I. Luminara — The Hedonistic District 1950 FC (≈ 2025 CE) The Hedonistic District declared itself long before Zael crossed its threshold. Even from the high transit lines, its glow bled into the air—an electric bloom wrapped around Luminara’s ancient foundations. It felt less like a district and more like a pulse. Dr. Liora Lytton had warned him. “People go there to …
Golden afternoon light slanted through the tall windows of Dr. Liora Lytton’s office, setting the dust in the air adrift like tiny constellations. The room seemed shaped by centuries rather than design: shelves layered with preserved tablets, annotated codices, and transparent data cubes; a workbench scattered with instruments grown from pale bioceramic; preservation fields humming softly around manuscripts too fragile …
Byzantium’s Shift The Fluxian Calendar (FC) begins with the writings of Plutarch and the founding of Theseanism in Athens. In this reckoning, Year 0 FC corresponds roughly to 50 CE — the era when Theon of Athens first articulated the Fluxian principle of transformation. Theseanism takes its name from Plutarch’s “Ship of Theseus” paradox, the question of whether a thing …
Dreams of Continuity “Continuity is not what binds us; relation is.” — Neo-Thesean Proverb 1950 FC (Fluxian Calendar) – 2025 CE (Common Era) The sun had not yet crept over the horizon, but the world was already awash in a pale, silvery light. Zael stirred, the echoes of a dream clinging to him—an unfamiliar sensation in his Fluxian existence. In …