Distant 16x -

: He found deposits hidden in cliffsides because he could see the glint of metal from miles away while others saw only gray stone.

: At 16x, the world started to look different. Some things were too sharp—the edges of the world began to shimmer and jitter, a phenomenon the elders called aliasing . The Cost of Detail Distant 16x

Eventually, the shimmering at the horizon grew into a Great Tear. The "16 times the detail" was more than their reality could handle. Kael realized that some things were meant to stay blurry—that the beauty of the horizon lay in its mystery, not its pixel count. : He found deposits hidden in cliffsides because