Incanters

Not to be confused with Incanter.

Overview

“Incanters” is the plural label for a legendary order named in Sæcular stories about the maths, usually set against the Rhetors. Avout speakers treat it as iconography and shorthand, not a recognized body. The myth is said to have taken shape in the period leading up to the Third Sack, and the singular Incanter is used similarly as a trope.

Purpose and Structure

• No formal purpose, rites, officers, or seats are attested.
• Outsider frames sometimes map the label to “Halikaarnian traditions” and place it on the semantics side, occasionally linking it to Saunt Halikaarn. Inside the maths, such mappings are treated as oversimplifications of real orders and lineages.

Practices (attributed)

• Popular accounts claim Incanters could “alter reality” or “change the future” by special utterances; avout present these as stories, not descriptions of praxis.
• In one oft‑retold episode about a skeleton discovered inside a recently poured structure near a concent, “so‑called Incanters” are credited with “finishing” the incident by leaving only ripple‑like records; tellings stress uncertainty and conflicting details, preserving it as folklore rather than fact.

Known Members/Associations

• No confirmed members are identified.
• Outsider tellings sometimes align the label with the crag‑dwelling Thousanders at this concent, who are identified with the Edharian Order. Speakers caution that this is a narrative mapping, not an acknowledged office.

Recent Activity

• No activity as an organization is shown. The label is invoked in present conversations to frame legends (e.g., the parking‑ramp episode), reinforcing that “Incanters” functions as a story label.
• In a tense messal during the ongoing convocation, a Deolater speaker said that, according to the iconography of the time, their community had nothing to do with Rhetors or Incanters. Later in the same discussion, a suggestion linking an Edharian theorist’s diagrams to supposed “Incanter” exploits heightened sensitivities around the Third Sack; another participant then remarked that the Three Inviolates are nuclear‑waste repositories under Sæcular stewardship, steering the conversation away from legendary orders.
• During a high‑stakes operation in orbit, an avout quipped, “Leave that to the Incanters and the Rhetors, respectively,” using the familiar pairing to contrast the iconographic attributions of “changing the future” versus “changing the past.” This reinforces that the labels function as story shorthand, not descriptions of real orders or powers.
• During a covert approach under the Cold Black Mirror, after a teammate decisively disabled a transmitter to stop confusing traffic, another observed, “This is how the Incanters do it; he’s doing it now,” applying the label to a terse, minimally explained intervention.
• In a private exchange, two avout joked about “we and the other Incanters” while reminiscing about making toy Everything Killers out of cornstalks and shoelaces at Edhar, underscoring that the term is used playfully inside the maths rather than as a literal organizational title.
• The label also surfaced while that same team closed with the Daban Urnud, further illustrating that “Incanters” endures in active speech as iconography during stressful, decision‑heavy operations.