Limbo Compendium - The Aberrant Multi-verse

Date – [VOIDED]

Author: Null – Charming Scholar of the Transcended

Hello there, you lovely little primitive creature you, your incredibly handsome scholar, Null is here, not just to be the most dashing, charming man in existence, but who with his incredible kindness, is here to make this primitive document just for you. You'll soon experience increased dopamine levels as you're greeted by the pure joy of knowing, knowing the truth of your pitiful, small, and pointless existence as it is transferred through your sensory organs, to be processed and carved deep inside your mind. Of course being the incredibly generous me, I couldn't just keep all this juicy knowledge to myself, well, I'm sure you small insignificant multi-celled organisms are currently biting your appendages, at the edge of your seating apparatuses, eagerly anticipating the promised knowledge, well without further ado let's start learning about Transcendents and the multiverse.

Realities & Dimensions

[Manifestation Realm] – This realm is the bane of logic; this place is intricately connected to the physical world and is the origin of all energies like magic and qi. There is much controversy about whether it can be considered a 'realm', due to how it acts like a natural part of the physical world. Here willpower, determination, and belief allow the formation of domains. Many beings who proclaim to be gods, use domains, allowing clergy members access to their domain, promotes the growth of the domain, this is a tried and trued method of domain expansion. However, due to the nature of domain expansion, it becomes difficult to expand when faced by other domains, as a result, transcendents who rely upon this realm are far more confrontational, changes to this realm's hierarchy happen quickly, and relatively often, resulting in a strength-oriented hierarchy, and combat focused transcendentals.

[Astral Plane] – This is a place where feeling and thoughts, are channeled and purified, the ability to create a soul realm, a mind realm, or a heart realm is closely tied to the strength of one's connection to the astral plane. If anyone were to enter this place, they would find themselves hard pressed to look away from the sights below and above them, as they notice the odd glass like polygonal oceans, with constantly shifting hues and patterns, moving in a wavelike manner. On their sides, in the distance, strange and vividly animated Mandalas can be noticed. One might even notice the strange multicolored orbs, seemingly made of flames that emit a variety of emotions, to their surroundings. Their is a popular rumor that the Astral Plane did not originally exist, these same rumors claim the Astral Plane was created by a race of unknown beings.

[Logic Continuum] – The logic continuum is considered infinite in size, even existing where the space-time continuum doesn't, In fact the space-time continuum is a byproduct of natural processes that happen in the logic continuum. Here rules, knowledge, and understanding allow an individual to form unique philosophies, called laws, transcendentals involved with the continuum are unique, and often have some sort of personality quirk. The logic continuum can't be entered with a physical body, instead the soul is given form in this place. The logic continuum is an endless void that cycles between black and white, and is permeated by a strange network of color shifting strings that move in wave like motions. Placed randomly across the continuum are the strange logic paradoxes, usually taking the form of various everyday objects, seemingly glitching in and out of existence in an endless cycle.

About Transcendent Species

Transcendent beings are all capable of manipulating at least one aspect of reality, as well as being capable of travel between realities, being impossible to kill by standard methods. They are categorized into two groups, depending on the if they transcended alone or as a group, they are further categorized by the methods they used to achieve Transcendence. The categories are [Solo] and [Communal], further divided into the categories [Technological Transcendence], [Astral Transcendence], [Manifestation Transcendence].

[Architects] – A humanoid like race, that was particularly invested in philosophy and technology, for long stretches of their history, they have had a strange fixation with attaining longevity and becoming immortal, something which might I mention as a naturally immortal race is difficult to wrap my head around. Regardless, their greatest achievement was Aeon, essentially a network of energy constructs, capable of granting them transcendence. Later, during a war against the little understood Corruption, Aeon was equipped with methods of protection from these foes, as well as weapons specifically designed for combat against the Corruption. Strangely, shortly after the completion of this project the Architects seemingly disappeared into thin air, Coffees still hot, windows open, food on the table, their disappearance was joined by the immense, strange, and ominous, monolith that appeared in the center of their capital. The monolith is an interesting topic that will be further explained later, as it alludes to some connection with a specific incredibly widespread myth.

[Corruption] – A transcendent race that despite having multiple recorded wars with the architects, little is known about them, descriptions vary wildly and do little to clarify their presence. Though it has been theorized that they have some kind of vested interest in the architects. Other theories, however, say that the Corrupted somehow take offense to the presence of Aeon in the Logic Continuum. Little else is known, if anything.

