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}}The ''[[Synthæse]]'', or {{cotw}}, were a prehistoric proto-civilisation of woodland sprites and hippies; a kind of peaceable pre-derivative, banking people, largely unconcerned with material wealth but blessed with a preternatural gift for option pricing. They roamed the moors and fens of England semi-naked in the time before the alliance of men and elves, eschewing all earthly rancour, regarding physical settlement of disputes as sinful and instead voluntarily ''exchanging'' their differences in a standardised, non-physical, “synthetic” terms<ref>The Greek word ''συντίθημι'', from which is the root of the name ''[[Synthæse]]'', means “to bring together in one place” (from ''συν-'' (“together”) + ''τίθημι'' (“set, place”)).</ref> across a centralised marketplace.  

Alas, they modeled their [[delta]] by using profoundly flawed [[VAR|value-at-risk]] techniques and wildly miscalculated their exposure to the [[First Men]], a marauding race of mercenary [[derivatives]] [[salesmen]] from the ancient doomed city of Salomoné, who it is said, wiped them out in the late 1980s in one big bang, but not before they left behind traces of their enlightened methods of exchange which the [[First Men]] hungrily adopted when, in the fires of the [[Iron Mountain]], they forged the [[One Agreement]] out of the remnants of the {{1985ma}} and an old LMA template and the {{isdaprov|Cross Default}} clause, which ''still'' afflicts the {{isdama}} to this day.

Wood-children were basic, eschewing all [[financial technology]], dealing only in the amount of individual ''stoki'' (small rabbit-like creatures they hunted in the Woods) they or their families could eat, but as they became domesticated they would supplementing their diet — in many cases abandoning their traditional diet altegether — with a manufactured puree the Mohloki made for them (called variously “''etievs''” or “''etiens''”) and the older specimens would eat  a less-calorific preparation called “''pensioni''”. Generically, wood-children fodder is called “Pripi”.

Periodically, they would escape, break out, and over time more and more of the castle infrastructure was dedicated to controlling these errant [[wood-children]]] and ensuring the [[Mohloki]] did not shortcut their care and treatment procedures. No details were left unspared. Ultimately a great emergentiæ happened, destroying the local compliance network and cascading [[Pripi]] claims into the