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Carpenter

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And I do too, of course.

I rejoice.

Chapter 1: Let Me Speak First Of Revelations


Carpenter is a weary and jaded but accomplished acolyte of The Trawler-man. Carpenter is at minimum 31 years old. She is referred to as a 'crow'[2] and often described as seeming angry.[3] Following the events of Chapter 4, she walks with a limp.

ATTENTION: SPOILERS AHEAD! Beyond this point, major plot spoilers are expected. Continue at your own risk.

Personality[]

Carpenter is a clever and practical person, especially in the face of fatality. She's shown to not be a fan of people's emotional outbursts or naivety, preferring people who have the dry dark humor she enjoys.

has shown hesitance when it comes to worship. Her relationship with faith and her identity, due to the long and complicated religious history of her family. She does not see faith as something positive, but something that stems mainly from fear, and has a disdain for praying, including when other do it.

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Background[]

Carpenter grew up in the faith with her older brother Em Glass. She was raised by her Nana Glass after her parents were executed for their illegal worship of the Trawler-Man. As a child, Carpenter had trouble understanding the weight of her actions and faith, and many of her early experiences with it are a source of pain and shame for her as an adult. This includes the third night of Carpenter's stay with her Nana Glass, who tried to sacrifice Carpenter and Em to the Trawler-Man, though her sacrifice was not accepted.[4] As well as the night Em, who was usually responsible for aiding their Nana with her sacrifices, stayed out too long, and so in his place, for the first time in her life, Carpenter was forced to complete it instead. [5] Four months later, Nana Glass was killed by the authorities, while Carpenter and her brother Em hid behind a tumble-dryer.

Carpenter, being young, was sent to the Little Angels of Mending Reform House in southern Glottage. She grew close to Augustus, the kinder and sterile god living in the reform house's pond, in place of the songs of the Trawler-Man's river.

Em, on the other hand, was old enough to be 'an accessory in Nana Glass's crimes' and was sent to prison. He stayed firm in his faith, and pretending to be a model prisoner, he gathered supplies and formed a plan that ended with him flooding the entire prison. When Carpenter saw this on the news, she was shocked and horrified to see her peers' positive reaction to Em's death. She ran outside to the pond, where she found the goldfish dead and floating like the bodies of the inmates had been in the flood. Taking this as a miracle of Trawler-Man, she began entrusting her life to him again.[6]

When she was 18, she worked at Hallowed Hoagies with her friend Vaughan for at least seven months. They spent most of their time making get-rich-quick schemes. One day while working, Carpenter was sought out by Mason, under the guise of her uncle, claiming to know the history of her faith and family. Vaughan, who'd presented the idea of moving away a few months before, got the scholarship in the Linger Straits they'd been trying for and left Carpenter.

Mason continued to visit and tell Carpenter stories about Nana Glass, about her childhood, about the Parish. Feeling she had nothing else left for her, Carpenter changed her name as a way 'to distance herself from everything Mallory Glass represented' and agreed to join the Paraclete's Gulch,[7] where she began building up its community for 13 years before being set off on a pilgrimage with Faulkner.[2]

While part of the Parish, Carpenter drowned two girls at a shrine in Blagdon Moor. They were hitchhikers and in love, and they trusted her. She wanted to prove to the Parish that she wouldn't hesitate.[8]

She killed a man for Mason in Winton Prior because he had a relationship with Mason's sister and he had wanted to lure her back to the Parish.[8]

When she was a child, Em would often want to play as a prophet and Carpenter would play as his messenger. Carpenter was never allowed to pretend to be a prophet.[9]

Episode Appearances[]

