Bulshytt

First Appearance and Context

Presented as a headword in a standard reference (4th edition, A.R. 3000), Bulshytt is tagged with period and register notes distinguishing meanings in Fluccish and in Orth. The entry frames it as a shared term whose force depends on where and how it is uttered—within the mathic world or in The Saeculum.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Historical usage by a radical Halikaarnian lineage: according to the reference, the Knights of Saunt Halikaarn employed the word loudly and disruptively to denounce others’ speech, worsening tensions between their camp and those labeled Procians in the years leading up to The Third Sack. That group was later Thrown Back.
• Cultural echo: the same source notes that popular entertainments confuse this lineage with the Incanters, contributing to outsiders’ misconceptions about mathic orders.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Fluccish sense: a broad, derogatory term for false speech in general—especially knowing, deliberate falsehood or obfuscation.
• Orth sense: a more technical, clinical label for speech (often commercial or political) that relies on euphemism, convenient vagueness, numbing repetition, and related devices to create the impression that something meaningful has been said.
• Usage note (register and etiquette):
• In mathic spaces, suddenly shouting the word evokes the disruptive Halikaarnian practice and is therefore avoided; spoken in a moderate tone, it carries the technical Orth sense, which long ago lost any vulgar connotation.
• In The Saeculum, it is easily confused with the Fluccish sense and may be treated as a vulgarity or even an obscenity, which complicates frank use of the term in mixed company.

Relationships

• Historically tied to Saunt Halikaarn’s lineage through the phrase “Knights of Saunt Halikaarn,” and contrasted in disputes with Procians.
• Intersects with outsider iconography that also invokes the Incanters.

Current Status/Location

Remains in use across registers. Within maths, it can be used in a measured way for the Orth sense; among outsiders in The Saeculum, reactions often track the Fluccish sense and may give offense. The reference frames the social dilemma—calling out bulshytt versus becoming a purveyor of it—as an unresolved problem for those who must speak across the wall.