Plurality of Worlds Messal

The Plurality of Worlds Messal is a themed dinner‑and‑dialog held in Avrachon’s dowment at Tredegarh during the Convox. It seats a small table of doyns with servitors in attendance to consider questions raised by a “plurality of worlds,” cultural as well as cosmological.

First convening and context

• Described as the first sitting, convened shortly after a large Plenary in the Unarian nave.
• Hosted by Suur Asquin (Heritor of Avrachon’s Dowment). Messal customs are observed: doyn–servitor pairs, a rope‑and‑bell call system, and a dedicated kitchen for the messallan. A one‑way sound feed lets kitchen staff follow the dialog.

Participants and roles

• Sæcular liaison: Ignetha Foral (“Madame Secretary”) attends and asks how to justify the messal’s value to Sæcular colleagues.
• Procian advocate: Fraa Lodoghir argues that language and meaning are assigned by culture and proposes that the messal develop a strategy to create shared language with the visitors.
• Thousander perspective: Fraa Jad speaks in terms of “Narratives” and prompts a move into configuration‑space thinking.
• Others named at table or in service include Fraa Paphlagon, Suur Moyra, a Matarrhite doyn called Zh’vaern, Fraa Tavener, Arsibalt, Suur Tris, and Suur Karvall.

Themes and discussion

• Purpose and scope: whether a separate messal is warranted and what outcomes it should pursue; one aim is to bridge isolated cultures by developing common reference points.
• Visitors: the Geometers are discussed as originating in different “cosmi” or worldtracks; provisional crew‑room names for four groups—Antarcts, Pangees, Diasps, Quators—are noted from planet glyphs.
• Frameworks: Hemn space (configuration space) is introduced as the preferred lens for talking about worldtracks and how closely they approach near a common origin, with “Narratives” used by some speakers as an alternate phrasing.
• Next topic (set early): participants propose taking up the Hylaean Theoric World in a subsequent sitting.

Later sittings and topics

• Foundations revisited: worldtracks in Hemn space are contrasted with claims about the Hylaean Theoric World; competing schools test each other’s premises and clarify terms.
• Focus on the visitors: attention turns to the PAQD (Geometers)—including why one appears so close to Arbran form—with hypotheses ranging from parallel evolution to information percolation along the Wick.
• Consciousness and feedback (attributional): A concise remark by Fraa Jad frames how minds might selectively amplify weak inter‑cosmic “signals,” yielding feedback and persistent attractors; table discussion unpacks this into a model that could steer close worldtracks together.
• Recollected by attendees in later discussion: the messal’s Wick‑focused debate explicitly included proposals that Arbre itself might serve as the Hylaean Theoric World for other cosmi such as Urnud.

Protected sitting and disclosure

• Signal isolation: A messallan session is conducted inside a grounded wire‑mesh shield—a “Saunt Bucker’s Basket”—with the outbound audio feed cut to prevent monitoring.
• Identity revealed: Within this protected setting, the Matarrhite‑seeming doyn Zh’vaern removes his disguise and body transmitter, identifying himself as Jules Verne Durand of Laterre. He states that his minder “Orhan” is of Urnud.
• Alignments described (his account): He sketches a bloc of Urnud and Tro (Arbran label: Tro) opposed to Fthos, with Laterre divided; he says his earlier provocations were meant to probe beliefs about legendary “Incanters” and “Rhetors.” He also alludes to intercosmic voyaging tied to the ship Daban Urnud.
• Immediate consequence: After the disclosure, messal decorum yields to operations; preparations for dispersal are activated and the sitting breaks up as evacuation begins.

Perceptions

• Some describe this placement as a “dumping ground” for difficult or unfashionable voices. Lodoghir has elsewhere quipped about it as “outer darkness,” a characterization not universally shared at the table.

Status

Active during the Convox with multiple sittings held. One sitting ended under time pressure as Tredegarh’s evacuation commenced; further arrangements are not detailed here.