The Fray

The unraveling of the Pattern — where the world grows weak and forgets. The Fray does not tear like cloth; it forgets. You breathe the air of a Fray-touched place and begin to lose your name, memories, reasons. Days repeat, years vanish, cities blink out of sequence. It is not a destroyer but a symptom — of time's refusal to stay fixed, of the lie whispered into the world's bones when the First Architects bound the Prime Beings beneath the Everloop. Where the Fray is active, the Loosening follows, Time Instability worsens, and — increasingly often — Monsters arrive. Every Monster in the Archive is, by canon, evidence that the Fray has broken reality at that place for a reason. That reason is almost always a Shard.