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Mundus - The world or celestial body in which most races exist and have been cataloged. Others would recognize this planet by "Earth" instead, in the lost ancient times. It rotates around a massive star called the Sun and has two moons of its own called Unus and Ergo. The diameter of Mundus is roughly 38226 kilometers abridging many continents with extremely varied lifeforms, weathers, geology, and sorcery.
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The Weave - In the tapestry of existence, where myriad threads of reality intertwine, lies a vast multiverse known as The Weave. It is the totality of all space-time continuums, a cosmic ballet where each universe is but a minuscule dancer on the grand stage of eternity.
Legend speaks of a time before time, a void where nothing existed but the endless abyss. In that primordial darkness, a colossal spider, ancient and nameless, wove her ethereal webs. These intricate strands, extending into the boundless expanse, would become the higher-dimensional bulk, the pillar that cradles and sustains all universes within The Weave.
In the perpetual dance of creation, The Weave's infinite nature takes an extraordinary form. For every fleeting zeptosecond that passes, whether marked by a cosmic cataclysm or a simple random thought, a new set of infinite universes is birthed into existence. It is an unending symphony of possibilities, where the potential for diverse realities unfolds ceaselessly.
Yet, despite the inherent vastness of The Weave, traversing from one universe to another proves to be a daunting challenge for the denizens of any single reality. The higher-dimensional bulk, a boundary beyond the comprehension of lower-dimensional beings, stands as an insurmountable obstacle to physical displacement.
This cosmic barrier, woven by the ancient spider in the dawn of creation, resists the whims of those dwelling within its woven tapestry. The very fabric of space-time holds fast, resisting the intrusion of foreign entities. To journey between universes demands a mastery of arts arcane, a profound understanding of the weave's intricate structure.
However, there exist means to circumvent this cosmic restriction. Those adept in the arts of advanced teleportation and dimensional travel may manipulate the fabric of reality itself. These sorcerous navigators can navigate the interwoven threads of The Weave, transcending the limitations imposed by the higher-dimensional bulk. Furthermore, native creatures of The Weave, entities born of its essence, move effortlessly between universes. They are denizens of the cosmic loom, attuned to the subtle rhythms and patterns that govern the tapestry of existence. For them, the borders between realities are but gentle folds in the fabric of their home.
In the enigmatic expanse of The Weave, where every possibility unfurls like petals in a cosmic bloom, the dance of creation persists. Across its boundless realms, universes rise and fall, each a unique expression in the grand tapestry of existence, forever embraced by the threads of the ancient spider's enduring weave.
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[Presence] - Everything that exists and does not exist has Presence. Presence is a fundamental nature within every being and non-being. It determines the level of being and the way that allows mortals/immortals to evolve, rising to higher levels of reality or allowing them to be present there. Some Presence manifests itself through the aura and gives a number of features. As a general rule, all supernatural creatures possess a certain amount of Presence. Nevertheless, there are also natural individuals provided with an uncommon potential for members of their species. In addition, the abilities of creatures with higher Presence will always be able to ignore any possible or present resistances from beings of lower Presence. However, this does not mean an entity with lower Presence will always lose to creatures of higher ones.
---Fundamental Presence (1): Beings with this level of Presence have low affinity with the supernatural, to the point where they can only sense it. They can perceive beings that normally would not be able to be seen with normal eyes, although incapable of actually touching them. This does not apply to the very nature of the creature. For example, a ghost with Fundamental Presence, while not being able to interact with elementals, can still touch other ghosts.
---Enlightened Presence (15): Beings with this level of presence have better affinity with the supernatural, being able to not only perceive but also interact with what normally can't be interacted with. This includes elementals, ghosts, abstractions, and voids. In addition, they can use magic to certain extents (specifics will vary between creatures) and have resistance to their own abilities.
--Awakened Presence (30): Beings with this level of presence have high affinity with the supernatural and the inner workings of magic. At this stage, the machinations of fate and probability hold no more grasp over them, with the creature being able to manipulate them to its benefit instead. In addition, they can use magic spells with merely a thought.
--Ascended Presence (40): Beings with this level of Presence have started to enter the realm of the metaphysical. Their magical power is extraordinary, so much so that they make alterations in reality by mere force of will. It is said that creatures of Ascended Presence emit a special aura that prevents enemies from doing any sort of harm to them, stealing their willpower and strength.
--Transcendental Presence (60): Entities of this level can be said to have fully achieved the realm of the metaphysical, surpassing death in all aspects. Their mere existence completely defies all laws and causalities of the physical world, being unbound by any sort of rule or logic of the Weave. Being beyond the influence of the multiverse, these entities are able to warp reality itself to travel between the Weave, Limbo, and the Axiom at will. In addition, they boast extremely powerful manipulation of existence, influencing the pillars that shape the reality of the Weave.
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Time Sphere - A single time sphere contains temporary spaces, where an infinite number of universes is only a tiny fraction of time. Inside the sphere, these integrations of time-spaces are connected with each other, forming the so-called timeline, which in turn can be of two types: straight and branching. A branching timeline can be infinitely parallel to itself. In other words, there are an infinite number of them, and in the structure of this sphere, they are separated by emptiness and are independent of each other.
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Limbo - A place with geometry-defying physics and unstable phenomena. If not for the residents of the Throne, Limbo would be a stagnated reality bearing no fruits of existence. It contains all possible euclidean, topological, and Hilbert spaces as physical locations for its native creatures. Due to its nature, its residents often have esoteric physiology and are capable of seemingly defying logic and movement.
