Narrative

A Narrative is a theoric way of describing a whole cosmos as a single path (a “worldtrack”) traced through Hemn Spaces. To minds living within it, a Narrative appears to be the universe entire; many such Narratives can share the same configuration space without intersecting.

First appearance and context

During a messal convened at Tredegarh amid the present Convox, Fraa Jad speaks of the world we perceive as but one Narrative among many, and suggests that the visitors in orbit came from other Narratives. Participants take this as a shift away from talk of “parallel universes” toward the language of configuration space.

Usage in current events

Reports shared at Tredegarh describe laboratory tests on four recovered fluid vials whose nuclei are mutually incompatible with each other and with Arbre‑native matter. This is cited in discussion as evidence that the four visitor contingents—collectively called the Geometers—originate from distinct Narratives. Some speakers now also use the label “PAQD” (Pangee‑Antarct‑Quator‑Diasp) for the same coalition. The term “Narrative” is likewise being prepared for explanations to Sæcular authorities, as a way to frame why contact might involve multiple cosmi.

Explanatory notes and properties

• Compossibility and records: A Narrative is not just a single exotic point in configuration space but a coherent history. Valid worldtracks include the consistent “traces” that events leave behind—memories, recordings, and physical aftermath—that all fit together. Speakers use an “ice‑in‑a‑star” example to illustrate that if such a state appears in a Narrative, the same Narrative must also encode a plausible chain of causes and matching records.
• Forking: From one state there can be multiple lawful continuations. Dialogs describe worldtracks that “fork” when microscopic outcomes differ, yielding distinct Narratives that each obey the same natural laws along their own paths.
• Biological‑scale illustration: Speakers cite cell‑level examples to make the idea concrete. A cell that has just undergone a mutation, and one that has not, lie on Narratives separated by only a single forking in Hemn space. The same reasoning is applied to radiation damage and age‑related transcription errors, treating those outcomes as quantum‑contingent divergences between extremely nearby Narratives.
• Time in the model: Working in configuration space clarifies time as the ordering of points along a worldtrack. This perspective is said to become practically relevant when comparing several cosmi at once.
• Thought experiment: Some avout teach the distinction between arbitrary jumps and lawful continuations with an imaginary “Hemn‑space teleporter,” contrasting random hops to points with the unique continuation that stays on a Narrative.

Terminology and debates

• Conventional phrasing among theors is to speak of “worldtracks” in configuration space; several speakers note that “Narrative” is a rarer, more loaded term.
• Suur Moyra observes that use of “Narrative” is associated in some minds with The Lineage.
• In Jad’s presentation, “backwards” talk is rejected (“there is no backwards”), treating a Narrative as a path in Hemn space rather than a sequence unfolding in time.
• Speculative praxis myth: A circulating “mythology” claims that certain praxes could mend radiation damage—and later mitigate aging—by favoring nearby Narratives in which those quantum events did not occur. An elder frames this as a plausible, internally consistent story rather than established fact. Some want such talk promoted to fact for comfort, while others warn that it would be explosive if taken up in the Sæculum.
• Opponents and supporters alike connect the topic to wider disputes about the Hylaean Theoric World.

Status

“Narrative” remains an uncommon but active term in current dialog at Tredegarh. It is used to frame contact with off‑worlders within Hemn‑space thinking and is being tested for clarity in briefings to extramuros officials.