User blog:GrandMethuselah67/Lore Sheet: The Methuselahverse

In the beginning, there was the Hollow, a vast gulf of nothingness in which strange entities roamed. These beings were all mere aspects of Zixx-Ablegathohautchitl, the embodiment of the Hollow itself. These entities wandered aimlessly throughout nonexistence, without consciousness or sentience, for such a thing didn't exist in the Hollow. Yet at some point, somehow, one entity grew self-aware. It gained sentience and the willpower to break away from Zixx-Ablegathothohautchitl. Suddenly, it was something -- it ''existed. ''By existing, it was allowed to think apart from the entities, but there was nothing in the Hollow; especially nothing for this entity who no longer "felt" the same things as the Hollow entities.

This being contained a spark. This spark, this pure...quiet that allowed it to spawn anything from itself. Perhaps this is the same spark Zixx-Ablegathohautchitl used to create the Hollow; if, indeed, the Hollow was ever truly "created". This being activated its spark, and it suddenly found itself immobilized. Its consciousness scattered, expanding and expanding into something truly massive. This entity gained a "body", and it was made from two things called "matter" and "energy". This body is what made up the Alpha Universe, and it was this Alpha Universe that was the slumbering body of this being, now known as Akvak-Tomen. Existence in the tongue of the Celestial. Akvak-Tomen, since the creation of the Alpha Universe, has been asleep ever since. One day, Akvak-Tomen will awaken again, and the final battle against the Hollow will begin.

The Three Primordial Races: Draconic experiments, the Giants, and the Children of Chaos
It wasn't long before life began to appear in this universe. After all, the laws of physics were massively lax and young, and the concepts were also very young and lax. This allowed life to appear in the strangest of places and disappear as soon as they re-appeared. This also allowed for life that lived billions of years at a time, which made highly successful and powerful races. However, the only races that truly stayed were the three: the Dragons, the Giants, and the Fae. The Giants were only semi-intelligent powerhouses that survived just due to their ability to survive practically anything. The Fae lived in their chaotic domain, Elfhome. The Dragons were the ones that ruled most of the Alpha Reality, being largely intelligent and imperialist. Due to a combination of their strictly athiestic society, their focus on advancement both magical and technological, and the lax physics of the universe, they were able to reach a state of transcendance relatively quickly in the lifespan of their civilization. However, even as they've become transcendent, it simply wasn't enough. They continued advancing, breaking dimensional barriers and engineering complex universal codes. Through this strict futurist method, they've ascended beyond three-dimensional space and achieved something...more. It's unknown where the Dragons are in modern times, but it is known that one can occassionally manifest in three-dimensional space; albiet as massive, geometric shapes in a void.

Draconic experiments the reason for a lot of the Alpha Universe's growth. At one point, they broke some cosmic law and quickly patched the hole they created by creating the infinite multiverse we know today. The Giants guard the gates to each universe, acting as its guard. If anyone in a universe breaks some important cosmic law enough to cause multiversal trouble, the Giant has no problem with getting rid of that person...and the galaxy cluster that person is located in.

The Feifdom of the Celestial: The Aeons
When the Alpha Universe was created by Akvak-Tomen, the new "reality" filled in the blanks for a comprehensive universe by creating the Aeons, the concepts that create a the basic foundation of all there is. These Aeons came together to create the Feifdom of the Celestial. The Feifdom is as follows:

Akvak-Tomen (Existence): Considered the overbeing of the Feifdom, although nobody, not even the Lady and the Lord can really communicate with it, Akvak-Tomen is the embodiment of all existence in the multiverse. All things existing, in the totality of the multiverse, is one with Akvak-Tomen. When he awakens, all existence will return to him, yet they may retain their consciousness and individuality. It is unknown what the details of Akvak-Tomen's awakening would be.

Akvak-Dkmak (Lord Oblivion): Akvak-Dkmak is the being of Ultimate Endings. He’s the obliterator, the embodiment of the end. Lord Oblivion was born the same time as Lady Creation, and he’s been married to her ever since the beginning of everything. Their relationship is more of a game: she creates, he destroys. For every million he kills, a million and one is born. Ultimately, Lord Oblivion is He With Infinite Patience. He knows everyone, and he will remain when everyone is gone.

