[This chapter's purpose serves as a guide to understanding the complex nnature of the story that some may find confusing, however this may conatin spoilers for those readers that want to dwell in without prior information.]
✦ What Is the Skyroot Dome?
A massive, mythos dome-shaped structure that appeared during the first recorded Collapse. Its origins are unknown. It splits the sky like a cracked mirror and distorts space, time, and memory beneath it. Creatures — some mindless, some intelligent — spill from its deepest points. There are countless Skyroot Domea across different and parallel world's, each are intertwined and connected by Whispers, Echoes, Memories and the Soul of the individual.
✦ Whispers
Disembodied voices or fragments of thought that certain individuals can hear. Often carry vague warnings, memories, or even glimpses into alternate realities, or the worlds the Spire is connected to. Whispers may be:
- Echoes of the past
- Sentient messages
- A byproduct of the Spiral's collapse
✦ Whispers that take form - Echoes made of Flesh
Whisperers are not creatures in the traditional sense. They are sentient echoes, emotional phantoms, and ambient horrors born from fractured realities, forbidden memories, or collective fears within the Echo Floors.
Stage 1 - Echo beasts
Stage 2 - Echo Dwellers
Stage 3 - Wraithborne (Humanoid's)
Stage 4 - Void's
Stage 5 - Titans/Myth's
✦ The Echo Floors
The Colossal Tower is not just a structure — it's a dimensional relic, a spire left behind by a forgotten age or perhaps even born from the collective trauma of existence itself, no ones of it's creation. Inside, the Echo Floors unfold. Each floor is a layered memory-space, a metaphysical arena where the laws of time, perception, and reality bend to emotion, legacy, and power.
Each floor holds the memories of it's unique and indiviual world it once connected to (Adjusting to it's size as well) - these maybe familiar to people who have been raised within that world, holding deep and faint memories.
This is connected via the Dream Space.
Echo Floors are ascending stages of memory-realms within the Colossal Tower, reflecting a dominant emotion, secret, or historical event tied to the world's deepest fears or untold truths.
Each Floor grows progressively unstable and warped the higher one ascends - whilst this colossal may feel limited and finite, it's structure is infinite with the top being nothing but an impossible approach.
✦ Hollow Echoes
Among the known Echo Floors of the Colossal Tower, there exist rare Anomalous Floors — disconnected, broken realms where the echo link has decayed or been erased from existence.
What remains are corrupted spaces, inhabited by beings that have either lost purpose or become self-aware anomalies within the dream-space.
✦ Dreamspace
The Dreamspace is a realm of infinite connection, tethering the living, the dead, and the imagined through shifting echoes of history. Each echo is a reflection of a world that once existed—now fragmented into distorted dream-like layers. These layers are accessed through the Echo Floors of the Colossal Spire.
✦ Accessing the Dream space
To even graze its outer edge, one must:
- Survive the awakening of their inner essence (such as a Void Core or equivalent).
- Pass through a phenomenon known as the Skyroot Dome—a supernatural threshold formed by ancient energies that separate the mundane from the mythic.
- Face its internal trials, also called the Echo trials which may last days, weeks, months or even years. It is known only to those who endure them.
✦ Void Power Structure - The Void Core
In this world, power is not granted lightly. It is earned through survival, trauma, and evolution of one's very essence. All who awaken follow the Ascension Path, a progression shaped by their bond to the Void Core—a mythical force of raw potent and soul energy. It is the natural source of power and life force, if one may to stray away from this path - their core may face an internal conflict that can lead toa collapse of the void core. Losing a void core, which is a life essence, can lead to a brutal death.
✦ Void Core Branches
Power is a feat many strive to achieve in order to live as a higher soul, a life with least struggles— it is awakened, shaped, and forged through an entity within each individual called a Void Core.
The Void Core is a mythical essence, present in select beings, that determines their potential path of evolution. These cores branch into different categories, often referred to as Void Branches. Individuals can be classified into the following category's within achieving the 3'rd state Wraithborne -
Soul Void – Harnesses willpower, emotion, and spiritual pressure.
Temporal Void – Twists perception and momentary reality.
Entropic Void – Associated with decay, collapse, and silence.
Gravitic Void – Spatial abilities unique to them
Shadow Void – Draws from forgotten memories, identity distortion, and fear.
However - these are determined by numerous internal and external factors such as Talent/soul resonance, Bloodline history, Trauma and trials, or even environmental exposure.
This mystical essence embedded within one's being, grows not only with brute force but through cognitive and spiritual evolution. The two primary paths to ascent are typically:
✦ The Path of Force – Equilibrium Break
- Every being has a physical equilibrium, a limit the body can sustain without collapse.
- However, without mental clarity, this process may corrupt the Core or cause bodily degradation.
✦ The Path of Insight - Theoretical Application
- Despite the Void Core being a contained life force of power and energy —it's a reactive matrix of thought, essence, and identity.
- When one understands the theory behind energy flow, body mechanics, and metaphysical harmonics, they can consciously alter how power manifests.
✦ Void Core Rank's -
Within the Coloassal spiral, individuals that follow the path to ascension go through several stages. Progression through the Void Core Ranks is not linear — some ascend through talent, others through torment, understanding, or chance. However, the general stages below reflect the transformation of a being who actively evolves their core.
CLASS 1 — Neophyte to shadeborne
CLASS 2 — Adept to Evolved
CLASS 3 — Wraithborne to Nightborne
CLASS 4 — Harbringers to Eclipseborne
CLASS 5 — Voidwalker State
MYTHOS REALM — Akin to the Ruler's
Beyond - ?
As the story gradually continues, more will be added to the guide later for greater understanding and easier access to obtain information.
[This concludes the end of the guide]