Allswell Sequence

First Appearance and Context

The Allswell Sequence is first referenced by an avout who contrasts the effects of food eaten beyond the walls with the diet within a concent. Addressing an extramuros audience, the speaker suggests that people living extramuros commonly consume crops whose genes include this sequence, affecting mood and thought patterns.

Description and Role

“Allswell” is described as a gene sequence included in cultivated crops outside the walls. Its reported effect on consumers is to make melancholy thoughts unlikely to arise or easier to dismiss. The reference implies Allswell is a baseline enhancement in extramuros agriculture, with “even stronger” modifications also in use; no technical details, mechanisms, or scope are provided in the text.

Relationships and Functions

• Extramuros agriculture: Presented as a common feature of food grown outside the math, shaping day‑to‑day temperament among the general population living extramuros.
• Contrast with the avout: By comparison, avout living within a concent’s Discipline do not describe having the same ease in dismissing melancholy, implying their intramuros food supply lacks Allswell (or uses it differently). This contrast is used in‑text to highlight differences between life within and beyond the walls rather than to give technical specifications.

Current Status

The in‑text account portrays Allswell as widely present in extramuros crops, with stronger variants also extant. Within maths, there is no indication that the avout’s food includes it; the implication is that intramuros diets are not augmented for mood in the same way.