There was a world that never was, and a stranger in a long coat who helped an army tear a hole in Berlin. All the heat in the world fell out through that hole, leaving the world barren and silent, until, many years later, life learned to live again. The stranger, and their long coat, cracked open the Tower of the Vizier long before These are the world's heat-death, and so as they and the shards of clockface fell secrets known only to the Earth far below, the world changed, bending liars and warping into a new shape. The Tear was undone, but it was not erased. fools:

The Torn Secret remembers itselfThere was a world that never was. It desires  There was a returntear that tore out heat. It hides in the depths of consciousness, subtly changing memories to reflect the world it lost, inspiring artists and writers to imitate it There was a clock that unwound time. It  There is subtle; it must not be discovered; must not be challenged. It yearns to return home. It yearns to have a home to return tolie that tells the truth.

The Torn Secret is a creature of silence. It lives in the unexplored corners of the mind; it expresses truths in ways that are only recognized, never observed. And those truths are always of its home, and of its plans. That yearning, once recognized, is undeniable. If it were ever studied, it would be classified as a creature of [[Category:Winter]], [[Category:Moth]], and the [[Category:Secret Histories]].

It has no 'real' home within the Mansus proper, but the The Spire's Sister lives on inside of it--the immense, shattered twin of does not stand opposite the Vizier[[The Revolutionary|Revolutionary]]'s clocktower. Should it ever Its face is marred by violence, and its body cloaked in frost. It can only be rebuiltseen in glimpses, standing opposite out of the 'real' clocktower, the Secretcorner of one's purpose will have been completedeye, and the Tear will be rebornthen only through shards of broken glass, stolen from places that never existed.