Path is the English translation of the Chinese Tao (道).

In the end, it was a peaceful transition save for a few Godspoken being driven out of their houses by their servants they had treated poorly. This made most of the population sick for several days. The virus removed the OCD gene in the Godspoken, while still leaving their considerable intelligence intact.

When Peter Wiggin II delivered an anti-virus to the planet, Han Fei-tzu consumed it and spread it throughout the planet. However, it was never granted full rights as a world in Starways Congress, due to their manipulation of the Godspoken and the colony's relatively low population. Path was founded a few hundred years before the attempted Second Xenocide. It was steeply trenched in ancient Chinese religious tradition, and was home to the Godspoken, a group of genetically altered citizens who believed they heard the voices of the gods, but were really reacting to a form of OCD. Path consisted of large amounts of rice fields with various housing structures, but no large cities were described.

The path game