Pheromone Cartographer of the Compact · male
Ocellus is called the All-Seeing, and he is half-blind. The ant nurse who named him in the Cloisters chose the word for an insect's simple eye because he was born with one eye clouded; the city made it a title after the Siege of the Resin Quarter, when he alone noticed the trail. He sees with his trunk. Elephants have the finest sense of smell on the Shelf, and Ocellus has the finest among elephants: he reads pheromone trails across the Pale from kilometres away and maps them for the Ocular Comp...
From the simulation The Chitinous Mandate.