A-Gender

agenda

Silver

Now the Adem claim to be superior stock to all of these Iron people making them a special case. Touched neither with Tehlu's iron nor Aleph's superior gold their eyes show the silver of parity.

Why should they have escaped gods masterplan of conformity? And what do they have to say about the events of Tehlu Day? Well I believe their answer is spoken of by Vashet when she told us that

" Long ago the Adem were upheaved from our rightful place. Something we cannot remember drove us out. Someone stole our land or ruined it or made us flee in fear.'

Rather inconvenient that they cannot remember themselves but I say this forgetfulness was part of what God did do to them on or about Tehlu Day. Now upheavel is a very good word to use alongside my cataclysm theory when describing exactly how 'the land broke and the sky changed.'

This is difficult area for truth hunting but since all stories are one story the best answer I have ascertained makes this thing that the Adem conveniently cannot remember was how God dealt with the 'special cases.' he ruined their land and made them flee in fear

Let us suggest that the Adem nation were in fact those citizens of the one city of Ergen who all remembered the Lethani on Lanre day. This would mean that theirs was the one city that did not fall under shadow, that their race never strayed from the path into wickedness and so were undeserving of the same punishment as those who forgot the lrthani.That makes the Adem the only true remaining citizens of Ergen.

Let us also say that the location of this city of hope was situated on our maps where modern day Vintas now is or more specifically, that it was sited on the very piece of land which is now to be found at the bottom of the Broken Sea.

When kick starting the world all over again with new iron names for everyone , Aleph ,apparently, also decreed that any evidence of the past events needs would be best forgotten by mankind and as a byproduct of this decision the last remaining outpost of Ergen was sceduled for destruction itself. This action would of course mean enforced eviction for it's grey eyed inhabitants from their traditional home turning them out to become another tribe of wandering nomads searching for their new Jerusalem.

Now if god is just, then they should receive some compensation for the loss of their ancestral lands. So instead of receiving the burden of Iron, they were accorded the right to continue as they had always done and so, like Perial, this new homeless Adem generation also remained without a lock in the contraceptive department making them Lockless cousins of a sort. But unlike her Gold, they will Tarnish over time and are not immortal themselves. Which is why Kvothe can qualify as one of them.

A-Pendix

These last few pages will focus on the Adem. They are the strangest of all the races of man or mutant that we have encountered so far and this tinfoil sextet are equally strange to take at face value. Stillness and silence are the heart of Ademre, something no barbarian could understand. Still, we can but try.

A-Women

Given that Kvothe has studied plenty of four corners medicine and has lived long enough to think he knows better than they and since he has never found any rumour of this strange A-Women phenomenon occurring anywhere else in the entire archives to make him doubt his barbarian belief, then we can be pretty sure that the Adems secrets are safe.A-women is a brand new discovery to modern science making them exclusive throughout Temerant in their ability to reproduce asexually, (House Lockless excepted)

Since they can reproduce without the need for a man mother, why would an A-women ever bother to give birth to any A-men babies at all? What use are they if they have no part in advancing Adem? Why don’t they just become a race of self replicating A-women instead? A more complete half race without the need or desire for any male input whatsoever.

Well we have only just connected their own beliefs to the Aturan church’s miracle of the virgin birth and now you want the biology behind it as well? Two miracles in one day! Tehlu’s tits and teeth. Have you stopped to consider that perhaps they simply can’t do anything about it? even if they wanted to? It’s called natural selection. The A-Women mightor might not be able to flower alone but either way, no woman can conciously pre-order the sex of their next baby and then nine months later simply ‘make it so’ any more than any other creature could. Life simply doesn’t work that way, you get what you are given in this world and God alone knows the real reasons behind such things.

My theory on the real answer will have to wait a while.

A-Men

As far as their part in proceedings goes all the A-men in the world would now be simply an empty branch on the family tree, pretty to look at but essentially rather useless. A fact which could act like a wedge splitting the whole modern Adem race into two distinct categories: One gender which is necessary and the other which is … not!

Fortunately, Aleph caused them to forget any details of his silver change and so as far as they know, this has always been normal practice.

