Lore
The Thread
Atop A Wall · Book 1
The rare, old magic that lives in some people's hands. In Briar, you keep it hidden.
Once, the old stories say, nearly everyone carried a little of the Thread. Now it is rare enough that most people will never see it.
Those who do see it don’t forget. It glows a soft, living blue, and watching someone use it feels right in a way that is hard to explain and impossible to argue with. Those who carry it say they can feel it in their fingers, like a warm string that nobody else can touch.
But people with the Thread have a way of disappearing. Nobody in Briar knows why. They only know it has always been so, and the rule that grew out of it is simple: if you have it, hide it.