Akaso
Lord of Shards
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- Messages
- 7
- Age
- 25
「The Great Empty」
"All worlds are forged from the infinite empty beyond thought. Dreams are a place inbetween."
"Those touched by the sea of worlds gaze into its iridescent waters in their dreams. In its depths some see despair, others hope. The brave dive into the blinding abyss. Some awaken changed, greater. Others never do."
"Those who are touched by it live in perpetual ignorance, for to comprehend the secrets of the universe is to be burned away by the great empty."
Otherwise known as the Inbetween, the Un-world, and the Void.
The Great Empty is in effect the "empty space" between everything that exists, has existed, can exist, will exist, and cannot exist. It is commonly compared to an endless ocean with no surface or bottom, wherein every -verse is a miniscule bubble.
It doesn't have any defined size or tier - it simply contains everything and nothing, separate from itself, but still contained within, and by definition always infinitely lesser than it in scope. As new things come into being, the Void expands exponentially - not because it is stretched by the addition of new realities, but because there is more metaphysical "empty space", which is what the Void is.
As all verses are bubbles within the Void, the Void and its energies are what keeps these realities the way they "should" be. In effect, it functions as an absolute force of nature, maintaining the laws of verses within it.
However, Void Energy cannot permeate any verse thoroughly enough to prevent the active disruption of its base laws by things such as reality warpers - if it ever did, the bubble of reality would burst and the verse in question would simply become another part of the Void.
「The Allmother」
The Allmother once existed partially within the Alpha Verse, serving as a proxy for the Void and a creator for all that lived. She was simultaneously real and unreal, born in a time when the Alpha Verse was still forming.
She granted unto the first species the gift of thought so that they could witness the world through eyes that could comprehend and marvel at Her gifts, so that they could build and act as shepherds for lesser forms of life.
She granted unto them the power of the Dimensional Coupler, tiny fragments of Her being, altered by the Watcher. They existed on the precipice between the Great Empty and reality just as she did, and thus served as gates into that un-place. Many implanted themselves with these shards, becoming living, thinking figments of the Void in realspace.
When they inevitably learned of how their world worked, harnessed electricity, split the atom, and eventually turned to the Void itself as a source of boundless energy to fuel their empire of glass and steel, She grew bitter and jealous.
She betrayed her beloved children, splitting huge parts of her being into trillions of pieces which would relentlessly hunt and devour all sapient thought, entirely deprived of it themselves. These shards would be ruled over by a small number of shards large enough to have thoughts of their own. This species of thought-eaters would become the Subdimensional Imperium, residing in the ruins of the Alpha Verse, as only there the Allmother could sustain them and protect them from the Void for extended periods of time.
Many of those implanted with her Dimensional Couplers transformed into Subdimensionals themselves, most becoming entirely mindless in the process, while others retained a semblance of sapience. The former rarely lived for long and could not survive without consuming sapients like their lesser brethren, while the latter roamed without purpose, consuming sapients wherever they could be found as the Allmother attempted to erode what was left of their minds.
The Subdimensional Imperium would dispatch massive armadas to other verses whenever a new sapient civilization was on the cusp of obtaining the power of the Void, and remained unopposed until a version of Mankind from an extraordinarily stable verse enchained even their evolution in shackles of science and industry, destroying their home-world and fleeing into the stars on a massive Voidship in the form of uploaded minds. They later became the Novahumans.
Now the Allmother lives in a perpetual state of mindless rage as an ultimate act of hatred against those she once cherished. All Void Energy pulled into realspace through her Dimensional Couplers is influenced by her boundless rage, becoming a deep crimson in colour and taking on inherently destructive properties. This is Vermilion Void Energy.
「The Watcher」
As the Allmother created, He learned of all that was.
As the Allmother gifted unto Her children, He aided Her.
As the Allmother ruled, He learned of all that could be.
As the Allmother grew bitter, He learned of all that could not be, that should not be.
As the Allmother turned on her own creations, He gave all her instruments of destruction names. Names he wrote upon the Void itself, for the namer has mastery over the named.
He watched, learned, named, but never acted. Never until the Allmother turned on those blessed by thought.
When she did, he acted - the first and last time he would do so. In that single act, the Sea-of-Worlds was born, and the Void became anathema to all those who would encroach on the world of the thinking.
The namer has mastery over the named. When He Who Watches becomes He Who Acts, there is nothing in all of existence or nonexistence that can stop him.
Not even myself.
「The Sea-of-Worlds」
A strange, blinding beacon within the emptiness of the Great Empty, where an infinitely infinite number of un-verses exists, all bubbles filled with the waters of the Void - a paradox, something that should not be.
The Sea-of-Worlds calls to all those touched by the Void in their dreams, manifesting their knowledge and meaning, their thought, into symbols and aspects, giving rise to the Void Arts. Those who delve into the Sea-of-Worlds in their dreams often do not return, but those who do, do so with the power to channel Dimensional Energy.
It is the origin of all Dimensional Energy, a crucible where new verses emerge and where the Watcher records his knowledge of everything that is, was, can be, and cannot be.
