Amanuensis was a human of the Third Age very loyal to Bandos. He wrote the book The Glory of General Graardor, which documented General Graardor's life.
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| - Amanuensis was a human of the Third Age very loyal to Bandos. He wrote the book The Glory of General Graardor, which documented General Graardor's life.
- [[Category:]] Amanuensis was an arcane and divine transmutation spell or a creation ritual that copied ordinary, non-magical text.
- You capture the writing from one source (a book, scroll, or tablet) and cause it to appear onto a special prepared paper, parchment, book, or some other similar item. This ritual copies up to 250 words of text, enough to fill one page with text. A copied illustration counts as a number of words proportional to the amount of the page the illustration requires. This ritual can be used to copy a ritual scroll, even if you have not mastered the ritual on the original scroll. Creating a ritual scroll in this manner takes twice as long as creating a ritual book but has the same cost (in addition to the component cost of this ritual).
- In the real world amanuensis has come to mean a special secretary. In Anathem, the term applies to an Avout who makes a written recording of an events or dialog. The avout's only media are chalk, ink and special new matter recording disks. Fraa Orolo appoints Erasmas as an amanuensis at the start of the story for his interview with artisans Flec and Quin just prior to Apert. Erasmas finds the interviews ridiculous but Orolo wants them recorded. In a literary sense, Erasmas is also our amanuensis for the entire story. He observes it, and we readers perceive only the worldline that he observes.
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| - You touch the writing, tracing each character or glyph with a gently glowing crystal. As you do so, the words you flicker into existence onto the specially prepared parchment before solidifying into a near-perfect copy.
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| - Amanuensis was a human of the Third Age very loyal to Bandos. He wrote the book The Glory of General Graardor, which documented General Graardor's life.
- [[Category:]] Amanuensis was an arcane and divine transmutation spell or a creation ritual that copied ordinary, non-magical text.
- In the real world amanuensis has come to mean a special secretary. In Anathem, the term applies to an Avout who makes a written recording of an events or dialog. The avout's only media are chalk, ink and special new matter recording disks. Fraa Orolo appoints Erasmas as an amanuensis at the start of the story for his interview with artisans Flec and Quin just prior to Apert. Erasmas finds the interviews ridiculous but Orolo wants them recorded. Much later, Fraa Jad tells Erasmas he is to be an amanuensis for Jad's interview with the Gan of the Daban Urnud, which takes place in one of the narratives of their attack on that ship. Jad details that this role is important, and different from the ship's own electronic recording devices, stating: This refers to Polycosm theory, where, in the book, observers can affect the universe and other observers, and cause information transfer to other parts of the Polycosm. This is an unusual mixture of the two main real-world theories of quantum mechanics, namely the Copenhagen interpretation where the observer's actions cause a waveform to collapse to a single state and the Many worlds interpretation which is much closer to the Polycosm theory of Anathem. In a literary sense, Erasmas is also our amanuensis for the entire story. He observes it, and we readers perceive only the worldline that he observes.
- You capture the writing from one source (a book, scroll, or tablet) and cause it to appear onto a special prepared paper, parchment, book, or some other similar item. This ritual copies up to 250 words of text, enough to fill one page with text. A copied illustration counts as a number of words proportional to the amount of the page the illustration requires. This ritual can be used to copy a ritual scroll, even if you have not mastered the ritual on the original scroll. Creating a ritual scroll in this manner takes twice as long as creating a ritual book but has the same cost (in addition to the component cost of this ritual).
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