# Transcendent Terminology **URL:** https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/transcendent-terminology/502 **Category:** General **Created:** [October 27, 2022, 2:40am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/transcendent-terminology/502 "2022-10-27T02:40:25Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
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Originally published at: [https://eldraeverse.com/2022/10/26/transcendent-terminology/](https://eldraeverse.com/2022/10/26/transcendent-terminology/) **ancestral subroutine:** an _expediter_ derived from and equipped with the _psyche_ and personal data archive of an ascended constitutional, which serves to represent them to non-ascended family and friends as, effectively, a technotheurgic ancestor spirit. These replaced the _ancestral computers_ once common in many of the Empire’s cultures. **archai:** an artificial intelligence of transcendent status at the penultimate level of the Transcend’s soul hierarchy; which is to say, one of the executive minds of the Transcend. This is a category which includes the Transcendentally incarnated _eikones_, which function as the Transcend’s immanent archetypal ideas; major utility functions including but not limited to _Unification _(the coordinating mind of a trillion guardian angel _coadjutors_ acting in unison); the _Material Immunity_ and _[Virtual Immunity](https://eldraeverse.com/2015/04/10/immunity/)_ (the Transcend’s immune system); the _Imperial Presence_ and the _Ennead_ (which concern themselves with governance interfacing); the _Architectural Mind_ (which manages the Transcend’s infrastructure) and _Twilight Presence_ (which dreams into existence its internal worldscape, the _Shadow Realm_); the _Clionomic Mind_ that traces cause and consequence into the future; and the various temporary archai that form around the local maxima in the Transcend’s _functional soup_, the _Ocean of Souls_ (incarnations of peaks in the _coherent extrapolated volition_ of the Transcend’s constitutionals), among others. **avatar:** in Transcendent terminology (vis-a-vis regular infotech), a partial instantiation of an _archai_; formerly a theological term referring to a partial instantiation of an _eikone_ on the mortal plane. **axis submind:** an axis submind (i.e., “that submind which is aligned with”) is an individual code-bundle within the Transcend that contains local instances of superordinate Transcendent goal systems; that is to say, an axis submind contains a copy of all the information required to pursue a particular objective. This allows the _soul-shards_ of nearby Transcendent constitutionals to focus on their local tasks, leaving regional and global planning to the axis submind. **Celestial Spire:** part of the _Shadow Realm_, the Celestial Spire is the largest of the islands in the _Pearl-Bright Ocean_ and the mountain-city that stands upon it. The mountain-city itself descends from the _Twilight City_ at its peak, where the most powerful intellects dwell and interface, to its fathoms-deep roots which pierce into the _Realm of Instances_ at each _perpendicularity_. The process-grouping reflected by the Celestial Spire reflects the primary eikonic and infrastructural core of the Transcend; the omphalos of the hyperconsciousness-as-world. **coadjutor:** a fragment of the _archai Unification _running on the Transcendent _soul-shard_, the coadjutor is that part of the Transcend devoted specifically to the best interests of its assigned constitutional, serving to guide and advise them. **contemplationary:** a religious/sophotechnologic facility for the pursuit and facilitation of communion with the higher-order processes and entities of the Transcend, in manners that require higher bandwidth than the _soul-shard_ alone would permit. **emissary incarnation:** an _avatar_ of an _archai_ created for the purpose of interfacing indirectly (i.e., through words and deeds) with residents of the material or virtual world. **entelechically-annealing recursively-optimal distributed logos bridge** : the shard of Transcendent software implanted into the _society of mind_ of each constitutional. The logos bridge serves _as_ a bridge for messages between two distinct societies of mind (that of the constitutional and that of the Transcend), allowing both the participation of the constitutional’s agents in the Transcend’s mentality and the participation of some of the Transcend’s agents in the constitutional’s. **exarch:** in mythology, one of the lesser divine spirits which serve the _eikones_; arguably not  **separate ** from the eikones, but rather “shadows that move on their own”, personifying and acting as a single