Ten-Thousand-Year Math

First Appearance and Context

Within the Concent of Saunt Edhar, the Ten‑Thousand‑Year Math is mentioned as a story recalled by avout and as a topic that comes up around an opening. An avout cites an entry in the Chronicle describing a gate grinding open and people emerging who claimed to be Ten‑thousanders celebrating Apert. The idea is used as a springboard for discussing extreme isolation and the thought experiment known as Causal Domain Shear.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Function in the narrative: serves as an illustrative or cautionary example rather than a documented cohort. It is invoked when avout consider whether a math could become so causally isolated that its time might seem to slip relative to the world outside.
• Status: presented with skepticism and treated as apocryphal under commonly taught history.

Relationships

• Contrasted with recognized cohorts such as the Decenarians, the Centenarians, and the Millenarians, whose cycles and locations are known. By comparison, the Ten‑Thousand‑Year Math has no confirmed site, rites, or members—only anecdotal mention.
• Associated by name with Fraa Orolo in an avout’s phrasing that invokes it as a way to describe extreme isolation.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Name and concept: “Ten‑thousanders” denotes an order that would operate on a ten‑thousand‑year cycle; the group is also described as a “Wandering Ten‑Thousand‑Year Math.”
• Usage: primarily a teaching device for thinking about long‑baseline separation and time slippage; no concrete practices or structures have been verified.
• Characterization in recent usage: described as “a causal domain cut off from the rest of the cosmos” and invoked by Arsibalt to characterize an isolated cell, with the wording attributing the image to Fraa Orolo.

Current Status/Location

Unverified and location‑less in the available account. No confirmed sightings or records beyond references in discussion and in the concent’s records; it is best understood as a story used to frame questions about isolation and coupling between the math and the world outside.