Third Sack

First Appearance and Context

The Third Sack is recounted in narratives given while leading visitors through the Unarian Math. A wedge‑shaped tumulus within the precinct commemorates those who returned; it is oriented inward toward the Clock to emphasize their coming back. The event is one of The Three Sacks remembered by the community.

Mathic sources also describe rising disputes between Procian and Halikaarnian orders in the years leading up to it; shortly before the event, the Knights of Saunt Halikaarn were Thrown Back.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Opening phase: A week‑long siege of the Concent began the crisis. With the walls too long for so few to defend, the lower cohorts (Tenners and Hundreders) broke the Discipline and withdrew to the Unarian precinct, which had a smaller perimeter with water barriers. The Thousanders were safe on their crag.
• Sortie and return: Before dawn on a later day, most of the avout formed up behind the Year Gate, threw it open, and stormed out in a flying wedge. For one hour they sacked the town and the besiegers’ supply dumps, gathering medicines, vitamins, ammunition, and specific chemicals and minerals unavailable within the walls. Then they formed a smaller wedge and fought their way back across the plaza, re‑entered the gate, and dropped the bridge by explosives.
• Losses and memorial: Five hundred stormed out; three hundred returned; of those, two hundred died immediately of their wounds. The wedge‑shaped granite monument is their tumulus.
• Outcome and aftermath: The gathered supplies were sent up to the Thousanders. The rest of the concent fell the next day; the Thousanders then lived alone on their crag for about seventy years. In this telling, only two other Millenarian maths in the world made it through the Third Sack unviolated and unsacked. During the siege it had become clear that The Saecular Power would not come to the concent’s aid.

Relationships

• Part of The Three Sacks; referenced alongside general lore about prior and later sackings.
• Connected to the Unarian precinct’s gateworks, especially the Year Gate, and to the Thousanders’ crag above.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Memorial orientation: The wedge monument faces inward toward the Clock, symbolizing return rather than escape.
• Tactical notes: Contemporary accounts emphasize the wedge formation, the one‑hour limit, and the focus on obtaining medical and material necessities that could not be produced intramuros.
• Commemorative statue: A life‑sized bronze of Amnectrus, the Warden Fendant at the time, depicts him kneeling behind a parapet with a rifle amid a lake of spent shell casings; its pedestal serves as his sarcophagus. It stands along the walkway of the Warden Fendant court in the Mynster.

Current Status/Location

A historical episode used to explain present monuments, practices, and absences. In its longer aftermath, avout recall that the lower maths fell while the Thousanders persisted alone on their crag; later reorganization included relocating much of the Edharian community to other concents to make room for a New Circle and a Reformed Old Faanian chapter.