Eezoon
Interlude 1: A Brief History
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AUTHOR: ODIN ONE-EYE
CLEARANCE : KAMI-SAMA'S EYES ONLY
The weakness of science is that a theory must be able to prove an effect. Throughout most of human history, how the higher planes work, or even proof of their existence is hard to prove or show exist. As far as humanity is concerned, the physical world is all there is since that is all we were capable of observing. Once humanity discovered there were many dimensions, and possibly more than there could be observed, there were theories that perhaps what we see is only a cross-section of what really exists, and the rules of all physical existence is the result of the culmination of other dimensions.
Humanity discovered what they thought was the "spirit" on a plane consisting of 3 dimensions they dubbed the "astral" plane. This was due to the fact that the emotions of people nearby affected the environment. It took powerful quantum supercomputers to detect the subtle differences in quantum results, but it was there. The "spirit" was originally recognizable as electromagnetic background noise that "ghost hunters" used to predict the presence of a spirit back in the century that created the atomic bomb.
Over time our observation of the "astral" plane became more precise, yet no hard physics for the realm were able to be composed. Conservative Scientists who believed everything had concrete laws to operation believed that it was beyond human mathematics and understanding.
It was in this era that magic had a resurgence, backed by the science of the time. Amazing wonders were possible in this era mixing spiritual knowledge with scientific theory.
Quantum manipulation had advanced to not yet all encompassing, but mankind believed they were close. Every known element and molecular design was now possible with technology, and a stable form of fusion was now in use all the way down to the masses. This caused an age of enlightenment of humanity, where all of mankind were seeking understanding themselves and their place in the universe, now that basic survival was no longer a worry. Greed was low because almost everything a person would want was available at their finger tips. Computers ran everything, leaving most people trying to figure out what to do with their life. Crime was almost non-existent since there was no point in stealing. The only crime left was murder, and it was usually was emotionally motivated.
There was no longer any aging now that cells and organs could be replaced with new ones. The human brain has a limit, however, and all but the most major events faded from memory after the first thousand years. Ironically, the human brain was still not understood. Humans still could die if from accidents. Some humans died randomly. We never understood why human brains would spontaneously stop working. The unlucky ones went through insanity first before the fail. They caused much destruction and chaos when they did with the amount of technology and power available at the time. We would have to "neutralize" them. This was just a fancy term for murder.
I gathered the greatest scientists of all time together to try and piece the veil to possibly even higher dimensions. Some of the publicly known greats such as :Hild Ma'oh, Freya Lance, Loki Wild, Mimir Wisdom. There also were other less-known scientists that were just as good.
We projected the next 2 dimensions above the astal ones we've dubbed the "akashic" plane. This projection was based partly in science and partly on spiritual beliefs of ages past. To make an observable change in these dimensions we discovered it took the energy of a huge star or a black hole. Of course we did not create stars and black holes, but spent an eon seeking one out by predicting based on what we could see from the Earth system, and calculating the time it would take to get there. Mankind has never overcome the relativistic limit of the speed of light. We suspect there are no speed limits on the astral side, and that it, unlike this realm, does not have relative-time but perhaps general time.
We figured there had to be a way to probe the astral plane more directly. Once we probed the astral plane we can then possibly probe the akashic plane. Thus, was the creation of the "dimension transfer singularity". We had no idea what we had created.
Luckily, we performed the experiment in a far off system. The singularity instantly wiped out the whole system. We were watching from a distance. The location of this singularity was roughtly 1000 light years away from Earth. We had watched from 3 light years away from the experiment. The singularity was 1 light year big. We figured we destabilized the astral plane in that area, causing a breakdown of the laws of physics that govern the physical plane we live on.
Over time we sent probes in, and adjusted them to gather what data we could. All we could do is gather data from the edge of the phenomena.
Eventually we became frustrated and decided to send someone in. We were were pretty sure that anyone who entered would not be able to return to the physical world, but perhaps like a spirit, could communicate with us on the physical world. Loki volunteered. We wished him luck and offered him prayer that his spirit lived on, even if his body did not. Loki did somehow reform a body and return, but he was not quite sane.