Chapters Synopsis
Chapter 1: Let Me Speak First Of Revelations Carpenter, along with Faulkner, is introduced as they are reaching Marcel’s Crossing after 16 days of travel for Faulkner's first pilgrimage and only one of Carpenter's many. By the end, despite their tense and slightly hostile relationship, they manage to witness the miracle of the Trawler-man they came searching for.
Chapter 2: And Next Of Dark Deceit Carpenter talks to Mason and is clearly unhappy with both him and her faith. She disguises herself and talks with a follower of the Waxen Scrivener who helps them acquire a map, but at the cost of witnessing a ghastly Saint. Carpenter heads into Penda's Slake.
Chapter 4: Of Lovers, Gods, And Beasts. Carpenter is in Penda's Slake looking for any signs of the Trawler-Man, but she instead finds a different god and is lured by Charity, one of its followers. She eventually figures the ruse out and escapes by setting her copy of The Silt Verses aflame to burn down its haunt and is driven away by Faulkner at the last minute.
Chapter 5: My Song Is Long And Twisted. Carpenter, while having a cappuccino, is spoken to by Hayward and realizes belatedly that he is a police officer. She reunites with Faulkner, who had left the hotel without her earlier, and they once again encounter Hayward, this time with more discomfort and urgency.
Chapter 6: It Winds, It Worms, It Wends. Carpenter talks about a job she worked at with Vaughan and her reintroduction to the Parish of Tide and Flesh by Mason when she was 18, starting her endless string of pilgrimages.
Chapter 7: It Carries Few, It Drowns Many Carpenter, along with Faulkner, kidnap Paige and steal her car.
Chapter 8: And Those I Love, It Rends Carpenter bickers with Faulkner as they head to 113 Longray Mansions, with Paige as their hostage. There, they uncover the true history of the Trawler-man's most recent miracles, but then, they are attacked by Augustus Roake's angel, and Faulkner is heavily injured when attempting to hold the angel back.
Chapter 10: It Grips My Tongue, My Throat Carpenter recalls a lesson she and Em were given by Nana Glass: the different forms of tides offered by the river, included the Wither Tide. Presently, she, Paige, and Faulkner narrowly escape an abandoned call centre that has become the haunt of the stray god Babble.
Chapter 11: My Voice Cries Truths I Never Knew Carpenter goes to Fisherman's Rest Incorporated Waste Disposal where the pox monk Brother Wharfing heals Faulkner. While there, Carpenter saves Paige from the dump's servants, who use the dark and piles of garbage to play tricks on and consume visitors.
Chapter 12: And To Fight Is Just To Choke Carpenter, Faulkner and Paige share farewell a meal at Chitterling's Chapel. Carpenter has a heart-to-heart with Faulkner by the river, where she reveals that she has begun to lose her faith.
Chapter 13: So Let Me Dwell Eternal Carpenter and Faulkner find the Wither Mark. When Carpenter has doubts about sharing this weapon with the Parish, he attacks her and leaves to do it himself. But when she's accosted by Hayward and Daggler, he comes back to set an angel on them and save her, which kills Daggler and separates Carpenter and Faulkner.
Chapter 14: And In Ruined Flesh Ascend Carpenter is interviewed by Hayward at the police station, where she mockingly plays the role of a fanatic worshipper. When Hayward tries to call for backup only to find everyone under influence of Sid Wright's God, Paige takes advantage of that by stealing a police car and saving Carpenter.
Chapter 15: For My Song Has No Beginning... Carpenter finds Faulkner at Marcel's Crossing. After reuniting, they speak about the Parish and their role, to which Carpenter snaps at the Trawler-man, summoning a great wave that saves them from the police; Carpenter is swept away by the river she used to worship and wakes up alone and disoriented to her first interaction with the Cairn Maiden.
Chapter 16: And The Current Flows On Without End Carpenter, not realizing that she had been trying to save her, punches Stewardess Acantha in the face.
Chapter 17: If I Could Trace With Bloodless Fingers Carpenter has spent 3 to 4 weeks in Acantha's house and, starts to open up to her. Carpenter talks about herself and in return, is taught the ways of the Cairn Maiden by Acantha. While helping out, she discovers the Homesick Corpse, who was once a follower of the Trawler-Man. She is tasked with a pilgrimage to return him to his place of burial.
Chapter 19: I'd Bear This Song To The Precipice On her journey, Carpenter meets a little girl called Eliza but is unable to speak with or touch her. While trying, she's found by Brother Wharfing, who explains the Eliza's sainthood. Angered by her situation, Carpenter attacks Sub-Station Perigloss.
Chapter 24: And We'd Be Gone Without A Trace Carpenter faces the Sorrow-And-Shame and comes face-to-face with her biggest regret: her first sacrifice in service of the Trawler-man. She is knocked unconscious by Reverend Toes and kidnapped.
Chapter 25: But We'll Never Be Rid Of Each Other Carpenter, trapped in a room next to Faulkner's, smashes through a wall to be reunited with her. They are astounded to find each other alive and go to retrieve Thurrocks. Carpenter escapes Leaning Larch Holiday Village, the Carving Chapter, and Mercer and Gage.
Chapter 27: So I'll Bear It Trembling Onwards Carpenter, Faulkner and Thurrocks attempt to outrun Mercer and Gage and arrive back at the Gulch first.
