Prologue

Entry Date: 2/11/2108 C.E.

For a long time, I thought there were two types of people in this world; those who sleep, and those who are awake.

Those who submit, who walk around in blissful ignorance, who question nothing and receive everything they’re told they want. And those who ask the questions which no one else dares, and in their misery, see the world for what it is.

But I was wrong. There are another two types.

Those who put others to sleep, and those who wake them up.

I thought I was awake. But it turns out, I was just another man whose broken hands lay others in a bed of lies.

A bed with metal arms and teeth for their necks. The Cypher-Zero. My ultimate creation. The gateway into the Ethergeist. A door out of the misery of this world, deeper into blissful ignorance.

That’s what we thought it would be, at least. But instead we found the monsters that lurk within every one of us waiting on the other side; Fears, Remnants. Beasts of myth.

And what’s more, we found that by controlling them, we could control ourselves.

And now I’ve had a dream… a Drifting, if you will, between the future and the present. And I saw something. I saw someone. A person who stood on the border between their world and ours.

A person who can enter the Ethergeist without a Cypher-Zero, and save the people I’ve worked so hard to put to rest. A person who could stop me, and not need an army or a government to do it.

A person who called themself the First Nexus.

I saw them clear as day in that dream. And I cannot wait to find them.

I cannot wait to learn about them.

I cannot wait to put them to rest.