The Overlook

The advancing edge of the Fray itself — not a fixed place but a moving line, where the world grows thin and the air begins to feel different. People who linger at the Overlook lose names, memories, reasons. Every winter the Overlook creeps closer to the Bellroot Vale. The siblings' family cottage stands within a day's walk of the current line; their father vanished into the Overlook on his second expedition, and Father's Shard came back without him. Kaerlin, Mira, and Thomel grew up under its slow approach. The Overlook is the Fray made visible — the place where the Pattern's erosion is no longer theoretical.