It begins not with a thread, but with silence. A silence older than the mountains, deeper than the ocean’s heart. This is the story of the Tapestry – a collection woven not from wool or silk, but from moments, echoes, and the lingering impressions left by those who have walked this world.
The First Weaver - A being known only as Lumina, existed before memory. She didn’t create; she absorbed. She absorbed the laughter of newborn stars, the sigh of dying galaxies, the frantic pulse of nascent planets. These weren't threads to her, but notes in a vast, unheard symphony.
Lumina eventually discovered she could *transmit* these absorbed echoes. She didn’t weave them into cloth; instead, she imprinted them onto the very fabric of reality – on stones, on trees, on the minds of creatures who would, unknowingly, become part of the Tapestry.
Within the heart of the Whispering Woods stood an ancient tree - the Elderwood. Its roots delved into layers of forgotten time, absorbing the joy of a long-lost civilization and the sorrow of a cataclysmic storm. Touching its bark was like holding a fragment of a shattered dream.
A man named Silas spent his life charting the shifting sands of the Obsidian Desert. Each grain he meticulously documented, each mirage he recorded, became another thread in the Tapestry - a testament to obsession and the futility of capturing infinity.
Over eons, countless individuals unknowingly contributed their experiences to the Tapestry. A child’s first fear, a lover's whispered promise, the architect’s frustration with an impossible design – all woven into the grand scheme. The patterns weren't visible at first; they were felt - a sense of familiarity, a haunting nostalgia for something never known.
“I believe,” said Elara, a scholar who dedicated her life to deciphering ancient glyphs, “that we are all merely nodes in this immense, living network. Our thoughts, our emotions, they ripple outwards, connecting us to everything that has ever been and everything that will be.”
The Cycle of Echoes - The Tapestry isn’t static. It constantly shifts and changes as new experiences are added, and old ones fade. There's a cyclical nature to it; patterns repeat, themes resurface, but always with a slightly altered hue.
Some individuals, known as the Seekers, were born with an innate sensitivity to the Tapestry. They could sense its presence, trace its threads, and occasionally, even influence its patterns – though always in a subtle way.
Kaelen was said to have been born from a particularly potent echo - the last moments of Lumina herself. He possessed an uncanny ability to restore lost memories and mend fractured realities, but at a terrible cost – each intervention weakened the Tapestry further.