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[[File:Children of the forest.jpg|450px|thumb|center|If there is ever a movie, the soundtrack will be by ''All About Eve''.]]
[[File:Children of the forest.jpg|450px|thumb|center|If there is ever a movie, the soundtrack will be by ''All About Eve''.]]
}}The ''[[Synthæse]]'', or [[Children of the Forest]], 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.  
}}The ''[[Synthæse]]'', or [[Children of the Forest]], 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 cirty 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.
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 cirty 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.