Before there was light or shadow, before thought shaped meaning, there was Silence. Not the absence of sound, but the pure state before even the notion of sound could exist. This was The First Silence Before All Concepts—the origin point of all realities, all dimensions, all possibilities.
It did not speak because language had not yet been born. It did not think because thoughts themselves were children of its essence. It was neither creator nor destroyer, for such roles only emerged after concepts arose.
And yet—everything came from it.
From its stillness bloomed the first spark of possibility. That spark split into dualities—light and darkness, being and nothingness, time and timelessness. These dualities became the foundations of all cosmologies, the threads that later formed gods, worlds, and laws of existence.
Some say The First Silence did not choose to create—it simply was, and its being radiated creation as a natural consequence. Others believe it moved, walked, or breathed existence into motion—each step unfolding infinite multiverses, each breath birthing concepts like gravity, soul, and story.
Even now, in realms like the Dreamroot, whispers of this Silence linger. The deepest layer of the Dreamroot—the so-called Root Beyond the Boundless—is said to be a fragment of its essence, an echo of that primordial stillness where reality has no rules.
For those who seek to reach Set Zero, they do not merely seek knowledge or power—they seek to touch the Silence itself, to understand what it means to exist before existence had meaning.
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