Infancy Gospel of Grandfather Paradox
The "apocryphal" Infancy Gospel of Grandfather Paradox , "as recorded" by Saint Richmal of the Just Observance, was a book relating to the history of the Great Houses, written in a peculiar conversational style.
It included a dialogue that condemned the anchoring of the web and the resultant linearity as unnatural; celebrated the adventurousness of the "lesser species"; and contemplated the idea of starting a new war, since the Great Houses were too boring to fight. (PROSE: Pre-narrative Briefings)
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The narrator's style of speaking resembles that of William Brown from the Just William book series written by Richmal Crompton.
"Infancy gospel" was a genre popular in early Christianity; several non-canonical infancy gospels of Jesus Christ were written in the 2nd century. Asked on Tumblr about the reliability of the Infancy Gospel, Bumber commented:
I don’t think any in-universe document in the Faction Paradox series can be taken as absolute truth. The comparison with the Christian infancy gospels is intended and accurate – but as a point of curiosity, did you know that the Infancy Gospel of James is actually regarded quite highly in the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, and it’s the source of several feast days and hymns?
The idea of the "Infancy Gospel of Grandfather Paradox" was created by Nate Bumber as a framing device Cobweb and Ivory. after he decided not to directly include it in the story, Simon Bucher-Jones decided to reuse it for a pre-narrative briefing.[1] However, the former story remains written in a style consistent with such a text. Notably, the naming convention of real-life Christian "Infancy Gospels" is that they are named for their purported authors rather than their subject; this suggests that the Infancy Gospel is a text purportedly written by Grandfather Paradox rather than about him. If one follows the implication of Cobweb and Ivory being a further extract from the Infancy Gospel, this is, therefore, an argument against interpreting Avus as a young Grandfather.
