A concise primer on the world, its light network, and the competing ideas surrounding restoration.
Before the Shattering, the realms were one continuous world connected by a network of luminous conduits. Light was not merely energy; it carried impressions—images, voices, and emotional residue.
An unknown event overloaded the network and divided reality into overlapping states. Communities survived by adapting to whichever properties of light remained stable around them.
Lira’s team follows reactivating nodes across the realms. Their initial mission is restoration, but recovered records increasingly suggest the network may have been deliberately broken.
Does healing a world require returning it to its previous form—or accepting that its people have become something new?