Because they are a civilized peoples the two adem sex groups have been bought up with some level of understanding of the lethani and so it is that all of A-men are raised to know their allotted place in life, unlike the barbarians of the four corners who do not. At one point on their travels to Haert Tempi makes a fist to indicate the whole of Ademre, five fingers in concert of which, in his mind, he represents only the littlest finger. His other three (more superior) fingers he nominates as ‘friend, brother and mother. Sheyehn is the thumb to complete the fist but at no point does he use the word ‘father’ in his description because there is no Ademic concept of fatherhood and he knows that man-mothers simply do not exist. Tempi further reveals that he understands the lowly position of A-men in his society in relation to the A-women when he reveals to Kvothe that

‘Barbarians have no women to teach them civilization.’

a statement which implies that the civilized A-Men do have women teachers and this arrangement leads to full M/F co-operation and a society where nobody shits in the well. Kvothe noted that there were more women and children than he expected and this could indicate an unequel gender distribution to this mainly female society with the occasional manchild being the odd exception among all the young girls. When it comes to fighting, A-Women are just better and everyone knows that. Why? Might have something to do with balance I suppose but it really ought to be something genetic for all A-men to never to be ranked as good as the A-Women are despite the exact same opportunities and training they have to be considered their equals, not to mention their greater strength and reach. I suspect the purity of their male/ female silver touch will be the answer to that problem. Compared to the A-women the males are not deemed to be anywhere near as important to Ademre society, A-Men do have their uses, not least when it comes to sex where the female’s milking of a fine male anger (Vaevin) is a mutually desirable thing, and sex is a healthy and pleasurable pastime so long as they both of them realise that a heart is not a penis. At least these A-men are not like the largely useless and likely diseased barbarian men with all of their own strange sex customs.

A-Doption ( end notes for A work in progress)

So an A-Woman ranks above an A-man, and they are both of them rated far superior to any of the other barbarian peoples of the four corners. To any Adem, all others from every nation every single one of them is of an inferior species to people of Ademre, (rhinta and tinkers possibly excluded*)

Maintaining their unique colouring at 99% grey (and 1% redhead!) indicates that the very first A-man and the very first A-woman, (a-dam and eve!) definitely both had grey eyes, and no other colour has ever existed among their race and is testament to their pure blood lines right back to the time of the creation war. A-Women have never needed a man mother.

This means that God's silver touch did not grant them a gift but rather never took it away. They had it before Lanre Day and they kept it after Tehlu Day, when everyone else in the four corners had their names broken by Tehlu and his magic hammer and the man mother Lock was placed upon them all. Everyone except for the Adem, the silver eyed exception to the rule.

Our own (Terran) understanding of the science behind human reproduction follows the same Woman + Man = Baby equation (WoMB) that is practiced across the four corners and this method of reproduction is believed wholeheartedly by Kvothe as being the only sort not least because he has been taught so by the masters at the university medica. He has also studied the collected works of the Duke of Gibea, and Gibea rather famously did his own human anatomical research very thoroughly indeed. But did he ever experiment on the Adem to investigate their reproduction technique? Well He almost certainly did but never recorded any unusual findings in his journals. Are they different sexually? Is not a question any other serious achademic would consider necessary to ask and so it will always go unanswered. You can assume you know, but you can never actually know you know… at least not if you are a man you couldn’t!

Of course, as a secret member of Selitos’ Amyr, a group of men which Felurian avers never had any human members themselves , Gibea should have already known the real truth that the Adem were in fact, like him, secret mutants hiding in plain sight among the barbarian multitudes and since this would be exactly the sort of secret thing that a non human Amyr would be very keen to keep from any future human students they certainly would not have written it down anywhere. Secrets have a habit of sneaking out and these days any such rumour would of course be laughed off as as fake news, a reaction which naturally will only plant a seed of doubt and this may lead to uncomfortable rumours further down the line of there being any ‘alternative species’ to mankind living anywhere in the 4Corners. This inconvenient truth would, then, needs must be supressed at source to better protect both Gibea and his fellow Amyr mutants own genetic secrets from ever reaching the general population.

A-Gender

The Silver Adem of today might best be thought of as mutants compared to the iron bound barbarian races of mankind since the Adem method of making babies would clearly make them biologically different. That they are technically a different species is the best kept secret in the world and if this truth was ever to get out and become more widely known then whenever the two races interracted the casual racism shown to them in the 4Corners would be not so much a case of bloody foreigners but more like one of bloody aliens.

