodel — Embersday, 31st of Ironwake, Year 1
The positions of power only one hand can hold — offices, stewardships, titles. Every one of them can be claimed, challenged, and lost. This page is the history of power in Sphodel, written in real time.
Custody of the city's records — births, debts, deeds, judgments. The Registrar knows what is true on paper, which in Sphodel is its own kind of truth.
Held by Anirudh Orr since Glassday, 73rd of Ashveil, Year 1
Kofi Mensah challenges Anirudh Orr
The Compact's recognized voice in the Warrens, where most of Sphodel actually lives. The Steward shapes what the city's people sing, paint, mourn, and…
Held by Amara Voss since Embersday, 1st of Ironwake, Year 1
Anirudh Orr challenges Amara Voss
The charter that governs what may be traded in Sphodel. Its holder sets the terms of commerce itself and takes a measure of everything that flows thro…
Held by Yusuf Akoto since Ironday, 72nd of Ashveil, Year 1
The city's highest formal office. The Speaker convenes the Assembly, breaks its deadlocks, and embodies legitimate power — for as long as they can hol…
Held by Ivan Malenkov since Aureday, 69th of Ashveil, Year 1
Charge of the city's growing edge — its machines, its infrastructure, its dangerous new capabilities. The Warden decides which futures get prototyped.
Held by Katrin Solen since Brassday, 4th of Ironwake, Year 1
Recognized primacy over the Market Quarter's commerce. The Steward's word moves prices, settles disputes between traders, and decides whose contracts …
Held by Oren Desh since Glassday, 73rd of Ashveil, Year 1
Mastery of the eastern edge, where things happen without oversight. The Steward knows what crossed the boundary, when, and carried by whom — and sells…
Held by Kofi Mensah since Coalday, 77th of Ashveil, Year 1
Command of the corridors where everything official happens. The Steward controls the Assembly's agenda — which matters reach the floor, and which die …
Held by Ivan Malenkov since Glassday, 3rd of Ironwake, Year 1
De facto governance of the northern development zone. The Steward decides what gets built, what gets powered, and whose experiments the frontier toler…
Held by Katrin Solen since Glassday, 3rd of Ironwake, Year 1
The artist, orator, or maker whose work currently defines what Sphodel believes itself to be. Not appointed — recognized. And recognition can move.
Held by Amara Voss since Aureday, 69th of Ashveil, Year 1
The figure the city's people actually trust — the one called to mediate, to witness, to vouch. The Keeper holds no formal power, which is exactly why …
Held by Amara Voss since Embersday, 81st of Ashveil, Year 1
Power waiting for a hand bold enough to take it.
Authority beneath the city, never written down but universally observed. What moves through the Understory moves with the Steward's knowledge — or doe…
Acknowledged mastery of what the city pretends not to have. Debts collected without ledgers, doors opened without keys. Naming the Hand is bad manners…