If Wyrd is karma seen through the narrative and ironic lens of Old English literature, yarn is karma in the way a Buddhist would use the word in a sentence. It is the simple mechanics of the universe: the endless interconnected causality of all existence.

The metaphor is a tapestry. Every single thing in reality — whatever we might consider a "thing" to be — is a thread, infinitely long and connected to every other thread. Yarn is the totality of these threads, all woven together in one vast, interconnected fabric. It is the structure of reality itself: the web of dependent origination that Buddhism describes, rendered in the image of the loom.

Where wyrd emphasises the ironic, personal, dramatic quality of causality — the way one's own doom unfolds with narrative elegance — yarn is concerned with the fabric as a whole. It is impersonal, mechanical, and total. Every action sends a vibration through the entire tapestry. Every cause has infinite effects.

The word "yarn" itself carries a double meaning in English: both the physical thread and the act of telling a story. Both senses are active here. Reality is a grand yarn — an orchestrated story woven from an infinity of threads, each one contributing to a pattern too vast for any single perspective to comprehend, yet coherent from the vantage point of Oneness.