Antegenoi

The Antegenoi are an Energy-Aspect based species, which are native to a universe far into the future of paradox space.

## Anatomy & Physiology

Antegenoi do not have a set appearance, due to being comprised of little more than fragments of pure aspect imbued with energy that's decaying in a way which grants them intelligence. Despite this, they can represent themselves physically, and they often do in esoteric and surreal ways. However, there are similarities between Antegenoi of the same aspect in their depiction, and a by no means comprehensive list of those similarities is as follows:

* Space Antegenoi: Spacetime distortion, similar to a black hole, which creates the shape of their appearance.
* Time Antegenoi: Unusual in that they do not usually manifest physically- rather, as time 'breaking' or 'glitching' in their presence to a frightening degree.
* Breath Antegenoi: ???
* Blood Antegenoi: ???
* Hope Antegenoi: ???
* Rage Antegenoi: ???
* Life Antegenoi: ???
* Doom Antegenoi: ???
* Heart Antegenoi: ???
* Mind Antegenoi: ???
* Light Antegenoi: ???
* Void Antegenoi: ???

Antegenoi have a variety of powers and abilities related to their origin and makeup, and almost all of them are, by admission, *extremely broken.* Antegenois can easily manipulate the aspect they are made of- Space Antegenoi would be able to bend and twist space-time into geometries and shapes that shouldn't be possible, while Time Antegenois can bend time loops and paradoxes into existence without any real risk or effort, for example- There's very little restrictions on their power, outside of only being able to affect the aspect they're comprised of. A Time Antegenoi would find it hard to manipulate spacetime in a way that a Space Antegenoi would, for example.

In addition, they are extremely aware of metatextual nonsense- they are aware of the fourth wall, the plot, and the narrative, and how to exploit all of it. This leads to highly entertaining, interesting, and powerful abilities- such as vaporizing the fourth wall quite casually, and finding it rather trivial to hijack narration.

## Behavior, Society & Culture

### Behavior

Antegenoi personality and behavior is extremely dependent on their composite aspect- or rather a stereotyping of their aspect. For example, as Time has associations with destruction and entropy, almost all Time Antegenoi are of a destructive nature or bent.

That is not to say there is no variation between Antegenoi. Returning to the Time Antegenoi, it's possible for a Time Antegenoi to be one that has an obsessive desire to destroy everything and everyone with little regard for nuance, or for one to assist friends or colleagues by (trying their best to) destroying inhibiting or undesirable things.

### Society & Culture

Antegenoi, largely, keep to themselves. While they are not isolationist like the Cherubs, rather the opposite, large tracks of space separate them in their native universe, making contact with other Antegenoi prohibitive and oftentimes undesirable. In addition, they often understand how their presence can destroy plots and plans of other species or authors/narrators, and thus tend their best to stay out of such situations.

However, Antegenoi do form large-scale settlements, ranging from villages of tens to metropolises of millions (though settlements in the range of millions are very rare). In these situations Antegenoi do often interact, whether that be to exchange ideas and concepts or to provide assistance or criticism between each other. (Strifing is extremely rare, but *extremely exciting* whenever it does happen.)

It is worth noting that there are some notable exemptions to the Antegenoi's non-interference policy. Primarily is when they are actively called upon- either a plea for assistance, or a mere request to talk. Secondarily is when they are creating plots and plans of their own, such as creating species or civilizations of their own.

## History

The story of the Antegenois begins with one of the last Sburb sessions being won- with their frog, unfortunately, acquiring an autoimmune disease. the result of this is that free or potential energy of the universe attacked it in a way which degraded the base reality of it. Due to this, shards of pure Aspect, from the bedrock of reality that was being disrupted by this, began to pollute this universe.

There is another element to this. From the perspective of an entity experiencing time linearly, reality was *old* at this point- almost approaching heat death on a multiversal scale. Due to this, and how it impacted Sburb, the universe created did not have much matter to go around. The result of this was that only a few (compared to our universe) stars, mostly low-mass red dwarfs were created, with few planets between them. This provided few outlets for the free energy of the universe to interact and dissipate, which was a relative impossibility as Entropy is a universal constant.

As chunks and shards of aspect began entering the universe, free energy now had a new outlet. Energizing these collections of pure aspect, they soon found themselves radiating out that energy in a lower-energy form. Interestingly, however, how they radiated this energy out resulted in these shards of aspect gaining intelligence and awareness.

These new beings, the Antegenoi, began existence by immediately forming the local area around them into something more hospitable. Most stayed there, content to exist in isolation, while some were of a more curious bent and began looking for their relatives- not hard to do, considering how obvious Antegenoi can be in their manipulations.

In contrast to the Cherubs, who embarked on this journey to find and fight their mates, the Antegenoi ended these searches with creating strong friendships and comraderies, causing Antegenoi to begin creating sedentary, large-scale settlements over time.

As of the current time period, there are a few massive Antegenoi settlements on the order of hundreds of thousands, or even millions, while a plurality of the population exists in solitary isolation, with a minority existing in small settlements on the order of hundreds or thousands.

## Naming Conventions

Antegenoi don't have names.

If it is absolutely required to make it obvious which Antegenoi is being addressed, Antegenoi will often hijack the narrative to make it perfectly clear which Antegenoi is being referenced by the pronoun 'You'- Either by having non-Antegenoi just understand which is being refered to, or changing the narrative to change the pronoun in ways to make it obvious to the reader who is being addressed.

## Trivia

* Antegenoi often create their residences out of their aspect. For instance, a Space Antegenoi would create their house as a byzantine network of spacetime manifolds and strange geometries, while a Time Antegenoi would create their house out of time loops and anomalous kinks and knots in the timeline.

## Etymology & Inspiration

Antegenoi descends from two greek terms being smashed together, to roughly translate into 'The Last who will Arrive' - Credit to Mythy for suggesting the name.

TrinSilverFirebird's Euamori and Aspect Leyline Shenanigans are a big inspiration on this.