DEEPS

——The Deeps…

——What has you asking about that, traveller? What could you possibly hope to learn? What could this knowledge bring you?

——Well. You asked, and so you shall know.

——The Deeps, the Void, the space between the stars... though it is spoken of like a place, is not. The Deeps is a place in the way an idea is alive.
——It does not think, it does not need, it does not want.

——But it dreams.

——It dreams, and it expands. Like an idea, it splinters and revolves and spreads. The Deeps iterates upon the universe itself, creating and ending and crafting and destroying; it has no agency and yet it acts as though it does.

——It is not a place, but it helps mortals to think of it as such.
——It is not alive, and yet we speak as though it is.
——It has no mind, but it might as well.

——It is the primordial magic that the world is molded from. The energy that permeates the universe.
——It is both Shade and element, god and mortal.

——It is where the angels come from.
——Of all beings, the angels are the only ones truly of the Void. They are from the Deeps in the way that one idea begets another.
——They are the splinters of thought that cascade outwards and spark a concept, a vision, a world, a universe.
——The angels are what our very universe is founded on, and they hail from that fundamental source.

——The Deeps, that liminal veil between life and death, existence and oblivion, the singularity at the centre of it all. Time has no meaning and space is inconsequential.
——It will exist until all things have crumbled and returned to perfect equilibrium, and it will exist long after; the Deeps always has and always will continue – begin – end.

——The word matters not; the Deeps will be.
————has been.
——————is.



——So, traveller. Did that answer your question, or did it leave you with a lingering sense of dread?
——It does not matter. Continue on; to you, the slumbering dream woven through the fabric of reality might as well not exist. Take solace in that, and do the best you can with what you have.

——After all, it created all of this for you.