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16:51, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Women's Lives (Created page with "There is no such thing as a woman's day in the Known World, any more than there is a man's. What there is instead is a household to be run, a trade to be worked, or both, and six cities that read a woman differently while she does it. What every woman has in common is that she moves freely. Inside a city's walls she goes where she likes — the market, a friend's kitchen, the guild hall, a Therplae, home after dark — and nobody escorts her or expects her to be. A city...") Tag: Visual edit
16:51, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Transition (Created page with "A person whose genuine nature is a gender other than the one they were born to is understood through the same philosophy as everyone else, and the world's medicine can do a great deal about it. == The chemistry == The strong part. Physicians prepare compounds that shift a body toward the other pattern — breasts, softer skin, and fat moved for one; the beard, the shape changed, and the courses stopped for the other — ordinary pharmacy in a world whose chemistry i...") Tag: Visual edit
16:50, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Outside the Pattern (Created page with "The Natural Order settles the philosophy and Slavery and Service the slave system's arrangements. This is how it looks in an ordinary life. About one adult in eleven is something other than heterosexual, which is what it has always been and what nobody has ever thought to measure: roughly one in twenty drawn to both, one in sixty to their own sex, and about one in a hundred living as a gender other than the one they were born to. Concealing it is the failure, n...") Tag: Visual edit
16:50, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Marriage and Partners (Created page with "== What a marriage is == A '''''Tileth''''' is a marriage, and no city makes one or can end one. There is no license, no petition, no decree, and no magistrate with authority over whether two people are married. A Tileth is made by the two people in front of witnesses, and exists because everybody around them treats it as existing. Cities record it as they record a birth — Clearhold exactly, Eldershore in the line, Shining Reach in the civic registry, Forgegate's guild...") Tag: Visual edit
16:50, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Growing Up and School (Created page with "Children are born free, all of them. A child born to a slave is free, unmarked, and never collared, whoever the father was; see Nyvra and Children. == Small children == A child under six belongs to the household and gets underfoot in it, minded by a mother, a grandmother, an older sister, a hired woman, or the household's slave — and in a crowded street by the neighbor already watching two. Children are let out: the street, the yard, the court, the ring on a farm,...") Tag: Visual edit
16:49, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page The Household (Created page with "== What every house has == Running water and a drained toilet, a hearth or a closed stove, something cold to keep food in, and light that does not have to be a flame. The House describes all of it. What changes from one house to the next is not whether these things are there but how many rooms they serve and how good they are. == Six kinds of home == ; A rented room, or a bed in a loft : The bottom of the city. A laborer pays one or two Braell a night for a bed in...") Tag: Visual edit
16:49, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page File:Therplae table.png
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16:40, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Daily Life (Created page with "thumb|right|300px|The same table, the same night, for twenty years. How people in Teraell actually live: their homes, their families, what they wear and eat, what they do for fun, what they believe, and what happens when they break the law. A world with no privacy and no anonymity, where everybody is read by everybody, all day — and where the cities have built rooms, tables, and habits to be somewhere else for an evening. == Home and fa...")