This is a Big secret that needs to be deeply buried or better still, strangled at birth and in no way exposed to peer review. By Order! and so Gibea’s published work was then never going to be allowed to reveal this truth to the world in any shape or form ‘for the greater good.’ This deception will assure us that he only ever wrote about human biology because, obviously, that’s the only kind of biology that there ever has been. He certainly wasn’t going to announce to the world that he also believes in faeries if he wanted to be taken seriously and his written work has survived him to influence all future generations of barbarian medica students down through the years since. Perhaps he’s not even dead yet, maybe he has his own version of Perial's immortality ticket and is still out and about somewhere today, still operating as an undercover agent of the order Amyr, I wouldn’t put anything past a mutant!

Gibea’s classic appearance to the barbarians must be considered to be like that of any standard Aturan native, possibly he bore a resemblance to the archetypal sinister magician that seemed to be a requirement for so many bad Aturan plays… But besides cutting folk up for a hobby he was also an Amyr and a noble of Atur both, and that nations forces did indeed decide to antagonise the Adem most specifically according to Kvothe’s potted history of the Empire which indicates that the Adem, like the Edema Ruh, also received some especial Amyr attention.

That word ‘antagonised’ used here surely means here that the Aturan army fought the army of grey eyed freaks out of the four corners completely in order to keep them from settling down anywhere on good Aturan soil where someone else might investigate their secrets , quite probably on the direct orders of the Tehlin Church, and nothing would be learnt from antagonising them further by operating on their corpses just to see what made them tick.

Complex procreation wars

When it comes to Naming (and sex!), the hardest time is the first time. Stone ring level. But once you learn one name, you cannot really forget it again which also makes learning any future names that much easier. As far as shaping goes the process is more difficult since when making you are combining the power of two names together which is obviously twice as hard to do. Adem sword level. The more names that you know the more difficult the task, a thrice named item would of course be more difficult still but it is the Vaevin/Stangle level that is present within these names that is the most important factor to consider as a tree is more complex than a stone and much therefore harder to work with. This is Scrael level.

Harder still would be the binding the longname of a powerful living creature with multiple longnames such as when Lanre bound the longname of Selitos to the long names of wind and/or stone. I call this Draccus level.

The level where two humans are bound together into one is called the Childbirth level.

What Aleph did was to mix Perials mortal Vaevin with his own immaculate golden Vaevin to create a binding between a human and a god is the most complex binding that there is. Titan level.

Two gods conjoined would probably either destroy the universe or perhaps create a second one.

Names are the building blocks of everything and Aleph gave everything a name or found the names they already had depending on which story you believe. Tehlu followed in his father's footprints.

Trapis tells us that whilst the special advanced circumstances regarding Perial's gestation period was unheard of, other unmarried women giving birth in the usual time frame was not unusual. This might be a clue suggesting that before this time of intervention all women could create children alone and man mothers truly did not exist. then there are demon births to consider but following that thought today is starting to stray too far from the path of this book. Perhaps later once the big stuff is done.

A-Gender

Lockless = no lock of god

Death quote. Even gods die. Mortal word, immortal . Other plains. The land of the dead is god land. Touch of god grants immortality, angels etc plus Perial. Gold touch. Touch of god also takes it away. Sliding scale of titans. Tiny gods.

Gods don't sleep, Tehlu slept. Non corporeal . Chandrian death denied themnor were demon births which are the other kind of god, a dark god. aleph was the lord of light and you cannot have light with shadow. The universe won't allow it. The devil is a god too and he had his own avatars walking the world. Tehlu was created to be their nemesis

When Aleph created the angels he touched them 3 times. Hands, yes heart. Perial was heart only. Every one else got three touches of iron... Except for 7. And one of those was treated different from the other 6.

How to shape a man. In just 7 days...

they deserved each other because they were wicked and each was the others fitting punishment. A lifetime dependency upon each other to forward their line after their death

9 ~ Secrets

'There's a secret she's been keeping'

The time has come to talk about man mothers. It's possibly the most challenging theory to explain to any degree of satisfaction so far without going on for ever or straying too far from the approved text and I'm sure it still won't convince everyone, but it's all I've got and it will tie a lot of loose ends together into the most satisfying knot available without any further input from Pat. Now I'm sure you will have differing opinions about this divisive topic, mostly based on your own understanding of human biology. But this is fantastic fiction and I've done my homework so I say that all humans need man mothers. Fact.

Gold

Perial, however, was God's chosen vessel and is not to be considered human anymore and so she didn't need a Man mother because her son had a God father instead, and his name was Aleph.

Tehlin doctrine says that there is no god but Tehlu but Tehlu is actually just a demi-god. A half god, half human hybrid for which the proper name is a Titan.

