Glimlock’s Working Definitions

Metaphysical Forces & Concepts

Loom
The Loom creates the fabric of Reality, spinning all Threads into the Pattern. It adapts to change, bending without breaking, and remembers more than it ever admits.
Glimlock: “It’s nosy. Don’t stand too close unless you like being woven into something without your say.”

Forge
Will and command rather than fire and metal. It seeks to fix the Pattern into forms that cannot change, believing rigidity and permanence is the only true victory.

Loomkeeper
The appointed steward of the Loom’s will. They mend its wounds and guard its deepest designs from corruption.

Forgekeeper
Keeper of the Forge’s designs, charged with locking the Weave into unbending forms. Their work is meant to last forever, whether the Pattern consents or not.

Thread / Threads
The smallest visible lines of the Pattern. Each carries memory, intent, and the pull of connection.

Threadstepping
Moving between the Threads along the Pattern’s unseen paths from place to place in the multiverse, crossing from one weave of reality to another.
Glimlock: “Like walking into a memory you haven’t had yet.”

Threadsight
The rare gift of seeing the Pattern’s strands as they truly are, without the veils the world draws over them. Those who bear it may glimpse where a Thread could run, watching possible outcomes form and fade with each shift in the weave.
Glimlock: “It’s not prophecy. More like seeing all the doors at once and knowing some will never open.”

Echo / Echoform
A reflection of something that was or might have been, often carrying will of its own. An Echoform can move, change, or contend — pressing its presence against the Pattern to shift Threads, close paths, or shape outcomes to its design.
Glimlock: “Some contend by standing in your way. Others do it by moving the finish line.”

Spiral
A force outside the Loom and Forge, shaping events in multi-dimensional and temporal curves. Its purpose is not yet known.

Breachform
A scavenger of broken Patterns, drawn to collapse and change. It cleans the remnants of failed cycles, not always gently. Known also as the Void, it is the dark medium from which Loom’s reality is drawn, the unformed substance into which failed Weaves dissolve. To the Loom, it is both a necessity and a danger, creation’s womb and its grave.
Glimlock: “The Breachform doesn’t mind being called the Void. It just wonders why you say it like it’s a bad thing.”

First Voice
The Loom’s Creator, Herald, and Historian, speaking when the Loom itself will not. Its words carry the Pattern’s oldest memory and its first intent.
Glimlock: “Creator, Herald, Historian… and apparently, my biographer. Not that I asked.”

Witness / Witnesses
Those who have stepped close enough to the Pattern to see its motion. Once a Witness, always.

Places & Realms

Tetheris
The realm where many Threads are knotted, their joins binding across countless Patterns. Each Knot here is multiversal, linking elsewheres and elsewhens in ways the Loom alone can trace.

Silvaris
The brighter of Tetheris’ moons, silver-lit and calm in its pull.

Umbros
The shadowed moon, keeper of the dark tides and unseen currents.

Elsewhere(s)
Realms that lie alongside the Pattern but were never fully drawn into it.

Elsewhen(s)
Moments outside the normal turning of the Loom, neither past nor future.

Alwhens
Convergences of many possible whens — dangerous to cross, tempting to those who dare.

Alwheres
Convergences of many possible wheres — often unstable, always unpredictable.

Silk Weave Trees
Tall, pale trees whose fibers can be drawn into strong Thread. They grow where the Pattern runs close to the surface.

Evergreen Carousel
The Loom’s seat and shelter, once encircled by the living expanse of the Verdant Reach. Its turning is not for amusement but for balance, keeping the Pattern’s pull even across all Threads.

Verdant Reach
A lush expanse encircling the Loom, once whole, now marked by scars where the Pattern tore.

Factory
A Loom-built place of making, where Threads once became tools and wonders. It served as the marshaling point for the Loom’s Weave, sending its finished patterns to the alwhens and alwheres.

Wastes
Barren stretches that replaced the Verdant Reach after Hargrum’s assault on the Loom complex. The Pattern runs thin here, and what remains resists the Loom’s touch.

Entities & Beings

Elen
Heir to the Loom’s deepest trust, a Threadweaver who can bring into being what has never been. The Pattern bends toward her presence, as if remembering what it was meant to become.

Caio
Her brother, touched by the first stirrings of Threadsight — an unblinking awareness of paths that exist, might exist, or were never meant to be. The Pattern does not merely reveal itself to him; it waits for his choice.

