Concent of Saunt Tredegarh

Tredegarh is a major Concent (walled monastic community) named for Saunt Tredegarh, a mid‑to‑late Praxic Age theor remembered for advances in thermodynamics. Counted among the Big Three, it currently hosts a Convox (large convocation) drawing Evoked (formally called out) Avout (monastic scholars) from many maths. Compared with the Concent of Saunt Edhar, Tredegarh is older, larger, and set in a milder climate with extensive gardens.

Setting and Surroundings

• Reputation and reality: Tredegarh was built somewhat farther from the great cities of the late Praxic Age and gained a reputation for isolation. Observers note that, in practice, it is closely ringed by Sæcular (non-mathic civil) estates and amenities, including arboretums and lawns around great old houses.
• Access: A busy aerodrome lies within an easy walk (about half an hour) of the Day Gate (daytime entrance).

Layout and Notable Features

• The Day Gate is exceptionally tall; an inlaid red-stone road serves as wayfinding for patients to the Physicians’ Commons (medical complex), which connects to service corridors, labs, and clinical rooms.
• The Mynster (clock-temple complex) stands at the base of the Precipice (granite cliff used as a clock). Over centuries, successive dials were cut higher into the granite; all still tell time. Bells ring from high on the Precipice, calling the community to auts.
• Beneath the granite lobe, tunnels are described as storing nuclear waste; Tredegarh’s celebrated Inviolateness is attributed not to its walls but to a compact between the mathic world and the Sæcular Power (civil government).
• Avrachon’s Dowment houses a museum‑like collection of historical scientific instruments; during the Convox it serves as a host venue for a Plurality of Worlds messal. The dowment’s current Heritor, Suur Asquin, is noted as facilitating discussions there.

Organization and Daily Practice

• Institutional structure: Life is organized through dowments (endowed houses) and chapter houses (order’s house) rather than a single refectory.
• Dining custom: Meals are held as a messal (small formal dinner) in a messallan (private dining room), typically with up to seven diners; servitors (dining attendants) stand for service behind their doyn (senior sponsor/mentor). Each messallan has its own kitchen cooking only for that room.
• Specialized messals: Some messals are attached to specific dowments (e.g., a Plurality of Worlds messal at Avrachon’s Dowment) and may seat mixed groups during the Convox, with visiting avout sometimes serving as servitors to their doyns.

Role During the Convox

• Inductions: Inbrase (Convox induction aut/rite) formally enrolls arriving peregrins (avout on outside journey) into the Convox.
• Assemblies: Plenary (full assembly meeting) sessions convene in a vast nave capable of holding the entire Convox.
• Venue and staging: During the Convox at Tredegarh, the Unarian nave has hosted Plenary dialogs before thousands of avout and some Sæculars. Temporary newmatter scaffolds support a raised stage assembled from tubes and platform‑slabs, and a large speely projection screen shows a magnified live feed from a speelycaptor. Harsh lights mounted on scaffold‑towers and headset‑coordinated crew manage microphones and staging.
• Civil–mathic interface: Sæcular officials attend and confer at assemblies, and technical staff coordinate staging and recording alongside Tredegarh personnel.
• Health and handling: Temporary quarantine housing has been used near the Physicians’ Commons for biosecurity; Tredegarh personnel prepare “givens” (collected evidence) for safe transfer into Convox processes.

History and Scholarship

• In messal discussion, Suur Moyra states that a Praxic‑Age concept for a star‑travel propulsion device was first envisioned at Tredegarh; she cites it while explaining why some recent hypotheses gained brief currency during the Convox. This is presented as attribution rather than as a detailed specification.

Status

Active, heavily populated, and serving as a central hub for Evoked cohorts and inter‑order collaboration during the ongoing Convox.