Han'ya/OFUE

On The Fundamental Units Of Existence

The Wyld is chaos. That's not so difficult a concept.

The Wyld is real. This might stretch the mind. It's not some elaborate illusion created by the Fair Folk, it's not any less real than Creation. It just...doesn't...have...any...rules. Therefore, it is entirely possible that red clouds can sing arias about the sins of your unborn children while you ride a flaming giraffe towards Las Vegas (which is upside down). In the Wyld, at least. You could conceivably do the same thing in Creation but it would be a pain in the rear.

Anyway, not the point. If the Wyld is real, and has no rules, how is it then that anything cohesive exists? The logical result of ruleless reality would be a sort of "white noise", as it were. The Wyld doesn't really fit under that label. Why, then, doesn't it?

That is because of the fundamental units of reality. Let's call them "abstracts". An abstract is the fundamental unit of being. Like atoms, abstracts bond to each other. Each individual abstract and grouping of abstracts will therefore interact with others in certain ways. There is a certain grouping of abstracts, for example, that creates the object "cloud". In the Wyld, there is absolutely no reason why grouping "cloud" could not bond with the abstract or abstract grouping that imparted the quality "red", or "given to a stillborn child", or something else that does not really go with "cloud" as we understand it.

The Fair Folk are different from the unshaped Wyld in two ways. Once created, they remain in existence. Also, they are capable of shaping the Wyld. Shaping, for the purposes of this writing, shall be defined as "a grouping of abstracts, the existence of which was brought about and sustained by the will of a Fair One, and whose interactions with other groupings and individual abstracts are governed by the same."