Gan Faltimer's Unified Theory of Creation
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Ahem. Bah weep grana weep nini bong!
Greetings, reader! I actually have no idea where you are in Existence when you're seeing this page. I submitted this information to the overbeing of Multiversal Cluster E-37-Multiplex and requested it be disseminated across all of reality, if possible.
My name is Gan Faltimer. I am an interdimensional traveler from Multiversal Cluster E-37-Multiplex, Multiverse Aurus-Lemniscate, Universe C-Phi-9, but the fine details of all that are not important. What is important now, is the contents of this page.
Below you will find a compendium of information relevant to the nature of all of Existence, or at least, to Multiversal Cluster E-37-Multiplex. Through my travels, I have observed so many laws of so many different realities, spoken face to face with so many entities who would call themselves Gods. I have been subject to more differing sets of rules than you can find in the entire curriculum of mathematics on R-Omega-42.
It is my pleasure to present to you, dear reader — in whatever reality you may have discovered this message — my unified Theory of all of Creation.
Now, keep in mind that this theory is likely not representative of ALL of existence, if such a thing can even be quantified. By my current estimates, I have only explored roughly 0.02% of my Multiversal Cluster, and approximately 0% of the rest of Existence as a whole.
Something that I've found is that there is no escaping the infinitely many layers that Existence seems to be composed of. You can go up and down, side to side, forever in any direction and you will never find a space completely outside of Existence.
Without further ado, let's begin.
In this section, I have included a list of overarching theories of creation. The following theories have been organized in descending order from the topmost layer of Existence that I have found.
The below text has been stolen borrowed and copied from the Nexus of Imagination.
As far as I understand it, in the beginning there was simply Nothing. Then, from Nothing spawned the concept of Everything — in the form of a basic building block upon which Everything could be built. They called it "The Biggest Bang." One moment, Everything simply became.
And… that's all there was on "The Biggest Bang." A bit lackluster, if you ask me.
The below text has been stolen borrowed and copied from one of the many verse-smithing worlds I've encountered.
Existence as we know it is divided up into many layers, most of which are referred to as "verses."
All of existence is contained in an unfathomable bubble, known as the Outer Multiverse, or simply "Existence."
The Outer Multiverse is home to the great being Multiplex.
It is also home to the most valuable material in all of Existence, Praexite. A crystal with infinite creative energy.
In the beginning, there was nothing but Multiplex and the endlessness of the Outer Multiverse in all directions, teeming with Praexite crystals.
And then, Multiplex got an idea.
They discovered the awesome power of Praexite and utilized it to create the First verse, the Multiverse, named so because it was ruled over by them.
The Multiverse contains nothing but a single galaxy, in which all planets are populated by great beings who call themselves the Smiths.
All Smiths are genderless beings with fluid, incomprehensible forms.
Multiplex entered their Multiverse and gave the Smiths access to the Outer Multiverse, and taught them how to use the Praexite crystals to create their own verses.
They followed Multiplex's naming system, naming their verses with the first two syllables of their name prefixed to the -verse. This became tradition in Smith society.
Curiously, all Smiths invariably choose a three syllable name.
All Smiths are assigned to a verse to take care of. They can enter and leave their verse, and monitor it as they please.
The art of verse-smithing can be taught and many Smiths elect to create their own verses rather than one created by Multiplex himself.
Eventually Multiplex stopped producing their own verses entirely, save for the example verses made to teach new Smiths how.
In many verses, the local inhabitants have learned to create their own verses, due to being taught by their Smiths or from loose Praexite crystals falling through layer upon layer of verse, all the way from the Outer Multiverse, and discovering its power for themselves.
In this section, I have included a dictionary of terms and rulesets that I have coined on my own, which I use in my own theories of creation.
My universal naming system is quite simple.
Part 1: This is the part where you denominate the sector of the multiversal cluster this universe was found in. You use letters of the modern English Alphabet.