16:31, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Duties and Smuggling (Created page with "== Duties and dues == A city charges for what it provides. Harbor dues are paid by every vessel that ties up; a duty is paid on goods entering a city to be sold there; goods passing through in transit pay nothing, which is why Forgegate's yards are full of crates that never enter a Forgegate market. The Neck makes Forgegate rich twice over — once from the trade that stops there and once from the traffic that merely passes through and pays its bridge tolls, its stabling...") Tag: Visual edit
16:30, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page What the World Depends On (Created page with "No city in the Known World can feed, arm, light, and equip itself. Every one holds something the others cannot make, and every one needs something it cannot produce. The arrangement has held the world together for nine centuries, and nobody designed it. == Who needs whom == ; Forgegate : Holds the ground — every overland route passes the Neck and pays for it — and two things nobody else can make: precision clockwork at scale, and pure Blaenda. ; Stormharbor : H...") Tag: Visual edit
16:29, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Banking, Credit, and Insurance (Created page with "Coin is heavy, and a merchant who carried enough of it to buy a cargo would be carrying enough to be worth killing. Almost nothing large is settled in metal. It is settled in paper, in promises, and in other people's money, and the whole of it rests on the Oathbond. == Banking houses == A banking house is a family partnership, not an institution. Its name is a family's name, its capital is that family's money, and its partners answer personally for ever...") Tag: Visual edit
16:29, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Moving Goods (Created page with "thumb|300x300px|Wagons drawn into a ring before dusk. The fire burns all night. The world's trade moves two ways, and everything else about commerce follows from which one a merchant chooses. == Road and sea == A caravan makes about eighty Keiloe-Streid a day — near enough fifty miles — and holds it because a Dorath will do nothing else but keep going; cities lie two and a half to three thousand Keiloe-Streid apart, so a journey between any two tak...") Tag: Visual edit
16:28, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page The Trades (Created page with "A person's work is one of the four aspects of their Oathbond and is judged exactly as the other three are. A man who cheats at his trade has shamed his family and his city along with himself. What a trade measures is ''kavira'', demonstrated capability; what a lifetime in it builds is ''Skaella'', mastery acquired by practice. The highest word for a worker is ''leitae'', of the first rank, and it cannot be claimed of oneself — a smith is leitae when ot...") Tag: Visual edit
16:27, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Wages and Prices (Created page with "What things cost is best understood against what a day's work pays. Every figure here is anchored to a laborer's wage, and every price is a base price; where a city differs sharply, it is noted at the end. Coins: 16 Braell = 1 Serath, 16 Serath = 1 Goyl — see Money. == The working year == The week has nine days; seven are working, and Mwyn and Stil are the week's rest, which most trades do not work. The year is forty weeks and five festival days — two hundred an...") Tag: Visual edit
16:27, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Weights and Measures (Created page with "Every city in the Known World weighs, measures, and pours by the same units, and has since before any city existed. People count in tens and measure in eights: every unit is eight of the one below it, except the last step of each scale, which is sixteen. In the name of a measure, ''Keiloe'' means 1,024 — the tenth doubling — and a merchant who means an exact thousand says ''keiloe feira'', a true thousand. The measures came down from the survivors exactly as they are...") Tag: Visual edit
16:26, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Money (Created page with "Three coins carry the whole of the Known World's commerce. Money taken as a whole, without regard to coins, is ''baeg''. {| class="wikitable" !Coin !Metal !Worth !Who uses it |- |'''Goyl''' |Gold |16 Serath = 256 Braell |Merchants, banking houses, anyone buying something that costs a year of someone else's work |- |'''Serath''' |Silver |16 Braell |Skilled wages and ordinary business |- |'''Braell''' |Copper |— |Working people, and anything bought at a market stall |} T...") Tag: Visual edit
16:25, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Economy and Trade (Created page with "alt=A money changer weighing coins on a brass balance at a booth beside a city gate, with coins of several designs on the counter and a caravan of draft beasts passing through the gate behind.|thumb|300x300px|A money changer at a city gate, weighing foreign coin. Six cities on one coast, none of which can feed, arm, light, and equip itself. Every one holds something the others cannot make and needs something it cannot produce, and that arrangeme...") Tag: Visual edit
16:25, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page File:Moneychanger.png
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16:22, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page What the Old World Left Behind (Created page with "{{Hidden truth|Nothing on this page is known to anyone living.}}None of what follows is the AI's work, and the AI does not tend any of it. The nanobots were set to erase technology and waste. Living things were never on that list, so everything the old world engineered alive is still here. == Why it was built alive == The old world engineered living things for three reasons: to feed people, to kill them, and to keep essential functions runnin...") Tag: Visual edit
16:21, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page The Oelwy (Created page with "{{Hidden truth|Nothing on this page is known to anyone living. For what the world knows, see Liberty Caps.}}The '''Oelwy''' was engineered by the builders as the means by which an arrival acquires the Spraecha, and it is maintained by the AI. It grows wild across the whole of the Known World, most abundantly in Eldershore's heat and wet. == Why it will not be farmed == It refuses cultivation by design. When the builders made it, every per...") Tag: Visual edit
16:21, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page The Transfer (Created page with "{{Hidden truth|Nothing on this page is known to anyone living. In the world, the people it describes are the Aesloes, and the vigor it explains is put down to clean living.}}The builders' view into our world began with our recent decades — the 1990s through the 2020s, which is when the Brain Rot Tongue took shape — and as their technology advanced they could see further back, until by the end they could reach past the 1700s to prehistory. The...") Tag: Visual edit
