Eusenia becomes the next Ordained. Province expand but will not cover the planet until the test period of a generation is over.

The fall of Failing Light (formerly known as Visionary Despina, the time-traveller, not to be confused with the Despina of our timeline) started a movement later known as the Masking. The nature of the movement is described as religious, political and artistic all at once - unsurprising considering that in Eunomia, faith permeates all things.

It is commonly agreed that the Masking was initiated by the Cultists of Fluidity. What is unknown is if it was organised by Failing Light herself before her death, if it was organised by someone else, or if it was somehow a spontaneous reaction to Failing Light's death.

People that took part in the Masking would don masks in public, at all times. They would wear different coloured masks to signal one's (sometimes self-proclaimed) caste identity: gold for Visionary, black for Champion, red for Realizer and iridescent for Potential. What is more revolutionary than the suggestion that one should be allowed to change one's role with even more fluidity is the call for additional castes. Some members of the movement wear masks of multiple colours, for example, gold and red for Visionary-Realizer, black and red for Champion-Realizer, etc..

The movement was quickly outlawed in all Eunomia for disruption of Order, except in the Iridescent Provinces, where it was taken as another experiment and partially accepted. In the Iridescent Provinces, a few months after the movement started, experimental laws were put into place to accommodate those that wish to switch between multiple caste-identities: after comprehensive assessments, one may acquire multiple legal identities, after which one may wear the appropriate masks legally. The potential of redefining the boundaries of certain castes and introducing new castes became a hot topic of debate amongst Visionaries, but it is unlikely that the result of the debate, and laws to facilitate such things - if they are to exist - would be revealed in the next twenty years.

The motto of the movement is “Mask to unmask.” A leading member of the movement, Realizer Fenix, explains that “By donning the mask externally, we learn to unmask internally.” The message is received by many, within and without Eunomia.

The aesthetics of the movement appeals well to the more apolitical masses. The masks have grown more elaborate with time and masks have in fact started to become fashionable even outside the movement itself. Maybe in a hundred years it will make it into the formal wear of Eunomia. Who knows with the Eunomians.

- An excerpt from Cults of the Seven Systems, by Anna Perez-Livchenko