Ostention

Sazed's term, drawn from his collected Keeper catalogue, for what happens when a community begins acting out a legend in real life — emulating in flesh what they have been told as story. He uses it to explain Urteau's Survivor of the Flames: a population that believed in the Survivor of Hathsin producing, by ostention, a new survivor for their own era of executions. MB1:HoA:Ch 41