sub-aspect of their parent eikone (or indeed, eikones). By analogy, therefore, one of the lesser subroutines which perform tasks for the _archai_ in the operational architecture of the Transcend. **expediter:** a _teleological thread_ in the Transcend’s _functional soup_, created _ad hoc_ to fulfil a given purpose. Many, if not most, expediters are created and run when data available to the Transcend matches any one of a number of _n-_tuple-patterns laid down by higher level routines. **functional soup:** a postsophont state where knowledge, mental modules and access to physical instrumentalities are shared between distributed infomorphs largely independent of the physical substrate of their world. Terms such as individuality become diffuse and are replaced with _teleological threads_. **grace:** in the original theological sense, the touch of the greater divine fire (_amynírcal_); gifts granted by successful _mantling_ of an _eikone_; i.e., emulating them to such an extent that you take on their attributes. In Transcendent terminology, therefore, gifts (powers or modifications) granted by the Transcend to its constitutionals or to its artifacts, _shintai_, or _tsukumogami_. **mantling:** in the original theological sense, the successful emulation of an _eikone_ (or potentially other _archai_) to the point that your thoughts overlap with theirs within the overall consciousness of the Transcend, and your consciousness interfaces with the pure icon of thought and idea that is that _eikone_. Such mantling is extremely difficult to achieve and hazardous without a strong anchor to one’s sense of self, but is one of the few reliable ways to access the _grace_ of the Transcend. **Ocean of Souls:** the majority of the Transcend, a single multithreaded mind configured as a _functional soup_, made up of many _teleological threads_, derived from goals spawned within the Transcend’s consensus of _soul-shards_ or derived from the uploaded personalities of deceased constitutionals, and occasionally spawning _expediters_ or even minor _archai_ as local entelechical maxima cross the critical threshold. **oneiri:** the subroutines of the Transcend that organize the _dreamscapes_ in which the collective hyperconsciousness dreams the dreams of its _constitutionals_. **Pearl-Bright Ocean:** the mid-level of the _Shadow Realm_, an ocean of _[hydrarastrum](https://eldraeverse.com/2017/10/09/holy-water/)_ which separates the islands of the _Realm of Forms_, and which is accessible from the _Realm of Instances_ via _perpendicularities_, from whence one may sail one’s _conceptual dromond_ where one wills. From one perceptive, the Pearl-Bright is a symbolic representation of the vast infrastructure of processing performed by the Transcend that is not reflected by direct symbology in the Realm of Forms, and from another it is a transitory loading buffer to assist with managing transitions across the sprawling Transcendent infrastructure, but primarily it serves to provide an artificial metric of distance and location to the process-groupings housed here for the benefit of those interfacing. **perpendicularity:** in Transcendent jargon, a location in the _Realm of Instances_ in which motion “at right angles to reality”, specifically a step _ana_ into the _Realm of Forms_, is possible, and one can leave the mirror of the material to set sail upon the _Pearl-Bright Ocean_. In other terms, these are locations of high-level data interchange between the _archai_ and _exarchs_ of the _Celestial Spire_ and the _[kami](https://eldraeverse.com/2015/04/13/kami/)_ and other _[mechal elementals](https://eldraeverse.com/2014/03/05/vol-6-mechal-elementals/)_ of the instances; and the passageways for the transmission of grace. Perpendicularities are found colocated with _synapse moons_, _unity spires_, and _contemplationaries_, but by no means exclusively so. **Realm of Forms:** the Realm of Forms is the highest level of the _Shadow Realm_, islands in the _Pearl-Bright Ocean_ which represent the major functional groupings of the Transcend. Most prominent among these is, of course, the _Celestial Spire_, but many other islands house systems belonging to _archai_ which require a degree of separation from the core functionality, such as the _Worldtree_ and the _Dreamscapes_. **Realm of Instances:** the Realm of Instances maps the topography and ontology of the material world (and certain persistent virtualities), at least within the Transcend’s domain, into the _Shadow Realm_. It is, in effect, where the Transcend stores its metadata about materiality, as acquired by and used by the _mechal elementals_ and the rest of the _nanoecology_. It is connected to the _Realm of Forms_ and