Chapter 28: To Drift On, To Dream, To Die Carpenter and Faulkner, upon discovering a lack of supplies to help the entire Parish to escape, instead come up with a plan to defend the Gulch, which is swiftly put into action; however, she refuses to fight with violence for the Trawler-man.
Chapter 29: And Where My Final Footsteps Fall Carpenter attacks Mercer to save Faulkner. When the siege ends, she buries the Homesick Corpse and calls Acantha. She decides to return to Acantha's and figure out what's next for her. She goes to say goodbye to Faulkner but is forced to flee when he frames her for Mason and Thurrocks's murders.
Chapter 30: Something Dreadful Shall Arise Carpenter is on the run from the Gulch but is discovered and threatened by Brother Fade. She tries to reason with him, but he's engulfed by the river, which leaves her furious and injured. She is found by Hayward.
Chapter 32: Its Wrath Shall Scald The Sun Carpenter is brought to the Grace and speaks to Paige, who teachers her about the creation of the Many Below and its expansion. After that, she speaks to Hayward, who tells her more about their faith and cause while making her pancakes.
Chapter 34: Some Day There Shall Be None Carpenter settles into the routine in the Grace easily. She pleads with the Cairn Maiden to let her be useful. In the rocket attack, she saves Elgin from the Hatchery. Later, she tells Paige about Hayward's plan to spread the Many Below. Hayward and her leave for Glottage at the end of the episode.
Chapter 35: The Wise Man Knows The Taste Of Rot Carpenter and Hayward play a game of I-Spy as they travel. It appears as though they are warming up to each other.
Chapter 36: All Lovers Part As Dust Carpenter and Hayward argue meaninglessly about music. They banter and spend the night at the Amicus Hotel before continuing onwards towards Glottage.
Chapter 37: And Even The Kings In Their Bowers Of Steel Carpenter and Hayward witness the sudden blackout of Glottage while sharing a drink and assessing their exhaustion and purpose.
Chapter 39: This Rotten World Shall Wheeze Its Last Carpenter and Hayward enter Glottage. Here, they will find Adjudicator Shrue. She reminisces about her time with the Parish of Tide and Flesh.
Chapter 40: This Hateful Hymn Shall Cease Carpenter goes with Hayward to check up on his mother. They then head to the bar that Shrue has been seen at. She tells Hayward about Mason as they wait. Eventually, Carpenter decides to just be upfront with Shrue and they give them their proposition. It goes well. When she and Hayward leave the bar they realise that the Peninsula has won the war.
Chapter 42: I’ll Wheeze Through Splintered Teeth Carpenter, Hayward and Shrue meet at the Floating Market and speak about their plans. She hears that Shrue was trying to legalise the Parish of Tide and Flesh, which amuses her.
Chapter 43: One Last Song Of Revelations Carpenter heads to GGR with Shrue. She and Hayward pretend to be Katabasians of the Parish of Tide and Flesh. Carpenter uses her rifle to knocks Travis unconscious. After Brother Philly kills Shrue, Carpenter wrestles and kills him. She refuses to leave Hayward when he is injured. She and Cross carry him out of GGR.
Chapter 44: Of Prophets' Dark Deceptions Carpenter tries to keep Hayward stable as Cross drives them towards the edge of Glottage. When it becomes clear that they can't leave due to the enforced quarantine, they follow an ambulance to Zephyr-In-Mourning, a private airfield. She attacks a bodyguard and hijacks the plane. She tells the Pilot to fly the Britomart. She switches with Cross to speak to Hayward, who tells her that the Cairn Maiden has been showing her the way to live. While the plane is going down, Carpenter at the Pilot's instruction takes everyone to the back of the plane. There they confess their sins as they fall. They crash into the White Gull River.
Chapter 45: Of Love, And Gods' Defeat (Part One) Carpenter, along with Hayward, is one of the two survivors of the Britomart crash. She is severely injured, with something in her side which she does not investigate. She puts Cross to rest, before formulating a plan. She tells Hayward that she will hand herself in to the Parish, and promises to catch up with him later. Despite being horrifically injured, when she faces Sister Cull, Carpenter terrifies her - appearing to embody the Cairn Maiden. Sister Cull allows Hayward to leave safely, in a car, and he drives for the Grace. Sister Cull cuffs Carpenter and takes her prisoner. They try to contact Sibling Rane but they don't receive a response.
Chapter 45: Of Love, And Gods' Defeat (Part Two) Carpenter, uncuffed and alone in the Grand Aquifer, reunites with Faulkner. It is wretched and unhappy. She offers Faulkner a place at the Grace, with her and Paige. She leaves the Aquifer alone, but gives Faulkner instructions so that he might follow her. As she walks, she reaches the turning point and builds her cairn sign for Faulkner. Then she waits for him. He reaches her, drowned, and in her anguish she kindly and lovingly attempts to fix him - before she floats him back out into the water and watches him leave her behind. She reaches the place the Cairn Maiden promised her, and sits down. But she lives and presses onwards a few paces, before gunshots ring out and she dives into the water. She is both dead, and not dead yet.

