THE AGNYETT
Panegyrics common & habitual
in the discourse of Modernist History
and Tandem Polarities of Governance
Designated State & Sovereign
Gods audacious enough to claim that they remember existence long before their arrival in the Agnyett are a rare find—especially who continue to roam the extant in our present-Modern. But there are those that will hint that, in a wider context, out there in a largely unknown cosmos—cataclysms of desperate proportions are not as uncommon as a living soul might be inclined to think.
Other extants, far too distant to imagine, have experienced transformative moments in history of unparalleled scale. Times where the foundations of realities are threatened; divine forces turn upon one another, silencing materiea life permanently; when mortal will directs ambition to storm the heavens, only for their assault to be cast down, plunging civilization into unconsciousness in countless versô; sometimes, reality itself comes to an end.
The civilization of state & sovereign crosses the wider extant, from any one boundary to the extreme side of other. But without the Unfettered Durance and its Wars, the advent of modernist history wouldn’t have been. Our conflict with the gentry devastated the extant-materiea. The Principles adopted in the aftermath were agreed upon to serve a greater purpose, and see civilization rebuilt. They are the values enshrined within the Vismott Accords. With their Ratification the statelands were defined, and the 31 sovereignties were appointed to nurture congregations, and the connections between them. To guide exchange and commerce, across borders—and to collectively protect the sanctity of stateland boundaries.
Even in the present, spread across all the wider extant, some cultures are buried so deeply within their respective statelands that the Accords, and what they gave they Agnyett, may as well be folklore or myth. For many, intersovereign power shows no practical influence in maintenance of their lives. So far removed from the stage of sovereign machinations, and far from the tenuous web of sovereign power, it would be difficult to convince that native soul of single benefit that glows to them from their sovereignty.
But, for a citizen native to any of the 31 sovereignties themselves, the Accords dictate a the terms that have sustained life through a tenuous peace, across the extant, for the whole of modernist history. You could call it a biased perspective—but, it’s also technically true.
There are 24 statelands within the extant materiea; unevenly scattered amongst them are the 31 sovereignties. But its a rare soul that learns or sees more than one of each in their lifetime.
“Agnyett knows what the best and worst of us are capable of because of the diversity found of its kin and kine. We are all our own many-edged swords. Even when the gods have been inclined to use us as playthings, and care nothing for our souls besides what we can determine for ourselves. If we’re truly honest, the Vismott Accords are responsible for reclaiming ourselves in the aftermath of the Unfettered Durance. Many of those divinities went on record, dictating versions of “serves you right,” directly into holy scripts. State & sovereign have never—are never—perfect. The two versions of belonging do not exist in harmony. They’re seldom even in agreement. And across boundaries, state & sovereign are hardly known for cooperating amongst themselves. But in over six thousand years nothing better has come along. Many would welcome a replacement arrive to supplant the Accords, and their intersovereign law, but an option like that hasn’t presented itself and borne out as viable. And that’s not for lack of trying. ”
“Most inhabitants of the materiea would consider the extant, at base—if you can excuse the term—flat. And it’s easy enough to see, given how its surface gives its innumerable souls a prodigious amount of space to work with. When actual population numbers impossible to calculate, one could say that the number of souls motivated enough to find out if they can fall off, out, or through the boundaries of the extant are next to nil. Yet, some harlequin will eventually show up at your door—clamoring a lot of highly complex, specious reasoning—confident that it’s within their right to demand you help them press beyond the outer edge of the map.
Frequently, souls of this kind driven by an intense desire to expose vast networks of power. They see how secret compartments have been distributed across its face to maintain control.
If we’re going to be honest about power, we should keep a couple of things in mind. As far as anything that counts as truly “extra-extantial” in our cosmos, there’s a lot to be gained by acknowledging that that souls far better equipped, both theoretically and practically, about the field would laugh if you suggested that they test any of their suppositions out themselves. Accepting that knowledge is power, most experts wouldn’t even let their friends carry out experiments on their behalf. Even besides sentiment, there are Ethics to consider.
After all, the advanced field of knott theory only exists thanks to experimental evidence already gathered on the extra-extantial cosmos. We’ve got oodles of the stuff. Scholars from every modernism have pursued the matter of exploitation diligently. Is knowing about what goes on beyond the boundaries of our extant part of some grand conspiracy? Is the Thaniea withholding enlightenment from every mortal soul for the sake of control? Of course not. Who would have the time to monitor such a thing—let alone organize the effort?
Something we might do, given enough insight and ability to deploy it, would be to barricade these notions of conspiracy from entering the heads to second year dropouts who spend a season too long seeking a grand, agayean ”epiphany of everything“ under the New Heavens—high on whatever has proven itself strong enough to do the job. So steel your nerve. You’ll be confronting a soul ready to challenge the fundamentals of reality, in the name of exposing The Truth they’ve already determined.
A lucky few of you will be warned about what will happen once it’s been exposed that you’ve been part of the manifold conspiracy. “Once the wider-extant knows about what you’ve been hiding, there will be consequences!” Or something.
As professionals, it’s not our job to dissuade or heal these nutcases. When it comes to changing their minds, any chance you can deflect their obsession is slim. For for many versô now, our official advice has been to let such fixated souls do and think what they want. Keep them as safe as you can when providing them with information—or do your best to restrict what you consider unsafe for them to know—but NEVER lend any them any money before sending them on their way.
Thank you, and enjoy the Symposium.”