Knots

   Knots are the loom's challenge rules, offered when a Fated thread is
spun. Each knot has a weight; tie on as many as you can bear. Some knots
can be pulled TIGHTER - a harsher version of the same rule at a higher
weight. The tighter tie replaces the looser; a knot's weights never
stack. Knots are immutable for the life - death, abandonment, or
ascension unties them.

   Every bound skill in your pool carries loom BURDEN by its rarity: a
common thread weighs little, a legendary thread weighs much, and a
passive weighs its burden once per bound tier. Your net Tension is your
knots' total weight minus your loom burden. A heavy pool is real power -
and a heavier climb.

   At any time in a Fated life, `knots' shows every knot the loom
offers, with the ones you have tied marked, and lists your loom burden
thread by thread. `sever <skill>' cuts a bound thread permanently - its
burden is shed, but the skill is gone for the season and can never be
re-bound.