Lady Baritoe

Overview

Lady Baritoe is described as a great noblewoman whose household salon became the gathering place for leading metatheoricians. The recurring discussions there, held at the hour when her scones came out of the oven, gave rise to what later speakers call “Sconic” thought. She wrote books based on that ongoing exchange, while stressing that the ideas were not attributable to any single person.

Roles and Actions

• Hosted a regular salon that drew “all the best metatheoricians,” providing the setting in which Sconic ideas took shape.
• Authored books emerging from those conversations, with explicit caution against assigning sole credit to any one contributor.
• Through the influence of the Sconics, helped establish a thinking‑habit that later avout regarded as part of their Discipline: certain topics (for example, whether a non‑spatiotemporal deity exists) are treated as out of bounds for productive inquiry.

Relationships

• Spouse: mentioned only indirectly; her husband is characterized in-source as a philandering fool. His name and role in intellectual matters are not given.
• Associates: frequent interlocutors included prominent metatheoricians of her day (no specific names are provided in the cited account).

Influence and Legacy

• The Sconic stance became ingrained in mathic practice over time and was later understood as folded into the Cartasian Discipline followed by the avout. Speakers describe this incorporation as a gradual cultural adoption rather than a formal decree tied to any one moment.
• Timeframe: portrayed as flourishing roughly midway between the Rebirth and the Terrible Events; by the time of the Reconstitution, her salon’s approach was commonly assumed within the community that traces its rules to Saunt Cartas.
• Scope and limits: later theoricians remark that Baritoe’s works do not fully address questions about direct engagement with non‑spatiotemporal mathematical objects; subsequent metatheorics build on, amend, or critique Sconic positions.

First Mention and Context

Lady Baritoe is introduced in a road‑side discussion where avout explain the Sconic approach to an interested outsider from the Saeculum. She is discussed purely as a historical figure and does not appear directly.

Current Status

Historical; no personal dates are provided, and no present‑day activities are mentioned beyond her enduring association with the origins of Sconic thought.