"All worlds are forged from the infinite empty beyond thought. Dreams are a place inbetween."
"Those touched by the sea of worlds gaze into its iridescent waters in their dreams. In its depths some see despair, others hope. The brave dive into the blinding abyss. Some awaken changed, greater. Others never do."
"Those who are touched by it live in perpetual ignorance, for to comprehend the secrets of the universe is to be burned away by the great empty."
Otherwise known as the Inbetween, the Un-world, and the Void.
The Great Empty is in effect the "empty space" between everything that exists, has existed, can exist, will exist, and cannot exist. It is commonly compared to an endless ocean with no surface or bottom, wherein every -verse is a miniscule bubble.
It doesn't have any defined size or tier - it simply contains everything and nothing, separate from itself, but still contained within, and by definition always infinitely lesser than it in scope. As new things come into being, the Void expands exponentially - not because it is stretched by the addition of new realities, but because there is more metaphysical "empty space", which is what the Void is.
As all verses are bubbles within the Void, the Void and its energies are what keeps these realities the way they "should" be. In effect, it functions as an absolute force of nature, maintaining the laws of verses within it.
However, Void Energy cannot permeate any verse thoroughly enough to prevent the active disruption of its base laws by things such as reality warpers - if it ever did, the bubble of reality would burst and the verse in question would simply become another part of the Void.
「The Allmother」
The Allmother once existed partially within the Alpha Verse, serving as a proxy for the Void and a creator for all that lived. She was simultaneously real and unreal, born in a time when the Alpha Verse was still forming.
She granted unto the first species the gift of thought so that they could witness the world through eyes that could comprehend and marvel at Her gifts, so that they could build and act as shepherds for lesser forms of life.
She granted unto them the power of the Dimensional Coupler, tiny fragments of Her being, altered by the Watcher. They existed on the precipice between the Great Empty and reality just as she did, and thus served as gates into that un-place. Many implanted themselves with these shards, becoming living, thinking figments of the Void in realspace.
When they inevitably learned of how their world worked, harnessed electricity, split the atom, and eventually turned to the Void itself as a source of boundless energy to fuel their empire of glass and steel, She grew bitter and jealous.
She betrayed her beloved children, splitting huge parts of her being into trillions of pieces which would relentlessly hunt and devour all sapient thought, entirely deprived of it themselves. These shards would be ruled over by a small number of shards large enough to have thoughts of their own. This species of thought-eaters would become the Subdimensional Imperium, residing in the ruins of the Alpha Verse, as only there the Allmother could sustain them and protect them from the Void for extended periods of time.
Many of those implanted with her Dimensional Couplers transformed into Subdimensionals themselves, most becoming entirely mindless in the process, while others retained a semblance of sapience. The former rarely lived for long and could not survive without consuming sapients like their lesser brethren, while the latter roamed without purpose, consuming sapients wherever they could be found as the Allmother attempted to erode what was left of their minds.
The Subdimensional Imperium would dispatch massive armadas to other verses whenever a new sapient civilization was on the cusp of obtaining the power of the Void, and remained unopposed until a version of Mankind from an extraordinarily stable verse enchained even their evolution in shackles of science and industry, destroying their home-world and fleeing into the stars on a massive Voidship in the form of uploaded minds. They later became the Novahumans.
Now the Allmother lives in a perpetual state of mindless rage as an ultimate act of hatred against those she once cherished. All Void Energy pulled into realspace through her Dimensional Couplers is influenced by her boundless rage, becoming a deep crimson in colour and taking on inherently destructive properties. This is Vermilion Void Energy.
「The Watcher」
As the Allmother created, He learned of all that was.
As the Allmother gifted unto Her children, He aided Her.
As the Allmother ruled, He learned of all that could be.
As the Allmother grew bitter, He learned of all that could not be, that should not be.
As the Allmother turned on her own creations, He gave all her instruments of destruction names. Names he wrote upon the Void itself, for the namer has mastery over the named.
He watched, learned, named, but never acted. Never until the Allmother turned on those blessed by thought.
When she did, he acted - the first and last time he would do so. In that single act, the Sea-of-Worlds was born, and the Void became anathema to all those who would encroach on the world of the thinking.
The namer has mastery over the named. When He Who Watches becomes He Who Acts, there is nothing in all of existence or nonexistence that can stop him.
Not even myself.
「The Sea-of-Worlds」
A strange, blinding beacon within the emptiness of the Great Empty, where an infinitely infinite number of un-verses exists, all bubbles filled with the waters of the Void - a paradox, something that should not be.
The Sea-of-Worlds calls to all those touched by the Void in their dreams, manifesting their knowledge and meaning, their thought, into symbols and aspects, giving rise to the Void Arts. Those who delve into the Sea-of-Worlds in their dreams often do not return, but those who do, do so with the power to channel Dimensional Energy.
It is the origin of all Dimensional Energy, a crucible where new verses emerge and where the Watcher records his knowledge of everything that is, was, can be, and cannot be.