vout

Definition

An in-world dictionary defines “vout” as “an avout,” specifying that it is a derogatory term used Extramuros. It is described as especially used by Saecular speakers who subscribe to iconographies that paint the avout in an extremely negative way.

Context and Usage

• Crowd usage: In a public confrontation in Old Mahsht, bystanders and pursuers repeatedly shouted “Stop the vout!” and “The vout cast a spell on me!” Speakers used the word to single out an avout and to justify aggression, conflating mathic tools and practices with “sorcery.”
• Register and tone: Consistently pejorative in observed speech; commonly applied to an individual as “the vout.”
• Scope: The term marks outsiders’ attitudes toward the mathic community and appears in scenes where avout travel or are identified beyond math walls, i.e., extramuros.

Related Terms

• avout: the actual name for members of the mathic community.
• Extramuros: the outside-the-walls context where the slur is used.
• Saecular: non-mathic people among whom this term circulates.
• Iconography: recurring outsider stereotypes that shape hostile portrayals of the mathic world.

Notes

• Spelling and capitalization: appears in running text as lower-case “vout.” When applied to a specific person, speakers often precede it with “the” (e.g., “the vout”).
• Usage caution: This page documents the term’s in-world usage; it is a slur and is not used by avout for self-reference.