Unreal Domain Saga

This is a detailed timeline for the stories of *JINX*, *Animals at Heart*, and *Different by Nature* by magic\_windsock, also known as the **Unreal Domain Saga**. All stories are set in the same continuity, but in separate universes which coexist inside the Real Domain.

## Genesis

Before all existence, a single book materializes in a vast expanse of darkness. The book instantly grows to immeasurable dimensions and becomes the Silver Gate, which splits the dark expanse in two. One half becomes the Real Domain, a layered celestial space where physical and ethereal concepts reside. The other half encloses the Real Domain and becomes the Unreal Domain, the inverse space of inconceivability. To bridge the two domains, the Silver Gate lies at their frontier. As the Real Domain is devoid of existence at this time, the Unreal Domain produces a multitude of universes, and within them, galleries of overlapping dimensional planes. With the order of creation established, the Unreal Domain casts its universes into the Real Domain, using the Silver Gate as a conduit.

Later, the Unreal Domain retires its incessant creation once universes perform mitosis-like separation naturally. Prime and duplicate universes now operate on an infinite cycle of separation, preservation, and inevitable destruction, in which all existence within a universe returns to the Unreal Domain and becomes immaterial.

### Beginning of time

On the high plane of Iriy, three Allknow named Nav, Zberez, and Idrodytys are told by the Silver Gate to create something to facilitate the rampant imagination of the lower Material World, which had just birthed consciousness. Following the Silver Gate's orders, they construct the Collective Unconscious and the Overseers that inhabit it, Chiaro and Scuro. The three Allknow, now called the Council of Mind, gift the twin Overseers extensive memory, knowledge on the genesis of reality, and immunity to all things apart from the Silver Gate's steel. With their labors fulfilled, the Council leave the twins be and begin designing Iriy's reincarnation cycle.

The spirits of sleeping humans manifest in the CU, and by touching them, Scuro learns he can analyze their cognitive wavelengths with his special eye, the Vytbvost. This process gives humans nightmares in the Material World, but it allows Scuro to determine if their minds are powerful enough to consume upon their deaths. Scuro soon becomes the *de facto* overlord of the CU, harvesting the minds of dead humans with his scythe Solstice. Chiaro fails to talk Scuro out of playing god with the humans' souls, and spends the next several thousand years at the Stardust Grounds.

### 1845

Families of travelers, clergymen, and contractors arrive in an uninhabited Burau from a province in the west, constructing a settlement around a small body of water dubbed Prism Lake.

### 1852

A big dome of energy erupts from the center of Prism Lake, encircling the settlement and causing the inhabitants to disappear without a trace. People from neighboring towns document the mass disappearance, noting an old lighthouse that had not been within the lake before.

### 1856

Pilgrims from the Burau mainland venture east to a neighboring archipelago, lead by Captain Teufel Azurblau. Once they reach the shore, half the caravan erect the hamlet of Rice Harbor, while the other half sail with Azurblau through the archipelago, settling on the largest island among them a few weeks later. There, another township named Trinity Oceanfront is constructed, and the crew remain there for the next two years.

### 1858

Azurblau and other members of the Burau caravan sail back to Rice Harbor, and in time, a trade route is formed, spanning from Trinity to Upwell in the mid-west. Rice Harbor becomes the trade route's medium, importing and exporting goods received from either end, and its economy flourishes.

### 1986

Spine, a tween from Great Sign born with psychic powers, finds himself able to be lucid as an astral body in the Collective Unconscious. Scuro takes notice of Spine, to which he begins subconsciously torturing him every night to tap into his latent abilities. The torture becomes so excessive that Spine accidentally sets his home ablaze in his sleep, so he flees and takes shelter in a cabin near Prism Lake. With his powers, Spine detects surges of energy emanating from the lake, allowing him to observe the CU without needing to be in his ethereal form. He spends the next several years writing about the CU in a journal, hoping to spread word of its existence above the Material World.

### 1991

Believing his powers to be developed enough, Spine projects his soul into the CU and attempts to vanquish Scuro. However, he is quickly overwhelmed by Scuro's strength as an Overseer, and his ethereal body ultimately gets severed from his physical body. With little psychic energy left, Spine's soul retreats to Iriy, immersing himself in the universal cycle of reincarnation. As his ethereal half lies dormant on Iriy in wait of rebirth, Spine's physical body perishes by Prism Lake.

### 1998

The Silver Gate appears in the skies above the CU. Scuro believes obtaining enough power will allow him to reach the Silver Gate and conquer the Real Domain, to which he asks Chiaro if he can kill her and fuse with her core. Chiaro refutes, and by unleashing the power she had stored for over 65000 years, drags both her and Scuro to a new plane of her creation, the Amygdala. She and her brother freefall through the void and into the Amygdala, severing every human mind's connection with the CU and redirecting them to this new plane. Once human minds instantaneously link with the Amygdala, an infinitude of self-contained demiplanes emerge within it, and the twin Overseers plummet into the demiplane of newborn Oliver Malison, Mryastota Sfera.

In this desolate realm, Chiaro binds Scuro to several chains on a flowery knoll, then ascends to a garden atop the Cross-Stitch Pillar. Scuro attempts to fight back by calling upon the ethereal bodies he devoured, but Chiaro banishes them beneath Mryastota Sfera, repurposing them as transmission units that can smoothly carry Oliver's cognitive waves between the Amygdala and Material World. As Scuro and Chiaro both lie dormant in Mryastota Sfera, Chiaro splits her soul in half. One of these halves becomes Marigold, while the other assumes the form of an amulet named Monade.

A particular transmission unit is wired to the very center of the network that makes up the underside of Oliver's demiplane, as it possesses more connective feelers than most others. Appointed as the underside's central resistor, its filtering of Oliver's emotions from the Material World allows Chiaro to recharge her powers while Scuro remains chained at the foot of Mryastota Sfera.

### 2005

The special transmission unit begins to feel an immense surge of emotions from the Material World. Oliver Malison, undergoing stress from the divorce of his parents, retreats to a secluded area near his school in Turtlehill, Burau, and suffers a mental breakdown. This overwhelming rush of cognition forms a link between the two planes, giving the unit enough power to escape the Amygdala and appear in the Material World. It disguises itself as a human boy named Gray Niami, who approaches Oliver and asks to be his friend. From their blossoming friendship, Oliver slowly overcomes his turmoil. Before Gray's portal between the two planes closes, a second transmission unit flees the Amygdala plane, quickly taking refuge in the Prism Lake lighthouse.

