Cosmology

## **Hierarchy**

### **Sarygu**

Sarygu's presence and goals are unknown, being the ultimate omnipotent of everything. The most anyone can comprehend of its entity is the tendency for it to create emanations at the level of an Unbounded avatar.

If every story has an author, then Sarygu is the author of Denouema, leaving Sarygu out of any definable system.

### **Denouema**

Denouema - embodiment of all stories. Denouma is the sentient unconscious of Sarygu, also referred to as the Almighty and The One. Denouema represents stories as a whole across all of the Unbounded. They tend to refer to Denouma with the name "Fiction", with the Unbounded being only partially aware that they themselves are in a story, which they refer to as "history", even back to the start of creation of the Unbounded realm.

Due to its nature, Denouema is untouchable and practically immortal to the Unbounded. However, Denouema is nothing but a story, even if it's The Story.

### **The Unbounded**

The Unbounded are transdual beings who are the creators of their own creations, which they refer to as stories. They are ultimately the ones who create the Deities, and then influence how they act in their stories, unbeknownst to the deities due to being something beyond their grasp entirely.

Unbounded can create "personas" of themselves to interact in the lower worlds. The power levels of these beings can vary greatly, from being as weak as any other human, to being endlessly more powerful than a Primary Deity, to having an endless stack of them being stronger than another. Regardless of this, these personas are still indisputably under the true nature of themselves, never being able to reach it.

Forever, omnipotent, and unimaginable in comparison to their lower entities, the Unbounded from their own perspective are actually mortal.

### **Primary Deities**

Occasionally referred to as the Divines, The Primary Deities are abstract primordial entities that are the source of the concepts that they embody.

The Deities are what they control; War, Order, Fate, etc. As such, they are aspatial and atemporal beings, since their concepts are not limited by the boundaries of space and time.

Primary Deities are not able to enter Midgard in their true state. As platonic beings, they are "real", and Unreality is nothing more than a "shadow" of their presence. If they were to try to directly interact with it, Midgard would crumble. This is why Primordial entities use what they call "Shadows", which are avatars and emanations of themselves.

Avatars have no real meaning of existence other than the pure curiosity, or personal goals, of the deities themselves. Sometimes they are used merely for simulation to experience existing within Unreality. Daemon is a commonly known Primary Diety who uses shadows.

* Daemon, God of Order
* Donovan, God of War

### **Secondary Deities**

Secondary Dieties control concepts like Primary dieties, but what they control could be influenced by dimensional levels, implying that it isn't an omnipresent concept beyond creation. This is because the nature of their concept does not predate time, and therefore neither do they. As such, their existence depends on their multiverse's existence.

This makes Secondary Deities inferior to Primary Dieties, however it is still enough that their full power can be present across Midgard.

- Storm, Sky God

- Aquous, Sea God

- Abilene, Nature Goddess

- Celestio Cosmos God

- Belle, Beauty Goddess

- Speed God

- Aether, Aether Goddess

- Nether, Nether God

- Alpha, Time God

- Magisti Magic Goddess

- Death Goddess

### **Planes-Walkers**

Planes-Walkers refer to inter-dimensional beings that exist in between different planes of existence. The most common of these beings are spirits and poltergeists, though some of the Planes-Walkers are an actual living species. Dawn is a great example of an Aether-Walker, one of the most well known species of Planes-Walkers to exist.

### **Bronze Beings**

Referring to the purely physical beings. While commonly referred to as Lesser beings, or mortals (in general) a lot of the time, Bronze beings serve a much much greater purpose. Of the endless amount of secondary deities that exist, more than 99.9% of them all wouldn't come into Midgard or prosper in Midgard if it wasn't for the thoughts and ideas of Bronze Beings giving them purpose to exist.

In short, these beings of true free-will unconsciously create their own gods.

## **Size**

Due to the diversity of the characters in the verse, and the different paths they take throughout their own stories, the size of the verse is very large.

### **Macrocosms**

Commonly referred to as the World with a capital W by Planes-Walkers, Macrocosms are basically all the workings of a universe and its relative accessories.

