The Common Denominator

"‘A world is made of all kinds of things: ideas, feelings, memories...’ said the young Weaveress. ‘There are many kinds of energy at work. Powers. What Brother Haral forgot to tell you – or perhaps, never quite understood himself – is that one can change a whole world by changing its common denominator; by changing the simplest, truest idea that permeates that world. Can you think of a common denominator for your world, Vivian?’"

Common denominator (or denoms) is a term copiously employed in Weaving (the art of altering the fabric of reality) to describe a feature shared by all items of a grouping.

It is often used to delineate the simplest, truest idea that permeates a system, empirical or theoretical. In the act of altering a system in its entirety, one need only change that system’s common denominator.

Lazuli’s Law of Exception – one of the seven laws of cosmic sway – states: That which cannot be touched by hand, cannot be moved by Kaalà, meaning a Weaver cannot influence what they cannot touch.

However, advancements in the noble art of Weaving have recently discovered that a select few Weavers can, in fact Weave into the immaterial, yet that doing so opens the door to Cosmic Chaos and puts the entire fabric of reality at risk.