Imagine a world where your existence is entirely defined by your connectivity. In our modern, hyper-linked era, to be an "orphan" in a database is to be effectively invisible, yet in the early 1600s, Jodocus de Weerd was a central node in the high-stakes diplomacy of the Spanish Netherlands. This episode of pplpod takes a historiographical high-wire act through the life of a Belgian poet and syndic who used Neo-Latin poetry as a psychological defense against the chaotic backdrop of the 80 Years' War. We explore the 12 Years' Truce of 1609 not through standard historical accounts, but through the obsessive linguistic constraints of a legal mind who treated language like an airtight municipal contract. From chronograms that mathematically hide dates in plain sight  ...