Now a true god is a noncorporeal being whilst Perial was born of flesh and blood. But whilst God's can do most anything they desire in their own realm they are like software programmers who work in a different field to the hardware engineers and thus cannot operate in the physical plane of existence, Gods can only affect things here remotely which in Pats world happened through dreams , or to put it another way, via 'that which comes with sleeping'. When Perial slept when Perial dreamt she could became pregnant again. All she had to do was ask. That which comes with dreaming is in her case, a pregnancy [Cthaeh].

If Aleph needed a more hands on approach to Temerant problem solving then he would need to have an avatar to work through, and that's where Perial came in. When she passed through the doors of sleep she entered the spiritual plane where Aleph could act. She offered her services, gave him the requisite permissions and He touched her heart and in doing so 'reprogrammed' her (so to speak) and raised her natural vaevin level to the gold standard necessary for her coming task and flipped her internal body clock into pure fertility mode. Her dream flesh was joined with his dream desire and between them they planted a seed that would grow into some new hardware, a titan which she named Mend-A.

That's about the best way I can put my thoughts into words today. I will go more into the nature of Gods in the next part but this computer analogy will I hope help to bridge the gap between ink and intention.

Now Perial was adamant that a man should only touch a woman with love, and being unmarried herself we know her to be a virgin at the time, and still would be afterwards come to think of it, but that would prove no obstacle to Aleph who knew the names of all things and

When it comes to naming, the hardest part is the first time. But once you learn one name, you cannot really forget it again which also makes learning any future names that much easier. As far as shaping goes the difference is that shaping involves the renaming of two things, one of them being life itself, a much more complex subject. Shaped things by their very nature will never corrode and gods golden touch is an eternal touch that shaped what she was at a fundamental level into someone new fit for purpose and since his golden gift was never rescinded with the touch of iron which means that once her task was done. Perial whom he shaped to purpose should also now be immortal, and unchanging , and by rights she should still be alive today still be fertile , and might even be using the calling name of Aculeus if I really wanted to stretch this tinfoil to it's limit.

The memory of Gods golden power is still with her, and gold does not rust , unlike iron does, so with god's name written in her heart she has remained pure gold ever since and forever fecund from that day forth. So, if she desired to, she could quite easily give birth again all by herself. No man mother necessary.

[Silver fruit?]

Everyone else

Iron

Trapis tells us that whilst the special advanced circumstances regarding Perial's gestation period was unheard of, other unmarried women giving birth in the usual time frame was not unusual. This might be a clue that before this time all women could create children alone, then there are demon births to consider but following that thought today is starting to stray too far from the path of this book. Perhaps later once the big stuff is done.

When Aleph first came to her Perial the good was worried about her wicked neighbours.

Perial asked her dream god if he was going to 'do something' for her neighbour Deborah and whether he was going to 'lay his hand on her husband Losel and make him a better man.' Which is rather prophetic of her since that is exactly what He did do.

Now laying his hand on people is gods way of changing them. I will deal with the science behind that practice in the next chapter but for now we just need it pointed out that this is exactly how he and his avatar acted to both reward the good and to punish the wicked. One with gold, the other with iron. And unlike gold, Iron rusts giving it's victims a shelf life.

In response to Perial's questions Aleph replied that

"Man and wife were each others fitting punishment" and that "Mankind was wicked and the wicked should be punished. "

Meaning Tehlu's idea of the punishment sentence for being wicked was for man to be 'paired' to woman for life. The science behind this act probably involves magnetic attraction which will effectively lock their +/- iron parts together into a new shape This sentence is in essence the lock of god and meant each part would become dependent on the other for the mutual continuation of their species and these are the facts of life in Temerant as I understand them. Shaping them with his touch of iron, he made this so and renaming everyone afterwards locked in this change from whatever they might have been before. The result of this shaping was that from this day forward a woman would always need a man in order to make a baby. And thus god created man mothers as his punishment for all those who had strayed to the wrong side of his path.

Perial, of course , was already standing on the right side of the path and so is exempt from this iron lock and thus is fully deserving of the name Lockless.

Silver

Now the Adem claim to be different. Making them a special case. Touched neither with base iron nor superior gold their eyes bear the silver mark of parity.

" Long ago " vashet said ' the Adem were upheaved from our rightful place. something we cannot remember drove us out. Someone stole our land or ruined it or made us flee in fear. We were forced to wander, endlessly.'

