Orlen Whitfield

Instructor of strategy at Solmere.

Given name from the author's notes. The chapters give only "Instructor Whitfield".

He declines a question

Ch. 307. He has spent the whole term "happily discussing historical border conflicts in exhaustive detail" and then refuses one about current tensions.

WHF: That's outside this course's scope. STU: You've discussed current tensions before, sir. WHF: I've discussed historical patterns. Current events remain current, which means the pattern hasn't finished forming, which means anything I told you would be speculation dressed as instruction. Next question.

Arthur's read: "It was not [...] the answer of a man with nothing to say." See ../events/the-crossings-closure.md.

The Beckwith assignment

Ch. 321, delivered in under two minutes and deliberately without detail.

WHF: You will travel to Beckwith. You will stay one week. You will make yourselves useful.

BRR: Is there a schedule? WHF: Mister Colton, if I gave you a schedule you would follow the schedule, and then you would come back here having learned to follow a schedule, which you already know how to do.

He hands Arthur a sealed letter for the innkeeper and goes back to his own work. See ../locations/beckwith.md.