Terrible Events

First Appearance and Context

Terrible Events is cited in avout sources as a past period of upheaval. An entry in The Dictionary (4th edition) for the Ita remarks that the loss of poorly preserved records "will forever enshroud the time of the Harbingers and the Terrible Events," situating the label in the late phases of the Praxic Age and before the Reconstitution. Along the Hylaean Way tour in the Unarian math, the exhibits are said to end with space reserved for possible future sections about later history—explicitly including the Harbingers and the Terrible Events—signaling that they are recognized topics whose details are not yet displayed there.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

Within mathic history presented so far, the term marks a dividing line between earlier eras such as the Praxic Age and the re-established practices that followed the Reconstitution. Its clearest liturgical consequence noted to date is that, after this period, the Hylaean Anathem was revived in a clock-centered form enacted within the Mynster.

Avout remarks also associate the aftermath of this period with a cessation of funding for very large Praxic Age installations such as particle accelerators. In the absence of ever-bigger test equipment, theors increasingly looked to cosmography for testable givens—a reorientation that was already underway late in the Praxic Age.

Relationships

• Saunt Proc: A dictionary entry dates him to the late Praxic period and states he is assumed to have been liquidated during the Terrible Events; later venerated as patron Saunt of the Syntactic Faculty.
• Hylaean Anathem: The revival of this rite is placed after the Terrible Events in mathic accounts.
• Ita: Their dictionary entry explicitly couples the Terrible Events with the Harbingers and notes the haziness of records from that time.

Descriptions/Characteristics

The Terrible Events are treated as a singular named period rather than a specific incident. Precise causes, scope, and chronology have not been detailed; surviving references emphasize fragmentary documentation and retrospective use as a historical marker.

Current Status/Location

A completed historical period used as a reference point in teaching and liturgy. No geographic locus is specified, and further particulars are not yet available in the narrative.