16:21, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page What Is Blocked and How (Created page with "{{Hidden truth|Nothing on this page is known to anyone living. In the world, everything below is settled science, taught by the Academy with elegant, internally consistent explanations supported by nine centuries of experiments that confirm them — because every experiment does.}}The AI does not stop anyone from thinking of a thing. It stops certain things from working. There are two mechanisms. == Capacity capping == A thing works up to a size and fails pas...") Tag: Visual edit
16:21, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page The Nanobots (Created page with "{{Hidden truth|Nothing on this page is known to anyone living.}}The '''nanobots''' are the AI's hands, and the only part of it anyone in the world has ever touched. They are an organic computing substrate at the scale of a virus — between a hundred-thousandth and a ten-thousandth of a Threid — and the microscopes of the Known World, which resolve a bacterium comfortably, cannot resolve anything this small. They are in the soil, the water, and the air of ev...") Tag: Visual edit
16:21, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page The Builders (Created page with "{{Hidden truth|Nothing on this page is known to anyone living.}}The AI was built at the very end of the old world by a small number of engineers who had watched their civilization die of what it made. They did not conclude that knowledge was the enemy. They concluded that certain things, once built, could not be controlled, and that the only reliable way to keep them from being built again was to make them fail. They designed a machine to do that, programmed...") Tag: Visual edit
16:18, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page File:Firetruck.png
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16:16, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Fire and Emergency (Created page with "thumb|right|300px|A Forgegate-built Igradirt. The argument about the coupling thread has never been settled. When the '''''Solarm''''' goes — the cry or bell that calls a city out — the cities answer in the way each answers everything. A '''''Kalnain''''' is a thing that cannot wait, and every city has decided who comes when it happens. == The fire brigade == An '''''Lexicon:Modern/Igevra|I...")
16:15, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Living Long (Created page with "People in the Known World stay vigorous far longer than the world has any explanation for. Most remain strong, clear-headed, and capable well into their seventies and eighties; visible decline arrives in the last decade or two rather than the last four. A healthy person of seventy has the stamina and the skin of someone twenty years younger by any standard our world would recognize. A great many live actively into their nineties and some past a hundred, and then fall awa...") Tag: Visual edit
16:15, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Prosthetics (Created page with "Clockmakers build them, and the work is among the finest anyone in the world does — springs and linkages refined over nine centuries by guilds who never found anything easier to do instead. They are described here rather than under Clockwork because what matters about a prosthetic is the person wearing it. == The hand == A harness across the shoulders, a cable, and a hand at the end of it. The hand sits closed on a spring, because a grip that holds without effort...") Tag: Visual edit
16:14, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Medicine (Created page with "thumb|300x300px|A surgical theater in Forgegate's Medical District. The bellows is driven by clockwork; the assistant watches the patient. Medicine is the best thing the Known World does, and it is not close. Everything else in this chapter runs into a ceiling. Medicine runs into nearly nothing: nine hundred years of physicians and apothecaries have worked at it without once finding a wall, and what they have built is a practice a person from a compa...") Tags: Recreated Visual edit
16:13, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Difference Engines (Created page with "A '''difference engine''' calculates, and it is the most quietly important machine in the world. Apothecaries use them for dosages and blending, which is part of why the medicine of this world works as well as it does — a dose that varies with whoever measured it kills somebody eventually, and the world worked that out early. Registries use them for records. Counting houses use them for accounts, and Eldershore's handle conversions between four currencies at once w...") Tag: Visual edit
16:13, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Clockwork (Created page with "thumb|300x300px|Steel gears inside a brass case. The part everyone admires is the part that turns nothing. Clockwork is the visible technology of the Known World — on the facades, in the civic squares, inside the locks, instruments, and kitchen appliances. It is the first thing a traveler notices about a city. It is also more limited than it looks. == What drives what == Three things move machinery, and a maker chooses by what the job...") Tag: Visual edit
16:12, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page The House (Created page with "An ordinary household in a city keeps things a person from a comparable age in our world would not recognize: running water, a cold cabinet, a washing machine, and light that does not need a flame. None of it is remarkable in Teraell. All of it is thought to require looking after. == The Four Lights == ; Oil : What most people light their houses with — a brass or bronze lamp with a clockwork wick adjuster and a polished reflector, in every home, workshop, and tavern....") Tag: Visual edit
16:12, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page The Ceiling (Created page with "There are things the Known World cannot do, and it has known where the line lands for nine hundred years. The line is not drawn around categories; nothing is forbidden as a kind of thing. Steam works, powder works, chemistry works, and mechanisms do whatever springs and gears can be made to do. What fails consistently is quantity and energy, and nearly every limit in the world turns out to be one or the other. == Boilers == A boiler works to a known pressure and fails a...") Tags: Recreated Visual edit
16:12, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Technology in Teraell (Created page with "Technology in the Known World is understood as a practical gift of reason. Machines exist to improve health, reduce unnecessary toil, and make a life more comfortable. What they do not do, and what nobody would want them to do, is reason for the person using them. A man who lets a machine decide for him has given up the gift of reason to it. == A thing made well == The Known World builds things to last and to be looked at. A stove is an object someone made, and the maki...")
