Lenet of Meqn
Lenet of Meqn (988-1051) was a Cadenzan monk and grammarian from Ro'ekha. He is also known as Blessed Lenet, though he was never officially beatified. He spent his early life as a monk in the Great Monastery of Ro'ekha and most of his later career as abbot of the Monastery of Meqn. He is best known for his Codex Roeccensis, which laid out the rules for a single Khadenz language rather than the multiple separate dialects that had existed before.
Life
Born in a village in Roakkon to a family of modest means, he entered the Great Monastery of Ro'ekha and became a Siresian monk at the age of 18. At 22 he was a scribe and archivist in the Athenaeum, the monastic library, and spent much of his time copying legal tracts and administrative records. In 1014 he was sent to the Academy of Hyser, where he studied grammatical texts written in Ahéri.
Works
As a Ro'ekhan scribe, Lenet oversaw the chronicling of Cadenzan history in the early eleventh century and was a major contributor to both the Caddachronicon and the Annales Roeccensis. While in Hyser, he wrote A Treatise on the Hyseran Language, a synthesis of earlier Hyseran linguistic scholarship which remains one of the definitive works for studying medieval Ahéri. It includes long excerpts from many of those earlier works which are now lost, and in some cases it is the only surviving record of some of Hysera's most influential scholars.
It was during Lenet's time in Hyser that he first saw the value of a single language for trade and diplomacy. He is believed to have written letters to Tovelindra II and her successors, including Ri'erha II, advising language standardisation across Trellin.