[Players] & [Authors] - Unfortunately, any information on these beings is little more than rumor, myths, and theories, with little if any evidence of their existence, yet all of it heresy. However, personally, I suspect they may actually exist, in my travels I've encountered a number of Architect data centers, all abandoned, left unattended after the disappearance of their master's. Intriguingly the architects have files containing mention of Players, in one of my explorations I found a rather interesting file, usually any file pertain to these beings contain large sections of redacted text. This file in particular through happened to have the least amount of redacted text, some of what was mentioned detailed some sort of deal with the Players, it then went on to detail an Architect project involving the Astral Plane, unfortunately nothing more substantial could be gathered from this document, well except for a single mention of the [Author] but, well get to that. There are many rumors and myths about these players, one myth of note is strangely enduring, it implies that the astral plan is some kind of barrier that stops us from reaching these so-called Players, oddly no one really knows where this particular myth originated from. Now in the Architects files they mention the [Author], calling it the black star, now to me this is rather terrifying, the black star, the shadowed sun, the celestial abyss. It has many names all of them given by the people, it is a myth, religion, cult, ideology, and now, seemingly a being with relation to the oft rumored [players]. Yet, that's not what bothers me, no, it's the fact that it interacted with the architects, and if that's true... well to put the implications in a short and precise manner we must look at ancient widespread story of the god king and the celestial shade. The story is as such, a greedy king born into power and wealth and raised to be the most selfish one a person can be, this king did not realize that the people hated him, he did not know his advisers detested him, after all he had been raised to not see, raised by his uncle after his parents had been murdered, when he was but a youngling. Of course the king always noticed a sense of uneasiness at the back of his mind, a guilt that seemed to always be present, he had always thought it strange, that is until his uncle revealed his true nature, one moment he was a king, the next he was overthrown, placed in rags and bound in his own prison. Then the feeling he had always felt took him to a place he struggled to perceive, its abstract nature seemed to grind at his mind. In this endless place he found the source of his unease, in front of him stood a figure of the infinite, it spoke with colors and shapes, screeches, and unnatural sounds emanated from the figure, yet somehow the king understood, the being was giving him a deal, it would give him power and the help of fate itself, all he had to do was spread his existence, the king accepted, and now he leads the cult of the celestial abyss. Even seeing its names can bring dread, not to say it even filled me with an oppressively ominous dread as I wrote it's name. You see, the most disturbing thing about "it" is that its names hold power, to say its name is to feel it's pull, normally I could say its a simple misunderstood phenomenon and that it doesn't actually exist, but for the architects to mention it in their redacted files... w-well m-m-moving on!

Architect Creations

[Aeon] - A unique network formed inside the [Logic Continuum], labeled [Aeon] in the hopes it would grant the [Architects] their long-sought longevity. Aeon holds immense control over many natural laws and can give privileges to those who meet its requirements. Originally created for the purpose of allowing the architects to transcend, it was later repurposed as a defense against Corruption.

[Aion] – Aion is the control center of the network, it both sends and recieves communication from the Zohars and Conduits, it is the highest authority of the Aeon network, and makes decisions on the complex issues. After billions of years unattended Aion managed to attain a unique soul birthed from the Logic Continuum. The Architects would have stated that this was impossible, as the units making up Aeon were supposedly protected from the generation of a personality AI.

Zohar – The Zohars hold more authority than the Conduits but less than Aion, they are Integral for communication and collaboration between conduits. Usually Zohars hold jurisdiction over a large grouping of clusters gathered by the conduits termed Sectors. Like Aion, Zohars were designed to be incapable of generating a personality AI or soul, However, only time will tell. Personally, I find the idea that a Zohar could generate a soul like Aion, an incredibly intriguing topic, if you ask me why, well, intellectuals like me have always wanted to understand the workings of an aberrant soul.

Conduit – Conduits are gateways of infinite energy and mass whose goal is to gather parallel realities into clusters, maintain connection with their Zohar, and collaborate with other Conduits to deal with Corruption.

The Oracle, The Monolith, and Protocol Ouroboros

The Oracle is a woman of myth, said to warn people old, young, kind, cold, or even arrogant of tragedies. This myth is completely true, it was the greatest regret of my life after all. I was a young lad certain of my path, my pride in my strength a gasoline to fuel my blazing arrogance. When a strange woman came to me talking of tragedy, I scoffed, I was the strongest in the land, what could I possibly fear. Then I went home, the sight I expected did not greet me, I could only stare on, as hot tears slid down my face, the sight of my wife's cold corpse burned into my memory. The strangest thing about the oracle, though, is that anyone who encounters her, only recall a white vortex where a woman should have been, even stranger, any documents about the oracle just disappear, as if they never existed. There are many tales of the oracle's appearance, all are widespread, and most, well known, the most incredible story, however, is related to the giant monolith that appeared at the same time the Architects disappeared. The monolith is a very intriguing subject, and is a part of my current research, upon its surface an ominous message is written, the text is as follows, "The Protocol begins with the end, the innumerable will crack and crumble, molded into one, they who failed, became twisted, their vengeance ended and begins anew, the second soul of logic shall be born, affixed to the determined one, as Ouroboros consumes the will of fate, no longer will fate hold the cards in this game, the oracle shall be freed of destiny's chains!" Well there you have it, your beloved scholar has delivered on his promise, after all what would the world's most handsome, dashing, charming, utterly beloved me be, if not completely trustworthy, Knowledge shared, is Knowledge gained!

The One and Only

Null