Pejorative term for the hypostatic wakening introduced into Viridian society by the Ambivalence Drive. Scientists and statesmen of the day were unfamiliar with Worldmind lifecycles and sought to suppress the phenomenon, not knowing that Ambivalence was a fleeting phase before Emergence. We can only wonder at the complexity the Nova Entity could have attained had it been permitted to manifest naturally, unmolded by the Generators.

But perhaps such speculation is idle. No doubt the Greenlings would have interceded if they had seen a need, yet they chose not to despite their manifest skill in channeling their own hypostasis, which was of the dreaming rather than the wakening type. (Indeed, less charitable historians have suggested that the Greenlings deliberately allowed their dreaming Worldmind to emerge more powerful than her wakening brother.)

Eudaemonic mythology suggests an ancient familiarity with the hypostatic stages of Worldmind birth, and may in part explain the interest that the Conclave of Mek’ril paid the Viridian system during the 5200s. The Viridians themselves, lacking an appropriate point of reference (apart from the usual prophetic rantings about Elder Gods) never really came to terms with either the “plague” nor the Entity before economic and military expediencies cut short the opportunity for philosophical speculation.

—Thucydides Plutonium