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History

Nothing is complete without a creation myth. In the beginning, there was Nothing. It had no comparison, it had no meaning. Eventually, Something came into existence. And it gave Nothing meaning, but it was incomplete. It created two imperfect children, Life and Rebirth, and gave them all of existence to play with. They created the stars and planets that filled existence, but they too were lonely. And so, they created the Gods to play in their universe.

The Gods, however, were further imperfections, and were greedy, prideful, and bitter. They had power feuds between themselves, and hated being at the bottom of the hierarchy. As such, they created Servants, to control and command. The Servants were largely more levelheaded than the Gods, but they too wanted something to control. And so the First Tellurians were created by various Gods, largely dumb powerful creatures inhabiting the planets, existing only for the Servants to abuse.

However, without something to sustain them, the First Tellurians started to wipe each other out. The Servants convinced some Gods to create something to stop them, and the Elder Races were born. They were weaker than the Planet Walkers, but smarter, and were largely able to keep a balance. However, more and more Servants and Gods had various ideas, and the New Races came into existence. This chain was finally broken when the Servants of the Chaos God created their race: The humans. Physically weak, but very adaptable.

The humans threw what was finely balanced into, fittingly, chaos. The various races started interacting in a social manner, and the First Tellurians became powerless against innovations. Further, the Servants started to see themselves more in the races than the Gods, and many showed support in spirit for their uprising. Both the power shift and the Servants' reaction frightened the Gods. They felt threatened by this change, and when Life and Rebirth tried to comfort them, the Gods destroyed them in a panic. This further spurred their terror, and they removed themselves from the Tellurian Plane, and locked away the power of Something they had.

However, some Gods and Servants rebelled, and help create a loophole to the power. Three keys, hidden within Tellurian spirits. The Gods had had enough, and struck at these Titans with full force. The Titans never stood a chance, and those who weren't killed were sealed away as punishment for their treachery.

While this happened, however, humans had worked on a device to end all of this once and for all. The device could pull the Divine Plane back into the Tellurian Plane. Without the power of Something they previously used, the Gods would be trapped on the plane, at the mercy of any further innovations the humans made. Cutting their losses, the Gods sealed their plane off from the Tellurian Plane, to bicker and war amongst themselves until the end of time.

While a victory was achieved, more work had to be done. Forces outside and inside of the blooming society threatened everything they worked for, and so much progress was yet to made.

Fields

Fields in general are merely background information. Most living things has several fields. Sight, sound, touch, mind, and spirit are common ones, but not all have them. Which means if something can project nothing detectable to the sight field, it can be invisible. Touch, intangible. More when my mom isn't fucking around on the keyboard.

Without fields, living things are of the same capability as we are (Tier 0). However, it's not really something they'd notice without fields, and there's few chances for them to experience a loss. But, nonliving things do NOT have fields, so that's important to note. Specifically, most adventurers easily clear through something without a field. A standard wall is nothing to them, for example.

Fields work on something akin to frequencies. More attuned people are able to sense fields and recognize who they belong to, but it's an entirely different ballpark than being able to tell exactly what that identity means. Characters with excessive understanding of magic and fields (such as Dai) may be able to hide themselves from specific fields or even cancel fields, but this is such an overpowered technique that it really shouldn't come up in gameplay.

Official Settings

Change in the Air

Factions: Loyalists, Revolutionaries

Canon Ending: Humans help establish a society, the Gods are banned from the Tellurian Plane.

The Hunger Strikes

Factions: Tellurians, Planet Eaters

Canon Ending: Majority of planets are wiped out, the planet eaters are destroyed.

Search and Destroy

Factions: Society, The OO

Canon Ending: Many races are heavily damaged physically and mentally, but the OO loses all but pockets of power

Dim Future, Darker Past

Factions: BLUE, HAZE, The Agents

Canon Ending: ?????

Alternate Setting: Stark Reality

Factions: Loyalists, Revolutionaries

The Hunger Strikes never occurs, instead the universe folds under the Benefactor and his assistant.

Canon Ending: ?????