The Gaiaverse

The gaiaverse is a collection timelines/realities that diverge from a singular timeline, the Alpha Record.

All timelines in the gaiaverse share some kind of shared background, diverging from real history at several key points.

Originally, Gaia was born with humanity in its dormancy as cavemen and woman, as belief is a potable energy with actual impacts in this universe, Gaia was created from the most basic and fundamental belief that all humans in history share, the belief in the planet/earth/place where they live. Over the aeons humanity had created a plethora of other lesser and more specialized gods as pantheons formed and fell.

Belief itself, as an energy source, can be negatively or positively charged. This collective scale of energy charges is referred to as the grief:hope axiom, because negatively charged belief is grief, oppositionally represented by Hope energies for positive emotion.

In every universe Gaia alternatively grows bored with the countless aeons looking over humans/is a cruel and capricious deity/needs apostles to carry out her work inadvertently/has a holy purpose, and creates the gaia girls/magical girls to fulfil these needs. Every 100 years or so a group of girls, the size varying (ages 13-19) are chosen and have their fate line removed/given an aspect of power relative to their psyche.

The more cynical theorists of her motives will justify the high rate of unstable and psychotic magical girls on her wanting to create chaos for the drama of it, so she's entertained, so she selects girls for her gifts that have underlying flaws, obvious or not. The canonically optimistic theorists will tell you that the human mind can only comprehend the impossible and cosmic for so long before something cracks, and therefore it is the weakness of the human mind that creates magical girls that are psychotic and murderous.

Within the Gaiaverse several timelines exist, some active and some now null -

The Alpha Record -

The original sin, a timeline where the magical girls inadverently created the chronal fracture that originally split time into a variety of records/timelines/realities.

This timeline contains two games, the original magical girls round, and the subsequent sequel game set 60 years later in a semi-apocalyptic world, The August foundation.

Three groups of eight magical girls existed in this timeline. (one player group, Gao)

The Theta Record -

The Theta record concerns a magical girls group in Velvet City, it reached its final stages of the gaia cycle before one of the magical girls betrayed her group so she could seal away the heart of sin and prevent any others from using it for nefarious ends.

One group of magical girls (player group, five players) in velvet city, groups of smaller/varying sizes in other cities.

The Omicron Record -

The Omicron record concerns a magical girls group from Quing city, who were all eventually contained/captured by the cult of the black seed because one of their group betrayed them, and instead of power they were trapped as well.

One group in quing city ( five players? )

The Tau Record -

The Tau record concerns three groups of four magical girls versing each-other for gaia's explicit amusement (known as the 4v4v4 because it was three groups of 4 players). It ended when Lyra bennet, a genius multi-millionaire used who status as a balance seed to balance the minds of thousands of human and make them see logic and reason instead of guiding emotion or self-preservation, this cult sensation resulted in the formation of a world order in the years following the cycle, the other magical girls were dispensed, imprisoned, or folded into the existing chain of command. The result is a world that utilized magical tech and militarized forces when the black tide occurred, resulting in a world that managed to survive it by relinquishing the land so humanity could live in floating cities and offworld bases.

The Lambda Record -

the 'core' timeline - more info required.

Several sequel campaigns to take place in this record, the 'mutants' and 'heroes' campaigns involving mana-mutated humans fighting grief beasts centuries after their 2010 cycle.

The Iota Record -

A timeline revolving around a group of magical girls in Gao city, set in a more advanced 2010 due to timeline shifts caused by achronal distancing and fracturing. (three groups of five).

This timeline has received internal chronal fractures and weakening due to one magical girl possessing powers that allow temporal shifting.

Fading Records:

Records who's canonicity is in question.

The Beta Record -

The '90s' magical girl timeline, in which the magical girls were created in the 90's by some deviation on gaia's part to fight a growing menaced of organized vampire clans ruling over humanity in secret, in the wake of the vampires trying to cause a nuclear holocaust through the cold war, involved a group of three magical girls from velvet city (three players).

The Gamma Record -

- not much is known about this timeline, a magical girl, Samantha, aspect of imagination, was sucked in from 2010 to an isekai cycle.