Magical Nodes
Nodes are ancient dragon-built magical infrastructure scattered throughout the world. Each node sustains an area of influence, maintaining environmental stability and powering old magic.
Nodes degrade through a state machine:
Healthy -> Stressed -> Failing -> Collapsed
As nodes degrade, the environment changes. Rooms shift from their normal (Layer 0) state to degraded (Layer 1) versions. Collapsed nodes spawn dangerous anomalies.
Players with resonance attunement can stabilize stressed or failing nodes to reverse the decay.