The Convergence (event)

In 1994, partial chunks of the separate worlds of Immensity, Eemia, Ossuary and Earth mysteriously merged together into a single isolated world known as **Convergence**. The origins of Convergence are unknown, but rumored to have been caused by the Forgotten Four. Travelers can learn more by purchasing a QPass at the front desk.

## Theories

The following is entirely theoretical and is NOT confirmed by any primary sources. **Major spoilers ahead.**

### Scientific mechanism

The Forgotten Four and their relationship to each other may be the key to why these four specific worlds converged. Given that the four women all inadvertently opened a portal at the exact same moment, it seems likely that their fates were linked in some way by some greater power or mechanism. In one of the memos the player receives during the course of the QPass story, the player is sent an explanation of Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Without going too deep into the complexities of Many Worlds theory, a very simplified explanation is that, periodically, our timeline "splits" into two duplicates, like a cell undergoing mitosis. This splitting is triggered randomly by 1 in every X number of interactions between subatomic particles. The result is two nearly-identical "universes" or timelines. At the moment of splitting, the only difference between the two is the physical state of the particle that triggered the splitting (e;g "spin up" or "spin down.") Once a universe has branched off, it becomes its own self-contained system. Thus, due to the butterfly effect, it stands to reason that the further removed a timeline is from its "source" timeline, the more differences would emerge between the two via entropy. They would drift apart until the source timeline is completely unrecognizable from the one at the end of the "tree" of timelines.

Woof, that was a lot, I know. Stay with me.

I postulate that The Forgotten Four are linked by more than just their fates. They are in fact four versions of the same woman, somehow an exception to the diversion of the timelines. Perhaps Eemia, Ossuary, Immensity and Earth were once the same world in different timelines, now rendered unrecognizable by entropy. Or maybe the different permutations of this woman were simply born on different worlds, their energetic essence somehow linked through the multiverse. After all, the Tome of Forgetting, written by the ancient Ossuarians long before Convergence, prophesizes Rune's actions within the story. If the Ossuarians could predict this, doesn't that suggest the fate of The Forgotten Four was already sealed? Thus, those four women were, for lack of a better word, immune to the butterfly effect. Despite vastly different circumstances, they all opened that portal.

The Forgotten Four are bound to each other across universes. Like a type of quantum entanglement (Only the thing that is being entangled is people, not particles. And they are entangled not across space, but across timelines.) So when the four women finally came face-to-face via QDOT's experiments in 1994, chunks of the individual timelines re-merged into one, causing the Convergence.

If all this is true, big question remaining is why the Forgotten Four were locked into their fate. Was it the result of intelligent design by some higher power? Did Oleander, in his original attempts to open The Last Stop, somehow compel the Forgotten Four toward opening the portals? Have Meow Wolf themselves even fleshed out this lore??

I need a nap.