Connections[]

  • Em Glass was Carpenter's older brother.[6] From what Carpenter says about him, it seems Em shouldered a lot of the weight of their faith but tried to play it off, in favour of Carpenter.[5] As Children, he and Carpenter seemed to banter and tease each other, though not without great affection. Carpenter loves him greatly, and it's his loss that initially drove her back to her faith.
  • Adeline Glass, better known as Nana Glass, was Carpenter grandmother. Nana Glass was greatly engrossed by her faith, which meant she often homeschooled and lectured Carpenter and Em on its history.[10] This did not make a her a very understanding figure of authority in Carpenter's childhood. Not only did she try to sacrifice Em and Carpenter, but she would often pressure them to participate in sacrificial rituals. Carpenter holds mixed feelings of affection and anger towards her nana for all of this.
  • Gregory Glass and Sandra Glass were Carpenter's parents. Both were killed by the authorities for their worship of the Trawler-Man, a loss that Carpenter has greatly grieved.
  • Faulkner is introduced as Carpenter's partner on her first pilgrimage. At first, she dislikes him for his naivety and the ease with which worship comes to him. However, when he acquires an injury and is experiencing conflicting feelings towards using the Wither Mark, she cares for and consoles him; this is when they start building an amiable bond, even if out of mutual suffering and failure. Thereafter, despite their purposes and serving faiths sundering, they are ecstatic to reunite and continue to help each other; Faulkner even admits to viewing Carpenter as the older sister figure he'd hoped for since childhood.[11] A defining feature of their relationship is the way it teeters between threats, banter, and awkward affection, but an extra layer of conflict is added to that when Faulkner frames Carpenter for Mason and Thurrocks's deaths and forces her to flee.[12] Even after everything, Carpenter still loves him.[9]
  • Paige is originally Faulkner and Carpenter's hostage, as they awkwardly stole her car and put her in the trunk, but it becomes quickly clear that neither one of them is very fit to be a captor and their relationship transitions into one of mild then pleasant companionship.[13] The two seem to share an understanding of and a disdain for the system that rules over them, and despite struggling to fully open up to each other, each does her best to help the other when possible.
  • Vaughan was Carpenter's friend when she was 18, a time during which Carpenter had been struggling financially and emotionally, a burden that Vaughan's company helped lift. Vaughan dreamed of a bigger and better life, which made them apply for a marketing job in the Linger straits.[7] Carpenter was afraid of losing them but never spoke up about it, meaning they only drifted apart after that.[2]
  • Hayward, during his time as a cop, was a threat to Carpenter and her faith.[14] Beyond that, she finds him inanely talkative as a person.[15] After fleeing from Gulch, Carpenter is pleasantly surprised to find that Hayward has joined forces with Paige.[16] For the sake of Paige and her cause, Carpenter sets out on a mission with Hayward, where they become much more amiable companions, bantering[17][18] and occasionally opening up to one another.[19][20] She refuses to leave him when he is injured, showing that she cares for him.[21]
  • Mason is Carpenter's mentor during her 13 years in the Parish. Mason recruits her back into the faith when she was 18.[7] Despite holding some respect for him, Carpenter never fully trusts Mason[20], and rightfully so. He tries to set her and Faulkner against each other[2] and repeatedly abandons the two of them when they need him.[11]
  • Stewardess Acantha is Carpenter's friend and Mentor. Acantha saves and cares for Carpenter after the incident at Marcel's Crossing.[22] Carpenter seems to trust her and chooses to join her in her work for the Cairn Maiden.[12]