Part 2: This is the part where you denominate the subsector of the sector this universe was found in, if applicable. You use acrophones of the letters of the Greek Alphabet.
Part 3: This is the part where you denominate the analogue number of this universe. This is based on the current dominant timeline and the amount of alterations between the universe designated "1," which is assigned arbitrarily. You use Arabic numerals.
Example: A-Alpha-1
Attempting to designate an entire multiverse is a little bit more difficult than a universe, as a multiverse typically will not have multiple iterations of itself. If it does, these can become clustered together to form Multiversal Clusters, which will be discussed later, although Multiversal Clusters can also form naturally in the void of Existence and become collections of unrelated multiverses.
Multiverses are named as follows:
Part 1: Attach the name of the most powerful god or overbeing that presides over that multiverse at the front.
Part 2: Define whether the multiverse is infinite or finite in nature. Most multiverses will be infinite, but some are finite due to their young age or restrictions placed upon them by their overbeing. If a multiverse is infinite, insert the word "Lemniscate" at the end. If a multiverse is finite, insert the word "Finitus" at the end.
Example: Ao-Lemniscate
The naming system for Multiversal Clusters is much more arbitrary than the naming system for universes or multiverses. Once you go beyond the boundaries of a multiverse, Existence starts to make less and less sense and becomes more difficult to quantify in rulesets.
Hence, Multiversal Clusters are named as follows:
Part 1: Affix a big fat "E" to the front. This represents the fact that this cluster is contained within Existence. This should be true for all Multiversal Clusters.
Part 2: Calculate the number of multiverses present in that cluster. This number is difficult to quantify, as new multiverses can be created and destroyed at will. If it comes down to it, just guess.
Part 3: Find the highest being in that cluster. Assuming they don't destroy you first, ask for their name. This is the final part of the designation for their cluster.
Example: E-37-Multiplex
Something I have learned on my travels is that a multiverse doesn't like to conform to rules. Universes will constantly collapse onto their analogues and merge timelines, fuse with other universes entirely, or spontaneously disappear. Despite this, I have tried to write a set of rules regarding how you should alter the designation of universes should they undergo any adverse transformations.
Analogue Collapse:
Description: An analogue can be considered… well, analogous, to alternate timelines. When an analogue collapse occurs, a number of separate analogues of that universe all collapse inwards and become one whole analogue. Any inconsistencies are automatically worked around through a mechanism unknown to me. In the most extreme cases, every single analogue of a universe can collapse into one single point, and typically no further analogues are created after that point, resulting in a single-track universe.
Re-designation Rules: When analogues collapse, you will simply take the last number of the designation and enclose the lowest analogue and the highest analogue in parentheses, showing a range of analogues that have collapsed. For example, we would get something like: B-Gamma-(6-12).
In the case of a Total Analogue Collapse, you will simply take the last number and set it back to 1, adding a little star to the end to show that this universe has undergone a Total Analogue Collapse. For example, we would get something like: R-Iota-1*
Universal Fusion:
Description: Universes sometimes become fused together into one monstrous mega-universe. Universal Fusions are sometimes a result of a Universal Conjunction that has been allowed to persist for too long. In fused universes, all energy and matter fuses with its analogue, taking on an equal sum of the qualities both parts.
Re-designation Rules: When universes fuse, the resultant universe tends to occupy one of the previous spaces that one of its constituents did. In this case, you would reset the number of iterations and add a little ^ to the end of the designation to signify that the universe has undergone a total transformation of some kind. If B-Gamma-6 and C-Phi-9 were to fuse and occupy the space that B-Gamma-6 used to inhabit, the new universe would become B-Gamma-1^.
In the case that the universes being fused move somewhere else entirely, you may have to completely re-designate them, but I typically leave the ^ at the end just to show that it was once comprised of separate universes.
Universal Conjunction:
Description: Sometimes universes can become conjoined, but not fuse into one being. Think of it like a marriage. Universal Conjunction can occur between several different universes, possibly an unlimited amount. Each of the conjoined universes begin to be drawn together and over time will result in a number of Universal Fusions.