### 2006

Eight months later in the dead of winter, Allen and Stella Afflic are home alone, waiting for their mother to return. Stella realizes how late it is getting, but when she goes to check on Allen, she finds him sitting opposite a broken mirror while enduring a painful headache. Grabbing Stella by the arm, Allen opens the front door to go look for their mother. Suddenly, a large influx of multidimensional pulses surges from Prism Lake, tethering to their house and forming a spatial displacement around them. Allen and Stella are pulled into the boundary between planes, until the escapee transmission unit, named Mendax, redirects them to the Prism Lake lighthouse. Taking advantage of the lake's pulses, Mendax draws cognitive power out of Allen as a sacrifice to Scuro. This causes Allen to unleash violent psychic shocks, forcing Mendax to retreat to the Amygdala. The pulses, combined with Allen's fury, also form a portal beneath Stella and accidentally warp her to the Amygdala, too.

By the will of Chiaro, Stella ends up in Mryastota Sfera. Her purity and innocence triggers a change in its atmosphere as she begins a time-altering descent. A blanket of clouds rolls over the land below, and dozens of islands rise into the air. All remaining ethereal bodies summoned by Scuro also undergo significant changes, rebirthing themselves as kind-hearted spirits living atop the floating islands. While Stella slowly falls into Oliver's demiplane, several events transpire in the meantime, though the descent feels instantaneous for her. Mendax takes advantage of the change in atmosphere, transforming into a paper doll named Loon Molly and founding Sero Kingdom atop an island. The reborn transmission units, better known as JINX Demons, lose all memories of their past lives and association with Scuro, now living in Sero Kingdom as Molly's subjects.

During the rapid progression of history, a JINX Demon called Hanovichii Vestments ventures to Cross-Stitch Pillar, finding half of Chiaro floating above a pond. He enters a stone gazebo near the pond and calls out to Chiaro, whom he is unfamiliar with, to which she begins speaking to him telepathically. Sensing an infinitude of love within Hanovichii, who is blissfully unaware of his world's corrupt origins, Chiaro foresees a timeline of necessary events that will put an end to Scuro once and for all. She puts this timeline into motion by manifesting Hanovichii's love as a daughter, Louise Vestments.

Sensing an irregularity in Mryastota Sfera, Loon Molly deploys a unit of corrupt JINX Demons to kill Louise. Hanovichii, however, embraces his daughter and takes the blow, consequently imbuing Louise with his latent Morto powers. Molly herself arrives at Cross-Stitch shortly thereafter, finding Louise lying next to Hanovichii's corpse. Believing Lousie to have been one of her subjects gone astray, Molly brings her back to Sero Kingdom. By the time Louise finally wakes up, she is invited into Loon Molly's ranks as a royal chef. Oblivious to the death and disappearance of her father, as well as her inherited powers, Louise happily accepts her new life in Sero Kingdom.

Several "months" later, Stella finally touches down on one of the floating islands, Pinwheel Hill, and begins moving with the Amygdala plane's time flow. Welcomed with a myriad of yellow and red balloons, she looks out to the sea of clouds and cries out for Allen. As Stella tries convincing herself this is all a dream, Louise arrives at Pinwheel Hill. Stella's sadness triggers something in Louise, who is suddenly overcome by a wave of empathy and rushes over to her. Louise introduces herself, though Stella is reluctant to respond, so the former invites her to Sero Kingdom where Loon Molly may be of help.

Standing before Loon Molly, Stella breaks down into tears and begs for answers, to which Loon Molly informs Stella that she is far from her original world. Distraught, Stella demands she be taken back to her house in Turtlehill. She suddenly emits a golden light and floats off the ground, surprising Loon Molly and the other JINX Demons present. Stella quickly becomes fatigued from her outburst, and as she passes out, an amulet appears over her shoulder. Loon Molly, unaware that the amulet is one half of Chiaro, becomes skeptical of Stella's true power. She lets it be for now, then orders Louise to become Stella's caretaker until she can find a way back to the Material World. Happily agreeing, Louise carries a drowsy Stella back home.

Awakening that evening, Stella continues to cry and tells Louise of her life in the Material World. Although Louise has difficulty understanding what things are like outside of Mryastota Sfera, she does her best to comfort Stella, welcoming her into the home as though she were her sister. Stella spends the next ten years on the Amygdala plane, though because of the unnatural time flow, her physical body does not age.

Meanwhile in the Material World, Allen sits alone in the lighthouse, and the overexertion of his powers causes him to go blind. Authorities from Great Sign find Allen two days later, quickly bringing him to a hospital in an attempt to nourish him back to health. His parents, distraught by the paranormal circumstances, are told that Stella was never found in the lighthouse and is presumed to be dead. They bring Allen back to Turtlehill two weeks later, later holding a memorial for Stella.

### 2007

Gray suddenly begins to lose control of his human disguise, retreating to a forest to keep his real identity hidden from Oliver. Upon reassuming his JINX Demon form, he also notices his body is slowly fading out of existence. He presumes Oliver has finally found peace in his life and no longer needs an "imaginary" friend like Gray, so to prevent himself from disappearing, Gray planeshifts back to the Amygdala. However, his powers are greatly imbalanced, causing him to plummet directly into Mryastota Sfera and crash land on Cross-Stitch Pillar. Gray's inelegant arrival awakens the Marigold half of Chiaro once again, recognizing him as an escapee transmission unit from underneath Oliver's demiplane. Before Chiaro can send Gray back to his old quarters, he tells her of the bond he and Oliver were able to form in the Material World. Chiaro deems Gray trustworthy, inviting him to a stone platform at the island's edge to progress the timeline she foresaw. They board the platform and descend beneath the clouds, where Gray sees the entity from which he came, Scuro, shackled to the flowery knoll. As the pieces fall into place, Chiaro orders Gray to keep Scuro's existence a secret from Stella and the others, warping Gray back to the pond atop Cross-Stitch.

Stella and Louise find Gray the next morning, unconscious and in his human disguise. For a moment, Stella thinks he is another human that was sent to the Amygdala, to which Gray plays along. Bringing him to Pinwheel Hill, Stella and Gray discuss their pasts, though Gray does not talk about Scuro as per Chiaro's orders, instead fabricating a backstory where he was a normal kid in the Material World. Stella is somewhat disheartened that both she and Niami cannot return home; however, her spirits are lifted when Louise offers to adopt Gray like she did Stella, which he happily accepts. The next morning, Gray, Stella, and Louise visit Loon Molly in Sero to discuss his descent into Mryastota Sfera. Her core begins to resonate with Niami's, as they are both products of Scuro, but Loon Molly conceals it to not reveal her true identity. Niami remains quiet for the same reason.

