Outside the Luminous Fold (Civilisation), time is not a shared standard. Some regions disagree on the length of a Cycle. Some ignore the unit altogether. Others measure duration through environment or movement — a tide's return, a herd's arrival, the cooling of a vent. The Fold's clocks describe the Fold and only the Fold. As Archael Viremont eventually concluded, "We do not all inhabit the same Loop, even when we share the same hour." Time Instability is the temporal twin of the Loosening, and both are downstream symptoms of the Fray.
No stories reference this entity yet. This part of the world awaits its chronicler.