Terrible Events

First Appearance and Context

Terrible Events is cited in avout sources as a past period of upheaval. An entry in The Dictionary (4th edition, A.R. 3000) for the Ita remarks that the loss of poorly preserved records "will forever enshroud the time of the Harbingers and the Terrible Events," situating the label in the late phases of the Praxic Age and before the Reconstitution.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

Within mathic history presented so far, the term marks a dividing line between earlier eras such as the Praxic Age and the re‑established practices that followed the Reconstitution. Its clearest liturgical consequence noted to date is that, after this period, the Hylaean Anathem was revived in a clock‑centered form enacted within the Mynster. It is often mentioned in the same breath as the Harbingers when summarizing the late Praxic period.

Relationships

• Saunt Proc: A Dictionary entry dates him to the late Praxic period and states he is assumed to have been liquidated during the Terrible Events; later venerated as patron Saunt of the Syntactic Faculty.
• Hylaean Anathem: The revival of this rite is placed after the Terrible Events in mathic accounts.
• Ita: Their dictionary entry explicitly couples the Terrible Events with the Harbingers and notes the haziness of records from that time.

Descriptions/Characteristics

The Terrible Events are treated as a singular named period rather than a specific incident. Precise causes, scope, and chronology have not been detailed; surviving references emphasize fragmentary documentation and retrospective use as a historical marker.

Current Status/Location

A completed historical period used as a reference point in teaching and liturgy. No geographic locus is specified, and further particulars are not yet available in the narrative.