Lazarian Incident

The Lazarian Incident is an event involving a bearer of the Mantle of Death's Defeat. The incident is part of the prelude to the First Aeon War, when war broke out between the factions of the nascent Weave.

## Prelude

During the leadup to the First Aeon War, divisions along ideological lines begun to appear during the expansion of the then nascent Weave. The Archivists, otherwise known as Interventionists, were advocates of intervening in affairs outside of the Weave, both for the purpose of gathering allies and heading off potential threats before they could appear. Opposing this faction were the Isolationists, who advocated for letting outside powers handle their own affairs at their discretion and to focus on their own internal affairs. In the middle was the faction known as the Ascendancy, a neutral faction whom benefited from the divisions between the two.

In the months before the First Aeon War, low level skirmishes and conflicts gradually increased in frequency and scale until all-out war was declared by the Archivists and the Isolationists. One of the events that begun this escalation became known as the Lazarian incident, whereupon the several threats from the Weave's early expansion period were revived using the Mantle of Death's Defeat.

## The Incident

In an act of sabotage, the Archivists secretly sent the Transcended Exalt Ina (a bearer of the Mantle of Death's Defeat) to interfere in the creation of another Weave Node by the Isolationists. The Isolationists at the time of the incident had begun construction of a Weave Node in a universe where a war had been waged between a faction of the Weave and a local power several thousand years before, by the count of the Weave's chronology. The universe itself was still littered with debris and detritus left over in both its past and future, leaving the Isolationists partially clearing a temporal and spatial region of the war's leftovers for room to create a Node.

Ina was given a false background as an inspector, with a role to mark the various locations and minor cosmic phenomena of note. In this position she was given the records of the war that had taken place years before to assist in her false duty. She used this opportunity to find the various locations where the local power's living superweapons had been permanently slain with the Death Concept, before rapidly resurrecting them in an act of sabotage.

In the ensuing chaos, Ina escaped while the resurrected weapons wrecked havoc on the incomplete Weave Node and its inhabitants. In order to bring the universe back under control, an Outer God was sent to the location to once again pacify the location, alongside banning any being that possessed resurrective capabilities on the same or higher magnitude than the aforementioned Exaltation. Once the Weave Node had been brought back under control, an investigation was launched to discover the details of what had happened. Soon after the culprit had been identified, it was discovered that Ina had been Opal Lighted by an (at the time) unidentified party. Interest in the investigation waned not long after, though suspicions remained on the likely planners of the sabotage, the Archivists.

## The Aftermath

The aftermath of the Lazarian Incident had introduced numerous changes to the Weave's treatment of Exalts. Previously, Transcended Exalts were allowed the same freedoms as any other citizen of the Weave, but with the incident, such things changed. After the event, Transcended Exalts became heavily monitored until the Tor Crisis, with their movements tracked and Exaltations listed under a central database.

The incident in particular also saw the introduction of the Lazarian Protocols, where records of the temporal-spatial and Void locations of beings that had been permanently killed or erased are destroyed to prevent their resurrection by others. Unless the beings were slated for resurrection (in which case the records are kept), the information on the locations of their deaths would only be retained in the memory of those that took part in the operation to end those entities.

This incident resulted in an escalation of the existing low level conflicts between the Archivists and the Isolationists, leading to a series of larger scale incidents to follow until the First Aeon War finally erupted.