In some areas, distance was relative (nightmare) AND consumption was absolute (divine).
In other zones, fear manifested physically (nightmare) AND hunger consumed fear itself (divine).
Throughout the battlefield, contradictory impossibilities coexisted, reality itself screaming from trying to accommodate mutually-exclusive truths.
They fought in this hybrid reality for subjective hours (minutes in real time), each combatant using their reality's advantages while defending against the other's.
Satou created nightmare constructs—beings pulled from Khar'razoth's fears—only to have them immediately consumed by divine hunger and turned against him, fear-constructs now serving the god rather than attacking it.
Khar'razoth manifested zones of absolute consumption—spaces where everything was devoured—only to have nightmare-logic make "everything" include "the zone itself," creating paradoxes that damaged the Ancient God through its own power.
