Dr. Paul Brennan

**Dr. Paul Brennan** is the first major villain that the Archive players encountered, appearing within the first ten voice sessions. Appearing as a 47 year old human male, he is in reality 15,612 years old (as of the document written 12/31/2020). He is a Cosmic Aspect of Mundanity, and his powerset primarily relates as such.

## Background

Much of what is known about Dr. Brennan was discovered by Alexander Varias when he went to the rubble of the Bookburner base with The Archivists. He was born to Mary and Eugene Brennan, and over the course of his life was eventually employed as a head researcher in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and was considered instrumental in his home reality in the construction of the Large Hadron Collider. This device was capable of opening portals into parallel dimensions, and lead to his conscription into The Archive's research department.

While within the Archive, Dr. Brennan eventually wrote his paper *Deciphering the Transmundane: Unraveling the Unspoken Thaumaturgical Laws That Govern 'Magic'* resulting in him being approached by the True Aspect of Mundanity. After several complaints about the Archives obsession with creating 'stories' believing that this energy could be better put into being a catalyst for much needed change, Dr. Brennan abandoned the Archive, destroying the research department as he left, and founded the organization "Project Utopia" aka "The Bookburners".

## Project Utopia Arc

The party's first interaction with Paul Brennan came after a fight with a team working underneath him consisting of B'aabe Ro'othe, Orlando Bloom, and Big Boy. The party managed to defeat the team, but they were evacuated by Dr. Brennan before they were killed. This is where Dr. Brennan invited the team to join Project Utopia, pitching it as an opportunity to remove the magic and strangeness from the multiverse so that people can't be hurt by it any longer. Everyone in the party refused.

Not long after, a declaration of war was pushed out to the entirety of the Archive by an unknown representative of Project Utopia. Due to the mention of the research department of The Archive, this declaration was presumably written by Dr. Brennan himself, but as of now that is not confirmed.

Not long after this, it is believed he began work on the Divinity Shard, as Gods began disappearing, throwing countless worlds into chaos. The Party helped a few of these worlds with the help of BB, namely, Faerune and the gods of Life and Death, Fors (Fate's Bounty) and the Mistress of Fate, and the realm of Heaven under the Goddess of Power, before they finally faced off against the book burners themselves and attacked their base in the Chaos Dimension.

(Missing information on the happenings of the Chaos Dimension)

After winning the battle at the Chaos Dimension and retrieving the Divinity Shard, it was turned over to Mother for her to destroy it. Alexander on his own went to the Chaos Dimension with The Archivists and discovered that in all, 11,512 divine entities were forced into the fusion that became the Divinity Shard. There was an infinite number of documents found here, most of which were left at the Book Burner base. The one's currently in possession of the Party are:

* Alexander Varias
* Nicolai Varias
* Bailey Oakwood-Varias
* Dr.Paul Brennan
* The Cosmic Aspect of Transmundanity
* Divinity Shard
* Project Utopia Logbook
* Pace Windtrotter
* Mutt
* Amelian Koester
* Florence
* Christopher Vasquez

## Current Status

As of now, Dr. Paul Brennan is locked in a stalemate with his sister, Belle Brennan. It is unknown if either of them will ever be able to break free of this lock they both find themselves in.