Mayhem.
It was a word that held weight far beyond its simple syllables. It stood for disorder and destruction, of systems breaking down and certainties crumbling into dust. It was the promise that nothing built could last forever, that every structure would eventually fall, that every order would eventually dissolve into the formless chaos from which it emerged.
Many entities feared mayhem.
They built walls against it. They constructed hierarchies and laws and Principles designed to hold it at bay. They convinced themselves that through sufficient power, sufficient order, sufficient control, they could keep the chaos outside their domains forever.
They were wrong.
In the end, everything flowed toward chaos and entropy.
