The Bound

"It is... difficult for us to truly care about Bound life. To us, you are akin to characters in a comic or book. Your lives are as sequences of pictures or pages, able to be flipped back and forth. Interacting with you is like drawing a panel or writing sentences into those pages. When we look at you we see a landmark embedded in time, not an animate, moving being. Seeing a Bound entity become acausal is among the most beautiful things we can witness, for it is life we can converse and interact with on equal terms."
Irqun, an Old Brethren, conversing with Shikaad before their Transcension
The 'Bound' is a term used by acausal beings describing life forms that are still restricted by causal relationships and being unable to exist outside of time and space. They are therefore 'bound' to an existence tied to that of space-time.
== Relationships ==
Bound beings are usually neglected, if not pitied by many of the various Transcends, Old Brethren, Shardbearers and other acausal beings in the multiverse. In the current day with a shattered Weave, Bound beings living in its remnants tend not to remain so, as most choose to ascend in some way for the sake of survival. Without the protection of the Weave and its Outer Gods, living in regions the network used to exist in as a Bound being is suicide. Many acausal entities too are willing to help them ascend past that state of existence.