### 2014

In the city of Upwell, Clay Cobbler begins his first semester of high school, but quickly becomes a target for bullying. Luckily, Cassietta Apple approaches him after class and invites him to be her friend. Clay and Cass click instantly, spending time with each other throughout the fall season. One day, Cassietta offers to help Clay improve his reputation by keeping a journal of how he feels at school, and use those entries to better his character. This development in their relationship awakens a strange force in Clay's demiplane of the Amygdala, Zlovi Sfera, which manifests as a self-aware JINX Demon named Coral Lovefool. Coral is born carrying Clay's fondest memories of Cassietta, even adopting her likeness as a result of their bond.

Around half a year later, Clay and Cassietta are met by a pair of bullies from school, who start a fight and break Clay's earbuds. Clay, in a fit of rage, goes against his own moral compass and punches one of the bullies in the nose. Cassietta is astonished to see Clay throw the punch, quickly pulling him into a forest. As they run away, Cassietta scolds Clay for breaking his promise to become a better person. Clay on the other hand voices his euphoria, now wanting to appear more intimidating so that other people are afraid of him instead. He snaps at Cassietta, which compels her to run to the edge of a river and tear out the pages of Clay's journal. Realizing what he had done, Clay returns home and locks himself in his room, angrily affirming that Cassietta will no longer be a part of his life.

These wavering emotions are transferred to the Amygdala plane and picked up by Coral, who feels a sudden instability across Zlovi Sfera. She hurries to the Lassis Tower for answers, then leaps into a hollow bell at the top. Within the bell, a formless voice called Lugeo calls out to Coral, saying that Clay's resentment will completely reshape Zlovi Sfera, and in turn erase Coral from existence. Lugeo offers Coral a chance to preserve the demiplane's current form and prevent Clay from moving on from Cassietta, asking that they fuse together. Blinded by nostalgia, Cassietta allows Lugeo to merge with her core, and surely enough, she awakens to a power which lets her control all of Zlovi Sfera. To ensure Cassietta is always a part of Clay's life, Coral uses her new powers to create the Spira Library, an archive that documents everything Clay has ever experienced in his life. In the library, Coral reads through Clay's gradual shift in personality, in which he restyles his hair and changes his fashion.

### 2016

Clay's father, a soldier in the Burau military, is deployed to the archipelago east of the country, so he and his mother rent a condo in Turtlehill. Clay is also enrolled in Turtlehill High School, where he feels he can show off his new persona. He joins an art club a few weeks later, begrudgingly becoming friends with Oliver Malison and Nora McMichael. Coral senses this new friendship from the Amygdala plane, immediately becoming jealous of Oliver and Nora, though there is little she can do to make Clay reconsider.

The day after the three become friends, Nora returns home and opens her laptop, resuming a conversation with her internet friend Tanz Azurblau. Like with Coral, Nora's personal interactions with Tanz cause a formless JINX Demon to manifest on her own Amygdala demiplane, D'vekh Sfera. Nora and Tanz are both invested in a work of fiction titled *NATSUYASUMI*, and since Nora has never seen Tanz's face, the JINX Demon instead assumes the form of *NATSUYASUMI'*s protagonist KYRO.

Five months later, Nora opens Tanz's blog late at the night, happening upon a post of Tanz expressing her desire to die. Nora, overcome with panic, floods her friend's direct messages with support, only to be ignored as the posts were deleted the next morning. Over the next three months, Tanz continually switches between regular posts, and broadcasts her turmoil at night. Nora sometimes refuses to fall asleep so she can monitor her friend, even though her words of encouragement always fall on deaf ears. One evening, Nora discovers that Tanz has blocked her everywhere online. Shaken by a spike of anxiety, Nora logs into an alternative account to see if Tanz is okay, but notices she went back to posting as if Nora had never existed. A discouraged Nora does her best to let go of the situation, slowly realizing her actions are reaching the point of obsession. Her distress and warped perception of Tanz connect with KYRO in D'vekh Sfera, who promptly encases herself inside a sphere made of winding hallways dubbed The Gyroscope.

### October 9, 2016

COMING SOON BABY

During the afternoon before Turtlehill's annual Fall Festival, Oliver invites Nora and Clay to spend the night at his home, since his grandmother will be out with friends. He starts cleaning the house in the meantime and steps into the backyard, spotting a boy walking up an alley with his mother. Upon closer inspection, Oliver realizes the boy's eyes are wrapped in bandages and walks with a cane, which gets caught in a chain link fence. Oliver fetches an ice pack and runs in to help the boy, whose mother introduces him as Allen, and herself as Rebecca. She thanks Oliver for his help, recognizing him as Himari's grandson, before resuming her walk with Allen.

Oliver returns to his computer soon thereafter to tell Clay and Nora about the accident, and asks if he can invite Allen to their get-together. Both his friends happily agree, but are quick to recall Allen's name, as the Afflic-Piers family is a target of decade-old rumors involving their "ghost daughter." Before Clay can go to Oliver's house, his mother forbids him from leaving, since his grades have been on a steady decline. Clay irately locks himself in his room, messaging his friends about the change of plans. However, he sneaks out his bedroom window at sunset and runs to Oliver's house. Nora, unaware of Clay's escape, walks over with Allen and his mother.

Allen and Nora are the first to arrive, the latter noting Oliver's clumsiness around Allen. As the three get settled in, Clay bursts through the front door, allowing everyone to become acquainted with Allen. Talking among themselves, Allen suddenly falls to the floor and rips the bandages off his face, experiencing the same headache he felt a decade ago. He draws an infinity symbol using blood from his index finger, causing a spatial displacement to encircle the whole house. From Mryastota Sfera, Chiaro commences the next necessary event to her prevised timeline, as the four destined people are in one place at last. She unchains Scuro from beneath the layer of clouds, to which he escapes from Mryastota Sfera and flies aimlessly through the Amygdala's expanse. Oliver, Nora, Clay, and Allen are instantly pulled out of the Material World and cast into the Amygdala.

During the four's plunge through ethereal space, they cross paths with Scuro, who telepathically contacts Allen and promises to give him vision. With his heart wide open, Allen's mind and body are claimed by Scuro as the others land on stone pillar in a silver ocean. Donning new outfits, the three watch Allen descend upon them with spikes protruding from his limbs. Oliver calls upon a pair of daggers and slashes at the spikes in an attempt to free Allen, but he is pushed away and disarmed. Allen takes one of the daggers, stabbing himself in the forehead to unleash Scuro's true power. In a horrific new form, Allen-Scuro attempts to kill Oliver, only to hesitate upon looking into his eyes. Scuro vanishes into thin air, so the HEXes take a path connecting to stone pillar.

