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the Great Hole to Mora; perhaps no more than two. The most recent arrivals, a fourteen-ship contingent of
Credential Renunciators from the world Diosophede, discovered upon Maske and Skay a population of
great antiquity, human but considerably diverged fromhomo gaea : the Saidanese, of a species which
became known ashomo mora .

With Zangwill Reef barring the way beyond, the fourteen ships landed upon Maske. They expelled the
Saidanese from a region to which they gave the name Thaery, after Eus Thario, Explicator of the True
Credence. The company of the thirteenth ship would not concede the тАШTriple DivinityтАЩ of Eus Thario and
was banished to Glentlin, a spare and stony peninsula west of Thaery. The тАШIrredemptiblesтАЩ of the
fourteenth ship refused to acknowledge either the Credence or the sublimity of Eus Thario; they were
driven away from Thaery.




The тАШIrredemptiblesтАЩ of the fourteenth ship refused to acknowledge either the Credence or the sublimity
of Eus Thario; they were driven away from Thaery. The ship crashed into the mountains of Dohobay,
apparently after attack by a pair of Credential pinnaces, and so disappeared from history.

The Twelve Companies parceled Thaery into twelve districts and organized a state in strict conformity to
the Credential Precepts. Diosophede, their world of origin, became an exemplar of everything to be
avoided. Diosophede was urbanized; Thaery would be bucolic. The Diosofids controlled natural forces
and preferred artificial environments; the Thariots dedicated themselves to natural landscapes and natural
substances. The Diosofids were frivolous, cynical, disrespectful of authority, addicted to novelty, artificial
sensation and vicarious emotion. The Thariots pledged themselves to duty, simplicity, respect for status.

In Glentlin the company of the thirteenth ship, adapting to their harsh environment, isolated themselves
from the Thariots, and became the Glints. Each saw the other in terms of caricature. In Thaery, тАШGlintтАЩ
became synonymous with тАШboorishтАЩ, тАШcrudeтАЩ, тАШboisterousтАЩ, while for a Glint тАШThariotтАЩ meant тАШdeviousтАЩ,
тАШsecretiveтАЩ, тАШoversubtleтАЩ.

Many Glints took to sailing the Long Ocean; gradually these mariners evolved the concept of тАШSea
NationalismтАЩ. Other Glints, notably those ilks resident in the High Marcatives, became bandits, raiding
the depots of Isedel, and even Swange and Glistelamet, for tools, fabric and wealth. The Thariots


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retaliated, using draughts of Saidanese warriors, the so-called тАШperruptersтАЩ, but only after three centuries
were the Glints subdued, whereupon Glentlin in effect became the thirteenth district of Thaery.

Conditions elsewhere upon Maske took on new forms. Those Irredemptibles who had survived the wreck
of the Fourteenth eventually reappeared as the Waels of Wellas and the various tribes of Dohobay. The
Saidanese, confined to Upper and Lower Djanad, became known as the тАШDjanтАЩ and persisted in their
incomprehensible old customs. They evinced neither curiosity nor rancor toward those who had
conquered them; the same was true with the Saidanese of Skay.

Centuries passed: eras of glassy somnolence. Credential stringencies relaxed; Thaery became a land of
many textures and cultivated contrasts. Despite the ancient interdicts, certain of the towns became cities,