Reconstitution

First Appearance and Context

The Reconstitution is referenced in liturgy and teaching within the Mynster, including during Provener, when the community contrasts practices “before the Reconstitution” with those that follow inside the concent. It is also used as a zero‑point epoch in teaching displays that date earlier periods as “before the Reconstitution.” During formal summonings led by the Primate (such as the aut of Voco), the spoken formula is identified as originating around the time of the Reconstitution. In everyday dialog among avout it also serves as a chronological marker; for example, later writings by a theor might be situated as taking place “after the Reconstitution.”

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Placed directly after the Terrible Events, it marks a threshold from which core practices were re‑anchored around the great Clock and its rites within the Mynster.
• The revived form includes the performance of the Hylaean Anathem and the centering of observance on mechanisms housed in the Praesidium.
• The Revised Book of Discipline was adopted at this time; it describes eight types of liaison and sanctions two.
• In local histories, the period “after the Reconstitution” is when the first fraas and suurs of the Order of Saunt Edhar took up the work at the river bend that led to the Concent of Saunt Edhar.
• Its continuing validity is presented as contingent on consistent standards across concents, overseen by the Inquisition.

Relationships

• Functions as the hinge between the Praxic Age and later practice; accounts often set earlier customs and language “before” it and modern usage “after.”
• Contemporary commentary places a profusion of polycosm‑oriented metatheories “around the Reconstitution,” and notes that a turn toward cosmography was already underway independent of it.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Treated as a historical divider and organizing label in instruction and ceremony.
• Reference works and displays date intervals relative to it (e.g., “before the Reconstitution”), and some use “A.R. NNN” notation (for example, “A.R. 3000”) to mark years after it.

Current Status/Location

Active as a standard point of reference in liturgy, instruction, and reference usage. Specific causes, scope, and reforms associated with it have not been detailed in the available material.