Split Site

A location where the crystal desert is cracked open along a deep fissure, revealing layers of different crystal types descending into darkness. Split Site draws scholars from Prism City and miners from Vell Glass alike, though neither group has reached the bottom. Sound dropped into the fissure returns after a delay that's longer than the depth warrants. 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.