Saunt Atamant

Introduced at a Plurality‑of‑Worlds messal in the Concent of Saunt Tredegarh by a delegate presenting himself as “Fraa Zh’vaern,” Saunt Atamant was described as a Matarrhite saunt and extraordinarily careful introspectionist. In that telling, Atamant spent three decades gazing at a copper bowl and dictated ten treatises about what his mind did in response—nine chiefly concerned with space and one, far more difficult, with time.

According to that account, Atamant argued for a polycosmic view consonant with Hemn space worldtracks—“all possible worlds really existed”—and developed a metatheorics of counterfactuals and compossibility. On time, he held that consciousness is time‑constituting: momentary givens become a past through records encoded in nerve tissue. He emphasized the mind’s power to confer “thisness” on patterns (e.g., copper‑bowlness) and treated that ability as the basis of rational thought. The portrayal was further said to harmonize with current debates over the Hylaean Theoric World and the percolation pictured in the Wick.

Questions arose immediately. A senior Lorite present did not recognize the name. The next evening the same speaker cast off his disguise and identified himself as Jules Verne Durand of Laterre; he admitted that the dramatic claim that Atamant made a scratch on his bowl vanish was a deliberate ruse and that the story had been “fictionalized heavily,” loosely modeled on an extracosmic philosopher. No independent attestation of Atamant’s life or texts has yet surfaced among avout at Tredegarh.

Status: Purported. Atamant may be a rhetorical construct introduced under Matarrhite cover; if a historical figure existed behind the name, neither his treatises nor his biography are presently verified.