Drylight Camp

The most isolated settlement in the Glass Expanse, established where the crystalline desert meets a stretch of conventional sand. Drylight Camp exists because of a single anomaly: water condenses on the crystal surfaces here at dawn, providing just enough moisture to sustain a small community. No one knows why this spot and no other. Out in the Glass Expanse, this site is part of the network of prism-fields, shard-towns, and silica plateaus that surround Prism City. Light bends here in ways the Pattern cannot quite hold — the air sometimes refracts a scene from a different hour, and the Starving Silence forms where light has shattered the same way too many times in the same place. The Knowledge Fragmentation Principle was first formalised by Expanse philosophers a generation before the Luminous Fold accepted it.