Passing through a mystic gate, the three emerge on Pinwheel Hill in Mryastota Sfera. Atop the hill stands Stella, who runs down to them and cries profusely. Unaware Mryastota Sfera is relative to his own consciousness, Oliver recognizes Stella, wondering if she too was pulled into this world under similar circumstances. The Monade amulet floats off Stella's shoulder to display a hologram, illustrating the Amygdala and their four interconnected demiplanes, but clarifies little else. Stella then invites the others to visit Queen Loon Molly, who may be able to explain their current situation. Seeing as it is dusk, the three rest up on Pinwheel Hill while Stella returns to Louise's house, joyfully exclaiming that more people have arrived in their world. She goes to tell Niami as well, but upon entering his room, he is nowhere to be seen. Niami had fled to a far-off island after sensing Oliver's arrival in Mryastota Sfera, overwhelmed with guilt over abandoning Oliver a decade ago.

The next morning, Stella brings Oliver, Nora, and Clay before Loon Molly. She tells them that they were brought to the Amygdala by a surge of dimensional pulses, which altered their bodies' physicality/ethereality ratios and shifted them out of the Material World. This spiritual awakening also awakened them to JINX Magic, thus making them HEXes. Oliver adds that Allen was with them during their planar shift and possessed by Scuro, to which Stella asks if he is referring to her brother. Realizing Allen too had been sent to the Amygdala too, Stella breaks down into tears, begging to know how he can be saved. Loon Molly suggests they travel up the neighboring demiplanes, as Scuro is likely going to hunt down powerful JINX Demons within them and steal their energy.

With his friends' crests fused with his own, Allen leaps off the Final Mirror and rips his scythe through Scuro's core. Just then, he enters an ascended state, breaking through the cosmic firmament in order to reach the Silver Gate. He casts his physical and spiritual form into the abyss, becoming an existence beyond infinity in order to fuse the Silver Gate into himself. Stella shrieks as her brother is enveloped by the platinum light, but in a brief moment of silence, Allen's omnipotent voice tells her it will be okay. Scuro suddenly fades from Flokke Sfera and the Final Mirror shatters, plunging the seven HEXes into the void below. However, they too are wrapped in the Silver Gate's light, which carries them into Balance where they see Allen reconstructing the universe. The group flies through the outerversal expanse aboard Chiaro in a serpentine form, watching in awe as Allen combines the Amygdala with the Collective Unconscious.

Next, Allen uses his newfound abilities to assemble a new Material World where he never existed, and Stella got to live the childhood she never had. The existing Material World shatters as the new one takes its place, and the astral bodies of its inhabitants are instantaneously transported. Oliver begs for Allen to explain why he made the decision to fuse with the Silver Gate without notice, to which Allen says it was predetermined by Chiaro in order to put an end to Scuro's plans. Once the new Material World is born, the four humans and three JINX Demons feel themselves drifting apart. The HEXes embrace one last time, bidding each other farewell as they return to their native planes in a universe rid of Scuro. Stella cries out a promise to never forget her brother, unleashing all the tears she promised to hold until the very end.

Oliver, Nora, Clay, and Stella awake in Material World, as do Coral, Niami, and Louise in the Collective Unconscious. The four humans find themselves on an islet off the coast of Turtlehill, noticing Stella's physical form has finally caught up with her true age. As memories of the reborn Material World unravel in each of their minds, they spot a faded stone among the rocks, recognizing it as the Vytbvost that Allen wore on his hat. Oliver grabs hold of the Vytbvost, only for it to crumble in his hands. He breaks down as daybreak begins rolling over the sky. Up in the Collective Unconscious, the three former JINX Demons go their separate ways. Niami explores the far reaches of Stardust Grounds to guide wayward astral bodies, while Coral lets Clay's obstinate pain drift in the cosmos. As for Louise, she bands together with JINX Demons from countless Amygdala demiplanes, founding a settlement atop the remains of Mryastota Sfera. Chiaro, whose prevised future has finally come to fruition, attains a higher tier of existence, abandoning the Collective Unconscious and planeshifting up to Iriy.

### 2018

As time passes on, Oliver and the others slowly lose their memories of the universe's reconstruction, and surely enough, the events of October 9, 2016 are completely forgotten about. Their conditioned minds adapt to this new reality, never to remember anything beyond the Material World.

...That is, until Oliver wakes in a cold dream, beholding a myriad of silver lights.

### Year -10000000

In a world of nothing more than stars, an antimaterial being known as Sanku is born in a cluster of cosmic dust from the Unreal Domain. His arrival on what will become the Vichnist plane causes an eruption in the sky, which reshapes the cosmic dust into the moon. As for Sanku, he plunges into the emptiness below. The stars that trail off his silver wings are turned into the sky, earth, and water. He descends onto the desolate land in a material body, adorned in six artifacts, allowing him to shape the new world to his liking. Satisfied with his creations, Sanku releases the artifacts back into the Unreal Domain until the Vichnist plane is set to die. He then ascends to the Overseer's Garden, leaving behind stars that become the first demi-kind on Verenigde.

### Year 0

Several thousands of years later on Verenigde, a landmass called Sydan rises from its center after a shockwave of energy erupts in the world's core, and an artifact spawns in each of the six provinces. Believing the artifacts to have been sent from the progenitor of life Sanku, the leaders of the demi-owl and ecclesionyx tribes, Furu Kakoniwa and Mars Dakota, entitle themselves as the continent’s rulers to ensure their preservation. The five species of demi-kind are sent to their own peninsula. Each province waits for capable artifact bearers, better known as Elementals, to be born. Also, from the eruption, the Unreal Domain becomes linked to Verenigde's plane of Vichnist, amplifying all demi-kind's resonance with the universe and Balance. A select few are given supernatural abilities, though do not exceed the artifacts in power.

The five provinces encompassing Sydan are:

* Plains of Golden Urozhay
	+ Northwest and southwest peninsulas - Magic and Physics and Death
* Ecclesion, Kingdom of Lune
	+ North peninsula - Luna
* Hunting Tribe of Flint
	+ Northeast peninsula - Fire
* Diamond Unity of Eco
	+ Southeast peninsula - Earth
* Waruimizu, Kingdom of Silver
	+ South peninsula - Water

### Year 2

Conflict arises amongst the nation of demi-wolves who occupy the two western peninsulas that make up the Plains of Golden Urozhay. Since an artifact spawned on either peninsula, the demi-wolves divide Golden Urozhay into their own sovereign nations; those who side with the element of Death migrate to the southwest, while the demi-wolves who align with Magic and Physics claim the northwest. These nations come to be known as the Greater Wolfpack of Nocturne and the Lesser Wolfpack of Silent respectively.

During the separation of Golden Urozhay, Barley Triste-Gris abandons her power-hungry husband, Seth Insom, and becomes the leader of Silent. Less than a month later, Seth kills several demi-wolves and assumes control over the entire Nocturne province, christening himself its King. By absorbing the souls of his victims, Seth is able to exert considerable amounts of Death magic without the need for an artifact. However, the power becomes too overwhelming for Seth to bear, and his spiritual body is sent to the edge of the universe, also known as the cosmic firmament.

