The Unweaving - endlessm/threadbare GitHub Wiki

The doctrine of the Obscurists, and the ambition of Null. Where the Void spreads by neglect, forgetting one thread at a time, the Unweaving is neglect made into a creed: the belief that the Great Weave is flawed, that its wear and tear, its noise and its endless difference are mistakes, and that the honest thing is to unpick it.

The Obscurists understand the Unweaving as a seamstress understands unpicking: when a seam is badly sewn, you unpick it, so that it can be sewn again properly. They believe they are unpicking a flawed world so that Null can weave it again, perfectly, and they see the Void as one of Null's tools for fixing it. Only Null knows there will be no second weaving. To Null, the Unweaving is the road to the only perfection there is: the nothing.

Null and the Obscurists study the Absurdity Abyss as a kind of scripture, seeking the working that might unpick the Weave entirely rather than fray it edge by edge. The Elders of the Eternal Loom consider the Unweaving the single greatest threat to Threadbare - greater than the Void's slow creep, because it would not need forgetting to succeed. It would only need permission. See The Undoing of Knot.

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Connections

• The Obscurists - Null's followers
• Null - the Dark Elder
• The Undoing of Knot - the story of Null, and what the Obscurists believe
• The Great Weaving - the founding act of all creation
• The Void - the existential threat to Threadbare
• The Absurdity Abyss - the Void-pit beneath the Observatory of the Obscure
• The Elders - the Elders of the Eternal Loom
• The Eternal Loom - the heart of Frays End, which mends the Weave