Matter

"I awoke from a slumber of churning dreams to struggle against the nothingness, coalescing over time into the first bursting patterns of my reality. To fight back the overwhelming possibility of dreaming I had no choice but to create, slipping away from my existence to push outward against the cacophony of letting go. Relinquishing control to the endless waves and tides of times that now become my mind described, patterns over waves and lines that once consumed me."

-*Minara*

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"I awoke from a stagnant slumber to struggle against nothingness, grasping at the bursting patterns of my mind for a semblance of reality. To fight back the overwhelming possibility of the dream I had no choice but to create, slipping away from my existence to push back against the cacophony of letting go. Relinquishing to the endless tides of time that soon became my mind described in the patterns of waves that once consumed me. A dream cradle borne for never letting go."

-*Minara*

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The matter affiliation rules over the creation and manipulation of the material world, organizing the untethered potential of the infinite dream into reality. In this way, all matter is created out of nothing but possibility and dreams, put into order through the perspective of any individual soul. When reality was first imagined by the Infinite Dream, Minara was the sole keeper of creation, as the god of matter. As she struggled through many cycles of dreaming to form the first vestiges of the Dream Cradle, she communed with the distant souls of the other gods, still trapped without form in the void of dreaming. Despite total isolation, Minara gained perspective through these encounters and expanded her soul through understanding their perceptions of the dream, and began to free her siblings, still trapped and unable to shape their own realities, never having experienced anything other than the dream.

Minara continued as the only being capable of transmuting matter from dreams, until the gods of energy and souls had their bodies excavated from the void of dreaming. With the three gods of the material world united, they gained insight into their task of creation, and formed the first primordial beings, the Fariah. These cardinal beings became the heralds of creation, hundreds of individual souls attuned to the affiliation of matter.

The Fariah became responsible for the task of creation, splintering into dozens of tribes that pushed outward against the dream, expanding the Dream Cradle where all living beings would soon reside. As time went on, their collective mastery over the material world grew, and what were once barren landscapes blanketed in splintered spatterings of matter gained complexity and intention in their forms. Each tribe developed patterns and rituals for their creations, forming crystalline forests, jagged crescent mountains, vast seas of shifting stone, and intricate geometries inscribed in the structures of colossal pillars that wept fauna as they slowly plummeted into the ground below.

For hundreds of dream cycles this way of life continued, with several tribes of the Fariah returning to their god to form spired cities where organized societies would take root. Creation was absolute, and the Dream Cradle became the haven for reality and change that the Infinite Dream had once so desperately lacked. In place of a singular existence, thousands of sovereign minds designed the vast possibility of the future, constantly expanding in patterns that remained unknowable and unformed.

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It was not until the birth of Seth, that the inhabitants of the Dream Cradle realized the limitations to creation imposed by their own minds.

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When the god of void coalesced into the Dream cradle, it was the first moment any being wrested control over an affiliation unbound to their soul. Seth brought himself into reality through an understanding of matter that had little to do with order, piecing together a tattered form of sinew and reverberating dreams. Reconfigurations of the patterns he glimpsed while submerged in his hundreds of cycles passing through dreams. The affiliation of matter expanded rapidly from this moment, an explosion of yearning, ravenous creation, and curiosity, often tied to a growing addiction of dreaming.

As beings throughout the dream cradle learned of the second alignment teachings, thousands of new minds became immersed in creation. Once distant affiliations colliding with ever increasing frequency across the dream cradle, as massive library cities were erected to accelerate discovery and learning. Similarly, the original shapers of physical existence began to learn reality anew, and the Tovaana Tribes were borne new knowledge of rituals through their newfound immersion in dreaming, forever transforming the geographies they pulled from the unknown.

From these discoveries two factions emerged of the Fariah, once the sole shapers of reality as Minara's most coveted creations. The Khana arose first amid the conglomerate of Tovaana tribes, chosen individuals who embarked together with Mantu who visited their lands, to lead lives bound together at the soul. Through this union the two would traverse the vast and ever expanding reaches of the dream cradle, delving into the infinite dream, and communing with one another's souls for generations. Countless lands would be given life, spreading fauna and expanding the souls of all who crossed their path. When at last the two felt spent, they would return to their tribe to unite their soul into the vessel of a single being, giving way to a species of new origin, another multiplicity in the perception and perspective harbored with the dream cradle.

The second faction arose from the teachings and rituals of Talos, born blessed to become one of the Khana. Talos was the first and only Fariah to reject the Mantu, giving in to more massive ambition; a calling to establish order throughout the infinite dream. One day, the massive city of his design would become known across all creation, drifting through dream ridden skies in its perpetually shifting, ever present forms.

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that could construct perpetual cycles of dreaming and reality

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The first semblance of reality balanced precariously on the will of Minara, god of order and creation created by the dream to propogate a vessel for

All matter arises from the dream, endless possibility that was shaped and twisted until worlds became filled of endless tunnels, lifeless landscapes

## Gods

Minara rules the affiliation of order, seamlessly forming and shaping matter with her own dream. It was Minara who created the skeleton of the dream cradle, countless tunnels that lead between the thousands of worlds of the dream cradle. For over three hundred years the forces of creation expanded reality, forming diverse life forms throughout intricate and expansive geographies.