Lady Baritoe

Overview

Lady Baritoe is described as a great noblewoman of the Praxic Age (technological era) whose household salon became the gathering place for a circle later called the Sconics (perception-focused circle). Accounts characterize the Sconics as scholars who met at her house to examine how people apprehend the world indirectly through the senses, rather than by direct access to things themselves. She wrote books based on that ongoing exchange, while stressing that the ideas were not attributable to any single person. The recurring discussions there, held at the hour when her scones came out of the oven, are cited as the origin of the name.

Roles and Actions

• Hosted regular gatherings at her house that drew leading theoreticians, 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.
• The Sconics argued that pure thought alone cannot decide claims about non-spatiotemporal entities (for example, deities), steering inquiry toward what can be grounded in experience and shared reasoning.

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 scholars of her day (no specific names are provided in the cited accounts).

Influence and Legacy

• The Sconic stance became ingrained in mathic practice over time and was later understood as folded into the Cartasian Discipline (rules of thought and practice) 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 (refounding of mathic orders), 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 metatheory builds on, amends, or critiques Sconic positions.

First mention and context

Lady Baritoe is introduced in a roadside discussion where avout (cloistered scholars) explain the Sconic approach to an interested outsider from the Saeculum (the outside world). 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.