When they set about their task to create the Spheres, the architects were literally of one mind. They realized that the expanding universe had reached a point when the expansion became contraction. Ouroboros fell back on itself.
Once the spheres were created, they started dividing over things that were happening that were unexpected. At one time, the theoreticians and then the executors were in lockstep.
In uncharted waters, they were no longer so wise. No longer so coordinated. And they didn’t know how to disagree.
Their magical technology had been able to meet the expected outcomes and they managed it well. When the variables and the stakes were so intense that they began to experience division. And that division became violent. They faded into mythology—into the background—but their technology remained.
The Glitches, like Sentar, were not a part of the plan and they created divisions as well. It was either an “emergent” element of the scale and complexity of their project, or a mistake. Some Architects wanted to see where it would go. To see what would happen. They accepted that what they had created had become to complex for them to understand and they had to let it evolve and become its own. They accepted that they had lost control. Others were purists, and believed needed complete control – that variables and outcomes unaccounted for were a sign of weakness in the machine and augured its failure.
More unexpected variables emerged as their technology interacted with the thing that it was supposed to protect against. More divisions and factions. He folds into the curtain, as in, like, it's a magical effect?