Prenatal Balance

The Prenatal Balance is a stage in The Pattern, the developmental algorithm that describes change in most of the FaerieMUD world.

Period -1

Developmental Objects? which have not yet differentiated themselves from their source in the Prenatal Balance. They do not yet have needs or a separate identity.

Thus, skills at this level are not yet understood as anything, even as things which others might be able to do. A skill at the prenatal level means your culture does not even understand what the skill means (as rocket science to a caveman). Seasons are irrelevant at this point, making spring and fall indistinguishable.

Elements 1-2

• Hydrogen
• Helium

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Subject-Object relations

There are no subjects nor objects in the Prenatal Balance. <br>

Examples

• A human's development while still in the womb is an example of the Prenatal Balance (whence the name).
• A religion which is still just a principle in its founding prophet's mind. It is still without a life of its own, or at least a self of its own.
• A skill that hasn't been practiced or even attempted is in the pre-natal balance. For instance a person who comes from a culture in which there is no singing would have a pre-natal singing skill. A person from a culture that has singing will have singing in the Incorporative balance.
• a skill at the Prenatal Balance means a crafter's culture does not even know the skill exists.
• the Prenatal matter should not be used as the primary material for any project although it may be incorporated into something made with a higher matter:
  • if a gem is needed, a soft crystal, like:
    • cinnabar, or
    • calcite
  • if a wood is needed, a seed? or a spore? are the only things which qualify
  • if a metal? is needed, an ore?
• all !FaerieMUD languages which have passed the Prenatal Balance (also all in the non-fae world)

<br> See also Period Minus 1, the Inclusive dependency and Incorporative Balance.

— Scotus - 21 Apr 2001