The Weft

The weft is the metaphysical entity that ties together the existence of the world and everything that has, is and will ever exist in it. It contains all physical matter, as well as all concepts and ideas. The weft encompasses our material realm, as well as the immaterial realm and all the intermediary realms in between. It serves as the reservoir for every conceivable possibility, concept, and energy. The movement of these things through the weft creates lines of solid motion, which represent their passage through time. Between these lines, there are gaps in which nothing has or will ever happen. It is within these spaces that the body of The Weftling resides.

> The material realm exists because of a thing called the weft. What’s that? Well, the weft is everything that’s ever happened and could ever happen, to matter and ideas, solidified into… let’s say a ball? It’s a ball the size of everything, and everything that happens, or could ever have happened, is in it. There’s no time there – at least in the way we think of it – so everything is kind of still. Don’t worry if this is hard to imagine, just go with it. It’ll sort of make sense eventually.
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> Portia, "A Note from Portia to Prissy, Malarkoi"

## The Weft's Relationship With the Weftling

The weft is intrinsically linked to The Weftling, and it is the tying of these two entities which determines what is possible and what is impossible within the Material Realm. If the weft represents all possibilities, and the weftling takes up the rest of the space, it therefore follows that within this space lies the impossible. When the weftling changes his form, what is possible in the material realm will change, allowing for things that were previously impossible to occur.

Both the weft and the weftling have always existed and will continue to exist until the end of time. The emergence of the weftling is what created the weft in its current state. When the weftling was alive, he enforced limits on the material realm and prevented any misuse of the weft through manipulation. The material realm was a perfect reflection of the weftling's will, which is why it is also known as the 'perfect material real' - it represents the most possible and rational possibility. The possibilities which are less likely make up the Intermediary Realms. The further away from the perfect material realm they are (i.e. the more unlikely) the more unstable they are and likely to collapse due to their incompatibility with the will of the weftling. For this reason, the weftling would collapse the intermediary realms in order to maintain the space for his body. However, since his death his body in the weft has been decaying, causing the edges between the possible and impossible (i.e. the edges of the weftling's body) to wear away leading to perversions of the weft and opening the door to impossibilities in the material realm. This perversion of the weft is what the Sebastian Cope uses for his Magic and is the energy harnessed by a Weft-State Reactor.

## Concepts in the Weft

While material objects are contained within the weft, so are all concepts and ideas. They infuse everything within the weft but are not distributed evenly. Concepts are concentrated most around the objects which require them. The concepts within the body of the weftling represent his will. The consequence of this is that the concepts which he pushes away from his body end up being more concentrated in the material realm. This is given as a possible reason why there is evil in the world: because the weftling is 'good' so 'evil' gets pushed away and into the space of possibility.

## Manipulation of the Weft

Manipulation of the weft can happen via two possible processes - together or separately. The first involves the translation of a Weft Manipulator to an intermediary realm that is almost entirely the same as the material realm, but every-so-slightly more of the immaterial realm. The difference between this intermediary realm and the material can be shaped by the preferences of the manipulator using Spark energy. In this way, a weft manipulator could translate their consciousness into this new realm and continue to live there, in a world more to their preferences than the material realm - which is instead made in the image of the weftling.

The other method, which can be used in tandem with the first, or in isolation, involves drawing objects from the intermediate realms using Spark energy. When combined with the first method, a weft manipulator can first manipulate an intermediary realm to be as they want it to be, and then draw this more desirable form into the material realm.