Kelx is a religion whose followers believe that the whole world is in the mind of a man condemned to die. (pg 467 Anathem) The religion was created in the Sixteenth or Seventeenth Century A.R. The Kelx believe that Arbre exists in a chain of universes, each one creating the next. They believe that in the universe preceding Arbre's, there was once a highwayman. This criminal waylaid a family of three, a father, mother and a little girl. The father, he slew outright. The mother, he raped and then murdered. The child, he took as a hostage to hold law enforcement at bay. Eventually cornered, he strangled the child to eliminate a potential witness. The Kelx know this unfortunate child as the Innocent. The bandit was tried, convicted and sentenced to die, placed in a cell to await his fate. The