Matriarch-Justice of the Ironroot Tribunal · female
Loxodonta is the Mandate's memory. The law of Myrmecopolis is not written; the Ironroot Tribunal holds it, and the Tribunal is, in practice, her: two hundred and twelve years of judgments carried in the minds of a matriarchal line and recited, when needed, in a rumble that the ants in the room feel in their legs before anyone hears it. She presides at every Weighing in the Chamber of Unseen Weights with her trunk resting on the trembling beam. She is slow, grave and enormously patient, capable ...
From the simulation The Chitinous Mandate.