The Abyss

The Abyss is one of the Three Realms, dedicated to the upkeep of the Omniverse. It is a desolate, darkened realm, that extends into infinity. However, despite being desolate, The Abyss is called home by several individuals of note; Derxwna Kapsyla and R.K., the Omniversal Overseers; Krail Rigatro; to a lesser extent, Derxwna's younger sister, Kalypsa Kapsyla; as well as the Archetypes, which reside in their own demi-plane connected to The Abyss. It also plays host to the Abyssial Particles, fragments left over after the creation of Space and Time. Of the Three Realms, The Abyss is the only one of the three that is known to have no passage of time, or at least one that isn't understood, and its existence is technically at the beginning and the end of the Omniverse simultaneously. With the proper knowledge, one can travel to any point of time in any Universe.

History of The Abyss

Archetype Realm

The Abyss was the second of the Three Realms to exist, created by The Creator as a way to birth and sustain life other than themselves. Before being called The Abyss, it was called The Archetype Realm, and its initial denizens were referred to as Archetypes. Eventually, several of these Archetypes would begin to resonate with a concept, some with multiple, or some overlapping with others. Those Archetypes would later be come to known as Existential Archetypes. In it's early state, The Archetype Realm was a blue realm, and the Archetypes were able to create objects to fill the realm, ranging from the mundane to the extraordinary, small to large, and everything in between. Seeing towering constructs was a common sight within the realm.

After observing it for a while, The Creator felt the need to expand upon the concept of The Archetype Realm, and create another realm- a hypothetical realm, one much larger. Infinitely larger. Containing everything. Utilizing their abilities, The Creator attempted to create first incarnation of The Omniverse; a realm where an infinite number of things could occur. However, that realm was unstable, and it folded back into The Archetype Realm not long after creation. This resulted in the existing realm beginning to distort and come apart, and before long it would crumble into nothingness- with its blue luster fading to darkness, and its objects crumbling away to dust. This is what marked the true beginning of the realm known as The Abyss.

Prelude to the Omniverse

With The Abyss now in its current state, things had begun to work differently in the realm. The ability to rebuild their grand paradise was failing, as the Archetypes discovered that their creations no longer held the same level of stability, leading to decay and collapse. Objects created during this era of the realm were referred to as Void Objects- objects devoid of light and stability. Two of the Archetypes, however, became noteworthy for their manipulation of Void Objects- rather, they discovered how the new Void Objects worked, and managed to stabilize them: The Archetype of Space, Tarota, and an Archetype without a title, Seronda. These two pioneered the Void Object revolution and renaissance. While the paradise would never be the same, the Archetypes managed to recreate their cities as best they could. Tarota revealed the existence of errant particles- fragments left over in the attempts to create The Omniverse. This discovery would pave the way to the biggest discovery in the entirety of the Three Realms.

Seronda, utilizing the knowledge from Tarota, discovered a second type of particle, one that could accelerate or decelerate the properties of an object imbued with it. When experimented with, Seronda noticed that the objects would decay similarly to how they currently were, but also noticed that he could reverse the process and replenish them. This allowed him to deduce why objects now were falling apart. These new particles were eventually branded as the Particles of Time by The Creator, and Seronda was hailed as the Archetype of Time. With this discovery, The Creator renewed their ambitions to create The Omniverse.

Seronda, Tarota, and a third archetype, the Archetype of Probabilities, Chasori, set out to create a stabilizing agent, something which would allow The Creator to create and stabilize the Omniverse. From the efforts of the three of them, they created a crystal that contained endless possibilities- an object which came to be known as the Seron Crystal, named after Seronda for reviving The Creator's ambitions. The Creator then used this crystal to finally establish The Omniverse, the realm which contained everything. Though The Omniverse was created, it was still rapidly falling apart. This prompted The Creator to upgrade The Abyss to act as pillars for the new realm, and to repair The Omniverse independently of Their hand. It did this by utilizing errant Particles of Space and Time to patch up any holes in broken universal instances, and then managed to insert them back into the Infinity Cycle.

