Pattern Template
This template is intended to be copied into new periodic tables to give the basic structure of ThePattern to the newly created periodic table. Similarly, two specialty templates have been created: The first, The Forge, is intended to be used for creating periodic tables for manufactured objects like swords, wands or armor; the second, Matter, is intended to be copied for materials like gems, wood, elements, or metals.
It's not done yet.
Subjects and Objects
Every Pattern object is built around a gradual refinement of the subject which is being defined by this particular pattern. Each successive balance defines the previous balance's subject as a new object. In other words, the current balance "has" the previous balance, rather than "being" the previous balance.
| Balance | Subject | Object | |
| Prenatal | |||
| Incorporative | has | ||
| Impulsive | has | ||
| Imperial | has | ||
| Interpersonal | has | ||
| Institutional | has | ||
| Interindividual | has |
Good and Bad
Not nearly as important are how values are defined in this particular pattern. If you can't think of any other values, just leave it as "good" and "bad" as a default. Perhaps later you will think of something when you see how they are used. Or maybe the god of the forge will intervene.
| Good | Bad | |
| is defined as | Good | Bad |
Periods
Each new periodic table will have levels equivalent to Robert Kegan's developmental stages. Give them their names here, then replace their equivalents under subjects and objects above.
| Balance | # | Kegan's equivalent |
| -1 | Prenatal | |
| 0 | Incorporative | |
| +1 | Impulsive | |
| +2 | Imperial | |
| +3 | Interpersonal | |
| +4 | Institutional | |
| +5 | Interindividual |
Groups or Eco-Relations
Groups and Eco-Relations correspond to emotions or ways different things react to one another. They usually remain the same for most periodic tables.
| Group | Relation | Name |
| Zero | (-,-) | Synnecrotic Conflict |
| I | (0,-) | Sacrificial Satisfaction |
| II | (+,-) | Evangelical Predation |
| III | (+,0) | Commensal Laudation |
| IV | (+,+) | Symbiotic Cooperation |
| V | (0,+) | Benign Warding |
| VI | (-,+) | Depressed Parasitism |
| VII | (-,0) | Angry Sadism |
| VIII | (-,-) | Same as Group Zero |
Conflicts
At the end of each period, in the final Group Zero, the period comes to realize its own weakness and must reject its definition of self, understanding that that self is something it has, not what it is. Replace the word "good" in the chart below with its equivalent from the good and bad section above. Then try to insert a reason why each balance's subject ultimately fails, forcing it to become the next balance's object.
| Period | Rejection | Reason |
| -1 | There is no good | |
| 0 | There is no good | |
| +1 | There is no good | |
| +2 | There is no good | |
| +3 | There is no good | |
| +4 | There is no good | |
| +5 | There is no good |
The Elements
A really big, long list of all the elements in your periodic table.
— Scotus - 04 Jun 2000
