The Archive

The Vault of Potential

Deep within the foundations, sealed away from the ordered Library, lies The Archive. It is not a layer of reality, but a forgotten Sub-Basement containing "Unfinished Thoughts": discarded drafts of existence where ink-stained rivers flow into the sky and echoes arrive before they are spoken.

The seals are failing. The Archive is leaking. Its raw potentiality is seeping into the Library and overwriting the Underdrawing. The Archive is not "evil": it is simply unsettled. It is reality before it chose what it wanted to be. However, when these unfinished definitions leak into the finished world, they create violent contradictions known as Knots.