The Archetype War

The early days of the existence of The Omniverse saw flourishing relations between the two realms. The Archetypes would interact with those who existed within The Omniverse. However, this did not come without issue. Paradoxical events would occur on a regular basis, resulting in the duplication of Archetypes or individuals who traveled between the two realms. The Creator then applied a series of patches to the two realms, which would isolate an Instance that an Archetype traveled to, in order to prevent infinite replication. This meant that Archetypes could no longer visit multiple instances at the same time, but The Creator applied another patch, which would allow The Archetypes to "spawn" a doppelganger of themselves in any universe of their choice to observe or interact with individuals- the Archetypical Avatars.

Unfortunately, this presented a new exploit, one that a now rouge and scorned Archetype of Space took advantage of to try and claim the Three Realms for themselves. While Tarota utilized individuals from The Omniverse to do their bidding, Tarota also discovered that his Archetypical Avatars could return to The Abyss, which would in turn allow him an army of unquantifiable size. He used this army of denizens and Avatars to rampage across The Abyss and lay waste to anyo9ne who got in their way- the First Archetype War. Eventually, his rampage was halted by The Creator, who unmade all of Tarota's Avatars that were present in The Abyss, then sealed him away in an area desolated by his conquest, and quarantined that section of The Abyss off from the rest of the realm- the Abyssal Wastes. His seal was to remain strong forever, as he was sealed in a Paradox Cage, designed by Seronda. The only way to break the seal was if Seronda or The Creator opened it themselves, or, as the name implied, a Paradox were to occur in which Tarota opened it from the outside.

After the conflict, The Creator permanently sealed off access between The Abyss and The Omniverse. The Archetypes were instructed to never grant the knowledge of The Abyss to the denizens of The Omniverse, with the exchange being them allowed to use their own Avatars still. The Abyss laid once again in shambles after the results of the Archetype War, now permanently sealed off from its sister realm. Those in The Omniverse who knew about The Abyss passed down stories about it. In ancient legends, it was recorded as "The Black Space at the Edge of Existence", some described it as "The encroaching darkness", or "The Fated End". Over time the stories became muddled, and people began considering it the first incarnation of "Hell", or the afterlife where sinners are sent.

Era of The Overseers

As technology and science progressed throughout The Omniverse, there became ways to discover, even observe this dark space. However it was always just that, observation. The further one peered out into space, the darker things became, until suddenly it was pitch black. Some tools would report nothing- literally, nothing- while some would record the realm as if it were blocked by a filter of static. Some individuals did manage to accidentally break into The Abyss, however almost all of them were driven mad by the emptiness, and the realization that they didn't age, or get hungry, or anything, sometimes resorting to attempting to take their own lives to escape. These individuals aside, the Abyss remained mostly uninhabited, save for the Archetypes.

In a universe of no significant relevance, two college students, Andrew Pozitski and Krail Rigatro, managed to discover old tomes that documented recordings about the supposed "edge of the universe" while doing research about the Multiverse Theory for their class assignment. As they looked more into it, they discovered that the last time anything else was recorded was about it was well over a millennia before the present day. Since technology had advanced rather significantly since then, the two of them decided that it would be a great project to attempt to learn more about it, and utilize this as "extra credit". Their goal was to send a probe to the "edge of the universe", and they planned to do it by utilizing very experimental relocation technology that had yet to be released to the public. While they managed to get the probe sent to that location, it would no longer send nor receive signals from either end, deeming the experiment a failure. Said probe, however, continued to fulfill its duty to the best of it's abilities. The Creator saw this as an opportunity to have a sort of "guardian" for The Abyss, especially after the events of the Archetype War, and humanized the Probe, effectively turning them into a Cyborg. This Cyborg adopted the name of what it was designated as, R.K., and after being instructed by The Creator, it set out on its new task of ensuring The Omniverse and The Abyss remained intact.

