Broken Line

A stretch of terrain where one of the Fold's energy lines abruptly terminates, shattered into scattered fragments of glowing residue. Broken Line is the only known point where the Fold's stabilizing influence has failed. Venn's scholars consider it the most important site in the region — proof that the order is not permanent. Within the Luminous Fold, this site is part of the gridded, measured landscape that radiates out from Lumina and the Central Fold. The Fold's clocks, roads, and institutions assume reality may be wholly described, and on this plateau they almost can — the Loosening and Time Instability are weakest here. The site answers, directly or indirectly, to one of the Seven Circles, and the Cartographic Society of Iterants keeps notes on every measurable thing that happens within sight of it.