Master Solarin
Names: Master SolarinSolarin
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 11 (Inigo’s fifth dream)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 11An elderly, bald, frail lawyer from the Guild of Lawyers who gives the probationers a tediously long weekly lecture on Makkathran law, rumoured to be over 250.
- Ch 13Master Solarin gave the squad a tediously lengthy tour of the courts and holding cells.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 2Solarin, an ancient lawyer and the station's legal tutor, prosecuted Arminel's second trial and says Edeard has outgrown him.
- Ch 4Solarin is an ancient, pedantic lawyer who finds the bylaw of district exclusions and the right of petition as a legal route against gangs.
- Ch 9Edeard's lawyer; argued the warrant was invalid, then used the arson wave as evidence of a conspiracy to ruin Edeard.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 11Solarin's law lecture
Master Solarin lectures the probationers on residence law and assigns reading on weapons law, while Edeard is bored and Dinlay is eager.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Arminel sentenced
After closing statements, judges led by Mayor Owain found Arminel and his four cohorts guilty; the others got twenty years, Arminel life in the Trampello mines.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Legal route found
After Finitan advises building street-level support, Master Solarin finds the district exclusion bylaw and the petition right; Edeard organizes chambers of trade to petition District Masters.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Decoy arrest and wave of arsons
While Macsen, disguised as Edeard, is taken to court on Buate's warrant, the real Edeard torches homes of gang leaders, discrediting the case's identification evidence.