Dox

First Mention

Dox is cited during a lesson on iconographies within a math as the namesake for a Praxic Age adventure serial about a military spaceship marooned after an ambush. The reference comes up in discussion of how popular culture in the Saeculum simplifies and recycles images of the mathic world.

Role and Traits

Within the serial, Dox serves as the captain’s second-in-command and is described as a theorician: brilliant, but unemotional and cold. The captain is characterized as passionate and hot‑headed, creating a contrast that the serial plays on.

Iconography and Usage

The Doxan Iconography—named for this character—frames members of the avout as valuable to the Saecular Power, with gifts that are celebrated yet also seen as blinding or limiting. People influenced by it tend to be curious about avout knowledge and impressed by competence, but patronizing, assuming avout should be subordinated to intuitive, common‑sense leaders. In the same discussion, this outlook was characterized as relatively low‑danger compared to other iconographies. Its origin is explicitly tied to Praxic‑era entertainment (Praxic Age).

Status

Fictional character referenced in teaching; no further in‑world activity is known.