Old Mathic Age

Definition

The Old Mathic Age is a period label used in mathic histories to denote an early era of the Mathic World characterized by Cartasian principles and the widespread use of a common liturgy adapted from older rites. It functions as a historical category rather than a precisely bounded calendrical span, and is generally understood to end at the Rebirth—accounts describe gates of the maths being flung open and avout dispersing into the Sæculum—after which the Praxic Age begins.

Context and Usage

• The term is invoked when explaining the evolution of avout practice and liturgy; accounts attribute to Saunt Cartas the adaptation of an ancient aut used broadly during this era.
• Contemporary speakers describe a “direct line” from Cartasian principles of the Old Mathic Age to many current practices; later developments added to—and sometimes removed from—those earlier ideas, with Sconic thought cited as one such influence.
• By the Reconstitution, certain Sconic habits (for example, treating some topics as out of bounds for productive theorics and metatheorics) had become ingrained in the Discipline, even as communities continued to frame their rule in Cartasian terms.
• As a dating term for old houses: in Old Mahsht, a traveler considers that a small Math there might date to the Old Mathic Age—an example of informal usage to situate ancient enclaves within mathic chronology.
• Used as a temporal anchor for long‑standing land tenure on Ecba: the island is described as having been held as a single parcel since the Old Mathic Age, with control shifting over time between petty principalities, empires, and private owners.
• In current discourse, speakers gloss the Rebirth explicitly as “the end of the Old Mathic Age,” emphasizing opened gates and avout dispersal.

Related Terms and Periods

• The Praxic Age is discussed as later than the Old Mathic Age and marked by intensified exchange with the Saeculum; accounts situate Sconic thought’s emergence near the high‑water mark of that later civilization.
• The Rebirth is the boundary event between the Old Mathic Age and the Praxic Age. Reference entries commonly date it to around −500 and characterize it by the opening of math gates, avout dispersal into the Sæculum, and a flowering of exploration and theorics thereafter.
• References vary in emphasis—some stress liturgy and translation practice; others highlight the lineage of ideas from Cartasian groundwork to later systems.

Notes

• Boundaries and institutions specific to the Old Mathic Age have not been fixed in available material; the label serves as a useful shorthand in teaching and reference rather than a fully enumerated chronology.
• Later polemics and retrospectives sometimes characterize strands within this era differently; where sources conflict or use differing terminology, ambiguity is preserved here until further detail is provided.