The Solver

The Solver is a Knot-originating goddess, patron of coders, engineers, mages, logicians, and anyone trying to solve a problem.
=== Common Appearance(s) ===
The Solver usually appears as a Red woman with about the left half of her body replaced with runically activated brass machinery. Her left eye is replaced with a light behind a clear red stone, usually assumed to be ruby, and the Followers have reported hearing the sounds of clanging metal and hissing steam accompanying her voice. Clothing has been described as both modern for the time or a simple toga.
=== Mythological Connections ===
The Solver is considered a sister to The Wanderer, and thereby aunt to The Finder and The Lost. Some myths depict her as living in The Finder's house, while others give her a house full of runic contraptions, and others use both.
=== Cultural Significance ===
The Solver is prayed to for engineering projects, software, any sort of runic magic, and general solutions to hold, as well as for guidance in solving problems such as engineering challenges and, especially, debugging. The practice of "talking to the Solver" for debugging code or runes is well known: the coder or mage explains the code to a small stick doll representing the Solver, and through this process often finds the issue they were having trouble with.
=== Notable Followers ===
Notable followers of The Solver include the founder of Pansiyostok, the person credited with the formalization of runic magic, and the inventor of the most widely used type of rune chip. There is a library of dedicated priests south of Pansiyostok, known the world over as a repository for all kinds of information.
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