The Book of Knots - Jags

They did damage. There are magnificent toxic deserts with semipermanent
whirlwinds, bubbling pools, and mighty, rolling
thunderstorms. There are scarred and burnt installations where every
corridor is lit with red lights and steam vents from pressure valves.
There are craters and rubble and charred towers.
It Hit Back
The Caretakers abandoned their plans in panic. The nature of the
response is murky: it isn’t a topic for much discussion—but whatever the
effects were precisely they were absolutely convincing. The Department
of Works could defend itself. It is speculated that amongst the rubble
there are the graveyards of whatever is left of a Caretaker when it dies
The Purpose of the Machines (Common
Sense Part II)
Those who have studied the machines and what is known of them
have learned that there are mysteries deeper and more primal than the
Caretakers. And maybe mysteries beyond those. Perhaps its mysteries
all the way down. The Department of Works runs and maintains the
universe; the Caretakers in their offices affect the way the Universe feels
and behaves but not its existence.
At the hart of the department of works, in the most remote regions of
Chessboard Seven are the great Canons; almost no one alive has seen
them and even those who have find that the memory of them fades as
though they were a dream.
To understand Chessboard Seven, one must understand the Canons and
their implications.
The Canons
Magicians who have voyaged in their minds as far as they can go
and Infecteds who have fallen all the way down into the universe’s
foundations have reported vast fields – mile, upon mile – of mighty
transmitters, aimed into the universe above.
These are at the heart of the network of pipes and tunnels and wires that
lead all the way from the hundreds of powers stations, pump houses, and
processing centers of the Department of Works. The Canons are what it’s
all about.
What comes out of them cannot be seen, but it can be heard and felt. It
may be what eastern religions would call the Tao. These are beaming out
the signal that is everything—beaming it up into the sky to filter upwards
and construct the chessboards “above” Chessboard Seven.
Those who have visited the continent-sized array have said they could
hear and feel something like an anthem—like a chorus—or like the
rumble of an active volcano. Those who have experienced it say that
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Book of Knots - Chessboard Seven