Twelve hundred years ago a great fracture struck the world and damaged the World Soul, leaving reality weakened and the flow of magic forever changed.

World Soul: The core essence that sustains reality and connects all living things.

Flow of magical energy: World magic flows through the realms as a natural current, shaped by resonance and guided through runic veins that stabilize and direct its movement.

Structure of reality: Reality is formed by interwoven layers of physical, magical and spiritual presence, held apart by natural boundaries that keep the realms stable and prevent energies from colliding.

Sources of instability: Instability arises when these layers weaken. Long ago the war between the four dragon lines strained the foundations of the world and weakened the World Soul, allowing a fragment to break away. With the World Soul no longer whole, the balance of magic collapsed and all dragon lines except one lost the ability to transform. Since then fractures appear where resonance falters, imbalance spreads through disrupted magic and corruption grows in places where the influence of the World Soul has thinned.

Consequences: As instability deepens, rifts open between layers, shadow phenomena emerge and entire regions shift into unpredictable zones where magic behaves in distorted and dangerous ways.

Stabilizing forces: The world endures through the strength of the World Soul, the natural flow of world magic and the guardians who protect resonance and prevent fractures from spreading.