Seth, with his newfound powers, appears in the dreams of Trixie Castor, an ecclesionyx related to the Ecclesion royal family. She wishes to inherit her country's artifact of Luna, but her uncle King Mars plans on giving it to his first child. Seth offers to help Trixie usurp the throne and become Ecclesion's messiah, which she accepts, and joins him in Nocturne to begin rigorous magical training.

### Year 3

Barley gives birth to her first child, Rye Triste-Gris. He is never told of Seth, nor the split of Golden Urozhay, wanting him to grow up without carrying Seth's hate in his heart.

### Year 15

Another demi-wolf from Silent named Flax Millet befriends Rye. Not too long after, Rye is chosen as the heir to Silent’s Amulet at a Titling ceremony conducted by Trixie. She claims to have channeled the power of Sanku to assign Rye his destiny; however, things take a turn for the worst later that night. Rye is suddenly kidnapped by Seth, his biological father, and warped to Nocturne through a leyline. There, his soul is separated from his physical body and cast to the cosmic firmament, while his remaining half is transmogrified into the Deathwish Soul. The only bystander to see Rye's abduction is Flax, whose life is spared. Seth foresees one of many futures where Flax meets the next Amulet heir, a boy named "Sightheart", in the Northern Territory. Following that, Flax will kill "Sightheart" and bring forth the Silent province's destruction.

### Year 17

Kamots Triste-Gris is born as the second heir-in-waiting to the Amulet. The last few heirs are still yet to be born.

From the higher plane of Ether, an Overseer named Maize takes physical form on Vichnist and manipulates the Silents’ memories to make them believe she is Kamots’s sister. She does this to guide Kamots towards a future where Seth’s plans with Flax are unsuccessful. Flax, believing that Kamots's death can bring Rye back, takes the newborn away. Before he can do any harm, Maize encounters him in the forest by Sydan’s mountain borders. She shatters Flax’s mind and takes Kamots back home, also erasing memories of Flax from everybody on the Verenigde continent. The body of Flax is found the next morning by patrolling ecclesionyx. His shattered mind makes him unresponsive, so he is sent out to sea based on the assumption that he died the night before.

Some time later in Nocturne, Seth's physical half and his second wife, Azura Aclima, give birth to Phantom. Azura dies during childbirth, but Seth immortalizes her soul by absorbing it into the Collar of Sud'ba.

### Year 18

Rather than being present for the birth of Princess Cypress Dakota Dragontears, the daughter of Mars, Trixie attends her final lesson with Seth. Now able to contact the hellish L'Enfer plane, Seth sees Trixie as capable and gifts her the Collar of Sud'ba. However, a surge of magic suddenly envelops her body, sending both her physical and spiritual halves to the cosmic firmament. This allows her to become both omnipotent and powerful, using Seth's spirit as a conduit to contact the Vichnist plane.

### Year 28

A polar bear from the Northern Territory called Nameless is on the brink of starvation, until Seth appears before him. Seth promises infinite amounts of food and shelter in Nocturne, on the condition of stealing an Elemental artifact. Nameless agrees and begins swimming to the Flint province on Verenigde. Proceeding to an underground stronghold, Nameless spots Phoenix and her cousin Frost observing the Fire artifact. He slashes Phoenix's left eye, but before he can kill her, Ecclesion knights intervene and force Nameless back to the Northern Territory. Luckily, the knights are able to heal Phoenix's eye using magic, giving it a platinum tint. As punishment for his failure, Seth tears out one of Nameless's eyes.

### Year 29

Kamots is given the Amulet at a new Titling ceremony and receives a vision of the other Elementals, whom he will live with in the near future. The other Sydan Elementals Kamots sees are Cypress Dakota Dragontears, Phoenix Bornafyre, Terra Nightflier, Blue Kakoniwa, and Phantom Insom. Maize then leaves the Vichnist plane, believing her charge is on a path to success and can live on his own. Everyone’s memories of Maize are erased upon her departure, and the Amulet is kept away until the day Kamots is expected to move to Sydan.

A few days later, Kamots meets Blue Kakoniwa in the forest nearby, who is the Water Elemental from his vision. Silents cannot speak to anyone from other provinces, so Kamots is forced to remain quiet. Struck by a sudden hypnotic trance, Mo slips into a dangerously quick river and drifts off a waterfall. Before he dies in the ocean, Seth resurrects Kamots in a cave by the water, which is where Silent’s Amulet is kept. He then asks for the Amulet in return for reviving Kamots. The Silent, brought back from the dead, turns down the offer and uses the Amulet’s power to kill Seth. Before vanishing, Seth summons the Deathwish Soul, who forces its way into the Amulet without Kamots's knowledge.

Mo returns to his demi-wolf camp under a Blood Moon and involuntarily turns into a demonic entity named Deathwish. Deathwish, the tainted soul of Rye, slaughters every Silent in the province, including Barley. Several knights from Ecclesion are deployed by King Mars to detain Kamots, as is a demi-owl in service of Waruimizu's royal family named Shinki. Furu Kakoniwa had entrusted Shinki with the artifact of Water, but rather than trying to stop Kamots, Shinki kills the Ecclesion knights until Deathwish cuts her down the back. King Mars intervenes and is able to subdue Deathwish, bringing both he and Shinki to trial in the Ecclesion province.

Cypress Dakota Dragontears, the successor to Mars and Sydan’s Elemental of Luna, spares Kamots's life to prevent another hindrance in waiting for an Amulet heir. She uses the Ere Lune artifact to cast a nocturnal barrier over Kamots’s sanctuary on Sydan in case Deathwish takes over under a Blood Moon. Furthermore, Cypress receives visions from Sanku, telling Kamots that half of Rye is on the universe's edge, while his tainted half lurks in Kamots's heart as the Deathwish Soul. As for Shinki, her feathers are clipped and she is sent afloat to the Northern Territory. Landing on the continent's shore, Shinki meets Nameless, who invites her to become a disciple of Seth and enact revenge on the Elementals.

Arriving in Sydan one week later, the six Elementals come together as a group for the first time. One of the Elementals speaks up - Phantom Insom from the Nocturne wolfpack, and the Elemental of Death. She vows that as a guardian of Verenigde, she will do everything she can to find her missing father. Phoenix Bornafyre of Flint starts getting along with Phantom, and the two become good friends. Terra, the bearer of Earth, befriends Blue and Cypress, leaving Kamots by himself. Everyone goes to their respective sanctuaries after bonding blood, uniting their souls with the land to fully activate Sydan's power. While Kamots channels his powers, the Deathwish Soul’s darkness invades the magic atmosphere of his sanctuary, slightly weakening the barrier.

