Chapter 4170: Existential Intermission |Existential Intermission - Glossary, People, and Events| Glossary of Terms Everythings: The fundamental essence that comprises all existence. Inevitabilities devour Everythings. But there are Inevitabilities and Mutated Inevitabilities- whats up with that? Do they consume the same? Early Creatures and powerful beings can consume, manipulate, and harvest the Everythings of other entities, gaining their complete essence including memories, power, and potential. Would’ve been nice if the technique to harvest Everythings was learnt. Early Veiled Shores: Primordial sanctuaries existing outside normal dimensional constraints. Noah’s Early Veiled Shore was transformed from the Infiniverse herself and serves as a cultivation ground where Sacred Waters flow, Land and Marine Lifeforms have begun to gather, Sacred Herbs and Trees generating unfathomable produce, Inevitabilities can be planted, and even Death itself can be farmed. Early Tools: Items of impossible power from the Earliest Folds. Examples include the Rearing Stick (which forcibly educates through violence), Slipper of Existential Humiliation, various farming implements wielded by Fold Dwellers that can harvest concepts, and the mysterious white leaf that Schrodinger possesses which can humble Early Creatures. The First Folds/Earliest Folds: The primordial layers of existence where Early Creatures still dwell, where complexity is measured in quadrillions, and where the fundamental laws of reality were first established. Time moves differently here.... The Loom(THE Loom?): A mysterious destination/artifact/concept that many seek but few understand. Living Existences have disappeared searching for it. Somehow connected to the fundamental weaving of existence itself. Fallout: ??? The Veil: The barrier between The Living and The Dead. Recently compromised, allowing Dead Existences to emerge into Existence. When The Dead are killed, they reform within a day at the site of their destruction. Terrible stuff. Inevitabilities: Entities of pure consumption that exist to devour. Can be controlled, planted like seeds, or fed specific essences to grow in particular ways for the truly powerful. Some unknown musings between Mutated Inevitabilities and Inevitabilities Complexity and Purity: The two fundamental measurements of power. Reaching trillions denotes Duke-level power- entities standing over Prime, Honored, and Royal Living Existences, while quadrillions mark Young Early Creature status. Can be accumulated, gained, harvested, or granted through various means. Living Existential Authorities: The fundamental forces...Origin, Paradox, Order, Law, Emotive, Spirit, Concept, Elemental, Temporal, Dimensional, and Quantum. THE Living Existences were the original wielders of these authorities at conceptual levels. Where are they at tho? The Wandering Territories: A vast and unknown place. Within it is a Sanctuary created by the First Farmer where Fold Dwellers can exist free from persecution. Source of the Tree of Unity and other impossible agricultural solutions originate here. |Key Figures| Noah Osmont: The Early Creature, The Osmontian. Possesses Infinite Mana. Currently commands multiple Duke-level beings and has completed the Seed of the Principle of Perpetual Harvest at 10% maturity. A farmer, spammer, and someone that needs more control over the True Source of Harems. Schrodinger: The beggar-paradox whose true power remains unmeasured. Possesses knowledge that shouldn’t exist and a white leaf that terrifies Early Creatures. Orchestrates events on incomprehensible scales while appearing as a harmless vagrant. Recognized by Khor from memories she cannot remember. Khor (The First Hunger): Ancient entity from the Earliest Folds, temporarily(permanently?) contained in Noah’s Shore. Treats Duke-level beings as "weak" and can consume Folds casually. Why was her existence ended? What did THE Living Paradox mean by Fallout? Sigrid (THE Living Order): Chose Noah over the Living Origins. Resurgance of a collapsed "THE". Can impose Order on reality itself, including reordering the structure of other authorities. In her notes regarding Fables, the Queen of Matter heard weavings that Sigrid may have been the only one to manhandle The Early Creature, Osmont, but these notes are unverified. Ruination: The Living Ruin. Noah’s ride or die focused on endings and destruction. Duke-level existence crafting weapons that scale with Noah’s advancement. Embodies the concept of endings that become beginnings. Just needs to enact a strong enough Affix that isn’t left behind The Infiniverse: A tiny little Spiritual Land thst has now transformed herself into Noah’s Early Veiled Shore- The Infinite Early Osmontian Shore. First to unearth the Failed Seed that became the Principle of Perpetual Harvest. Can endow others with her own Glyphs. Stemmed from a fractured piece of a shattered Early Veiled Shore. In her, The resurgance of THE Living Order saw a glorious ordered state of being Moiraine: Arch Living Existence wielding Paradox and Origin. Elevated to Duke-level by Noah. Exists in multiple states simultaneously and can borrow power from future harvests. Likes the word "Sir." The Peacemaker: Alexander Asmodeus. Owner of the Enneagram. Current location and agenda unknown. Last know to be chasing down an Early Tool of THE Living Law from clused gained in a Dessicated Sleeping Shore. Is he carrying