The Tyrant Philosophers/the Advent of Perfection
The Advent of Perfection is a fixed point in the historical reckoning of the peoples of the Anchorwood, cited in City of Last Chances as the marker from which those communities date their long habitation alongside the Wood and its thresholds. The specific formulation used in the text states that they have "lived with the Wood and what's beyond it" since that event, treating the Advent as the beginning of a shared era rather than as a discrete incident within the narrative present - ch 48.
The reference is incidental, functioning as a shorthand for the depth of those communities' entanglement with the Anchorwood rather than as a narrative event occurring within the book's present action. No further details of the Advent's nature, agents, or immediate consequences are supplied in the volume, and its full significance within the wider series is not elaborated upon beyond this single attestation.
The Event
When & Where
The Advent of Perfection is referenced in City of Last Chances, ch 48, in connection with the Anchorwood and the peoples who inhabit its borders. It is invoked as a temporal marker - the point from which those communities measure their dwelling alongside the Wood - rather than as an event unfolding within the book's present chronology. The wider war or campaign in which it sits is not specified in the available text.
Who Was Involved
The parties named in connection with the Advent are the peoples of the Anchorwood, who collectively invoke it as the origin of their habitation. No individual agents, combatants, or instigators of the Advent itself are identified in the source material - ch 48.
What Happened
The Advent of Perfection is not narrated within the volume. It is invoked retrospectively, as a periodising reference that establishes the antiquity of the Anchorwood communities' relationship with the Wood and with "what's beyond it." The text treats it as a settled historical fact requiring no elaboration for its audience, and supplies no sequence of actions, no participants, and no immediate outcome beyond the dating convention it establishes - ch 48.
Causes & Consequences
The causes of the Advent are not described. The sole consequence visible in the text is cultural and chronological: the Advent functions as the epoch zero from which the Anchorwood peoples count their tenure alongside the Wood, implying that before it, either those communities did not exist in their present form or their relationship with the Wood was categorically different. No territorial, political, or supernatural shifts are enumerated in the available material - ch 48.
History
City of Last Chances
In City of Last Chances, the Advent of Perfection is invoked as a fixed point in historical reckoning: it is cited as the marker from which the peoples of the Anchorwood date their long habitation alongside the Wood and its thresholds, with the specific formulation that they have "lived with the Wood and what's beyond it" since that event - ch 48. The reference is incidental, functioning as a shorthand for the depth of those communities' entanglement with the Anchorwood rather than as a narrative event occurring within the book's present action. No further details of the Advent's nature, agents, or immediate consequences are supplied in this volume.
Relationships
- Anchorwood - The Advent of Perfection is the event from which the peoples of the Anchorwood date their habitation alongside the Wood and its thresholds; it frames their entire collective history as beginning at that point - ch 48. No further interaction between the Advent and the Wood's present state is described.
Notable Quotes
- "lived with the Wood and what's beyond it" - cited formulation regarding the Anchorwood peoples' history, City of Last Chances, ch 48
Tags
- historical · #conquest · #palleseen-issue