The meta-universe or “multiverse”, a term employed by American psychologist and philosopher, William James in 1895, later used to attribute numerous possibilities to parallel universes. The noun multiverse, “Multi” meaning “Many” and “verse” or versus (part participle of vertere to turn).
In all parallel universes there exist a billion other potential possibilities and likelihoods. Worlds subsist and occupy the same positions in space as other worlds, but never occupying the same universe, and not always at the same time. Interconnected by silent, invisible threads, umbilical cords if you will, these sister worlds have equal mass, but exist in different meta-universes. But the fate of one world always affects the fate of all the others.
This is a tale of a fated sphere and its sister world, the
origin of both their fates…
This sister world of legends resided in the deepest heart of
the known multiverse. Its name was abiding as it was eternal, a world where
science and magic existed in mutual perpetuity, and where ancient and mystical
castles rose up beside great modern towers, and warriors, and
barbarians fought side by side with space age machines, and guns, including battle axe and sword. And there was also great evil, an evil so powerful that it set out to steal all the magic in the world. Suffering tore through the mage community as those endowed with the gift of magic were attacked all at once as though something, someone was robbing them of their respective powers.
The demonic evil force had forged a weapon so potent it was able to strip the world of its enchantments, drawing all its power and magic to one place like a magnet.
Not even the gods and goddesses of this planet were safe from its influences. The demon sat beneath the great dome of his mighty weapon, allowing all the energy to enter his body, making him mightier than even the gods.
One hero stepped up to the challenge though. One man with the
capacity to subdue the vile creature travelled to the north to do battle with
the demon…and won! The demon, defeated, watched on in horror as his evil
machine exploded in a blaze and massive inferno, releasing a God particle that came into existence for only a fraction of a second. As the God particle exploded in the sky its power ripped open a doorway to that world's sister dimension, allowing a terrible ripple of energy to leak through its momentary aperture.
The timeless world was saved. However, there was another
world, another planet, a sister planet that dwelt in another parallel
dimension. This second parallel world shared an umbilical cord, unseen by the
naked eye, though was connected in such a way that if one of these worlds
encountered a terrible atrocity, the other would feel it a thousand-fold.
Beyond the umbil-ical cord, beneath a once blue, untroubled
sky a technologically advanced culture, a people known as the Mundorians, began
to receive attacks from an unknown source. A massive and unexpl-ained energy build up began to show up on
the scanners of every research station available. To these Mundorians magic and
enchantment were alien concepts. There was commotion as this unknown power
seared from the skies above their cities like lightning, as though the end of
days had come. Great churning orbs of light began to emerge over the cities causing massive earth tremors. Many people of Mundoria began to perish.
One day technology was forgotten on Mundoria forever. In the
end, there was no sign of the cities that had stood for countless years. There
was no glass or steel, only brick and mortar. Medieval castles rose from the
landscapes surrounded by warring territories, and the world knew only blood and
conflict, though peace was always a desire.
This is the story of one such region and one such desire.
Though aspirations sometimes come with a terrible price…