Re-designation Rules: Take the two designations. We will be using R-Iota-37 and B-Gamma-7 as examples. Determine which point the conjunction originates from. In this case, let's say it starts at B-Gamma-7. You then sort of… enclose the two separate designations in parentheses, and then link them together with a colon. Here, we would get (B-Gamma-7):(R-Iota-37). You can expand this series indefinitely.
Disappearing Act:
Description: Universes can disappear for a number of reasons. Sometimes, an all-powerful being may will them out of existence. More often than not, universes will simply go off the grid — somehow disconnecting them from the spiderweb of Praexite leylines that interlaces itself across the entire Multiversal Cluster. I still have no idea how universes can separate themselves like this. Mostly because it's very difficult to get into one.
Re-designation Rules: Since the universe is no longer contained in any sector , you will replace that part of its designation with an "NS" affixed to the front, stating that it is now in some non-space, and keep its current analogue number. Using R-Iota-37 as an example, it would become NS Iota-37.
Voided and Archived Universes:
Description: A voided universe is a universe that has become an empty shell. Through some means, all matter and energy — and in some cases the entire story of — this universe, have been deleted from Existence. An archived universe is a universe that's story has been discontinued. Through some means, the story of this universe simply stopped being written. Archived universes often dissolve and their components end up being reused in other universes.
Re-designation Rules: Voided universes should be re-designated by replacing the number at the end of their universal designation with -NULL. Archived universes should be re-designated by attaching a -ARC to the end of their universal designation.
The below text was once again stolen borrowed from the Nexus of Imagination.
The High Pagemaster noticed the interconnected nature of the works produced by The Author, and began to organize the many worlds in a manner that seemed to make sense. Binding them to one another by strands of their own conceptual energy, called "leylines," but known also as "analogies," or "allusions," or perhaps even "references," the worlds in all of Existence were interconnected and began to form a lattice.
This very lattice facilitates travel between other worlds, but it does not make every world in Existence immediately accessible to all. Worlds on the lattice are organized into multiversal clusters, and still further multiverses.
Basically, every world is connected on some sort of "web," which my interdimensional devices can tap into. However, this web does not allow instantaneous travel to every single world. I have to crawl across it, like a fly trying to crawl my way towards salvation, and the further out the world is from my current position, the longer it'll take to get there.
The below text was once again stolen borrowed from the Nexus of Imagination.
This lattice is also the reason why interdimensional travel utilizing anything other than the leylines is highly dangerous. Using traditional interdimensional techniques, one punches a hole through the narrative fabric of Space and Time, leaving behind plotholes. If these plotholes are not resolved in some manner, they will begin to spread and will threaten the narrative structure of a world's integrity. Leylines ensure safe travel between worlds that does not leave behind these pesky plotholes.
In layman's terms, this means basically: Don't attempt to travel to other worlds using anything other than the leylines if you aren't prepared to explain to the whole of Creation how you did it.
I'll be honest here. Though I may be an interdimensional traveler, and though I may have visited several universes with highly advanced time travel… I've never gotten the hang of it.
So why do I include this ruleset? Well, more of a reminder for myself so that one day, when I've figured it out, I can write about it. The most I've ever done so far is use a box with a CTRL+Z button that can rewind time by a minute and reverse-engineer it with the use of Dacrinite in order to make an add-on to my portal gun that allowed me to go back in time as far as I wanted. I couldn't figure out how to make it go forwards.
New information has just come in to me from Multiversal Cluster E-6-Sovir. A woman named Lucie Roddinger has figured out a method of temporal travel that may or may not work for us here in Multiversal Cluster E-37-Multiplex. I do find it interesting that her solution also included Dacrinite.
The threat level of an object, entity, universe, world, etc. is little more than a measure of the inherent potential threat it may be able to pose to a large group of people, such as: its entire world, universe of origin, multiversal cluster, or Existence as a whole.