On the night of a Blood Moon six months later, Seth’s spirit from the cosmic firmament strikes a bolt of red lightning onto the lunar barrier, destroying it. Deathwish escapes his confinement and advances to Draconid Hill, Terra’s Elemental sanctuary of Earth. Terra does his best to fend off Deathwish by forming walls of stone, all of which are obliterated instantly. His final barricade is broken as the blade of a sickle pierces through the Earth artifact, deep enough to cut into his chest. Terra’s soul departs from Verenigde, leading to the destruction of both his sanctuary and the entire Eco province.

The Elementals catch up to Deathwish at the upper part of Storm Lake. Blue tries to disable Deathwish and ends up slashing the Soul off his body. He accidentally cuts the demon on the neck with his bardiche while doing this. Deathwish evacuates the Amulet, then transcends reality via planeshift where he is no longer able to interact with the Vichnist plane. Kamots believes it is Rye who activated the shift, as opposed to his corrupted counterpart. Due to the forced separation of the two spirits, small features of Deathwish’s character remain on Mo’s body. He now talks through the Amulet with its telepathic power. As for Rye, his physical and spiritual bodies reunite at the cosmic firmament, forever observing his brother in isolation.

Terra's spirit arrives at the gates of Paradise where he meets Sanku, begging to know why he had to die by Kamots's hands. In order to reveal the truth about Kamots, Sanku guides Terra to the cosmic firmament where Rye sits alone, unable to travel the universe of his own volition. They watch as Rye's physical and spiritual halves reunite, to which he receives visions of a distant timeline that has yet to unravel. He assures Terra and Sanku that Kamots will somehow restore peace on Verenigde, so in the meantime, Terra planeshifts to the Overseer's Garden where Sanku helps him ascend to the Overseer tier.

One month later, surviving Econan demi-dragons are welcomed into Flint territory now that their homeland has been destroyed. Unused tunnels running below the mountains are given to them by Phoenix’s tribe. People across the continent come to the mountain and hold a memorial for Terra. Kamots is too pained to attend. Furthermore, the demi-kind of Verenigde finally learn that the artifacts are a sign of the end times, and should the Elementals die so young, the entire Vishnist plane will prematurely collapse.

To atone for his actions, Kamots erects several headstones in the Silent wheat field, adorning them with jewels and splashes of his own blood. Each headstone represents a demi-wolf, demi-dragon, and ecclesionyx killed by his hand, and so wishes for their spirits to find peace in the afterlife. Staining Barley's headstone last, Kamots is compelled to take his own life. However, he senses Rye looking over him from the cosmic firmament, and so abstains from suicide. He looks to the sky, proudly proclaiming his leadership of the desolate Silent province.

### Year 31

The ecclesionyx dispatch Sydan’s Elementals to explore the Northern Territory, where they are to investigate the cause of harsh winds that have been affecting the weather patterns of Ecclesion for the last couple of years.

Upon arriving after crossing an ice bridge connecting the two islands, the group encounters Shinki, Nameless, and Flax, allied with one another as subordinates of Seth. Flax reveals to the Elementals that Seth, Phantom's father, was killed by Kamots after bringing him back to life. This revelation sets off a fuse in Phantom, who finally finds out the reason for her father’s disappearance. She walks away from the people she once knew as friends and equips her metal claw weapons, then charges at Kamots. As Kamots tries to defend himself, he sees an unusual yellow glare in Phantom’s eyes which overpowers her natural icy-blue tint. Before he can question it, Shinki uses magic to conjure up a violent blizzard. The four other Elementals, powerless, are separated in the ice storm. Their artifacts detach from their bodies in the process. Mo and Cypress are left together after being blown away, so they find a den to keep warm for the night.

As Kamots falls asleep, Cypress composes a poem called the Prayer of Tomorrow. If she ever feels far from Kamots or any of her friends, she can recite it in hopes that they will say it back; that way, none of them will ever be alone. While Kamots and Cypress are asleep in the den, the two remaining Elementals try looking for them after being blown away into a valley of snow, now far from the shore. Phoenix uses what little magic she has left to provide some warmth, holding it long enough until she and Blue find a small cluster of trees, then prepares a fire made of loose twigs. Blue is surprised that Phoenix was able to find the forest so fast, despite having never been in these uncharted areas before.

Out of nowhere, Phoenix feels something powerful coming from her heart. She relays this to Blue, who believes it is because she is in close proximity with her artifact. Caught in a branch high above the ground is the artifact, linked to its bearer’s heart with a flowing orange thread. Before she can climb the tree, Nameless emerges from the snowy darkness. He lunges himself at Phoenix, who attempts to retaliate with her katana against the polar bear’s thick skin. The fight carries on until Blue is given some space to fly up to the tree. Swiftly grabbing the artifact, he tosses it down to Phoenix and prepares to fight alongside her. Nameless throws himself at Blue in a berserk state, only to be sliced by the Fire Elemental’s ignited blade. It is more than enough to cut through his skin, causing him to fall on the ground and draw his last breath. With Phoenix’s enemy dealt with, she and Blue set out to find Shinki, Flax, and Phantom.

Kamots wakes up in Maize’s Corridor of Loss, a dimensional subspace on the Ether plane. He starts to regain memories of his past with her as he progresses through the hallways, and uses those memories to find her room. In the room, Maize’s voice is too faint to be heard, as if it were being drowned out by white noise. She hands him a small bell before saying farewell, then the Corridor deteriorates. Maize’s Elemental artifact is the bell, and her province is within the higher Ether plane. Both she and the Corridor disappear as soon as the bell is taken with Kamots back to the Vichnist plane. It hides itself within the Amulet, but its powers cannot be accessed.

Mo and Cypress awake in the den and find Shinki’s dying body outside in the snow, covered in burn marks and cuts. They assume Phoenix had attacked with her artifact’s power. With this in mind, they conclude that she and the others have their respective artifacts too, but are also holding on to Mo and Cypress’ after being unable to find them. As for Flax, Nameless, and Phantom, they are nowhere in sight.

The two reach Northern Territory’s southern shore where the ice bridge has long since melted. Cypress uses her wings to fly over the ocean while Mo stays behind and finds materials for survival. The lone Silent starts to develop separation anxiety over time, eventually succumbing to a deep sadness. He collapses in the snow and fills himself with doubt, making himself believe that he is nothing more than a burden to his friends and Verenigde alike. Flax and Phantom walk up to Kamots, but rather than killing him, Flax speaks as though it is directed to Rye. He senses remnants of Rye on Kamots body, then looks to the sky whilst asking Phantom to untether his soul from his body. Phantom obliges, using the Collar of Sud'ba to cast Flax's soul to the cosmic firmament where he reunites with his friend. Phantom leaves Kamots and Flax's body behind in the snow, traveling far north to uncharted land.

