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{{image|Children of the Forest|png|A mystic rune recovered from the hills above Bretton Woods}} | {{image|Children of the Forest|png|A mystic rune recovered from the hills above Bretton Woods}} | ||
}}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. In the time before the First Men they inhabited the dark forests of Bretton on the low hills of the Ferrous Mountains, wandering around semi-naked , 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 {{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. In the time before the First Men they inhabited the dark forests of Bretton on the low hills of the Ferrous Mountains, wandering around semi-naked, 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. | 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. | ||
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==== Diet and environs ==== | ==== Diet and environs ==== | ||
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 | 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''”. | |||
=== Dispute resolution === | |||
Being largely peaceable, conflict with in the community was rare, but as in any ecosystems, there were differences. Their means of dispute resolution was uniquely democratic: disputes would be submitted to a council of elders who would formalise the “differences” against a common standard called a “contract” and any community member was allowed to bid for , and and is some evidence — and they called themselves the “''[[Synthæse]]''”, after all — that as their communities grew they ''exchanging'' their differences in a standardised, non-physical, “synthetic” terms across a centralised marketplace | |||
==== Protection and separation ==== | ==== Protection and separation ==== | ||