Severance Bind

Catalyst Event: The Final Rite of Naerilith

The Severance Bind was not born from war, but from hope laced with misunderstanding. Naerilith Veyrien, once revered as the Threadmender of Myriath, believed she could strengthen the Loomtree’s hold over Elaris by threading together the remnants of fractured celestial threads. Guided by the whispered promises of snapped thread echoes—fragments of voices she mistook for the ancestors—she performed the Final Rite deep within the Loomheart Sanctuary. The ritual was meant to tether the Solstone and Nightstone back into harmony, yet instead it shattered both into cursed fragments.

This act, unintentional though it was, ruptured the divine equilibrium. In truth, Naerilith had not heard ancestors, but Kavessra—the Dark Queen of Unraveling Fates—whose influence slipped through the sundered threads. This ritual became the catalyst for the creation of the Severance Bind, forever altering the divine infrastructure of the Veilbound pantheon.

Unseen Weavings: Kavessra’s Influence

Kavessra’s power was never meant to touch the Weave. She is entropy made whisper, born of unmade prophecy and the void between fates. But as the Sundering severed the threads of cosmic order, her influence began to bleed through, not as commands but as instinct, as intuition misaligned. Those who work too closely with broken thread-magic often feel her first: not as a voice, but as a persistent unraveling of intention.

The Severance Bind is the product of this quiet infestation—part divine safeguard, part parasitic override. The moment a mortal attempts to reconstruct Myriath or retether the Talorian and Alagorian balance, the Bind activates, warping magic and reality to prevent reunification. Most believe it a protective failsafe, but in truth, it is Kavessra’s leash—a counterspell wrapped in prophecy, designed to keep the gods fractured and the world fragmented.

Cults of the Severed Thread

Though most mortals fear Kavessra or deny her existence entirely, fringe groups known as the Cults of the Severed Thread operate in secret across Elaris. These followers view unraveling not as destruction, but as divine liberation—freedom from the tyranny of fate, bloodlines, and divinely-imposed cycles. They believe that by hastening the unraveling of the Veil, they will finally reveal what lies beyond: true autonomy, perhaps even divinity for mortals.

These cults seek artifacts touched by the Severance Bind, believing them to be fragments of Kavessra’s intention. They attempt to sabotage ritual restorations, manipulate cosmic alignments, and reawaken cursed Blood Threads. Ironically, many members begin their journey seeking balance—scholars, mages, and even former Kinbound—only to lose themselves in the comfort of Kavessra’s unraveling song.

The Loom’s Countermeasure: Velexia’s Folly

Velexia, the Twilight Keeper, once trusted Naerilith Veyrien with access to the Loomheart—the sacred epicenter where the fates of Talorian and Alagorian interweave. Her attempt to restore Myriath was, in part, guided by Velexia’s own desire to heal the world’s fracture. But in doing so, she failed to recognize the foreign corruption growing within the Weave.

In the aftermath of the Severance Bind’s awakening, Velexia issued a divine countermeasure: the Binding Law of the Cycle. This decree forbade any attempt to anchor the celestial cycles again, not out of cruelty, but out of caution. Still, it was too late. Kavessra’s touch had already seeded doubt and division in the pantheon. Some whisper that Velexia now wanders the outer threads of the Loom herself, searching for a way to untangle the corruption without unraveling everything. Her greatest error wasn’t in trusting Naerilith—it was in underestimating how quickly entropy could learn to mimic order.