At the brink of hypothermia, all the Elementals find Kamots in the snowfield, give him the Amulet, and take him on a raft prepared back on Verenigde. The team returns to Ecclesion where they leave Kamots in attentive care to treat his condition. Despite their assumptions about Phantom being dead with the other Northern Territory animals, Nocturne province and the Sydan sanctuary of Death are still above ground. Junebug, the ecclesionyx herbalist, stabilizes Kamots’s blood flow and physical stamina. The following night, Kamots struggles and grunts in his sleep due to rapid psychic visions of Verenigde dying and eventually sinking, also catching faint images of Phantom. Blue and Phoenix are invited to watch Kamots recover while Cypress stays unusually distant. Unbeknownst to them, Phantom Insom is still alive.

Three weeks later, Kamots starts getting anxious in his sleep upon hearing Maize’s warnings of a devastating war. To support Kamots while he is in stasis, Cypress comes by his resting quarters every day to soothe his mind with the power of Luna.

Mo fully recovers after another week, then secretly leaves Sydan to find peace in the wheat field that covers most of Silent. As he lays down to rest, he unconsciously synchronizes his mind with the entire province and astral projects his spirit into the space between planes, also known as Balance, remaining dormant for what will be five years. For the entirety of his slumber, his detached spirit drifts in an ethereal passage called Sanku’s Aurora. His body, however, is still in the field enveloped entirely by overgrown wheat. Sanku's Aurora circles the moon, where pure souls of the dead manifest.

### Year 36

Kamots wakes from his trance to the sight of violent wildfires in Sydan over the mountains, painting the winter sky in red. After arriving on the floating island through a leyline, Blue grabs him, wondering where he has been through the passing years. Mo, who has no time to talk about his absence, picks up a sickle and runs into the battle taking place in the ruins of Terra’s sanctuary.

During Kamots’s slumber, Phantom returned to Verenigde and seized control of the Nocturne wolfpack. She had learned that half of her father, Seth, is on the cosmic firmament, so she wants to bring him onto the Vichnist plane by harvesting the souls of the Elementals. This event becomes known as the “Battle of Four Hearts”, representing the painful strife between Phantom, Blue, Phoenix, and Cypress. Phantom suddenly disarms Cypress and snags her with the arms of wretched souls. She bargains with Kamots, stating she will kill everyone on Verenigde of Kamots murders her, but if he kills Cypress, everyone's lives will be spared. Kamots, driven by the trauma of Terra's murder, unwillingly cuts Cypress through the heart. Cypress’s body crystallizes, shatters, and ascends to the moon, leaving Kamots in a pool of her dark matter blood. As for Phantom, she stomps on the Death artifact to keep her end of the deal. By doing so, a rift known as the Demon’s Gate opens up and pulls Phantom into the L'Enfer plane. As she descends, the soul of Trixie Castor separates from Phantom, who has been controlling her the entire time. Kamots chases after Phantom and falls down into the Demon’s Gate to try and save his friend, to an unsurprising failure. He awakens on the L'Enfer plane, feeling his memories slipping away by the second. The provinces of Silent, Ecclesion, and Nocturne crumble into the earth simultaneously, almost bringing Sydan out of its airborne state from the impact.

Alone on L'Enfer, Kamots talks with Phantom and considers the possibility of other timelines, especially ones where Seth never intervened with their lives. Their existentialist conversations drag on for several years, and as time goes on, Kamots slowly becomes a monstrous entity. His desire to bend the universe to his will causes this transformation, but because he is deprived of magic, he cannot planeshift to meet Rye or Flax at the cosmic firmament. Frightened by his new appearance, Phantom offers to walk with Kamots to the borders of L'Enfer and see into the firmament, an offer which he reluctantly accepts. They explore the vast world for years, and surely enough, they arrive at the bound of the universe, enveloped by a partition of silver clouds. Rye's warmth emanates from the firmament, telling Kamots a divine truth that he is not yet able to comprehend.

### Year 66

Cypress, completely restored on the moon, uses the Prayer of Tomorrow to resurrect both herself and Kamots and planeshift them onto Vichnist. Unbeknownst to the two, Sanku receives the prayer and allows them to resurrect by splitting his own self in half, regenerating his physical body as Cypress whilst Kamots inherits the powers from his spiritual half. As a result, Sanku reverts to his original form as an imaginary concept, returning to the Unreal Domain from whence he came.

Cypress and Kamots effectively return to Vichnist once the planeshift is complete. The resurrection of Kamots is enough to bring Silent territory out of the earth. While successful, the mountainous landscape has been reduced to forested foothills. As for Ecclesion, it undergoes the same process with the redwood trees shrunk to mere shrubbery. To celebrate the second coming of Cypress, the survivors of Ecclesion’s implosion and fellow Elementals work to create a new royal province dubbed Ecclesion II. Whitewing Hallow, Cypress’s fiancé, is beyond thankful to see his beloved again. In the meantime, Kamots uses the flatter environment of Silent to his advantage by starting a small vegetable farm.

### Year 68

The artifact Maize had left with Kamots comes out of his Amulet on a rainy night. It wraps the Silent in a golden light and pulls him 40 years into the past. Maize has a premonition where Mo will set Rye free from the Deathwish Soul by killing Seth’s second half, which exists on the cosmic firmament. His spiritual half was the one who revived Kamots in his youth, and was subsequently slaughtered with the power of Silent's Amulet.

Maize's omniscient voice tells Kamots that he and his past self will have three days before they fail and Deathwish inevitably kills Terra, and that the bell’s time powers expire upon returning to the present. Finally, she adds that he cannot be sent back to an earlier event, such as when the Amulet was first possessed. If Kamots had never encountered Phantom’s father on that fateful day, he would not have found out that the original Silent Elemental was still alive, as memories are what keep one’s essence alive within a universe.

### Back to Year 29

Mo finds his past self alone in the wheat field. Young Kamots (referred to as Heart) hears old Kamots’s story, and the two go to Nocturne to fight the last fraction of Seth’s essence. After crossing the many biomes of the land, Mo and Heart learn to understand themselves from different points in time after coming to terms with their respective hardships.

Arriving at Nocturne on the third day, they slip through a leyline and arrive at the cosmic firmament where Seth's spirit half resides. Seth tries to kill the two Kamotses, but they use their developed and underdeveloped powers in unity to fight the last remnant of their sworn enemy. In a last-ditch effort, Heart uses all of his power to assume his Deathwish form, obtaining enough strength to put an end to Seth and cast him into another universe. With Seth gone, Kamtos and Heart are able to grab hold of Rye's spirit and pull him back onto the Vichnist plane. Returning to Nocturne, the Deathwish Soul emerges from Heart’s Amulet, combining itself with Rye's spirit to make him whole once again. Because of Seth’s absence across all future timelines, the lightning bolt that is to strike Kamots’s sanctuary will not occur. As for Trixie, she can no longer use Seth as a conduit for her omnipotent magic, meaning she is lost at the edge of the universe forever.

