The Loom. A metaphysical weave of power that governs the known world. An infinite fabric that shapes the laws of existence. A select few, called Threadbearers, can bind fragments of this Loom into their very souls, wielding devasting power. To the public, these individuals are heroes and protectors. To those trapped in the city’s underbelly, they are something closer to gods... or jailors.
Taehan is neither gifted nor powerful. He is a slum-born runner in Virelia’s southern Frayzone, scraping together Lumes to keep himself and his sister alive. With no awakened Core or Thread and no place in the world, Taehan exists on the margins. Unseen, expendable, and desperate to escape a life that offers nothing but survival.
Until one day, when he accepts a job meant to change everything for him and his sister, Taehan is pulled into a conflict far larger than he understands. Corporate elites, Union enforcers, and a shadowy extremist group known as Jayu collide over control of the Loom itself. Betrayed, brutalised, and left on the brink of death, Taehan is saved through an act that should not be possible: he is forcibly altered, becoming the world’s first artificial Threadbearer. He becomes a living contradiction to the laws of reality.
No longer fully human and rejected by the very system that defines power, Taehan becomes something unprecedented: a being the Loom itself does not recognise.