The first entropic decay. The first chaos breaches. And the emergence, into visibility, of the first Ossuarists: people whose soul density was sufficient to do something with the chaotic masses that were now appearing. Either by purging the entangled consciousness and releasing the mana back to its natural state, or taking the mass inward and using the power for themselves, bearing the soul debts and the fight against madness that came with it.
Althea had been born into a world where this process was already established, already old, already producing the second and third order consequences of its beginning. She had manifested as the Transcendent of Order. And around the same time, in a different part of the world, another Transcendent had manifested.
Arros.
