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Breaches

Active openings in reality through which impossible places, energies, memories, or creatures may emerge.

Definition

A Breach is an active opening, failure, or tear within a Seam.

A Breach may release:

  • Magical energy.
  • Weather from another place or season.
  • Structures or rooms.
  • Creatures.
  • Memories.
  • Fragments of alternate histories.
  • Objects whose past does not match the current world.

Quiet Breaches

Not every Breach is explosive. Some remain unnoticed for years because they alter only one room, family, road, or repeated event.