Reality Anchor

Reality Anchors are devices designed for the suppression of reality warping abilities.

History
Reality anchors were used as far back as several hundred millennia before the First End, when Transcends started becoming common. First used as a piece of a Void based technology, the anchors were designed as a way to combat Void based reality warping.

Over the aeons, multiple variations of reality anchors have appeared, from ones that suppress reality warping from a large variety of sources to ones that suppress specific sources.

Mechanism
Reality anchors come in all shapes and sizes, from personal, small scale anchors that don't stretch further than a planet to those that cover multiple universes, such as the ones in Weave Nodes. A reality anchor projects a field, with the composition of the field depending on what the anchor is supposed to suppress; for Void based reality warping this is Void protoplasm, while for other sources this is field is usually derived from the source that is being suppressed.

The most powerful reality anchors are ones based upon the terraforming fields emitted by Old Brethren. These fields can often completely suppress any source of reality warping equivalent or less than that of a full Transcend and as such are widely used for more secure facilities and settings.