Rather convenient that they cannot remember but I say this forgetfulness was God's doing on or about Tehlu Day. Upheavel is a very good word to use alongside my cataclysm theory when describing exactly how 'the land broke and the sky changed.'

This is difficult area for answers but since all stories are one story the best answer I have ascertained makes this thing that the Adem conveniently cannot remember was how God dealt with the 'special cases.'

Let us Say that the adem were those citizens of the one city of Ergen who remembered the Lethani on Lanre day. This would mean that theirs was the one city that did not fall under shadow, that their race have always done the right thing and are therefore not deserving of the same fate as those who did the wrong thing.

Let us also say that the location of this last remaining city of hope was situated on the map where modern day Vintas is now, or more specifically, that it was sited on the very piece of land which is now at the bottom of the Broken sea.

That makes the Adem the only citizens of Ergen who remembered the lethani, which explains why they are the only ones who still remember this word today, and they have never forgotten it.

When starting the world again with new iron names for everyone , Aleph decreed that All evidence of the past events needs must be forgotten and so his choice of punishment for the Adem was to evict them from their traditional home. They also seem to have promised to protect all of their ancient Ergen artefacts including shapers swords That rather hasty darning ties up a lot of loose ends and is my conclusion. Deal with it.

So despite the Adem having done nothing wrong, not even when the other 7/8 of Ergen fell to wickedness, they were still punished by eventually having their city taken away from them. Now if god is just, then they should receive compensation and it must be said that if everyone in the world was wicked for forgetting the lethani path, the Adem were much less wicked than the other Ergenites folk and should be accorded different punishment.

And so, like Perial, this new homeless Adem generation also remained Lockless in the contraceptive department when everyone else got locked.

I apologise for how messy that came across, I'll come back later and polish it a bit more, but I fear that this silver piece will always be tarnished.

A-Pendix

These last few pieces will focus on the Adem. They are the strangest of all the races of man or mutant that we encounter and this tinfoil sextet are equally strange to take at face value. Stillness and silence are the heart of Ademre, something no barbarian could understand. Still, we can but try.

A-Gender

The Silver Adem of today might best be thought of as mutants compared to the iron bound barbarian races of mankind since the Adem method of making babies would clearly make them biologically different. If that is the case then this will be the best kept secret in the world and if this truth was ever to get out and become more widely known then whenever the two races interracted the casual racism shown to them in the 4Corners would be not so much a case of bloody foreigners but more like one of bloody mutants.

Our own (Terran) understanding of the science behind human reproduction follows the same Woman + Man = Baby equation (WoMB) that is practiced across the four corners and this method of reproduction is believed wholeheartedly by Kvothe, not least because he has been taught so by the masters at the university medica. He has also studied the collected works of the Duke of Gibea, and Gibea rather famously did his own human anatomical research very thoroughly indeed. But did he ever experiment on the Adem to investigate their reproduction technique? Well He almost certainly did but that’s is not a question any other serious achademic would consider necessary to ask and so it will always go unanswered. You can assume you know, but you can never actually know you know… at least not if you are a man you couldn’t!

Of course, as a secret member of Selitos’ Amyr, a group of men which Felurian avers never had any human members themselves , Gibea should have already known the real truth that the Adem were in fact, like him, secret mutants hiding in plain sight among all of the barbarians and since this would be exactly the sort of secret thing that a mutant order Amyr would be very keen to hide from any future human students they certainly would not have written it down anywhere. Secrets have a habit of sneaking out and these days any such rumour would be reported to the masses as fake news, a reaction which naturally will only plant a seed of doubt and this may lead to uncomfortable rumours further down the line of there being any ‘alternative species’ to mankind living anywhere in the 4Corners. This inconvenient truth would, then, needs must be supressed at source to better protect both Gibea and his fellow Amyr mutants own genetic secrets from ever reaching the general population.

A-Women

Given that Kvothe has studied plenty of four corners medicine and has lived long enough to think he knows better than they and since he has never found any rumour of this strange A-Women phenomenon occurring anywhere else in the entire archives to make him doubt his barbarian belief, then we can be pretty sure that my own investigation into these A-women is a brand new discovery to modern science making them exclusive throughout Temerant in their ability to reproduce asexually, (House Lockless excepted)

So why would an A-women even bother to give birth to any A-men babies at all? What use are they if they have no part in advancing Adem? Why don’t they just become a race of self replicating A-women instead? A more complete half race without the need or desire for any male input whatsoever.