When we were exhausted all other methods, we began building an a "dimension transfer singularity" keyed to the Akashic realm. We already lived long enough, and if we died, so be it. We believe we vaporized the whole galaxy that time, though we will probably never know. We and any sentient beings closest to the phenomena, found ourselves in what appeared to be a void that contained a single star.
We discovered odd entities in this world, which we now figured was the astral realm. Somehow our calculations must have been off, which explained the violent response of the experiment.
The beings there taught us the ways the astral world. They were beings who glowed with a shine that none of our astral bodies could compare. Over time some of them would become "enlightened" or achieved "nirvana". They believed they moved on to a higher existence. Every time one did, the world shook, although it is hard to describe what it did, seeing how this plane is non-physical.
This plane functioned entirely on will, thought and emotion. Us more sentient beings were capable of thought, but there were other entities of varying levels.
This world was malleable with thought so we used our minds to probe the star. We discovered this was the representation of a physical world in it's infancy. We continued on our experiments to pierce the Akashic plane. It was more like meditation than anything. We found our minds worked differently here and could handle more information than we could as a physical human.
We also discovered what we believed was the source of magic discribed in ancient history. There were beings of differing elements that represented different rudimentary concepts of the physical world. Manipulating these beings caused immediate effects in the physical world.
Using our original dimensional theory, the physical world was a culmination of everything above it. If you manipulated the physical world drastically enough, you affected the higher worlds. If you manipulated the higher dimensions subtly, you affected the physical world greatly. We were not powerful enough to manipulate drastic changes to the physical plane instantly from the astral side, and so we did little changes over eons. We moved it into a pattern that began affecting this astral plane of energy and thought. Our changes became subtler and subtler until we believed we became thought we pinpointed the dynamics of a higher plane, the one we had dubbed the Akashic plane. We studied the effects over what seemed to be an infinite time, if there was such a thing as time here.
We built ourselves forms to return to the physical world. We did not block off recognition of our astral side as what we supposed happened to the Astral Beings of our original world, for reasons unknown.
Through our experiments for the Akashic plane, we projected a higher realm which we called the Realm of Creation, the Realm of God, Ain Soph. It seemed we could only fathom and project one dimension for this "plane". If there were higher dimensions, there was too whopping a phase difference to any higher dimensions to calculate if they existed. We were incapable of discovering anything higher.
This time, we figured we might as well well venture a trip to the Akashic plane as to probe Ain Soph. So we rebuilt the "dimensional transfer singularity" in the fledgling physical world. This one was keyed more precisely than the last. We figured if we journeyed to the Akashic Plane from there we could experiment there to study Ain Soph.
When we probed the astral analogue of the "dimensional transfer singularity" with our astral selves, knowledge beyond measure was accessible. It was the knowledge of worlds come and go, beings come and go, the beings that we've met, ones we haven't. We never fully believed the beings when they told us "all was one" until now. We now believe we had a rough understanding of the universe.
This universe and many like it, emanate from the great Endless or Infinite. Our attempt to fully understand Ain Soph plane is impossible. We can only see a glimpse of it and therefore could never fully understand it, or access anything higher.
Our conclusions were:
Physical - 3 Spacial, 1 Time
Astral - Thought, Emotion, Spirit
Akashic - Wisdom, Knowledge
Ain Soph - Unknown
Ain Soph (1D)-Akashic(2D)-Astral(3D)-Physical(4D)
*'D' is for the number of dimensions Comprising the Plane.
This concludes that there are 10 known dimensions.
We connected ourselves with Akashic bodies through the "dimensional transfer singularity". We used our newly acquired knowledge from them to attempt to manipulate the qualities of Ain Soph.
We found it impossible without direct influence and created one more "dimensional transfer singularity" which took the majority of the energy and matter of the fledgling universe. We then used our Akashic bodies to probe the singularity on its Akashic analogue.
Thus, Yggdrasil was created. It was our small interface into the great Infinite of Ain Soph. The higher the dimension manipulated, the greater the effect on lower dimensions as the change cascades downward through the planes. Yggdrasil does have a "computer" aspect to it that we built in the physical and astral planes. Yet we do not have a full understanding why it works.
