New Orth

New Orth is a later period of Orth recognized in the mathic world and tracked as a period label by The Dictionary. It is attested in formal rites within the Mynster, used alongside older forms.

First Appearance and Context

• In a formal summoning led by the Primate, familiar phrases were spoken in Old Orth before a switch to New Orth to read a formula identified as dating to the Reconstitution. That reading immediately preceded the call of Voco.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Period label: used by The Dictionary to tag later senses and usages within Orth.
• Ceremonial register: employed for official formulas and announcements during rites at the Mynster, alternating with Old Orth as the rite demands.
• Sense label in definitions: An in-world reference work uses the qualifier "In New Orth" to introduce the meaning of "Vale-lore" as an omnibus term for martial arts, military history, strategy, and tactics, illustrating how period labels frame current usage.

Relationships

• One member of the Orth family of periods, contrasted with Old Orth and Middle Orth in scholarship and practice.
• In rites, the officiant (e.g., the Primate) may alternate between Old Orth and New Orth to signal tradition versus later formulations.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Treated as a later stage of Orth in which certain formal texts and formulas are expressed.
• Observed in use immediately around a solemn calling, following an Old Orth summons.

Current Status/Location

• Actively used in ceremonial contexts and referenced in The Dictionary as a period label; recognized in ongoing mathic discourse.