Syntactic Faculty of the Concent of Saunt Muncoster

First appearance and context

The Syntactic Faculty of the Concent of Saunt Muncoster is named in an entry of The Dictionary describing Saunt Proc and his circle. That entry states that, following the Reconstitution after the Terrible Events, Proc was made patron Saunt of this faculty.

Role and function

Within the broader mathic structure of the Concent, the Syntactic Faculty is presented as a faculty‑level lineage rather than a specific order. The Dictionary characterizes it as the progenitor of orders that trace their descent to it, in contrast to those associated with the Semantic Faculty (patron Saunt Halikaarn). In the same definition, its patron, Saunt Proc, is linked to a group called the Circle that held a strongly syntactic stance: that symbols have no intrinsic meaning and that discourse is a game played according to rules of form.

Relationships and references

• Patron Saunt: Saunt Proc.
• Parent institution: the Concent of Saunt Muncoster within the mathic Concent system.
• Contrasted lineage: orders associated with the Semantic Faculty, whose patron is named as Saunt Halikaarn.
• Source: the entry in The Dictionary (4th edition, A.R. 3000).

Current status

The text references the Syntactic Faculty in historical terms and does not specify its present administrative structure or which contemporary orders, if any, formally descend from it.