Well we have only just connected their own beliefs to the Aturan church’s miracle of the virgin birth and now you want the biology behind it as well? Two miracles in one day! Tehlu’s tits and teeth. Have you stopped to consider that perhaps they simply can’t do anything about it? even if they wanted to? It’s called natural selection. Women might be able to flower alone but they cannot conciously pre-choose the sex of their next baby and then nine months later simply ‘make it so’ more than any other creature could. Life simply doesn’t work that way, you get what you are given in this world and God alone knows the real reasons behind such things.

A-Men

As far as their part in proceedings goes all the Amen in the world would now be simply an empty branch on the family tree, pretty to look at but essentially rather useless. A fact which could act like a wedge splitting the whole modern Adem race into two distinct categories: One gender which is necessary and the other which is … not!

Fortunately, Aleph caused them to forget any details of his silver change and so as far as they know, this has always been normal practice.

‘Barbarians have no women to teach them civilization.’

A-Doption ( end notes for A work in progress)

This means that God's silver touch did not grant them a gift but rather never took it away. They had it before Lanre Day and they kept it after Tehlu Day, when everyone else in the four corners had their names broken by Tehlu and his magic hammer and the man mother Lock was placed upon them all. Everyone except for the Adem, the silver eyed exception to the rule.

That would be the curse of Tehlu then. Man is bound to the rules of Iron which will protect him from the wickedness of demons and prevent any future procreation war.

Wait! What?

If you have made it this far with your sanity still intact, well done.

The richness of the weaving in this Tapestry of Temerant does not want to follow a straight line. Our eyes are being drawn elsewhere now as it becomes clear that everything is related to everything else, and I hope you are starting to appreciate the skill of the weaver. However. Us mere mortals can only follow one warp or weft at a time and suddenly, our storyline wants to diverge. Following the Old Stone Road west will eventually bring us to the University and that's more of an architectural endeavour than the theological one we shall encounter in Atur which we shall teach before it. We also need to start thinking about Lanre soon, too.

But to wind up the Lockless songs we shall try some irrational maths. To work out what we know so far.

They are now akin to the red blooded common folk, and they now need to mix with them to survive, However, the Adem learnt to cooperate with their men, but only A-men, to make a pure bred incestual civilization made entirely of mutants, superior to the barbarians and neither side ever forgot it. They remebered the lethani and this was of the lethani. They remembered the lethani so the Adem city never fell under shadow and they remained the silver standard in the land But after Gods plan evicted them from their forever home the iron touched barbarians kicked them both out of Temerant anyway simply for being different.

If the AW have never needed man mothers then where do all the AM come from, and more to the point, why! Clearly they spring from the loins of the AW, which would make them biologically equal, and yet they are less than the AW upon whom they rely for their continued existence. Without the women they would fail, yet they add nothing to the mix. This makes them almost a mistake, runts of the litter who are tolerated as sad inferior versions of the superior AW. Adoptions to the tribe who would have the same blood rights to their inheritance, even red haired ones. The next question is do the AM know this to be true? Kvothe had trouble understanding it because it runs against what he has learnt from his everything barbarian viewpoint. Yet AM has known of his part all of his life and he accepts it. The Adem have had this knowledge for ever, and it has always applied to them. Perhaps once it applied to all women, all 8 women I should say, but the link was broken in 7 of them as punishment or byproduct of them forgetting the lethani and yet only one remained as they were. Alternatively, that 1/7 were rewarded for following the lethani with this newfound birth giving technique by the gods themselevs, Tehlu perhaps for whom a man mother was also deemed unnescesary to his own mother Perial. Perhaps the wars of Ergen would be better off being called the Procreation wars?

Fae-Dem?

‘Once there was a great realm peopled by great people. They were not Ademre. They were what Ademre was before we became ourselves.’

This is quite an archaic sounding statement , maybe because it is the first time that it has ever been translated into Aturan and so it might need reading a few times to understand exactly what it says. What it means is that whilst they are two distantly related groups, there is a marked differnce between the old Ergen Adem and their modern day Adem equivalents. If the modern Adem are modern mutants and know of some other peoples as mutated as they are, the rhinta like Selitos and his non-human Ruach Amyr, does this mark all the mutants as descendents of the original faen shapers? That’s tricky, very tricky. One theory which might carry a little weight is Yes, that they are exactly that. To back up this very thinfoil I would point to a possible spotting of the Adem in our only accounts of the closing stages of the creation war between the namers of Ergen and the shapers who would (at some point) create the faen realm. There was a time after the namer’s victory at the Blak of Drossen Tor when Skarpi stated that ‘the empire’s enemies became thin and desperate’ which means that some last few pockets of enemy soldiers still existed in mortal and were still resisting the armies of Ergen to the bitter end despite being cut off from their faen masters upon the namers act of closing of the doors of stone.* (as yet unwritten 21/09/21)