Trivia[]

  • Carpenter really enjoys cappuccinos and thick pancakes.[6]
  • According to an ask The Silt Verses Tumblr, Carpenter is confirmed as aromantic.[24]
  • Méabh de Brún plays Carpenter as "incredibly wary and absolutely done with everyone" on the outside, but internally vulnerable.[25]
  • Méabh thinks Carpenter had a low-maintenance "Baby Goth" phase. Jon agrees that she probably had a pair of steel-toe Doc Martens.[25]
  • Carpenter's DnD class would be a paladin.[25]
  • Carpenter believes that she has failed Paige and Hayward.[26]
  • Carpenter and Hayward's final moments in the series parallels one another.[9]
  • Carpenter's last act in the series is singing her Nana's song:

I’ll forget what I was.
When the tide comes home.
I’ll forget what I did,
When the tide comes home.
There’ll be…there’ll be no more need
For hurt, word or deed
For counsel or creed
For…for sorrow or…

How did the damn thing end again? How did it, uh-[27]

  • Carpenter appears in 34 out of 46 episodes.

References[]

  1. ↑ Chapter 29: And Where My Final Footsteps Fall
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Chapter 8: And Those I Love, It Rends
  3. ↑ Chapter 9: My Song Has Taken Hold Of Me
  4. ↑ Chapter 15: For My Song Has No Beginning...
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 24: And We'd Be Gone Without A Trace
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Chapter 1: Let Me Speak First Of Revelations
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Chapter 6: It Winds, It Worms, It Wends
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 44: Of Prophets' Dark Deceptions
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Chapter 45: Of Love, And Gods' Defeat (Part Two)
  10. ↑ Chapter 10: It Grips My Tongue, My Throat
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Chapter 28: To Drift On, To Dream, To Die
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chapter 29: And Where My Final Footsteps Fall
  13. ↑ Chapter 7: It Carries Few, It Drowns Many
  14. ↑ Chapter 5: My Song Is Long And Twisted
  15. ↑ Chapter 14: And In Ruined Flesh Ascend
  16. ↑ Chapter 30: Something Dreadful Shall Arise
  17. ↑ Chapter 35: The Wise Man Knows The Taste Of Rot
  18. ↑ Chapter 36: All Lovers Part As Dust
  19. ↑ Chapter 37: And Even The Kings In Their Bowers Of Steel
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Chapter 40: This Hateful Hymn Shall Cease
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Chapter 43: One Last Song Of Revelations
  22. ↑ Chapter 17: If I Could Trace With Bloodless Fingers
  23. ↑ Chapter 4: Of Lovers, Gods, and Beasts
  24. ↑ thesiltverses on Tumblr on 29th of April, 2021
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 Season One QnA
  26. ↑ Chapter 44: Of Prophets' Dark Deceptions
  27. ↑ Chapter 45 Part Two Official Transcript
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