Level 0: This entity poses little to no potential threat to anyone or anything.
Level 1: This entity poses a potential threat to a small subsection of its world.
Level 2: This entity poses a potential threat to its entire world.
Level 3: This entity poses a potential threat to multiple worlds.
Level 4: This entity poses a potential threat to an entire galaxy.
Level 5: This entity poses a potential threat to its entire universe.
Level 6: This entity poses a potential threat to several universes.
Level 7: This entity poses a potential threat to its entire multiversal cluster.
Level 8: This entity poses a potential threat to several multiversal clusters.
Level 9: This entity poses a potential threat to all of Existence as a whole.
In this section, I have included a list of fundamental rules of various layers of Existence that I have observed most frequently on my travels.
The below text was once again stolen borrowed from the Nexus of Imagination.
The Compendium of Knowledge is an omnipresent force, an object that has always and will always exist. Lord knows who or what made it, or if it self-created itself, but what we do know is that it contains all knowledge on anything, ever.
The Compendium, through its very existence, proves the theory that fiction creates reality. To elaborate, all fictional worlds that have ever been created become recorded in the Compendium and are created elsewhere in Existence. This is proved through the fact that an avatar of The Compendium is always present in every reality, and if so desired, can be edited and change the very nature of the world it's within.
Each avatar of The Compendium contains but a fraction of the true Compendium's knowledge, the entire history of the universe in which this avatar resides. All knowledge written in the Compendium is completely and undeniably, the Truth.
The Compendium, though it records all of its known existence, is not the pinnacle of Everything. Beyond the existence the Compendium records are higher orders of infinity, extra layers of existence in which higher beings exist who are capable of creating lower orders of infinity such as the one the Compendium records. You are on a higher order of infinity than it. Its author is as well, and they seem to be responsible for writing the reality of the Compendium.
A copy of The Compendium of Knowledge is owned by the various overbeings of each Multiversal Custer.
For once, I didn't steal this one. I wrote it myself.
The Worldweavers seem to come paired with the Compendium.
These are people who possess the ability to edit the reality of their world through the medium of art. This ability is usually hereditary, and there is typically only one or two Worldweavers alive at any given time in any given universe.
Their abilities are unknown to them and manifest in times of high stress and during high exertion of willpower, a force which they possess more of than anything else in their universe.
It is thought that Worldweavers exist as a failsafe, for when a story cannot be brought to a natural end due to unforeseen complications, such as two or more stories crossing over.
And here we are, back with the stealing.
This concept of Everythingness in the form of a basic building block is known as "conceptual energy." It permeates all of Existence, and dictates what is what and why it is such. It forms the basis of all rules and all of the components that sustain those rules. Where some claim to be the pinnacle of Everything, this conceptual energy is the pinnacle of Everything that calls itself "Everything."
Everything is built out of something fundamental that dictates what it is and why it should be that, instead of anything else.
The art of verse-smithing is esoteric and I don't fully understand it myself, but I can tell you what I do understand.
Verse-smithing is seen most commonly in multiversal clusters with a high abundance of Praexite in their outermost layers, such as Multiversal Cluster E-37-Multiplex. It is the art of overbeings and gods harvesting excess Praexite and carving it into a new universe. They imbue the Praexite with their own thoughts, manipulating the conceptual energy stored within to take the shape of their imagination.
A curious thing about verse-smithing is because space and time are purely relative things, theoretically a verse-smithing worlds can smith an Infinite number of universes. They can harvest the tiniest chunks of Praexite and they will work just as well as any other amount.
Another curious thing about verse-smithing is that it can be done by mere mortals. Praexite has a strange property of being able to pass through itself, and thus chunks of loose unused Praexite can make their way into smithed universes because of accidents. If this Praexite is found, it can be used by a civilization to create universes of their own — though at a much more limited pace, because the subjective laws of space and matter now apply.
