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| quote = We call upon the Antecedent, who WIP, who WIP, who WIP.
| origin = God-from-Stone
| titles = The Burning Wheel
| names = The Rag-picker
| aspects = {{Aspect|Wheel}}
The god-from-Stone, the oldest being in existence, the Mansus-stone made sentient and determined. The Antecedent was an Hour of change, especially inner, of nature and all the natural cycles (the course of the Sun, the Moon, the stars and the planets, the circulation of matter and energy through the world, the birth, death, and rebirth...), of unceasing ambition to achieve absolute greatness.
===History===
The Antecedent was born when the first rays of Glory touched the Mansus-stone, bringing sentience, will, desire. Ever since, they have striven to reach that True Sun, and become as one with it. It is unclear if they were such a complex Hour and held Wheel from the very start, or if they began as something lesser, something that has hunted down other gods-from-Stone and claimed their powers, influence, and achievements. In any case, there is no one living to contest their claims.
At one point, to reach the light above, they have pulled themselves closer to the Glory, which shaped the Split Mountains and the Plateau, and burnt the Mansus-stone, turning much of it to glass. The highest point of the Mountains, the Scarred Rock, where the Antecedent pulled on the Glory-ray, spawned [[The Fulgurite]], and from that wound sprouted the River of the Rocks. In other places, where the sands of seashores and deserts were melted, [[The Glassmaker]] was created.
They have also created the Field of Reeds.
[[The Zabbaleen]] has always existed within The Antecedent, alongside other upcoming beings, [[The Promised Moon]] and the Rag-picker; they have emanated the latter as their Name. He was the one who has halted the blazing rotation of the Antecedent around the time of Industrial Revolution15th century, during the Renaissance, which caused it to hatch, birthing the Scarabeus , creating the Webbed Door out of their discarded body / eggshell, and shattering the aspect of Wheel into precursors of Forge, Moth, Grail, Heart, and Winter. Their presence can still be felt within the Zabbaleen, the Paper Shores of the River of the Rocks, the Ziggurat Reversed, and the Webbed Door, among other things.
===Principles===