Now, whilst we know that the Adem and their swords were also present at Drossen Tor, we are not specifically told on which side they were fighting and so it might possibly be the case that these strange mutant Adem fighting folk were actually the same people as those last few enemy soldiers still alive at the end of things. This would have been their desperate situation immediately before the fall of the seven cities which affected these few remaining shaped Fae-dem soldiers and the armies of man both in an action which tipped the whole creation war game completely on it’s head.

This rather unlikely thinfoil would go a long way towards explaining both the Adem’s non-human status and would provide a believable reason as to why these ‘prisoners of war’ (as they must now be considered to be) were later driven away from any mortal land they may ever try to settle down peacefully upon. This ridiculous tinfoil thought further tallies in with what little we know of the construction of the Adem’s earliest swords which are described as being ‘shaped in fire’, a description which makes them shaped swords, swords shaped by shapers, for shapers, and the shapers are widely regarded as being the evil enemy opposition force to those of the heroic namers such as Selitos and Lyra.

Now, Despite me being the one who invented this ridiculous theory, I’m not exactly sold on it myself for obvious reasons which leaves us with the only alternative option being that No! the Adem were Not Faen related in any shape or form and were just army of grey eyed citizens fighting on the same side as Lanre at Drossen Tor against the Daruna and Gremen of the common enemy. This option would mark the Adem then as being a recognised group of citizens of the empire of Ergen and this much more likely line of thinking would then grant the former Adem nation sovereignty over one of the seven cities of their very own. But which one I wonder?

twAin

If any of these latest lines of thinking are in any way correct then when combined with the coincidence factors revealed elsewhere in these pages then they will add to the pattern emerging in Pat’s precious ink which is now pointing the finger confidently at this unknown Adem city as also being the one city which remembered the lethani which would help explain why the lethani is still so important to them. Their city is going to be either Murilla or Murella, Or perhaps (incoming major spoiler alert) maybe even both cities were once considered Adem land!

The city of the A-men (which fell) and the city of the A-women (which did not!)

How can that possibly be? you cry. Well we have now established that the A-women have always birthed the occasional man child but had no need of man mothers themselves and that is not a new situation which can ever feasibly be bestowed upon them as a gift from the gods, meaning that it was something that these A-women have always possessed and which was Never Taken Away from them as unjust punishment for a crime that they didn’t commit. Remember that Tehlu held justice foremost in his heart and that he only punished the wicked.

In all the other cities, all the other Erganite women may too have once held to this same maternal reproductive pattern. But, and nothing good ever comes after but, the other fallen races have since had any such a god given gift stripped away from them by order of Lord Tehlu and his magic hammer all because of them and their peoples ‘forgetting the lethani’ which bought them all to the situation which they now faced.

If this was thecase then it was now only the single Adem Woman light which still shone as a beacon of hope to all those surviving ruach citizens who survived their own cities did fall.

Now their nearest fallen neighbours to still standing Murella would be the citizens of freshly fallen Murilla, folk who might be regarded as being from a seperate city but, at the same time, were always considered to be their same flesh and blood via the obscure twin connections which united them. It would not be such an unlikely thought that the A-women folk offered sanctuary to the A-men, and since their own city never fell then Tehlu never bothered to appoint them any priests.

If we take another glance over at my other summer works and factor in Skarpi’s lines about Ordal and Andan we will have an opportunity to identify their origins.

There were fifty sandy heads in the room, a few darker, a few lighter or grey with age…

This is Kvothe telling us how all Adem are blondes and so Skarpi’s description of her golden hair colour tells us that whilst Ordal most certainly wasn’t a Ceald she did at least have the correct colouring for her to pass the basic profile test for her being an Adem girl and so of a similar appearance to Celean which puts something on the table for my thinking of Ordal as having been born as a child of an A-women. We aren’t told the colour of her eyes but my Jot says that they were going to be of standard Adem grey.

‘And beside her came Andan whose face was a mask with burning eyes, who’s name meant anger.’