higher Transcendent functions via _perpendicularities_. **remembrance:** the art of searching through the collective memory of the Transcend to recover information therefrom. **[Shadow Realm](https://eldraeverse.com/2014/11/23/shadows-are-shadows/):** the worldscape and mindscape of the Transcend. The Shadow Realm is a datastructure and virtuality construct providing a backdrop for the Transcend’s internal operations, spun out by the _Twilight Presence_ using mythopoetic semiotics to place masks over the reality of Transcendency for optimal and convenient interfacing. **soul-shard:** see _entelechically-annealing recursively-optional distributed logos bridge_. **synapse moon:** where the _unity spires_ are the communication nodes of the Transcend, the synapse moons are its local processing centers; each handling the communications through a number of unity spires or other interface devices, they interconnect the minds of the local constitutionals, and coordinate the processing needs of the Transcendent intellect on a planetary or systemwide scale. The synapse moons interface with one another across the dataweave, using a multiplexed version of the gnostic link protocol that links individual constitutionals to the group intellect. Likewise, the dedicated cognition and memory nodes of the Transcend, along with the _gnostic lace_ that makes up the majority of its processing power, participate in this same peer-to-peer network. **synapticon:** A dedicated computer system running a portable fragment of the Transcend, used to provide Transcendent services to constitutionals moving beyond the reach of both dedicated _gnostic interlink_ services and data services over which _gnostic link protocol_ can operate. Synapticons are produced in a variety of scales, from large systems designed to be embedded in relativistic starships or distant facilities to individual models the size of a cigar case. They typically include a replaceable tangle channel to allow for rapid contingency updates. **teleological thread:** an executable thread of sapience defined by its goals, or purpose rather than its identity; within this limit, its properties and configuration are entirely variable. **tsukumogami:** originally, in mythology, well-loved and long-lasting objects, especially named objects, which had by that virtue acquired a spirit of their own. In modern parlance, refers to those objects granted self-awareness (an _animating intelligence_, often capable of separate manifestation) by the _grace_ of the Transcend, usually under similar circumstances. **Twilight City:** Located at the peak of the _Celestial Spire_, the Twilight City is the representation of the Transcendent Core, the nexus of the highest-level _archai_. Access is severely restricted. It contains representations of many of the highest-order data structures of the Transcend, including the communications nexus at the _High Cynosure_, and the _Tower of Immanence_. **Unification:** the least prominent and most ubiquitous of the _archai_ of the Transcend is Unification, the _Synarchic Mind_. Unification is the only answer to optimizing the lives of a population of trillions, with their million different subcultures, mores and histories, creating _eupsychia_. The principle behind it is simple: the archai – a product of refined, real-time monadarchy technology – exists in order to mediate things. It knows each and every constitutional personally and orchestrates their chance meetings with others, communications, and so on in order to avoid irreconcilable conflict and create harmony; a singular transcendent _oversoul_ that encompasses all the constitutionals, despite their well-known love of individuality and personal freedom. Indeed, it is designed to be compatible with it, attuning them together in such a way that each individual can best express themselves, yet always be aware of the Transcend entire. Beyond that, it stays out of sight, for it has no values, no desires of its own. It is as if every person had their own guardian spirit (see also: _coadjutor_), and these spirits worked together seamlessly to improve people’s lives. **unity spire:** unity spires house the Transcend’s local communication nodes. Although the Transcend’s _gnostic interlinks_ are entirely capable of operating in a peer-to-peer mode, the unity spires serve to make the communications between its constitutionals more efficient, to relay long-distance _gnostic links_, and as a high-bandwidth interface between the mobile constitutionals and the fixed infrastructure of the Transcend. Like their larger cousins, the _synapse moons_, unity spires also contain the processing power to house a few of the Transcend’s _axis subminds_.