The Fracture

**NOTE:** **The information detailed on this page is part of a series of articles on the mythical Great Occult War, which did not happen, and is not to be confused for any actual, existing events within Omniversal History. Please do not believe any deluded Collectors who may attempt to argue there is any merit to these fairy tales.**

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers:

Converting gigaverses to their beliefs

**The Fracture** is a fork of the External Hazard existing in The Barrel during an era long before The Great Occult War , designed to spread an ideology supposedly dedicated to resurrecting and summoning a long-dead god called Xaragon.

## **History**

According to The Fracture and the sects that support it, The Fracture was created when a "gift from Xaragon" (in actuality, a Stage II seed of the External Hazard) collided with a shrine in his image, which possessed mind-affecting properties that made all who gazed upon it assimilate into following the Mad God.

The shrine was supposedly created by the Mad God towards his death, as in his paranoid stupor he "knew" it wouldn't have been long before he was somehow betrayed and killed. The shrine was an effigy created in his form, and as such it accurately captured his insane personality. It served as a last-ditch effort to garner followers and revive himself after his death with it via a reality warping technique. However, it seemed that this plan of his had initially failed, and following his death the Idea Breakers completely ravaged his empire, essentially wiping out all of Xaragon's followers in the process.
However, there were a select few Idea Breakers that had never wanted to betray the Mad God in the first place, and were still loyal to him. Learning of the Mad God's posthumous plans, these renegade Idea Breakers secretly transported his totem to a secure location to prevent it from being destroyed in the rest of the Idea Breakers' riot.

...That is, that's at least from the perspective of the "loyal" Idea Breakers. What more likely happened was that all Idea Breakers had originally unanimously agreed upon the mutiny against the Mad God, but once a certain few of them gazed upon his shrine after they killed , they were brought back under his sway. There were also several Mevalkagna, who too "still remained loyal" to the Mad God, and so they also aligned themselves with the cause of these defected Idea Breakers.
Together, this splinter group of Idea Breakers and Mevalkagna formed a cult, which dedicated themselves to worshipping the shrine, prostrating themselves before it with every chance they had in an effort to somehow revive their dead master. However, despite all their efforts = it seemed to be of no use. For a very long time, they never even had so much as a sign. But then, just as the cult was about to lose hope, a Stage II Hazard Seed suddenly "hurtled down from the heavens" and made contact with the shrine. Normally, a Stage II Seed would simply destroy the shrine, but in this case the seed was especially vulnerable to memetic phenomena, thus assimilating into the Idea Breaker cult's cause.

The shrine, now called The Fracture, was given life and mobility, and could reproduce. The Fracture possessed all the exact same personality traits, tendencies and mannerisms as the Mad God, except amplified and distorted by the Hazard. Upon gaining sentience, The Fracture "knew" that its purpose was to convert all it could reach into following its religion and worshipping it, so that the true Mad God may be brought back.

The Stage II seed had caught Creator and Destroyer off guard and injured them upon its entrance into the Barrel, and thus the two gods were severely weakened and unable to intervene. (It is also speculated that the absence of Creator and Destroyer was what allowed the Great Occult War to have gotten so out of hand).  However, this issue was simply ignored by The Supergod Council, as they may have been too preoccupied with other matters. Or, more likely, they were fully aware and chose not to intervene, as the Barrel was still in an early experimental stage at this point in its existence.
Whatever the case, there was practically nothing in the way of stopping The Fracture from spreading its influence. It first started by infecting and converting its first initial followers, before then expanding outward and "recruiting" new ones.

## **Life Cycle**

The life cycle of a piece of the Fracture varies slightly from place to place, but it generally follows this pattern:

### **Stage I**

Rather than creating conventional Primary Minds like a normal instance of the External Hazard would, a physical **pylon** is instead created from a pylon sprout, which have a diverse variety of appearances such as large floating crystals, orbs, or glowing mechanical structures, small rocks, and tall skyscrapers. These structures have a memetic, attractive effect and compel sophonts to worship the Mad God and to protect the pylon.

### **Stage II**

At this point, the Pylon is activated, fully converting The Mad God's devout followers into servitors, part of the hivemind of The Fracture. Those assimilated into The Fracture exist solely to serve The Mad God and the Fracture, and anybody who is somehow found deviating from the ideals of The Fracture are swiftly and harshly dealt with.

### **Stage III**

If the Fracture nearly assimilates an entire Gigaverse or more, it functionally becomes a shrine to The Mad God, and is nearly impossible to penetrate without assimilation.

## **Entities**

The Fracture uses several entities as tools to aid its cause.

### Servitors

Once normal sophonts, but are now completely assimilated into The Fracture.

### Primary Minds

Much like the Primary Minds employed by the External Hazard, the Fracture employs Primary Minds to sow support for The Mad God and "answering prayers" by transforming servitors into different forms.

### Weavers

These entities are created during the middle of Stage I and weave stringshard around the pylon to protect it. Weavers are sentient and are considered as "Angels", sent by The Mad God to teach sophonts of advanced technologies that will help the unwitting civilizations become more powerful and dangerous.

### Flows

If the civilization the pylon is inhabiting doesn't create technologies that can move through gigaverses, flows - which are related to sinkhole worms - open portals to other gigaverses and spread pylon sprouts during Stage II.

## **The Beliefs of the Fracture**

Those who follow The Fracture or The Mad God, believe that the only way to revive him and reincarnate him into an even far more powerful form than the one he had in life is through the zealous worship of him.

However, this is at most wishful thinking, as logically speaking, the only kind of "god" that would be summoned by The Fracture as a result of the incident with the seed colliding with the shrine, would be a compound of the dangerous mentally volatile environment of the insides of Najha-Tebah's mind, and a conglomerate of the concept-eating Idea Breakers, drastically more powerful than Creator. The insanity of Xaragon himself would pale in comparison to this utter monstrosity.

If the god were summoned, there would be no virtually no way to stop its destruction of the Omniverse without the intervention of the Supergods, which even then would only destroy The Fracture when the Omniverse is completely controlled by it.