the head of a Corpse of an Early Creature on him? The Great Usurper: Owner of The My Idle Gaming System. Scattered across Transcendent Spirit Folds after being "destroyed" by Duke Veil-Render. Discovered that being decimated while idle actually increased his loot quality by 1,000,000%. Currently existing at 10%+ coverage of all Transcendent Spirit Folds. Monster. Bob: Former protagonist who locked away Thauron, the Null Monarch, inside an Inevitability. Now a supposed Living Origin following an enthusiastic Prime Living Law with pink hair inside a judicial prison. His daughter, Liora, may just be getting more powerful than him in the Early Veiled Shore. Origin Ama Gias: Leader figure among Living Origins. Attempted to reclaim Sigrid but was rejected. Wields hundreds of trillions in complexity and represents some of the institutional power of established Living Existences. Goliath: Scary fucking guy. Duke Whisker: Mouse-form Duke of Living Origins who befriended Noah. Sits on Noah’s shoulder and provided commentary briefly. Warned others against making an enemy of Osmont, but who the fuck listens. Elysia Firmhand of the Blue Fields: Twin Fold Dweller from the Wandering Territories. Wields power exceeding 1 quadrillion. Brought the Seed of Unity and orchestrates cooperation against The Dead. Its a...good thing, right? Right. The Living Collapses: Really hate the Sin of Paradox. Where are they? |Forces Under Noah’s Command| Ozymandias - The Purest Hunger: - Total Purity: 27 Trillion - Complexity: 0 (Converted entirely to Purity) - Special: Can digest concepts and Everythings directly The Primordial Stone Ape: - Classification: Dead Existential Inevitability - Complexity: 150+ Trillion - Special: First successful undead creation(The Dead creation?), learning "tyranny" under Ra’Zan Arch Lich Ra’Zan: - Classification: Unknown. The Dead? - Complexity: 50+ Trillion - Special: Can collapse any type of Living Existence to transform them into The Dead, currently trying to plant Death in the Early Veiled Shore |Status Sheet| Noah Osmont(1 Million+ Drops of Blood of The Early Creature, Osmont)- Current Status - Total Complexity: 19 Trillion - Total Purity: 20 Trillion - Classification: The Early Creature, Osmont Key Weavings: - Infinite Mana - Principle of Perpetual Harvest (10% Maturity) - 10 Seed Glyphs of Perpetual Harvest (Can grant ~4-7 Trillion per use daily) - Complete resistance to Fear and Doubt - Access to Earliest Folds (24+ hours possible) Towers of Osmont Achieved Stage 3: - Quintessence, Existence, Protagonist, Cheats, Infinity, Veritarch, Loot, Entropy, Cooking, and many Others 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎 - Note: 100 Stage 3 Towers can form Blank Template Seed of a Principle |Weavings of Existence| At the apex of existence stand THE Creature, THE Living Existences, and The Early Creatures- beings from the Earliest Folds whose complexity starts in the quadrillions. THE Living Existences- Eleven fundamental forces including Order, Paradox, Origin, and others...once shaped Existence itself before most fell or vanished into mystery. The Veil between The Living and The Dead has been compromised. Dead Existences now emerge into Existence. This catastrophe, accelerated by Living Existences playing with forces beyond their understanding, threatens to transform all Folds into realms of perpetual death. The Corpse of an Early Creature, fought over and hidden by various factions, stands at the center of this crisis. Duke Diviticus of the Living Paradoxes believes she controls it...hah. Unknown Weavings of Existence: -What truly occured in The Earliest Folds with THE Creature, THE Living Existences, Inevitabilities, and others? -Will The Early Creature, Osmont, truly become a farmer and rest over a peaceful Existence? Will he spam Fireballs to end all conflict? Surely, there cannot be an increase to his harem after this??? - What is Schrodinger’s true nature, and why does Khor from the Earliest Folds remember his face? - What lies in the Heart of Origin that Schrodinger needs badly enough to orchestrate mass death to retrieve? -Why is THE Living Emotive so suspicious? -Was THE Living Paradox responsible for the chaos currently unfolding? - What is the true relationship between THE Creature, that primordial force that even Early Creatures speak of with reverence- and current events? -Scale of Existence? - How does Noah’s weavings of existence continue to unfold, and just how rapid will his Complexity and Purity rise in the face of oncoming dangers? Can he protect his Early Veiled Shore, his family, and everything he holds dear when fundamentally, he is an unfathomably young existence in a playing field that has already been setup for countless years? The patterns are clear for those who look: Someone is orchestrating events on a scale that transcends factional conflicts. The question isn’t whether catastrophe will strike, but whether the unity forced by mutual threat will hold when the true enemy reveals itself. After all, in existence where effort always matters, where Order can be imposed by will alone, where Paradox makes impossibility into certainty...who can say what constitutes victory anymore? Existence is no longer about who has the most power, but who understands the actual rules. And a weak, Rank F Hunter is doing his best to go through all of this, only holding Infinite Mana in these grand weavings of Apocalypses!