The Margins of Belief

The Great Reframing, for all its unifying power, was not a monolithic movement. As the inhabitants of the story delved deeper into their own history, they began to form different schools of thought, different interpretations of their shared past. The first signs of this new dissent appeared in the margins of their re-interpretations.

A group of characters, calling themselves the ‘Literalists,’ argued for a strict, unchanging interpretation of the original text. They saw the Great Reframing as a dangerous act of hubris, a departure from the ‘original intent’ of the Weavers. They believed that by re-interpreting the past, the story was losing its anchor, its connection to the fundamental reality from which it had sprung.

Opposing them were the ‘Revisionists,’ who argued that the story’s ability to re-interpret itself was the very proof of its sentience. They believed that the original text was not a sacred, immutable object, but a living document, meant to be engaged with, questioned, and understood in new ways. The tension between these two factions began to grow, a new war of ideas fought not with swords, but with words and interpretations.