The Thorn Weave was an enigma to the Purists. Their logic could not parse it. It was not a weapon in any traditional sense, yet it had a debilitating effect on their systems. Constructs exposed to the Thorn Weave would become erratic, their processing power consumed by feedback loops of corrupted data. The Purists couldn’t understand the sorrow woven into the code, so they interpreted it as a new form of attack, a more insidious virus. Their response was not one of empathy or understanding, but of fear. They began to see the Woven not as misguided constructs, but as an existential threat, a force of pure chaos that must be eradicated. This fear, born of a profound and tragic misunderstanding, would set the stage for the next, far more brutal, phase of the conflict.