We left enough matter and energy to last for a few trillion years for worlds for us to live on. and we built an ideal society in this universe were no one died and we lived into eternity. We had children and gifted them with akashic bodies as well. Each one was an embodiment of an aspect of creation, due to their Akashic bodies. This world went on without much change or creation. It was an existence of peaceful boredom. We were a sad people. Many of us sat around staring into oblivion for eons, unmoving.
Through Ydgrassil we discovered other universes. We could travel between them through Ain Soph, which connected them all. We attempted to guide sentient societies to never-ending peace and enlightenment.
It was then Hild revolted and stated her motivation was to prevent for another society to end up like their existence of nothingness. She did not want us to condemn other societies to our timeless emptiness.
She believed there had to be strife for there to by joy. There had to be darkness, for there to be had to be a hammer to forge the sword. There had to be loss to appreciate gain. We had took change away. There had to be change and change in and of itself was not evil. It just was. Death was not evil; it gave sentient spirits another chance to do something different; go a different place.
We warred over the concept until the I terminated the connection of the rebelled gods to Yggdrasil. We banished them to a budding Universe that had almost nothing in it, and never had any sentient life. We called this realm Hell.
The rebels built a synonym of Yggdrasil called Nídhogg and gathered and created more Fallen Gods from other universes we had not yet reached. They then broke into our original universe, which we had named Asgard.
We almost completely annihilated each other. I reasoned with them, telling them if that if we all perished, there would be nothing left to mark our existence or accomplishments. If we destroyed each other they could no longer prevent the same thing events from occurring in another universe. Together, we forcefully implemented the Doublet System.
Now there is little direct warfare between the two sides. But as we, the Gods of Light attempt to guide humanity and other beings in various worlds in our footsteps and towards enlightenment, they are there at every attempt to thwart us.
I, along with the surviving scientists who form the Elder Gods and Elder Demons, are the only ones who know this history. We are also the only ones who have come to understand what Hild was getting at. Our progeny does not understand the lessons that Hild taught and never will until they go through the eons of nothingness the Elders did.
The Gods believe we created the universe and that the demons are jealous and wish to destroy our creation.
The Demons believe their sole purpose is destruction, returning this "flawed" creation to nothingness. They revel in the pain and destruction they cause as proof of creation's fallacy.
The Elders of the Demons and the Gods know better. Their beliefs are flawed, but serve our purpose. We Gods prevent the Demons from going out of hand. The Demons keep the Gods from creating the "paradise" of peaceful nothing. Together we maintain the balance.
I am Odin, the Elder God with the strongest connection to Yggdrasil and Ruler of the Gods of Light. This is my story.
-Odin One-Eye -Date: 1E ADS *
*1 Eon After implementing Doublet System
Authors Notes
I wrote this with the intention of describing some of how the reality of this series works along with the origin of the Gods. Ranma is connected to both Nidhogg and Ygdrassil for a purpose that will be clarified later. I also wanted to give an insight into the unique mindset of the Gods and Demons. I pulled the Gods' mindset from Buddhism, where spirits who built up enough Karma go to the realm of the Deva. The Deva are quite powerful and long lived. Some of them are said to have existed before this universe and some somehow believe they created it.
*An Angel in this fic is what makes a goddess a goddess. It is Akashic body connected to Yggdrasil. The Angel is connected to the Astral body of the Goddess. The physical manifestation of an Angel representative of the user's new astral form. However this form is due to the connection with the Akashic body, which is an embodiment of an essence or principle of the universe.
*The effects of mixing two of the Trinity of the Unknowable from the Kabballah is unknown at this time, and has never been done. Odin only knows of the existence of the Trinity because of LoN showing herself to him in the past.
*Note that Lord of Nightmares is the Ain Soph of her realities. She is one of the Trinity in the Kabballah. Ain Soph(Endless), Ain (Nothingness), Ain Soph Aur (Endless Light). You can guess which one I picked as Lord of Nightmares.