The First Architects

The forerunners of the Weaving — whether mortal, half-mortal, or something in between, the First Architects were the ones who pinned the world down during the Dawn. They built monuments of intent: towers that hummed, stones that pulsed, maps that bled when torn. From their hands came the First Map, and from the First Map came the Pattern that holds the Everloop together. The Vaultkeepers preserve what little is recorded of them; the Luminous Fold has classified what little remains. Two things are not in dispute: the First Architects' work made the world stable enough to be lived in, and their work also seeded the flaw that became the Fray. Whether the flaw was an error or an intentional door has been the central argument of every scholar of the Pattern since.