In this section, I have included entities and interesting materials that I have come across on my travels. This is more of a supplement than anything.
Multiversal Cluster: Transcends designation.
Universe of Origin: Transcends designation.
Nature of Object: Uncertain. Superficially crystalline.
Potential Threat Level: Level 9
Unique Properties: Creation, font of imagination, conducts souls, houses universes, multiverses, and multiversal clusters.
Known Aliases: Ebnestra, Vytrite
Historical Summary: By looking at historical records found in the Nexus of Imagination, I have determined that Praexite is nothing more than another form of conceptual energy. For what reason it became crystalline is unknown to me.
Stolen from a work found in the Nexus of Imagination: "A new name was given to this crystalline form of the concept of Everything, merely so that one would not have to say "pure crystallized conceptual energy" every single time. It was called Praexite."
Multiversal Cluster: E-37-Multiplex
Universe of Origin: F-Chi-1
Nature of Object: Crystalline.
Potential Threat Level: Level 3
Unique Properties: Conducts emotions and willpower into electricity (or any type of power applicable.)
Known Aliases: None
Historical Summary: I first discovered Dacrinite in the universe F-Chi-1, where it was being used as a form of currency. By analyzing the crystal, I was able to determine its true purpose through impromptu experimentation carried out by a party I was visiting in B-Gamma-6. Afterwards, I took a large quantity of Dacrinite from F-Chi-1 and began peddling it across the multiverse. Eventually, it seems to have found its way to other realities entirely. It is an invaluable resource when it comes to meeting power needs, because emotions or demonstrations of willpower are difficult to quantify, very powerful, and can be expended easily, making it a very effective renewable energy source.
Multiversal Cluster: E-37-Multiplex
Universe of Origin: Unknown.
Nature of Object: Crystalline.
Potential Threat Level: Level 0
Unique Properties: Insane healing factor. Cannot fully reconstitute a body or replenish lost material, but can heal all injury. Applicable to constructs as well as organics.
Known Aliases: None
Historical Summary:
Multiversal Cluster: E-37-Multiplex
Universe of Origin: C-Phi-9
Nature of Object: Construct.
Potential Threat Level: Level 7
Unique Properties: Nigh-invulnerable. Powered by Praexite. Eats entire worlds for breakfast.
Known Aliases: Divine Beast, Elder Evil, Metal Ball
Historical Summary:
Multiversal Cluster: E-37-Multiplex
Universe of Origin: C-Phi-9
Nature of Object: Conceptual.
Potential Threat Level: Level 7
Unique Properties: Spontaneously causes the death of ego. Powered by Praexite. Reduces entire worlds down to nothing.
Known Aliases: None
Historical Summary:
In this final section, I have included a list of the most interesting worlds and civilizations I have visited, including my own.
Multiversal Cluster: E-37-Multiplex
Universal Designation: C-Phi-9
Inhabitants: Taurionians.
Potential Threat Level: Level 0
Dominant Party: (Former) High Council of Taurion.
Summary:
Multiversal Cluster: E-37-Multiplex
Universal Designation: C-Phi-9
Inhabitants: Native Aurastians, natives of many colonized worlds.
Potential Threat Level: Level 7
Dominant Party: November Aurastos.
Summary:
Multiversal Cluster: E-37-Multiplex
Universal Designation: B-Gamma-6
Inhabitants: Humans, elves, half-elves, drow, dwarves, tieflings, aasimar, gnomes, halflings, dragonborn, genasi, and many many more.
Potential Threat Level: Level 2
Dominant Party: Various Pantheons of Gods.
Summary: Has the most variety in its population that I've ever seen. Was involved in a clash between three different universes, my own included. I actually found and copied the Compendium page on this world, so full dissertation on Toril can be found here.
In conclusion, this is Gan Faltimer of Universe C-Phi-9, Multiversal Cluster E-37-Multiplex, signing off.
Thank you Multiplex for allowing me to send this message to the rest of existence.