Akvak-Rao (Lady Creation): On the opposite side, Akvak-Rao is the being of Ultimate Beginnings. She’s the Supreme Mother and the embodiment of all life and creation. Everything that holds the signs of life is filled with her essence. She’s the Maternal Being, mother to all concepts with infinite compassion for all that isn’t abyssal and foul. As the Creator, she is considered sacred in a magical context and is only used as a Word of Power in the most delicate magic.

Dkmak-Sii (Spacetime): First child of Creation and Oblivion and somewhat considered outside of the Feifdom, Spacetime is a man of Infinite Patience just as the Aeon he takes after. Alien minded, neutral, and uncaring, Spacetime treats absolutely everyone equally. He has Hounds of Tindalos that he sends after those who break the rules of Time.

Dkmak-Mab (Chaos): Second child of Creation and Oblivion, Mab is the embodiment of Chaos and Magic, and queen of the Fae. She can be seen as a destructor, one who unmakes entire realities on a whim or a jealous fit. Or she can be considered the esoteric queen, a process of things as they happen in random order: a thousand coins flying into air, the ripples in a pond. Queen Mab is responsible for the existence of magic, and gathering the Four Relics of the Seasons is a way to make her physical form manifest.

Rao-Amb (Order): The embodiment of Order and Symmetry, Rao-Amb is the process by which all things stablize and stagnate. Mab and Amb cannot exist in the same space, for they're so fundamentally opposite each other it'd be like a billion massive antimatter collisions.

Dkmak-Oii (Causality): Embodiment of logic, knowledge, and causality, Dkmak-Oii is he who knows everything. He is omniscient, knowing everything that there is, was, and will be to know. Magi often regard him as a patron.

Lesser Aeons: Lesser Aeons can embody wordly or “non-cosmic” concepts such as Anger, Happiness, Earthquakes, and Fire. Some Lesser Aeons are children of the Greater Aeons, and some of them simply come to be as a result of a Greater Aeon existing.

The Great Forces: Things responsible for powers in the Methuselahverse
Superpowers are a phenomenon that have become increasingly common during humanity's 41st Century as they brave outer space, quantum realms, and other such things. The forces behind these superpowers are largely not understood and difficult to study, because they appear to be tied to abstract concepts that aren't necessarily physical, and thus are undetectable. These are the so-called "Great Forces" responsible for superpowers:

Harkenparticles:

Harkenparticles contained in the superhuman gene are responsible for superhuman powers, physicists and geneticists alike believe. The Harkenparticle, discovered in 2103 by physicist George Harken, is a particle that exists in a "quantum state" -- that is, existant and nonexistant. Due to the quantum state, it seems to be able to break a number of physical laws, going faster than the speed of light and teleporting around. It seems that starting with the Transhuman revolution, humans with naturally-occuring DNA strands made from Harkenparticles appeared. These humans have a wide array of abilities, from heat manipulation to reality warping to psionic powers. The Harkengene phenomenon has been spotted in alien species too, showing that it's not just a human phenomenon.

Quantum Phenomena:

This is much rarer than the superhuman gene. From time to time, people experience their conscious mind being contacted by some extra-dimensional consciousness. This seems to be happening through the quantum level. These extra-dimensional abilities allow whoever endowed with them a wide-arrange of abilities, from things like the Deep to the Quiet. The quantum phenomenon is inherently mysterious and massively unpredictable due to the randomness of it. The event is probably connected to the Dragons in some way; perhaps their extra-dimensional experiments cause occassional ripple effects throughout the multiverse, and sometimes those ripples bestow powers.

Magic:

True magic only really appeared for humans around the year 2070. When computers gained enough processing power to rival all human minds on the planet Earth, massive and multiple calculations could be all done in femtoseconds. Through coding and constant computing, supernatural effects were eventually created. It was then known that magic was real, and that it had something to do with mathematics, so it became a branch of applied algebra. Today, most magi are computer nerds that have enough savvy with computers and mathematics to conjure up more than a few magical effects.