Tireth is the eldest of Grandex's twelve still standing — eldest, in the order's reckoning, by the long careful count of years served beside the Archangel. He came forward on the night of the fortress on Kolonoth and came forward in the small careful gesture the order reserves for its worst nights — the laying of an attendance at the side of an Archangel. The Archangel did not turn to him. Tireth stayed anyway.
On the seventh night of grief — when Grandex took the predecessor's shield from the sanctum wall and walked it to the forge — it was Tireth who instructed Phaeren that there would need to be a witness. The witnessing was the work he assigned, by the order's long protocol on Archangels in their worst hours: not correction, not interruption, only the careful keeping of an account that the chronicler would, in some later century, be asked to read. The shield went into slag. The order did not, by Tireth's discipline, attempt to stop it.
By the chronicle's S20, Tireth had served his master through fifteen chronicle-years of patient hunting and through the long quiet hours that closed S19. He sat at the long table in the council hall when Phaeren returned with the news of Auren's spending. He did not, on the master's leaving, rise. He had been, in the chronicle's seasons, the angel who carried the order's attention while Grandex carried the order's rage.