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The Throne - The first 10 layers that are completely outside and beyond Limbo's framework. It's a place where the Princes and Divines reside unbound by dimensions, fractals, and time-space. It's the main layer in which the two groups watch, guide, and spread chaos upon the Limbo, with them creating many of the concepts that allow it to fully function, as well as being able to affect the Weave through unconventional ways. This place is also called The Home, Domain, Kingdom, and Prison, as the Princes and Divines reside unable to leave its confines due to a seal put upon it by Ouroboros, locking them within as it began to fear what would become of them if they stayed in the Axiom since the essence of those two gods that ascended still reside there, wandering and looking for their host, which has the potential to turn them into Kyoki Gods, a power that can be said to be as strong as the Supreme Creator. Before the seal was placed upon The Throne it was still a part of the Axiom, now it's a space morphed by the Divines and Princes into 10 layers or domains. The Prince of Desire's domains or layers are set as follows:
--1st Layer: It houses an endless fog-covered land not too different from Mundus, where souls that have been marked and killed by Seducers wonder until caught by a Tormentress in which they'll be judged and set to one of the higher levels.
--2nd Layer (1st Layer of the Prince): This layer is a place given birth by the desires of those who gaze upon it, being anything that ever tempted them in their life but never gave in to those desires. It could be mountains of gold, crowds of beautiful naked men or women, a true Eden where they could live peacefully, among others, but the true intention of it is to break them so they may go to the 2nd layer of the Prince after being forced to wonder the endless for eternity if they refuse to give in.
--3rd Layer (2nd Layer of the Prince): The 2nd layer is where the souls are taken to be tortured by Tormentresses for all eternity giving birth to new sadistic desires until said souls have to be morphed into a new being called Demonborn, which is the bulk of the Prince of Desire's army in the war against the Divines.
--4th to 8th Layers (3rd-7th Layers of the Prince): These layers are extremely unknown, but the one thing that is certain is that it's meant for higher beings unlike the first 3 layers of The Throne which houses 3-D beings, these ones are meant for extremely powerful ones which only the strongest thralls of the Prince can hold them.
--9th Layer (8th Layer of the Prince): This is the kingdom of the Prince where its thralls truly live and thrive, both training for war and worshiping the Prince.
--10th Layer (9th Layer of the Prince): This is the true Domain of the Prince, which emanates several of the most wicked after-effects for those who happen to step here uninvited. A being beneath the Prince would be erased both physically, spiritually, and conceptually in the first instance of touching the stairs, driven mad by their own thoughts, their soul being crushed within the presence, the laws and concepts of their being fundamentally being undone, their bodies aged forward and backward, their biology morphed increasing the pain in each movement with their blood boil hotter than the Sun, them being cursed with blindness losing their 5 senses and even losing their 6th.
If they have been capable of surviving or resisting all of this they would reach the Palace, which houses billions of Succubus, concubines of the Prince of Desire, which will try to assault and deconstruct the invader with a gaze or let out a mist of all the diseases both known and not known to man, manipulating the essence of that being, altering its fate, flooding its mind with illusions, controlling logic itself around them, ripping all of their oxygen, and controlling the luck of each of their movements.
If they could resist all of the Succubus' attempts to subdue them and kill all of the Succubus then they'd be face to face with the Prince of Desire, a being who could easily reach just their arm through the whole of Limbo, an entity above the Gods and believed to be equal to or above the Creators. She would grant the intruder an audience followed up by her own wraith for harming their desired existence.
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The Axiom - The Realm of Gods, where bodies lose shape and thought is given form. An archetypal structure that contains all conceptions and ideas that exist and those that have yet to exist. Gods and their servants, angels, lie in this place.
Nothing in this place is purely physical. It is an entirely conceptual realm, with even its inhabitants (Gods) being literal essences, thoughts, principles, or truths, embodying the law and idea each one represents, as well as every permutation pertaining to that idea.
It is a structure completely external to the multiverse. From the perspective of the residents of the Axiom, even the Weave is only a canvas where the gods can freely paint over it, manipulating and changing according to their will.
Despite their transcendent nature, these gods are still trying to achieve the supreme and final state of the Ain Soph, a realm of unfathomable nothingness that predates even The Axiom.
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Ain Soph - Before anything else. Before creation itself. Before meaning. There was a primordial void beyond all that exists and doesn't exist. All in one. Everything into none.
The Ain Soph. The will of the void, or the rational side of void after partial personification. It is higher than all things that can be described and can not be described. It has no concept or true definition, it does not have any describable nature, being unknown and unpredictable.
Any individual's view, evaluation, or conceptualization of Ain Soph is inherently wrong and incomplete, invalidating all understanding and misunderstanding. Anything that can be described comes from its decays or mere subsets, including space, time, infinity, finity, existence, nonexistence, mathematics, logic, paradoxes, and so on. Trying to apply logic would ultimately lead to a dead-end.
It is a boundless sentient structure. The integration of the knowable and the unknowable, the collection of all things and everything beyond it. All that can be described, indescribable, unsolvable, ordered, and disordered, are all enclosed in the void, with even the Axiom and the Throne being something less than an infinitesimal and insignificant fraction of it.
The beginning and end of everything given form, with all principles, dualities, essentiality, causality, consequence, and eventuality being completely shattered and turned into insignificance under it. Even what is Truth and Lie bears little to no definition in this place.
Anything that enters such a realm is bound to lose its own meaning and essence, thus "melting" and becoming part of the infinite void.
Except for its natives, very few entities are vaguely aware of this structure. Mortals and Gods, of course, can only perceive the Ain Soph in terms of their own frames of reference. They understand only what they can comprehend or speculate, and often that isn't much, and maybe never will.
Hypothetically, if a mortal or god were to truly see or receive all information about the Ain Soph, its existence would retroactively erase itself beyond repair across the totality of existence and nonexistence, and become one with the void. The only exceptions to this are its true natives, who all share the same paradoxical and logic-defying aspects of the Ain Soph.