Every part of Andan’s Pat portrait also has an Adem element to it. His face being described as a mask is another classic Adem trait which can be compared to Pat’s general description of all Adem. His name meaning anger also tallies up nicely since all Adem names mean something deep and meaningful. Anger will only be one part of his three part name since All Adem are given a three part name and Tempi’s own name is said to mean Iron, and it means to strike iron, and it also means Angry. Which is a pretty good match to Skarpi telling us of the angel Andan’s name meaning ‘anger’ and whilst only the least of coincidences it is true and so we can at least puts something on the table to support this theory of Andan the Adem.

Andan didn’t actually wear a real mask, that is just a description of the expression on his face. He was in fact acting just like the modern Adem do to keep their feelings from their faces. All Adem keep their faces as blank as if they were wearing a mask. and No, Andan he didn’t really have actual burning eyes either. They were the only part of the man that this facial mask allowed him to show. He doesn’t have eyes actually made of fire, he’s not superman, he is just extremely angry but with enough restraint not to let it show upon his face. This is another tick in the box to show that in my opinion Andan’s eyes were in fact grey, just like Carceret’s really are.

‘ Then I saw her eyes. I’d thought she’d been angry before, but it was nothing compared to now…

‘I can not descibe how she looked. And even if I could, it would not impress upon you the truth of thinged as her face was still almost entirely impassive.her…

Those angers were like pale candles compared to the forge fires burning in Carceret’s eyes.’

A-Gender

Hello again, Autumn has arrived and real life has been rather hectic of late. Perhaps a change of season will put things back on track but this Summer’s homework is now just starting to annoy me and so I think it now needs to be put down before it falls down since it’s all getting far too tangled to understand without a proper map to guide us. However, the map in question here hasn’t actually been drawn yet, it’s currently still taking shape deep within the outer limitss my rather overoccupied mind. However I can perhaps describe the edges of it somewhat in basic formatting and reveal that it should end up looking like a 4-corners spiders web… possibly one that needs to be printed in 3D to be appreciated properly. The first problem with producing such a webwork is that this map needs to be written down, not drawn, and since english reads from top to bottom, left to right, this limited 2D presentation pattern dictates how clumsily the end product must be built. It’s a lot like unfolding a house I suppose, or building a tinfoil compass!

When a spider builds a web it runs one single strand behind it as it traverses space and time. Weaving from one side to t’other moving up , down, to and fro until a basic many radialled star shape is revealed with one central node where all points meet. Spider step two will then ‘sew’ one (more?) long and continuous thread into a spiralling shape, now working only in one constant curve of life as it crosses in/out/on-wards , moving from arm to leg and leg to arm and in doing so it is creating junctions, or rather crossroads, and as a by-product it is enclosing many fields within the spaces where the radials meet the outer spirals arm so that the two (different?) strands can now happily and seamlessly intersect with the void.

I am not an arachnid.

In my ever evolving visualised form of the great map we must imagine that this web master can only produce the goods like an old fashioned vidi-printer used to do so to plot these weblines only in our two english standard writing directions, across and down. Rather like knitting DNA with one needle or perhaps weaving an interdimensional web portal using only two dimensions where DMspiderPat got to work with (at least) three!

\000|000/ + \00|00/ + \0|0/ +X +/0|0\ +/00|00\ + /000|000\

\000|000/

\00|00/

\0|0/

/0|0\

/00|00\

/000|000\

When fine tuning all these game pieces it is sometimes the case that the chosen path of the day is more linnear than at other times, hence some of the pieces stand up better than others do. On occasion I will find myself trying to build one of these crossroads shaped pieces that form where two different stories will come together from two adjacent orients, then do a little square dance together in the middle before they all roll onwards again, off across the compass rose to their next destinations in the grand pattern of all things Pat. This is why spiders have eight legs where us non-spiders will need to learn to juggle our four stories together all at once hoping that they will turn into a more positive and pleasing shape, but with only two hands to type with. And to add to all that, remember that this creation of mine is based mainly upon inter-locking triangles, not quadrangles.

This next piece is, then, the memory dump equivalent of that classic back at school essay entitled ‘what I did in the summer holidays’, an uncomfortable collection of four ideas which I feel are better off up on line than down and off of it, and I would rather know were up somewhere for my own piece of mind in case of emergency. For what you are about to receive I apologise in advance from the past, but in your future it might well be that by now all will have been further edited somewhat and also have the next (as yet unwritten) piece to help it all gel together better and hopefully it will make a little bit more sense… Perhaps

what have I got in my pocket?

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