Back in the same universe as before, but much later, Andrew Pozitski set up the Epsilon Facility, a research facility full of scientists that were dedicated to bringing proof to the world that the Multiverse existed. To do so, they created two pieces of technology; the first, The Overseer, a supercomputer that would interface with telescopes capable of peering deep into space to try and pierce through the darkness that lie beyond their universe, and the second being the Reality Gateway Machine, a device that further utilized the prototype teleportation technology, but enhanced much further. This device would be able to transport people across the Universal lines, and into new territory. However, both uses of this machine resulted in failure, with the second resulting in the destabilization of the universe.

The scientists of the Epsilon Facility wounded up in The Abyss after that incident, standing before R.K., who would explain what just happened and where they were. Upon heading the explanation, Andrew realized that this entity was the probe that he and Krail sent into the "edge of the universe" several years ago. In private, R.K. explained to Andrew that they were an overseer, and their job was to ensure the protection of The Abyss and The Omniverse, and in cases when called upon, to act as an enforcer for The Creator. After their conversation, and as the scientists were about to return to their universe, Andrew announced that he would be remaining in The Abyss to assist R.K. with their duties, and that once he was done he would return. This marked the beginning of the duo of Observers.

R.K. trained Andrew, now named Derxwna, about how The Omniverse and The Abyss function. About Abyssal Particles, about how to manipulate them, and about what Destabilization Catalysts were and how to deal with them. After learning what he needed to know, and taking on various solo tasks, Derxwna set out to rebuild The Overseer, but with the intent to have it observe on a much larger scale. Unbeknownst to Derxwna at the time, Overseer was upgraded by The Creator to be able to observe The Omniverse more intimately. This allowed Derxwna and R.K. to keep a much closer eye on The Omniverse, as well as find and deal with Catalysts before they had a chance to grow too dangerous.

An Omniverse In Turmoil

Eventually, after seeing how The Creator handled dealing with The Omniverse, as well as previous events in the history of the Three Realms, such as the failed uprising by the Archetype of Space, and how they delegated the tasks of Omniversal and Abyssal protection to two insignificant individuals from The Omniverse itself, the Archetype of Entropy, Katagama, decided that enough was enough, and that The Creator was not fit to control the realm. Katagama plotted to usurp control of The Source by abusing the Abyss Repair Protocol's mechanics; by destabilizing enough segments in rapid succession, The Abyss would overload and shutdown, forcing The Creator to manually step in to reboot it. To do this, Katagama had his Archetypical Avatars activate across The Omniverse to spread the seeds of mayhem, to the point where segments would begin deteriorating, and eventually destabilize.

As Katagama set out their plans, Derxwna and R.K. would discover innumerable hot-spots across the Omniverse where segments were beginning to break down and collapse at an alarming rate. Both of them set out to what they could to prevent a wide-scale disaster from occurring, though it ultimately wasn't enough. Katagama was able to overload The Abyss and force The Creator to open a Source Gateway to step in. However, before Katagama was able to escape into The Source, R.K. pulled him back to the Abyss by utilizing the abilities learned from the Seron Crystal. Katagama was eventually beaten back and was unable to escape into The Source, and eventually Katagama was imprisoned by R.K. in a way that would prevent him from wreaking any more havoc on The Omniverse or The Abyss.

