Extramuros

First Appearance and Context

An in‑world dictionary passage connected to Newmatter highlights the term by contrasting limited, permitted uses inside the maths with broader use extramuros in manufactured products. In everyday speech within a community, avout also use it when speaking of visitors and work beyond the walls.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Boundary term: marks the non‑mathic sphere outside the walls, used to distinguish customs, tools, and activity beyond the gates from those maintained under the Discipline.
• Materials and commerce: texts contrast inside allowances with extramuros usage; for example, newmatter is permitted in small quantities inside (bolts, chords, spheres), while extramuros it appears in a range of products.
• Interface and service: outsiders may be admitted under supervision for specific tasks (e.g., repairs), and avout sometimes engage in interviews or inquiries meant to benefit people outside.
• Governance context: contact across the boundary is tolerated and at times protected by the Saecular Power.

Relationships

• Counterpart to the Mathic World and to life inside a walled community.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Literally “outside the walls.” Functions as an adjective or adverb and appears in phrases such as “the extramuros world,” or simply “extramuros,” to contrast the world outside a Math with life under the Discipline.
• Nuance varies with era and context, sometimes referring to nearby settlements around a math and sometimes to the broader non‑mathic world.

Lexicographic usage

Some entries in the in‑world Dictionary label senses as “(Extramuros)” versus “(Intramuros)” to distinguish outside‑world and inside‑math meanings. For example, “Lineage” is given as: (Extramuros) a line of hereditary descent; (Intramuros) a chronological sequence of avout who accumulated property beyond the bolt, chord, and sphere, with such Lineages later abolished in reforms following the Third Sack. Rumors around wealth tied to these older practices are also cited in discussions of outsider Iconography.

• Additional example: An entry for Vale‑Lore notes that in informal speech (including Fluccish) the word is often shortened to “vlor.” It further distinguishes senses by labeling that, extramuros, “vlor” names an entertainment genre and, for those outside who practice it, a type of academy, whereas intramuros “Vale‑lore” encompasses martial arts, military history, strategy, and tactics associated with the Ringing Vale.

Current Status/Location

Active in current usage. Avout employ it routinely to describe people, goods, and practices beyond their walls; contemporary texts also use it to label how certain materials—such as newmatter—are used outside versus inside.