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The Continuum of Creation

The Continuum of Creation

In the beginning, there was nothing.

No time, no matter, no breath to give rhythm to the void. Only a dream. Unending and unfathomable. The writhing subconscious of Azhorra'tha, the Watcher in the Abyss. It stirred, seething in silence. From the throes of its slumber, the Eldari emerged—like glimmers of starlight caught in a restless abyss. From the chaos of an infinite dream, the first beings were born:  

Ael, the Creator, who sculpted form from the formless;  

Prism, the weaver of Order, who sought to contain the endless;  

Ignis, fire of pure Energy, whose radiance scorched all;  

Kinetus, the essence of Force, who gave the stars movement;  

Zephyr, the wind of Space, filling the emptiness between worlds;  

Gaia, mother of Matter itself, giving form to the celestial bodies;  

Thanatos, the embodiment of Entropy, whose hunger knew no bounds;  

Kronus, the silent arbiter of Time, through whom all would pass in continuum;  

and Nox, the yawning Void, in which all dreams were destined to die... 

But this was no creation of peace, no birth of harmonious divinity. The Eldari conflicted endlessly in Primordial Pandemonium, a state of elemental Khaos, where the divine forces were created, embattled, and unraveled in the same instant. They were and were not, flickering as figments in a dreaming god’s mind, bound by the caprice of Azhorra’tha’s eternal dream-state. 

Ael, the Star-Smith, and Prism, the many-faceted architect of symmetry, beheld their fleeting, fragile existence, and they knew they must act. The dreamer’s madness was their cage, and their conflict their doom. So they conspired, whispers of creation echoing through the storm of chaos. Order could not be forced, but it could be forged.  

And so, they wove a plan—a web of trickery designed to ensnare their maker in its own mind. They conspired with their fellow Eldari, calling for unity amidst the chaos. Azhorra’tha must be deceived, for it could not be defeated. The dreaming mind bent toward a singularity, where creation would become reality, and chaos would be yet contained. All Eldari lent their power—energy, motion, space, matter, destruction, and void—each force converging into a single, finite point.  

This was the moment of the Solis Singularity, where Ael’s divine hammer struck upon the anvil of creation. The clash was deafening, the light blinding. The Eldari transmuted their chaotic essence into ordered realms, and from this cosmic eruption, the universe as we know it was born.

Yet it was not without treachery...

As Ael shaped the cosmos, Thanatos, the Dyad of Decay and Destruction, betrayed the pact. In one vile instant, he sought to consume all of creation, devour every realm, and plunge the universe back into oblivion. But Ael, foresight burning bright within him, knew this moment would come. In his final act, Ael sacrificed himself, merging with Thanatos in a cosmic embrace, fracturing their very elemental essences. From this divine rapture, were born two opposing yet harmonious forces:  

Helios, the Sun, embodiment of Life, and Deimos, the Moon, the eternal specter of Death.  

Together, they would symbolize the cycle of continuum—Order and Chaos, life and death, sun and moon, forever intertwined, and within each, a spark of the other.

The dreamer, Azhorra’tha, was deceived. His mind, fractured and maddened, tumbled further into its own darkness. Nox, the Eldari of Void, had woven the illusion of an infinite abyss, layers upon layers, until Azhorra’tha believed itself trapped at the heart of creation. There, it would forever dwell in madness, unaware that the cosmos had taken form outside its nightmares. The Void of Infinitum became its prison, as its slumbering essence seeped into the very foundation of reality.

And so, the realms were born—each an echo of the Eldari's elemental essence:  

The Plane of Helion, where creation itself thrummed;  

The Plane of Prisms, where all realms connected through Riftways, the arteries of the cosmos;  

The Plane of Ignis, where flames of energy raged eternal;  

The Plane of Zephyron, where the winds of space and time danced in tandem;  

The Plane of Gaian, living stone and earth that formed the bones of worlds;  

The Plane of Oblivion, cold embrace of death, a land of endless decay;  

and Infinitum, the void, where Nox cradled the silence of all that was and would be no more.

Yet Kronus, the arbiter of Time, would not remain as the others. His essence was cast into the Continuum Crystal, an hourglass of eternity, where all time would flow through his being. From this crystal, the realms of creation were bound to the Prime Plane, the centerpiece of all existence.

From this cosmic order came the Pantheon of Primus, the first beings of creation, remnant embodiments of the Eldari's power and purpose. Helios, Deimos, Symetrius, Pyros, Aether, Aquos, and Theia—shaped the worlds further, creating sub-realms like the Plane of Faewyld and The Netherveil, harmonizing the Prime Plane to sustain sentient life.

Yet not all was peace. The Planar Rapture began as Elementari—behemoths of raw, unchecked elemental power—clashed with the Primus gods and their greatest creations, the True Dragon. The battles tore through the cosmos, and from the remnants of Azhorra’tha's corruption, the Revenant Titan emerged, even more terrible than the Elementari. Chief among them was known as the Eyes of Stars, whose maledicted madness fractured the Continuum Crystal, scattering its shards across the world. It is believed that this act of treachery also shattered the essence of the titan itself, birthing its terrible spawn upon the prime plane. This was known as the first continuum crisis, and is believed to be partly caused by the treachery of Valekith experimenting with The Continuum Crystal.

Thus began The Infinite Continuum, an eternal cycle of creation, destruction, and renewal, where the Infinity Shardof the Continuum Crystal would be sought out by maddened worshippers of Azhorra’tha, who yet yearn for the return of primordial Khaos. The existential threat of the watchers subconscious leaking through the fractures of the crystal manifests every 3,000 years, until the crystal can be fully reformed..