#### *The Universe*

The universe is the main reality in the macrocosm, an endless sea of countless galaxies as far as the eye can see. It is the core of the World, and everything within the World revolves around the universe. Running under the theory of cosmic inflation, the diameter of universe should be at least 24 trillion light years, though that is not likely to be the limit.

The universe is also known to operate under wave functions and hilbert space, having infinite possible directions of motion, though majority of its life only move in three.

#### *Timelines*

The World contains an infinite amount of alternate timelines for its universe. Every possible event, from Planck scale to a cosmic scale, creates an entirely new timeline where that action does not happen. Timelines sometimes crossover to create more timelines, ultimately creating an endless amount of timelines from the birth of the universe to the universe's ultimate end.

#### *Cyberworld*

Also known as cyberspace, coexisting with the Universe, the Cyberworld is commonly referred to as the power source of technology; Electronic and ferrous technology cannot work without its existence. Because of its coexistence, even the simple action of googling something causes a reaction within cyberspace. However, the Cyberworld is more than just a technological plane of existence, it is the realm of physical information which defines the physical system of the universe, the quantum foam that makes up the coding of reality. Cyberspace Energy, also called data, is pure information, and its inhabitants there are made up of data down to the Planck scale as a result. Not entering this World in a data state or with proper protection may cause the victim's physical body to be converted into information.

Being able to attain perfect manipulation of cyberspace brings manipulation of all the physical fundamental forces of nature. The main species of Cyber-Walkers dedicate their time to make sure the spacetime continuum remains intact.

#### *Miscellaneous*

* Microverses - tba
* Particolis - tba
* Causal Plane (Causalworld)
* Akashic Plane (Akashicworld)
* Astral Plane (Soulworld)
* Mental Plane (Cerebralworld)
* Messianic Plane (Messiaworld)

### **Multiverse**

The Multiverse, with a capital M, is also referred to as the Materialworld, all of existence, and Creation.

#### *The Nexus*

Residing in the center of the multiverse, it's where a lot of the secondary dieties reside. Everything in the multiverse is connected to the Nexus, and that's what makes it the gateway to everything.

The divines think of it like a miniature localized version of Asgard, because it more or less does has the same things, only on a much more limited scale.

#### *Exospace*

This realm of limbo is the space that separates macrocosms. Acting as the boundary between Worlds, it is a void dimension beyond spacetime that is mainly used by Planes-Walkers as a place of escape and imprisonment. Without Cyber-Walkers watching over, physics and law tends to break down here, leading to contradicting void physics in different areas despite being the same place.

Magus's Prison resides in exospace, an endless labyrinth that defies space and the concept of logic altogether.

#### *Netherworld*

Also referred to as the Nether, the Netherworld houses the abstract force that will eventually bring an end the multiverse for an ultimate restart into a new birth cycle.

Like with Exospace, The Netherworld's presence is outside any governs of physics. It has a paradoxical existent and nonexistent state, both below all creation and within all of creation, and outside the flow of time while within the flow of time. The Netherworld exists as an infinite domain within each World, with a dedicated universal realm for every mortal within the World. The Underworld of the Nether is place of preternatural cold, but the core of the world encompasses hell, where the flames burn of a conceptual heat.

#### *Aetherworld*

The plane of the cosmic force that creates the Materialworld, and resides on top of it all.

The Aetherworld houses and guards heaven. It is a Utopian society that is filled with prudent beings all with good intentions. It gives off a healing atmosphere, and its rivers, lakes, and waterfalls flow with aether.

The Aetherworld sits on top of Midgard, and therefore sits just on the bare reaches of conventional time and space. Time is not seen as an abstract force here, but as a flowing liquid current, and the real current of "time" here is causality itself. Going to the Aetherworld from the Materialworld, then returning can either send you back to the exact time when you left, some time in the future, or sometime in the past, depending on the jetstream current of time over the Materialworld.

The sky of the Aetherworld is heaven, endlessly reaching out beyond several metaphysical layers beyond all of time and space.

### **Midgard**

Midgard houses all forms of creation, usually referred to as the Mortal Realm. There are several known ones at the moment...