Diabolus ex Machinca

Much later on, The Abyss played host to a new disaster- the unsealing of the Archetype of Space, Tarota. After being unsealed, Tarota resumed his plans to take control of the Three Realms and reshape them to his whims. By utilizing his pawns stationed in numerous universes, such as the Disciples of the Vast Expanse, he sought out the Seron Crystals that kept Universes functioning. By removing the Seron Crystals from their universes, and bringing them back to his lair in The Abyss, he caused several universes to freeze completely, and began plucking them off one by one, causing them to completely bypass the Abyss's Repair Protocol, and effectively slam into the Abyss, much like the initial attempts at creating The Omniverse did. This weakened The Abyss so greatly, that Tarota was able to execute his master plan without issue- the Abyssal Sundering, an event which infinitely fractured The Abyss, powered by the Master Seron Crystal recovered from The Source, and the Seron Crystals recovered from the Omniverse. This had positive benefits for The Three Realms as a whole, as each fragment worked as an independent pillar to support The Omniverse.

Aftermath of the War

Once Tarota was defeated, The Creator, Ellie, applied several patches to the reworked Abyss to stabilize it after Tarota's machinations. As a result of her attempts to repair it, several gateways opened across The Omniverse as byproducts of the process. One of these gateways opened in the house of Amira Naxeroth, who stumbled into an Abyssal Sub Domain that she would later name "The Great Abyss", and set up a personal workstation there. She would then be tasked by Ellie to chronicle the events of the First and Second Archetype Wars- The Chronicles of the Omniverse.

Mechanics of the Abyss

When The Creator first created the Archetype Realm, it was in an effort to create new life and a home for it. As it degraded into The Abyss, The Creator adjusted the way the realm worked to have it support The Omniverse. If a universe within The Omniverse would destabilize, the Master Seron Crystal in The Source would intercept the broken signal and connect the universe back to The Abyss to be repaired. Once in the empty realm, the broken universe would be repaired by utilizing the abundant Particles of Space and Time existing in The Abyss to patch up any holes created in the universe. Once the repairs are finished, The Source then sends the universe back into The Omniverse. There are some cases where this doesn't work as intended. One such case is when a broken universe needs to be rebuilt from scratch, meaning The Abyss could not properly repair it. In extremely rare cases, the broken universe will be unable to return to The Abyss for repairs, which ultimately results in its complete dissolution, returning to the particles that initially constructed it.

Abyss Repair Protocol

As The Omniverse in its early days was extremely unstable, The Creator set up the Abyss Repair Protocol as a way to ensure that The Omniverse didn't fall apart after its construction. It follows a set of rules to determine how the repair should be handled. The steps for how this process works are listed below.

• Step 1 - Common Destabilization (Normal): When a segment reaches a point of destabilization, it will return to The Abyss for repair, at which point it will be put back to its natural state just before the events of destabilization occurred. If the procedure is simple enough, it can be injected back into the Infinity Cycle.
• Step 2 - Common Destabilization (Irregular): When a segment reaches a point of destabilization, it will return to The Abyss for repair. If if it not possible to restore the segment to its natural state just before the events of destabilization occurring, it will return the segment to where it was taken from, isolated from the Infinity Cycle until it is able to self-repair to the point where it can reinitialize a localized Infinity Cycle.
• Step 3 - Uncommon Destabilization (Reboot): When a segment is destabilized, and the Point of Destabilization cannot be fixed or removed (Usually caused by an external source), The Abyss will execute a special protocol where it reboots that segment, and forces it back into the Omniverse. It is isolated from the Infinity Cycle permanently.
• Step 4 - Uncommon Destabilization (Termination): If a segment is destabilized while the Abyss is overloaded with other repair instances, the segment will break down entirely and return to Abyssial Particles, which are then used to help lighten the Abyss's current load.
• Step 5 - Uncommon Destabilization (Shutdown): If a segment is destabilized while the Abyss is overloaded with other repair instances in rapid succession, the segments will break down entirely and return to Abyssial Particles, and the Abyss will be unable to keep up with the influx of segments being sent in and particles being generated. This causes the Abyss to cease all functions until The Creator manually reboots the entire system.