Before Kamots returns home, he sees Heart take Rye north to Ecclesion to have his soul purified with the moon's blessing. The two Kamotses both vow to protect Silent and Sydan with their lives, saying their goodbyes as a new timeline begins to unravel.

### Return to Year 68

When Kamots emerges in the wheat field in present time, he is greeted by all the Elementals including Terra, Cypress, Phantom, and Rye. The Silent province has also returned to its mountainous state. Mo obtains memories from himself in this new timeline, wherein he, his brother, and Rye discovered Flax in Northern Territory. Astonished to see his best friend again, Flax moved to Silent and married Phantom to rebuild the demi-wolf tribes. Through their combined efforts, the demi-wolves allowed for the reunion of Silent and Nocturne, restoring the Plains of Golden Urozhay to its former glory. After years of searching for answers, and a lifetime of bloodshed, Verenigde finally welcomes an era of peace.

Trixie, rid of her Death powers, enters the Corridor of Loss on the plane of Ether. She walks down the white hallways to Maize’s room, then sits on the floor to cry and beg for forgiveness. Maize knows Trixie’s actions are unpardonable, but rather than putting an end to her life, she is spared. Trixie looks up at Maize, who asks if she would like to redeem herself by becoming enlightened. She agrees, and the two depart for the Overseer's Garden.

### Year 118

The demi-kind know that it is only a matter of time before all of Verenigde sinks into the ocean; Cypress is surrounded by her friends in the Silent wheat field as she waits for the release of death. Kamots suggests that the Elementals planeshift themselves into the afterlife, so Cypress does not travel alone during the mass ascension of spirits following Verenigde's collapse. Confident the land is bound to cave in, everybody agrees that it is the right thing to do, and Cypress thanks her friends as she shatters in a veil of ice.

Phantom, Terra, Blue, and Phoenix phase out of the Vichnist plane, leave their artifacts behind, and all follow Cypress’s spirit up to the moon. Kamots is not with them yet. Now all by himself, he has something to fulfill before Verenigde is no more. There is only one more place to go, and that place is the Northern Territory. With the other Elementals gone, this causes the provinces of Ecclesion, Flint, Eco, Waruimizu, and Nocturne to collapse, and so do their respective sanctuaries on Sydan. The impact is so powerful that Sydan falls, impaling the earth it was a part of many years ago. It forms a landslide that nearly kills Kamots, though he survives after the six artifacts shield him from the blow. Once the debris clears, hundreds of spirits float up to the moon alongside the five Elementals.

Atop the large rock in Sydan’s sanctuary of Magic and Physics, Kamots sets his Amulet down and walks away, beginning the end of his life by walking across the sea to Northern Territory. Arriving on the shore, he becomes fatally ill and collapses in the snow, watching as Verenigde sink far beneath the ocean. He then faintly calls out to Maize, finally understanding himself to be the universe in its entirety, and is now ready to leave Verenidge behind. Kamots exhales one last time, sensing the other Elementals guiding his soul up to the moon. Departed from the world he once knew as home, Kamots wakes up in Paradise. Surrounding him are the people of Verenigde, past and present, family and friends, lost and found. They were all waiting patiently for his arrival.

Kamots had opened the path of freedom.

### Year 0 AR

Verenigde's plane Vichnist is void of all its magic, so what is left over briefly merges upward with the empty plane above, Doma. The ecclesionyx left behind during Verenigde's final hours undergo reincarnation, becoming Spectrals bound to mortal coils. History begins anew on this plane, now abundant with magic, as two castle-like structures spontaneously rise up from an empty ocean of silver.

### Year 10000 AR

The twin castle islands, dubbed Olovo and Sklo, watch as a rift tears the sky open and exposes its people to the second-highest plane in the universe, Ether, where Overseers are said to reside. Monarchs Igneous of Olovo and Araluen of Sklo are met with unbound Spectrals from Ether, who tell of Doma's history, and how it briefly overlapped with Vichnist over ten thousand years ago. Igneous and Araluen then ascend to Ether against their wills, while the Spectrals from Ether assume control over their kingdoms.

The two awaken on Ether and abandon their mortal bodies, becoming complete Spectrals themselves. They soon find that Ether possesses kingdoms not unlike their own, called Svitanok and Syayvo, ruled by Spectrals named Grace and Glacier. From a sudden abundance of knowledge, Igenous and Araluen learn that Ether's Spectrals retain memories of their past lives as ecclesionyx, and are desperate to find Paradise after being pulled back into the universal reincarnation cycle. They had cast away the Overseers and assumed control of Ether, using their abilities to draw power from the lower planes. While Igeneous is compelled to join the Spectrals' cause, Araluen tries to defeat both Grace and Glacier. In the midst of their battle, Araluen triggers a planeshift to bring all four of them down to the desolate continent of Verenigde, sunken far beneath the ocean.

A distant voice calls to the four monarchs, saying they can only return Ether by ascending to the Overseer tier, which they must achieve by guiding mortals on the Vichnist plane. The voice also tells them of how an imaginary god has recently risen to power in the Unreal Domain, and is creating replica universes for reasons unknown. Grace wonders if traveling to one of the universes created by this god will allow them to talk with its people, thereby rewarding them with ascension to Overseerhood.

By performing a ritual to slip out of the universe, the monarchs appear before the Silver Gate, who assumes the body of its host Allen Afflic-Piers. Allen warns that in an alternate version of their universe, Kamots was caught in a dimensional tether and passed through the Silver Gate into the Unreal Domain, just moments after he and Phantom reached the cosmic firmament on L'Enfer. By abandoning his physical and spiritual bodies, Kamots became an existence below zero and adopted the name Yurksh, who created several replicas of his original universe from Nostal particles. He would then release these universes into the Real Domain, but because they were imaginary in nature, they would fate out of existence within a few decades. Allen urges the monarchs to pass this information on to the inhabitants of the most recent replica universe; that way, they could become Overseers in their original universe, while their charges could find a way to meet Yurksh in the Unreal Domain.

Oliver
Nora
Clay
Stella
Niami
Louise
Coral
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Scuro
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File:Loon Molly portrait.pngLoon Molly
KYRO

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Cypress
Phoenix
Terra
Blue
Rye
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Deathwish
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File:Maize portrait.pngMaize
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Araluen
Grace

<-- ADD: the Spectrals really want to find Paradise to they can find Kamots and convince him to rewrite history again and wish Yurksh out of existence. He's imaginary so it would be futile, but they don't know that lol -->