Fraa Clathrand

Fraa Clathrand is remembered as an Edharian avout whose observations tied metatheory to the way events unfold in time. Sources describe him as a Centenarian who later became a Millenarian at the Concent of Saunt Edhar.

His best‑known idea is commonly called Clathrand’s Contention. Looking over diagrams later grouped under Complex Protism, he noted that the one‑way, directed‑acyclic networks used there match the form of ordinary causal structure in spacetime. In that reading, arrows in the diagrams can be understood like “light‑bubble” constraints: information propagates along them as cause and effect, never looping back. From this, Clathrand emphasized that givens about the cnoons reach us as if from the past—we perceive them in the present, but nothing we do now can alter those givens.

Accounts say that after a millennial Apert his remarks became more widely known, and various theors tried to build on them in different ways. In current discussions at a Convox, senior avout such as Fraa Paphlagon cite Clathrand to clarify why Protist diagrams should be read as one‑way information flow, while others press the limits of what (if anything) the Contention lets them test. Fraa Jad offers concise cautions about verifiability. When a guest raised the question of whether such ideas related to the Third Sack, the room fell silent; the topic was acknowledged as sensitive and no conclusion was drawn.

Later, in candid conversation among avout about pre‑Sack praxis, one participant asserted that “Fraa Clathrand of Edhar was the tip of an iceberg,” describing a broad effort pursued by both Procians and Halikaarnians. In that telling, the work reached a zenith in the decades leading into the Third Sack and drew harsh Sæcular reprisals: records were destroyed and practitioners killed, with remnants said to have persisted within the Three Inviolates. Others present treated these claims as inference rather than settled fact.