The Metarcanum: A Theory of Linguistic Constitution of Matter, Energy, & Form
Overview
The Metarcanum is a manuscript scientific text, unpublished but hand-bound in rough lambskin, theorized and penned by the hand of one of Orphan Heights' finest and most tragic minds, Agnes Esker . She worked on the document during the two years she held a modest office space at № 138 Cavendish in Attistock, a space rented largely for the purpose of writing. The manuscript proposes her theory of the linguistic constitution of matter and energy, which she coined the Metarcanum of title fame.
Though it resulted in her expulsion from the Academy, it nevertheless carried on to play a role in the progress of scientific history in both Orphan Heights and Pendulum thereafter. Her theory, however, was swiftly debunked by the Grand Academy of Science's highest minds at the time.
If only they knew.
Fate of the Manuscript
Eventually, the manuscript founds its way into the hands of its late author's younger sibling, one Alvin Esker, who never bothered to read it beyond the introduction, and promptly destroyed the only copy in existence on a mountaintop while climbing it poorly, leaving the theory of the Metarcanum quite literally scattered to the four winds. It exists now, naturally, only within the halls of these Archives.
You're welcome.
Purpose
The book was intended to broaden the perspectives of the Scholars of the Grand Academy of Science regarding the metaphysical implications of a linguistic constitution of matter and energy. It failed.
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Public Reaction
The reaction on the part of the Grand Academy of Science was utter hilarity, followed by dismissal. Baron Hiram Alberstein Lorecroft, Agnes Esker's advisor at the Academy, did not react scornfully, but he did share his colleagues criticism of her work in general. He was imply nicer about it.
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