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17:01, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page File:Galbrae.png
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16:59, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Galbrae (Created page with "{{Bible|section=11.8}} right|thumb|300x300px|A serious match runs three days. A mistake on the fortieth placement is still there on the two hundred and fortieth. '''Galbrae''' is the board game, and not a game in the sense the other two are. Nothing is ever captured, nothing is ever moved once it is down, and there is no luck in it whatever. Two players fill a board between them, and at the end the board is read. == The board and the stones ==...") Tag: Visual edit
16:58, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Redrym (Created page with "thumb|300x300px|A set of thirteen. The Breaker is in somebody's hand four rounds in five. '''Redrym''' is the tavern game of the world, played with tiles rather than cards, because tiles mix face down on a table and cards do not. A set is thirteen: one '''Breaker''', and three each of '''Personal''', '''Family''', '''Station''', and '''City'''. Three to six players, and four is the table everybody means. == The stakes == Everybody takes the same nu...") Tag: Visual edit
16:58, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page File:Rydtiles.png
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16:55, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Presluc (Created page with "'''Presluc''' is dice — eight-sided, because the world counts that way and always has. Everybody puts the same money in the pot and takes sixty-four tokens, and the tokens are the whole of the game from there. == The rules == A player stakes tokens from his bank and must roll at least once. Every face but the one adds its number to his pile. The one takes the pile entirely and ends his round. He may stop whenever he likes, and what he stops on goes into his bank and i...") Tag: Visual edit
16:55, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Leisure and Games (Created page with "Two days a week and five festival days a year belong to the people who have them, and nearly everything they do with that time is done in company. == The weekend == Mwyn and Stil are the week's rest and most trades work neither. Not everyone gets them: household staff, ship's crews, Roedhaven keepers, physicians, and anyone keeping animals work on days that do not stop and rest in other ways. Mwyn is the day things get done — the washing dried, the mending, the visit...") Tag: Visual edit
16:55, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Faith (Created page with "Every faith in the Known World came here in somebody's head. The arrivals brought them, across centuries, from a world whose gods they could describe and whose temples they would never see again. Nothing here was founded: no revelation anybody can point to, no prophet who walked in this world, no holy ground that was holy before somebody decided it was. So the world holds a great many faiths and no true one, and has built no machinery for deciding between them. == What...") Tag: Visual edit
16:54, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Table Manners (Created page with "Knife and spoon do the work. The knife spears what needs spearing and cuts against itself, and bread pushes food onto it and wipes the plate afterward. The fork is a Shining Reach refinement that solves no problem, and the rest of the world has looked at it and gone on eating. Eldershore eats with the right hand from the shared dish, and in most of its households a fork would be an obstacle. Nobody begins before the head of the household begins — the one rule...") Tag: Visual edit
16:54, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Eating Out (Created page with "A '''''Therplae''''' sells food, drink, and beds, and most people eat at one because their rooms have no oven: two to three Braell for a cheap meal, six to ten for a good one, and the same table on the same night for twenty years (see Clubs and Societies#The Therplae table). '''Stalls''' feed the midday street — bread and something hot, held in the hand, a Braell or two. '''Eating houses''' are a Shining Reach invention and obsession: dinner at one to three Ser...") Tag: Visual edit
16:53, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Food and Meals (Created page with "== Meals == Three, and everybody eats them at roughly the same time because the bells say so. '''''Cham''''' is the morning meal at the fourth or fifth bell — in a poor household bread and what was left, eaten standing; anywhere else porridge, eggs, bread and cheese, something smoked or fried, and something hot to drink, ''boeethae'' for most people and Thearwy for those who can afford it. '''''Doef''''' is midday at the eighth bell, when the whole city stops for a Mae...") Tag: Visual edit
16:53, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Clubs and Societies (Created page with "A city where everybody is watched all day produces a strong appetite for rooms where they are not. What a city does about it depends on how big it is and how much of its social life it has had to arrange rather than inherit. == Two kinds of room == A '''guild hall''' is where a trade meets. Membership follows the border, so a guildwoman sits in her hall because she is in the guild, and business is done there — contracts, apprentices, standards, disputes, the price of...") Tag: Visual edit
16:52, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Clothes (Created page with "Each city's dress is described on its own page — Shining Reach#Dress, Forgegate#Dress, Stormharbor#Dress, Eldershore#Dress, Clearhold#Dress, The Iron Coves#Dress — and Wages and Prices#Clothing prices it. What those do not say is how long any of it takes. An ordinary day is quick. A working woman dresses herself in minutes. A master's wife takes longer because there is more of it and the street will see her. A wealthy woman takes as long...") Tag: Visual edit
16:52, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Growing Older (Created page with "A woman of sixty in the Known World has twenty good years in front of her, which Living Long describes and nobody has an explanation for. So she is not put aside. She runs her household until she chooses to hand it on, and then runs the parts she enjoys. She minds grandchildren, which is what lets her daughter or daughter-in-law work. If she holds a trade she is at her most valuable, because she has ''Skaella'' nobody can shortcut, and spends more time teaching than...") Tag: Visual edit
16:52, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Birth (Created page with "Childbirth is safe by any standard the older world would recognize. A physician or a midwife attends, both are trained, the room is clean, and the surgeon's answer exists if it is needed. Women still die, and it is rare enough to shock a whole street when it happens. How many children a household has is decided rather than endured. Nyvra is cheap and reliable and every free woman chooses whether to take it, and almost all do; Wynyvra is not cheap...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
16:51, 26 September 2026 Madelineblackbart talk contribs created page Men's Lives (Created page with "A man's day is his work, and the rest of his life is arranged around it. What he answers for is the household's standing — all four aspects of the Oathbond at once: his own conduct, his family's name, his trade's standards, his city's law — and everybody he passes on the street can see which one went wrong. He is read constantly, as everyone in the Known World is: his coat, his tools, his team, whether his shop is tidy, whether his children are schoo...") Tag: Visual edit
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