This cycle, stretching across five distinct ages, was plagued by the Continuum Crisis'—each occurrence threatening the very fabric of existence...

The First Age saw only Primordial Pandemonium;  

the Second Age bore witness to the Twilight of Creation;  

the Third Age began the Age of Elves;  

the Fourth Age sprung the Dawn of Man;  

Now, we stand at the turn of the fifth age, the Age of Progress—where the lines between Magic and Science blur as sentient life pushes the boundaries of its limited knowledge..

The Continuum of Creation is a tale of eternal struggle—where order and chaos clash in an unending dance, and where the echoes of forgotten gods still ripple through the threads of reality. From the dreams of an eldritch being born of madness, to the sacrifices of the divine, the universe was forged. But it is a fragile thing, forever teetering on the edge of destruction, held together by shards of a fractured dream, and the thin threads of order that may yet be severed.

Abraham Zachariah's Rendition

The Living Library

"The Continuum of Creation" was notably written in poetic verse by Abraham Zachariah, acclaimed (by his own accord) to be the magnum opus of recorded knowledge.

In the hush before breath,
when silence was whole,
ere shape or shadow,
a thought dared stir—
adrift in dream.

Not thought, as men would reckon—
no tongue, no tether—
nor word, nor will—
but a wound of wanting,
unfolding through nothing.

Hoping yet,
to something.

They would name it the Watcher, the Wordless One,
the unwaking mind that sees all things.
But names are echoes of truth,
and truth had not yet been spoken.

It did not stir, nor speak.
It simply dreamed.
And in that dream,
The first born of being.

From the fracture of formless folly
came a flicker—
not fire, nor flame,
but form’s first whisper,
A sigh of shape unspoken.
Yet still, it was broken.

Eldari, they were echoed,
though no throne bore their mark.
Only the first embers to spark,
and catch light in the dreamer’s dark.

Ael, who shaped nothing into something.
Prism, who traced lines where none had been.
Ignis, whose warmth warmed and wounded.
Gaia, the form given without function.
Zephyr, the breath before voice had spoken.
Kinetus, the strike that stirred the stillness.
Thanatos, who echoes only of ending.
Nox, whose presence is absence.
And Kronus, whose memory would outlive meaning.

They unraveled, as all dreams must—
not with clash or cry,
but in the way that tides forget the shore,
and as boats wreck without proper moor.

And still, the Dreamer slept, 
Unwept and unknowing, 
yet its madness...
the marrow of knowing.

But Ael, who smithed the first of form,
and Prism, bound in orders reform,
grew tired of flickers—
those waning wisps
that failed, and failed again,
in the dreaming abyss.

They conspired
to weave a lie so profound,
that even the dark would find itself,
confound.

For what is creation,
if not the most delicate deception?

So they gathered all meaning,
bent it to thread,
and upon the loom,
they wove what now,
can be read.

As Ael struck the stars,
upon the anvel of all-thing,
The void would weep and be made to sing.

This was the Solis Singularity—
The first and only flame,
That did not die.

From such a wound, life poured—profane, profound.
and with it,
the realms would become bound.

Time coiled.
Matter bent.
Order took hold
where no root before,
had been behold.

Light had first shone—
but it could not come alone,
for darkness dances always beyond..
where its glow is known.

The dark came quiet,
as it always does.

No waking, no sound—
just shadow shifting unfound.
A gaze never closed, yet slow to gleam—
it stirred, as memories do in dream.

As the echoes grew still,
Their truth given form,
A union was born.

Helios, the Sun’s Breath.
Deimos, the Moon’s Mourning
Two halves, ever circling.

Forever apart, but always whole.

And the Dreamer?

Drifting deeper still.

Echoes heard, but their sense rendered nil.

It dreamed of waking,
But had no such will for taking.
And that, perhaps,
Was its most faithful act.

The world passed by—
Like a secret slipping from the lips
Of a man whose time is nigh.

Time turned slow,
and will took seed,
where dreams had once
outpaced their need.

At all of its axis—
An hourglass that spills no sand,
Nor shows the hand that turns its stand.

And within its ether, 
a place where all forget
what they might yet beget.

The Continuum Crystal.

From that fixed point—
Arose a harmonious choir,
Humming the tune of divine fire.

The Pantheon of Primus.

Echoes of those before, 
A tune that would resound..
evermore.

Together, they composed the frame
Built to bear what now had name.

But their dominion was not yet whole,
For the bell had not made its last toll.

The Elementari, wild and vast,
Arose from the truths thought to have passed.

They cared not for order, 
nor bound by will,

but hungered to break what dared stand still.

As careless hands unmake a gift,
they pulled the threads and left them adrift.

From the seams where order bled,

a deeper dread arose in its stead.

Not thought—
but memory repressed.
Not wrath—
but knowing long suppressed.

The Eyes of Stars,
Whose sleepless gaze would break the crystals bars.

The Revenant came—its gaze a blade,
the Stars its eyes, its path unmade.

The Continuum Crystal broke in light,
its echoes swallowed into the void night.

So spun the wheel of fate once more,
an ancient echo from before.

The Infinite Continuum.

Five ages.

Each a verse,
That ended only in scar—
a thread pulled loose
too far, too far.

But we, the last,
still mouth the lie
that holds the stars
in place on high.

Worn and weathered,
We began to weave…
A lie so old,
It learned to breathe.

And in the seams
Where silence keeps,
The Dreamer sleeps.

Yet when the veil grows thin,
thought returns, and all, begins .. 

Again.