No chair. Field decisions default to whoever last walked the route and can show their notes.
Small mapping pairs, a public map table, and independent contributors who never share a complete data set.
Saint Morrow · Faction file · No formal power; their route notes are trusted by workers who cannot afford a wrong turn.
The Quiet Cartographers
Record the city's changing geometry without claiming to control it; publish safe routes and preserve contradictory measurements.
History
Every group keeps a record.
An informal circle of surveyors, delivery drivers, access consultants, and geographers who compare maps that should agree but do not.
AlliesContinuity Office analysts, access advocates, transit operators, university geographers.
OppositionMap vendors who erase anomalies as errors and collectors who buy route knowledge to trap people.
Contradictory maps, lived route memory, public geodata, and an unusually good supply of pencils.
Survey wheels, analogue compasses, chalk, audio recorders, tactile maps, and paper backups.
A borrowed table in the Meridian University geography lab every other Thursday.
VehiclesPersonal bicycles, transit passes, an old station wagon with paper street atlases in the boot.
Field identification
Recognizable by the work, not a costume.
UniformOrdinary field clothing, with visible access badges only where required.
SymbolA contour line interrupted by a walking mark.
Paint Vault · faction tones
- pencil graphite
- survey orange
- map paper
- moss green
STL concept · faction collection
Explore the miniature lines A miniature line with a reason to exist.
Survey pairs, map cases, measuring wheels, portable map table, and street-corner basing accessories.