Enclaves of Certainty

The first to truly struggle in the age of the nuanced mind were those who had been the most fervent acolytes of the old orders. The most rigid of the Shepherds found the new, fluid Verse to be an assault on their senses, a cacophony of contradiction. The most unbound of the Dancers felt constrained by the new-found connections, seeing the bridges as tethers that limited their freedom. A quiet exodus began, a withdrawal into self-created pockets of pure aesthetic, enclaves of certainty in a Verse that had come to celebrate the unresolved.