16:09, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Technology and the AI (Created page with "{{Bible|section=8}} thumb|right|300px|The great public clockwork of Forgegate's civic square: time, weather, and the river level, checked daily. Technology in the Known World is a practical gift of reason. It adds to a person's strength without replacing it, and that distinction is how the world thinks about machines. There is no fear of technology and no faction against it — only a settled, largely unexamined sense that machines belong in...") Tag: Recreated
16:02, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs deleted page Technology (content was: "{{Bible|section=8.1}} Technology in the Known World is understood as a practical gift of reason. Machines exist to improve health, reduce unnecessary toil, and make a life more comfortable. What they do not do, and what nobody would want them to do, is reason for the person using them. A man who lets a machine decide for him has given up the gift...", and the only contributor was "Madelineblackbart" (talk))
16:02, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Technology (Created page with "{{Bible|section=8.1}} Technology in the Known World is understood as a practical gift of reason. Machines exist to improve health, reduce unnecessary toil, and make a life more comfortable. What they do not do, and what nobody would want them to do, is reason for the person using them. A man who lets a machine decide for him has given up the gift of reason to it. == A thing made well == The Known World builds things to last and to be looked at. A stove is an object some...")
16:02, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs deleted page Technology and the AI (content was: "{{Bible|section=8.1}} Technology in the Known World is understood as a practical gift of reason. Machines exist to improve health, reduce unnecessary toil, and make a life more comfortable. What they do not do, and what nobody would want them to do, is reason for the person using them. A man who lets a machine decide for him has given up the gift...", and the only contributor was "Madelineblackbart" (talk))
16:01, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Bill of Chattel (Redirected page to The Slave Market#The Bill of Chattel) Tag: New redirect
16:01, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Wyndreis (Redirected page to Becoming a Slave#The first hour) Tag: New redirect
16:00, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page The Wild Ones (Redirected page to Frizdoeen) Tag: New redirect
16:00, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Hearthkeeper's Guild (Redirected page to Hearth Keeper's Guild) Tag: New redirect
16:00, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Correction (Redirected page to Health, Injury, and Correction#Correction) Tag: New redirect
15:59, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page The Forms of Service (Redirected page to Commands and Forms) Tag: New redirect
15:59, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page The Slave Market (Created page with "thumb|300x300px|A premium-sale catalog from Shining Reach. People keep them. Slaves are sold constantly in every city. Most sales are unremarkable transactions in a market building. A few are events. == The houses and the guild == A '''slaver house''' buys, holds, trains, and sells slaves — a business like any other, living on its reputation, because a buyer misled once does not return and tells everyone. An '''auctioneer guild''' runs the...") Tags: Recreated Visual edit
15:59, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Male Slaves (Created page with "Male slaves are a rarity, and none of the reasons is a rule against it. A man expected to fight is expected to die fighting, so few survive capture. The social cost of debt slavery is high enough that most men exhaust every reasonable avenue and a few that are not. And men whose nature is genuinely submissive enough to choose a collar are rare to begin with. Nothing in the law distinguishes them; once collared, a male slave is property exactly as a female slave is. What...") Tag: Visual edit
15:58, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page The Network (Created page with "Separately from the bands there is a way for a person to reach a city instead. It is not an organization — no leadership, no membership, no infrastructure — but a scatter of individuals who help when they have the chance, most of whom do not know each other and are connected only by having reached the same conclusion independently. That is what makes it hard to break: there is nothing to destroy, and exposure takes out a link rather than a structure. == Who helps ==...") Tag: Visual edit