Prologue: The Weaver

At the dawn of time, the Beyonder created beings far beyond his own understanding. These were entities of opposite energies, and the most powerful among them was the apex creation: Genesis. To stabilize these opposing powers and study them, the Beyonder created a locket. Unknown to his own creator, he also appointed eight Sages to observe these beings and the space they inhabited.

Despite being stable, these beings showed no growth, remaining infants in form. Yet, the Sages claimed they had gained consciousness and warned that if they were ever released, they would cause a chaos no one could contain. To mitigate this outcome, the Beyonder created Fate, woven from the threads of his own consciousness. This being existed beyond time and space, capable of moving things to certain points in time and manipulating the very fabric of reality.

At the moment of her creation, Fate pulled the fabric of reality so violently that the lockets flipped, causing chaos to erupt. This event would later be known by mortals as the Expansion of the Universe. The Sages pleaded for the beings they adored to rationalize, but their instincts were far beyond rationalism. They began to cover the space as it moved forward with Fate.

​When the Beyonder created Fate, he bonded her with blood. However, the nature of Fate is to be free from bonds; this caused the bond to break, spilling the blood of the Beyonder everywhere. Through conjuring and tinkering with knowledge and the lockets, the Sages created "Eyes"—beings who possessed chaos but were powerful enough to rival it. Infusing these lockets with the blood of the broken bonds, the Guardian Siblings were born.

​As descendants of the Beyonder himself, armed with the power of the Eyes, the siblings began a war that lasted eons. In the end, they emerged victorious. The Apex beings were not defeated, but they were exhausted, falling into a vegetative state. These eons of war changed the atmosphere, creating mystical beings that carried fragments of the Apex's power. Weapons were forged by the Sages from what was left behind. Various species started to prosper; some chose violence while others carried wisdom, some were cunning and some were kind, but they all grouped themselves with their own kind. Ages passed, and these beings made a compromise to live in an ecosystem, separating so they could live peacefully.

​But this is not what we bow to.

​When the bonds of blood broke, most of the fragments fell into the hands of the Sages. However, one fragment was pulled by the fabric of Fate, becoming lost in time and space. There was another sibling created by a Sage named Desire, known to be the weakest of all. She, too, obtained a fragment of the blood. Being too weak to conjure the locket’s power, she drank the blood to gain its strength. Instead, her energy, soul, and body were absorbed.

​From this union, a new being was created: kind-hearted, curious, and the most beautiful of them all. He is the God of Emotions, born out of a desire for power from the weakest, cursed fragment. He is the death-bringer. He is Sol Vayne, the Catastrophe.

The Sages witnessed the emergence of the Ninth Sage, naming her the brightest of them all. She had achieved what seemed impossible: the creation of a being that resembled the Apex, yet remained entirely stable. The Sages collaborated, using their collective knowledge to infuse its body with the DNA of every known existence. They crafted its form to accommodate any environment or condition.

However, despite this perfection, the being showed no signs of growth. They realized that when a being is perfected to such an extent that it faces no resistance, it cannot evolve. Just as a butterfly must struggle through its cocoon to reach its next phase, this creation was trapped by its own lack of struggle. Disheartened by their stagnant masterpiece, the Sages asked the Guardians to take charge of it.

The eldest Guardian sibling commanded the Death Bringer to cast the being into the fabric of space-time. But the Death Bringer had her own plans. Instead of discarding it, she left the being at the Gates of Heaven. This was the domain of the strongest entities after the Guardians: the descendants of Diagon, now known as the Akira, and the Chaos.

These two species inhabited different regions, marking the first Gate of Heaven. Descending from two powerful lineages, they were capable of controlling the Void and the Light. Yet, despite their power, they were constantly consumed by an eternal war, driven by the inherent conflict of their very natures.