It had been a long, winding taleof blood, rebellion, and gods shattered by the very mortals they underestimated. But as the smoke of wars settled and reality knitted itself back together, one single truth echoed across the narrative: None of this was real... yet all of it was.
Nyx stood at the edge of everything his silhouette framed not by suns or moons, but by spinning spirals of raw narrative code, the essence of stories, worlds, and fate. He wasn't just inside the story anymore. He had become its Author.
Appointed by the Guardian, Nyx had ascended not by force, but through the very mechanism that birthed the universe Imagination. It turned out that every cataclysm, every fragmented soul, every death and rebirth was just a product of his mind. He had been weaving worlds from thoughts like thread through a loom, shaping beings of chaos and hope alike.
The Watchers of Will
They were called Guardians, but even that word felt inadequate. Not gods. Not narrators. Not even beings.
Will made manifest.They existed in a place called the Highest Narrative Bubble, a plane so far beyond comprehension that even the word "reality" shattered there. They did not meddle with mortals… unless necessary.
The Will they protected was ancient, finite, sacred a resource like oil or blood. It fueled all creation, every decision, every fight, every breath. But just like any fuel, once it's gone, there is nothing left not even the book containing this story.
To prevent the apocalypse of all narrative, the Guardians imposed a cruel system of recycling:
Monsters were not born.Monsters were humans who pushed their Will too far.When a soul cracked under the weight of unbending ambition or despair, it fractured, twisted, and formed a creature whose existence fed off other humans forcing a cycle of use and reuse.
Humans fought monsters. Monsters consumed humans.Will recycled. Balance maintained.
They never liked the previous Narrative God. Too stagnant. Too indulgent. He let the Will bloat. So they gifted a mortal Nyx with divine potential, knowing hate and disillusionment would push him to overthrow the system.
They weren't cruel.They were logical.They played by rules no one understood.
Nyx, the God of Fiction Without Limit
Now, Nyx sat upon the Throne of Infinite Ink, in the center of the New Narrative Bubble. He had become the pen, the paper, and the reader.He was the creator of worlds, characters, laws, and contradictions.
He had written entire Multiverses, folded time into plotlines, and spun entire civilizations from metaphors. He gave mortals second chances, cruel ends, or eternal peace whatever he found compelling.
But as freedom bloomed, a quiet paranoia crept through the surviving fragments of humanity those still clinging to identity.
They saw it now.They remembered the old world.They felt the shift.
And they understood something terrifying:
"None of this is real… unless he wants it to be."
Nyx didn't hide it. He didn't deny it.He smiled.
"Yes," he said. "This is my stage. You're all my actors. I give you arcs, powers, pain, meaning. Isn't that enough?"
Some cried. Some rebelled. Some begged.But what could you do against the god who authored you?
He simply continued writing.A god obsessed with story, unbound by law, logic, or even consequence.
And deep beneath all of it, the Will churned consumed, recycled, reborn.
How long until it was gone?
How long until even he couldn't write anymore?
No one knew.
Only the Guardians did.And they were watching.