Editing Echolocutax

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It is, in this current age, to ascribe any and all historical attempts at a machine intellegence to the workings of the Primordial Autocthon. This is, of course, in addition to the tendencies to claim that he created humanity, the gods, the Exalted, sandwiches, the practice of domesticating animals, clockwork, mirrors, and all the gods. Clearly, we as scholars have gone too far in the direction of taking a convenient solution and using it to explain any and all mysteries of a particular sort.

For this reason, I am hesistant to accept the common view that the Tessian attempt to create the Echolocutax was in the main influenced by Autochonian emanations. I will grant that Tessian culture as a whole showed certain signs of Builder influence. But if that is accepted as sufficient evidence, then we must say that everything about them, from their form of dress to their distinctive pastries, was solely the work of Autocthon. Let us examine the evidence.

The Echolocutax was, I will grant, intended to be a thinking machine, or more precisely a prophecying machine, as seen through the Oracle of Tessia. But it was not at all in the mold of those surviving so-called Autochonian Engines. First, the operating principle of its construction was not the direct manipulation of essence. While I will grant that certain of its functions were no doubt related to small-scale essence shifts, according to the surviving section of the plans it did not produce these by the Autocthonian methodology of individual supernaturally-endowed components, but rather by the shifting patterns of the movements of elements that were not themselves endowed with any capacities. Clearly, the most obvious influence was astrology. I think that the combination of the use of clockwork (which alone, I grant, would be indicative of Builderian style), and the lack of sub-enchantment, and the high use of crystals, renders a parallel all too clear. No credible sources today claim the Varang astrological wheels to be the product of Primordial influence, and yet they are clearly the closest modern analogue. No doubt this was the product of some sort of cultural exchange with the so-called proto-Varang, before their northward migration.

See Also
[[Autochthon]]
[[Oracle of Tessia]]
[[Proto-Varang]]

-Professor Siran, of the Meru Institute