Rebirth

Overview

Rebirth is a capitalized historical hinge dividing the Old Mathic Age from the Praxic Age. Standard references place it around -500 and describe it as the opening of the maths’ gates and the dispersal of the avout into the Sæcular world, followed by a burst of theorics, culture, and exploration. It functions as a boundary marker in histories, glossaries, and displays.

Preceding Context

References place the Rebirth after earlier Middle‑Orth trends and before the industrially oriented Praxic Age. Prior to it, a restrictive Suvin current—later labeled “Mystagogue” in some accounts—discouraged open theoric work and emphasized guarded instruction.

What Happens

Accounts present the Rebirth both as an event and as a shift in practice: the maths opened their gates and avout moved into the Sæculum, with immediate changes in access, teaching, and practical work. Reference usage dates it to roughly -500 while leaving the precise sequence and local variations unstated.

Current accounts also associate this span with exploration radiating from the Sea of Seas, with naming and mapping that persisted even as later travel recast some geographies.

Aftermath and Consequences

• Followed by the Praxic Age, during which avout and Sæculars mingle more freely and theorics see wide practical use.
• In some locales, collections once held by maths were widely duplicated and former precincts passed into private stewardship; at Elkhazg, by this period the library had been dispersed and copied around the world and the complex had fallen into private hands, and it was not made over into a math during the Reconstitution.
• Sconic thought is described as emerging roughly halfway between the Rebirth and the Terrible Events, near the height of Praxic‑Age civilization.
• Later reforms are grouped under the Reconstitution, which serves as a renewed hinge for liturgy, Discipline, and dating.

Notes and Usage

• Period labels such as Rebirth, Praxic, and Reconstitution are widely used in reference works to anchor definitions and practices. Dates are often cited with the A.R. convention, whose epoch is defined under Reconstitution.
• In current debates, some speakers invoke a Second Rebirth to analogize prospective, dispersal‑based reorganization; this remains a rhetorical label rather than a dated event.