Periods of the Pattern

A Period is a Balance or level of The Pattern -- a periodic table from which all developmental entities? in the !FaerieMUD world are derived.

The periods of the table are a series of developmental levels of increasing complexity, each of which represents a kind of balance between subject and predicate (subjects being the way instances of the class define themselves; predicates being what they define as being "other"). Each developmental entity gradually refines its self-definition as it progresses from period to period in pursuit of its ideal form.

We've defined 7 periods for the Pattern (though it theoretically is an open-ended system):

• Prenatal Balance (-1)
• Incorporative Balance (0)
• Impulsive Balance (1)
• Imperial Balance (2)
• Interpersonal Balance (3)
• Institutional Balance (4)
• Interindividual Balance (5)

[This still needs some mention of Current Vocabulary, Eco Relations?, and probably some stuff I'm forgetting...]

— GedTheGreysHain - 21 Oct 2001