Saunt Patagar

First Appearance and Context

Saunt Patagar is first mentioned in a discussion during Apert, when avout contrast her ideas with contemporary worries about outsiders. In that conversation, her assertion is used to frame a debate about whether the legend of the Incanters is exaggerated as a tool of control by the Sæcular Power.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Known for "Saunt Patagar's Assertion": that public fear of the Terrible Events, coupled with the legend of the Incanter, is wielded by secular authorities to keep the maths compliant.
• Described as having flourished for a period and founded her own Order. It is suggested that chapters of that Order might still exist, though no details are given in the account available so far.
• Invoked as part of internal mathic debates about how to interpret stories told extramuros and how those stories influence policy toward the maths.
• In later discourse within the mathic community, her Assertion is cited when avout discuss surveillance and information flow: one argument holds that the Ita choose what intelligence to pass to the Warden Regulant and what to withhold, coordinating over the Reticulum. This usage reinforces the Assertion as shorthand for skepticism toward outside control narratives.

Relationships

• Juxtaposed with Saunt Lora's Proposition in the same discussion, as an example of how saunts are often used to position arguments about novelty versus tradition. No direct personal relationship is described.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Referred to with feminine pronouns in the source discussion. No physical description is provided.

Current Status/Location

Historical figure; active long after the early mathic eras. Her Order is said to have persisted for some time and may have surviving chapters, but nothing further is confirmed in the present account.