Saunt Conderline

Saunt Conderline is a venerated figure in the mathic tradition known (in current sources) for a concise analogy about nature’s constants. Grandsuur Moyra attributes to Conderline the image of a vast ocean standing for all possible settings of roughly twenty physical constants that yield only simple, sterile outcomes, with a thin oil sheen on the surface representing the exquisitely narrow set of values that allow stable matter and living complexity.

This analogy has been taken up at the Plurality of Worlds Messal to clarify two related ideas. First, engineered newmatter can be viewed as moving slightly to neighboring points within that life‑permitting “sheen,” producing matter with subtly different behaviors. Second, the Geometers might originate from worldtracks where those constants take different values within that same thin band, which would explain why their matter appears fundamentally incompatible with Arbre’s at the nuclear level.

First cited in current accounts during a dinner‑dialog at Avrachon’s Dowment, where Suur Moyra and Fraa Paphlagon invoked Conderline’s image while interpreting recent laboratory findings. No biographical details are given here; Conderline is presently known only through this analogy.

Current status: Historical; honored as a Saunt. Further particulars have not yet been provided in available sources.