Metaphysical Beings#
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Introduction#
A metaphysical being is any being living in the metasphere as opposed to in the physisphere or other spheres of matter. They are, as the title suggests, made from metamatter and operating by metamatter’s laws. Most notable metaphysical beings are immortal and do not die of natural causes. Many of them are straight up invincible to all harm as far as records show.
The most powerful of metaphysical beings are the Narrators. Thy are power incarnate; nothing is beyond their reach. However, as storytellers, their first priority is the story. Thus, they only put factors in place and let them run their course, not interfering unless they deems it necessary.
The Elder Immortals are very powerful beings created by the Narrators to progress the development of the cosmos. They were only able to be captured by the Great Immortals because they were young and inexperienced, maturing on an Immortal time scale instead of a mortal one as their usurpers were.
The Great Immortals are mortals that have ascended to a regular metaphysical being status with very powerful reality bending abilities. Unfortunately, they have tons of metaphysical energy to fuel this bending but no authority to actually modify the plot outside of how the Narrator has set it out to be. That's why they can't intervene - they pretend it's out of care for the world and not wanting to break everything.
The Minor Immortals are servants created by the Elder Immortals. Demigod-style power. Now under the Great Immortals' control.
The Narrators#
Narrators are not actually entirely metaphysical, instead existing in a void between all spheres - not just the metaphysical and physical ones - not even including the chronosphere. They come from a higher narrative stack, in which they wrote this cosmos as a story and are one of the few storytellers there who decide to destabilize their realms by crossing narrative planes.
Narrators continue to write the destiny of the cosmos to this day and will until the end of all things. As according to their nature, nothing in this world is able to resist their power. We should be glad they choose to let their story play out instead of intervening.
The Elder Immortals#
When the cosmos was reborn after the Precursors killed themselves, seven Immortals were created from the Precursor’s experiments: Time, Equilibrium, Chaos, Authority, Energy, Creation, and Destruction. They each governed their aspect of the cosmos and helped sentients among the realities develop in their field.
The Elder Immortals#
When the cosmos was reborn after the Precursors killed themselves, seven Immortals were created from the Precursor’s experiments: Time, Equilibrium, Chaos, Authority, Energy, Creation, and Destruction. They each governed their aspect of the cosmos.
The Usurpers#
The Elder Immortals were usurped by six mortals risen to transcendency through strip-mining the fabric of worlds. These mortals' names were all lost, and they gave themselves new ones: Mist Lord, Eternal Light, Saviour, Reaper, Primordial Equilibrium, and Primal Chaos. They brainwashed the cosmos (mostly uninhabited at the time) into believing that they were the original Great Immortals, and nothing had come before.
The Elder Immortals were trapped in frozen timestreams — delicately inserted into the past of various realities, unmoving and frozen in time.
When the Elder Immortals were vanquished, they didn’t completely disappear. Think of it being like Ouranos being chopped up by the Titans. They all left fragments, artifacts that channeled what power they had left- such as the Firmament Glass. These fragments can take mortal hosts and bond to them, sharing their power.
What the Great Immortals became was not truly equal to the Elder Immortals. They simply accumulated enough power to kill off the Elders, then take parts of them to channel higher energy and act like the Elders. These parts acted as mediums to channel higher energies so that the Great Immortals’ still mortal minds didn’t have to.
From then on, they continued strip-mining worlds under the guise of "Revaluation" of the opposing forces to keep them balanced. However, the Primal Chaos, existing outside of the balance of the other five by nature, was not enthused by this new plot- balance was its antithesis and the other five Immortals continued working to restore it.
The Chaos descended from transcendency under the guise of its old identity, the woman Raelia Hastor, arriving in the reality of Kaaldenvale. She passed down through the Hastor dynasty the Firmament Glass, a transcendent artifact containing a fragment of Time's consciousness, which would aid her family in the quest to overthrow the new Immortals. Thousands of years later, the Advent of the Haelborne begins, with eighteen-year-old Aryon Hastor in possession of the Glass and therefore the fate of the cosmos.
The Eternal Light#
The Mist Lord#
The Primal Chaos#
The Primordial Equilibrium#
The Saviour#
The Reaper#
Transcendence#
Physical beings can become metaphysical beings through transcendence. This requires long and arduous accumulation of power and understanding until one reaches a state of equilibrium. This state is consciousness — the ability to create and defy entropy, but with none of the drawbacks — no self doubt, no stupidity, none of the counterproductive parts of consciousness, just stripped down free will.
Most beings fail transcendence. They can’t reach this state not because of the power requirement but because of the need to become efficient whilst conscious.
This also brings up the question of how some metaphysical beings aren’t actually efficient consciousnesses, such as the Great Immortals. This is because they are only partially transcendent. They have the power and the mechanical things that make metaphysicals metaphysical, but fail to be as efficient as a true transcendent.
An even greater factor is that at this time most of the cosmos is disillusioned into thinking that efficient consciousness is not part of transcendence because the Great Immortals don’t have it. Such an idea had never crossed their minds.