Though not an official step, because the repair protocol depends on the Seron Crystal to act as an intermediary, if the Seron Crystal is missing from its host universe, then there is no way for The Abyss to actually process repairs on it. If that happens, any broken universes will return to The Abyss in the same way as they did when The Creator first attempted to establish The Omniverse, resulting in The Abyss destabilizing and weakening, much like it did when it was originally the Archetype Realm.

The first two cases happen on a regular basis; segments from within the Omniverse are constantly destabilizing and returning to The Abyss for repair and reinsertion. The later cases are extremely uncommon, and usually do not happen unless said situation is forced, such as during the events of the Omniverse Destabilization Crisis, where Destabilization Catalysts were used to cause rapid destabilization of Omniversal segments to cause the Abyss to overload and cease repairs.

Abyssal Particles

The Abyssal Particles are the building blocks of the entirety of the Three Realms. Only three types of Abyssal Particles are known about. These are Particles of Time, Particles of Space, and Memory Fragments. The first two were created when The Creator attempted to establish The Omniverse, but the attempts collapsed back into The Archetype Realm and corroded it into The Abyss. They are what allow for the creation of Void Objects and Abyssal Gateways, and ultimately are what allow transit across universes.

Memory Fragments are Abyssal Particles that are generated when a universe destabilizes but cannot be repaired, and returns to the particles which constructed it. They are the memories of that universe, and the individuals residing in it. Memory Fragments seek out hosts, so if they leave The Abyss, they try to seek out that universe's incarnation of their former host. Otherwise, they wind up with a new, random host. This all results in the phenomenon of "Deja Vu", and faulty memories.

While Particles of Space and Time can be manipulated with relative ease, manipulating Memory Fragments is much more difficult as they cannot be used in a physical manner. The only person who is known to have been able to manipulate them is an incarnation of Amira Naxeroth, where she was able to manipulate who they could end up with after a universe is completely broken.

Abyssal Gateways

Abyssal Gateways are portals that allow transportation from one location to another. At their core, they are composed of Particles of Space. However, when Particles of Time are added into the mix, one can use it as a way to travel not just from one point to another within the same universe, but also allow one to travel forward and backwards in time within any universe. Proper manipulation of Particles of Time allow one to construct an effective Time Machine.

With advanced enough knowledge of gateway creation, one can also utilize them in various different ways. For example, Kalypsa Kapsyla's ability to open gateways within gateways to redirect and multiply projectiles that are fired into them, an ability most commonly associated with her signature attack, Abyss Flare. Tarota, the discoverer of Particles of Space, is also able to pull off such feats, and more.

Void Objects

Void Objects are objects constructed by Particle of Space manipulation. They can be manipulated into any shape or construct the manipulator desires. However, they are only visible to those who were born or created within The Abyss- namely, the Archetypes. Otherwise, they will be entirely invisible. With enough training, one can sense objects around them, and with specialized technology can individuals actually be able to see them. If Particles of Time are infused with Void Objects, then this introduces the concept of decay and regeneration to them, allowing them to actually be subject to the passage of time.

A well known manipulator of Void Objects is Derxwna Kapsyla, who is an expert at using them both offensively and defensively, as well as for recreational purposes, all without even thinking about it. Tarota, the discoverer of the Particles of Space, is also capable of such feats, and far more.

Isolation from the Infinity Cycle

The Omniverse has a unique trait where everything with in it can branch off and create an entirely new instance based off the smallest of quantum actions, this is what is referred to as the Infinity Cycle. The Infinity Cycle is what allows The Omniverse to house every possibility that is and isn't conceivable. However, there are exceptions to this rule, and they almost always include The Abyss, as well as how it works.

As there is only one Abyss, it would be paradoxical to have an object from The Abyss enter the Omniverse, and then return. It would create an infinite number of said object without end. To prevent this, The Creator made it so that if a segment interacts with The Abyss in any way, that segment becomes isolated from the Infinity Cycle. Segments can also get isolated from the Infinity Cycle if it gets destabilized to the point of being unable to be properly repaired, which results in it being rebooted from scratch.