Mathic World

First Appearance and Context

The mathic world denotes the social and institutional life inside a Math, contrasted with the worldly Sæculum beyond the walls. Reference works such as The Dictionary frame this contrast and note that limited production continues within maths for items such as the bolt, the chord, and the sphere.

Key Relationships and Structure

• Inhabitants: Avout communities live under a common Discipline that shapes daily practice, permitted tools, and study.
• Language and registers: Formal speech and records use Orth, which differs from the extramuros vernacular.
• Material limits: Research into Newmatter is proscribed, though small practical production persists for specific kit and instruments inside the walls.

Interactions with the Sæculum

• Regulated contact: During Apert, gates open on set cycles and limited exchanges occur between maths and the outside.
• News and curation: Unarians compile annual summaries of worldly events and, every ten years, a decennial digest that enters mathic libraries; requests for texts can be submitted and copies are hand‑produced by fids for circulation to other maths.
• Education links: Some concents maintain longstanding ties with Sæcular families and train short‑term students in Unarian study; many of those students later work in law, politics, or commerce.

Descriptions/Characteristics

Life inside the walls emphasizes restraint in devices and media, a preference for words and diagrams, and common kit items (the bolt, the chord, the sphere). The mathic world remains distinct from the Sæculum yet periodically engages with it through regulated openings and carefully filtered information.