The Five Scholars
A group of five Awakeners who, in the centuries before the Manywar, drove almost every major advance in the study of BioChromatic Breath — including the Commands that let a Lifeless be made with a single Breath instead of fifty. They split across the warring sides when the Manywar broke out. STD:WB:Ch 32
Known facts
- single-breath-lifeless-commandBefore one of the Five Scholars worked out the Command for it, a Lifeless required fifty Breaths to create. The discovery dropped the cost to a single Breath, turned Lifeless from a curiosity into a mass weapon, and — by Hoid's account — was a direct cause of the Manywar.STD:WB:Ch 32
Backreferences
- summarySTD:WB:Ch 32
- factThe Five Scholars
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- summarySTD:WB:Ch 50
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- summarySTD:WB:Epilogue
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- factYesteel