* The Main Continuity Multiverse
* The SFC Wiki roleplay Multiverse
* The SFC/Skype Strudel crossover roleplay Multiverse
* The Skype COB roleplay Multiverse
* The Skype COB/Strudel crossover roleplay Multiverse
* The Skype Strudel roleplay Multiverse
* The SFC Discord roleplay Multiverse

### **Unreality**

Unreality the shadow of the "real" platonic abstract world, an aspatial and atemporal realm. Like with quantum mechanics of the physical world, Midgard is merely the parts of Unreality that are being observed, an insignificant portion of a transcended whole. When unobserved, Unreality returns to its state of nonduality; existing and not existing simultaneously. It is not a "place" one can physically travel to as it extends beyond the concepts of time and space, although metaphysical travel through dreams is possible.

Due to its random nature of absolute possibility, Unreality is home to fantasies, imaginations, dreams, and so much more.

* Dreamworld

An extra-dimensional realm of existence, transcending all of the other realms and planes, the Dreamworld is a boundless fluctuation of unreal universes, each universe being created when someone dreams/daydreams, which is simply them temporarily extending their consciousness to their higher state of being. This is the reason that mortals are capable of manifesting secondary dieties by their own willpower.

Those who dream end up ascending their consciousness into the dreamworld, and upon awakening/dying in said dream, they return to their original state of being. Entering this place metaphysically rather than through dreaming is risky, as one is sending their true states into this existence. Dying there would leave them unrecoverable in Unreality's nondual void.

While majority of dreams are universes, dieties themselves can dream as well. And since they understand the structure of Unreality, it makes their dream worlds essentially the size of all Unreality. And dreamed gods can dream as well endlessly, resulting in an ad infinitum of layers of Unreality.

### **Asgard**

The God Realm. No matter how many layers of Unreality nor how large Unreality gets, it will always be a mere shadow of True Reality. Asgard houses the Primary Deities. At this point, things such as thoughts and mathematics fail to work here, and only concepts and ideas can truly exist. Asgard is conceptually held together by Yggdrasil; its roots keep the entirety of the 'god world' together, and the tips of its roots are the source of all nexuses of Creation. The observed parts of Unreality are projected as Asgard's many orbiting moons, free for any deity to quickly locate a current focused part of Unreality. With everything in Asgard being conceptual essence and thoughts, beings who aren't concepts themselves are usually turned into concepts for their time being in Asgard, only to revert to their true physical selves upon leaving. As such, when something is taken from Asgard towards a place such as Midgard, very few people can actually keep, contain, and use it.

#### Helheim

Helheim is in the center of Asgard. It is the place where all hells and underworlds connect, and where they all originate from. This is why a divine would claim there is only one Hell.

### **The Outskirts**

The Outskirts is what describes the vague "outer layer" of Asgard. The Divines themselves are naturally created there due to a conceptual-predating source.

Olympus is the mountain on Asgard that is so "tall", its summit reaches the are that is referred to as the outskirts, which is where new Divines begin travelling down to Asgard from. This Forge is a source of power that's "lethal" even towards Divines, and when utilized as a weapon it can unmake them. However, taking advantage of this is insurmountably difficult, and due to the nature of the Forge's potential, anyone caught trying to take advantage of it is seen as hostile and dangerous to the other Divines who exist.

### **The Uncharted**

The Uncharted is the metafictional part of the cosmology, where beyond the outskirts lies pure nonfiction. It is where the Unbounded and beyond reside.

#### The Frontier

The domain where the Unbounded reside. At this point, creations are referred to as stories, and the Unbounded in the end are essentially the authors of their own creations.

#### Denouema's Presence

The Role of Denouema is to separate the endless levels of realities and fictions from the final peak beyond all. At the edge, the Eternal Library can be found, where Denouma watches over the stories of all Unbounded.

#### Sarygu's Unconscious

As a panentheistic entity, everything that was listed was Sarygu's Consciousness. All that has happened is because Sarygu willed it to be possible. What Sarygu does not will to be at the "current moment" would be Sarygu's Unconsciousness. This is the be-all end-all of everything. Whereas the entire cosmology was built off of hierarchy after hierarchy, Sarygu's Unconsciousness is "transcendent" of it all, outright nullifying all forms of abstract scales and definitions that could possibly define Sarygu in any way.