Nephrys
The Loom’s chosen speaker and strategist.

Hargrum
Master of the Forge, patient and relentless in his attempts to reshape the Pattern in his favor.

Kainen
A seeker bound by duty and blood to those touched by the Loom.

Liora
Watcher of the Loom’s edge, keeper of quiet truths.

Glimlock
An eternal wanderer of the Pattern.
Glimlock: “Flattery will get you nowhere. Unless it’s good.”

Nesk
A being of brass and flesh, loyal to the Loom.

Quenndrel
An adept in the subtle motions of the Pattern.

Sylthar
An ancient observer of Cycles, past and future.

Telryn
Steward of places where the Loom’s Threads converge.

Jorem
A man shaped by memories not entirely his own.

Knotkeeper
Guardian of the Loom’s fixed joins.

The Harrowraith
A first-forged creation of Hargrum, designed to slip between Threads and unmake from within. It moves unseen through the Pattern’s joins, leaving hollowed lines where strength once ran. More predator than machine, the Harrowraith endures as one of the Forge’s purest tools of destruction.
Glimlock: “If you feel colder than you should, it’s already passed through.”

The Guardian
A sentinel bound to a single Thread, Knot, or place within the Pattern. It remains dormant until that charge is threatened, at which point it manifests in whatever form best deters the intruder. Guardians are not universal protectors — they are loyal only to the aspect they were set to defend, and will act even against Loom-aligned travelers if they cross the wrong boundary.
Glimlock: “They’re not here to save you. They’re here to keep you from touching the wrong thing.”

The Toll Keeper
An entity bound to the Pattern’s crossings, appearing where Threads converge into passageways too potent to remain unguarded. It demands payment before allowing passage, not always in coin or artifact, but often in memory, Thread, or potential. To refuse is to remain where you stand. To pay is to accept that you may never reclaim what was taken.
Glimlock: “The trick isn’t paying the Toll Keeper. The trick is figuring out what you just gave away.”

Artifacts & Constructs

Shard
Forged of silkweave and iron, carrying a memory of the Loom’s making.

Threadglass Orb
A sphere of woven glass that resonates with shifts in time and place.

Spindle / Loom’s Spindle
The central point where all Threads converge before being cast into the Pattern.

Weavekeeper’s Eye
An artifact granting sight into the Weave’s smallest motions.

Knot
A fixed join in the Loom’s design.

Glyph(s)
Markings left by the Pattern to guide, warn, or instruct.

The Key
Not a tool of opening, but a device built to unmake. Jorem’s parents employed it in their attempt to destroy the Factory, its function designed to sever the Pattern’s flow to the multiverse. Liora seized it just after deployment, halting the plot before the damage could reach complete unmaking.
Glimlock: “Funny thing about keys. Sometimes they don’t open doors, they close them forever.”

Rifts
Breaks in the Pattern where alwhens and alwheres bleed into one another. Also applicable to temporal instabilities.

Rends
Violent tears in the Weave, harder to mend than rifts.

The Chasm
The conduit through which both raw Threads and finished Weave flow on their way to the Factory for distribution. Its currents are strong and constant, carrying the Loom’s work toward the alwhens and alwheres that await it.

Frays
Edges of the Pattern where the weave unravels.

Satchel
A fashion accessory carried by Glimlock, outwardly a worn messenger bag, inwardly a multidimensional alwhere. Its contents are as unpredictable as its capacity, holding anything the Pattern is willing to let slip inside.
Glimlock: “It’s not the size, it’s the fold.”

Tunnel Tears
A pool deep within the Tunnels, fed by a constant dripping from the stone above. The drops are said to be the tears of a Weavekeeper from an early Cycle who met an ill fate. Whether born of truth or Pattern-shaped legend, the place carries a weight of sorrow that even the Loom does not disturb.
Glimlock: “If those are her tears, she’s still crying.” 

Symbolic Language

The Loom turns
The Loom’s way of marking change — neither good nor ill, only inevitable.

The Pattern remembers
What is done is never truly lost to the Weave.

The Weave forgot
When something has fallen outside the Loom’s notice, sometimes by design.

Shock to the Pattern
A disruption forcing the Loom to adapt or risk tearing.

Threads curling into non-patterns
A sign of something that does not belong, or will not last.

Echoes before cause
When effects arrive ahead of their origin, a sign of unstable Weave conditions.