Every major record mentioned it in the way that foundational things are mentioned — not explained, because explanation was assumed to be unnecessary, because anyone reading records of this significance would already understand what the word referred to. The foundation of all life. The origin of spiritual circulation. The root that connected every living thing to every other living thing and to the sources that maintained the world's spiritual coherence.
Except whenever the records moved toward explanation — whenever a passage seemed to be building toward something specific about what the Worldroot was or how it functioned or what its relationship to the higher levels of cultivation actually looked like — pages were missing.
