The Ancients. The Ekpyrosic. The Nothing-space fabric. The Nameless. The idea that gives fate its shape.

I've tried to break this down as much as possible. Below is every conjecture I am making:

  1. Before the moment of creation T=0 there existed Three Veils of Negative Existence
  2. They represented Somethingness, Nothingness, and the idea of Nothingness.
  3. They were the Gardener, The Winnower and the Garden itself.
  4. The Winnower was the veil Ain - The idea of Nothingness.
  5. The Gardener was the veil Ain Soph Aur - Somethingness/ The Limitless Light
  6. The Garden itself was the veil Ain Soph - Nothingness/Limitless/Infinity
  7. Ain Soph was the loam of possibility/ the quantum vacuum
  8. Everything was formless. Only Patterns existed and emerged as the Gardener and the Winnower played the game of flowers.
  9. These Patterns existed in the quantum vacuum/ the void.
  10. Eventually the Gardener and the Winnower clashed when the Gardener changed the rules.
  11. This was the long, slow, bitter collapse. The Patternfall. The Null Calamity.
  12. This calamity gave rise to the Ekprosic Universe with the collision of two three-dimensional worlds moving along a hidden, extra dimension.
  13. After the Null Calamity, the formless gave way to form and the material.
  14. From this underlying Darkness and Primordial Chaos a spark of consciousness emerges - The Traveller. She was the first emanation of Ain Soph Aur - The Limitless Light - the Gardener.
  15. The Light and The Darkness came into existence.
  16. Many patterns were lost during the clash but some survived and were forced to adapt.
  17. One such Pattern was the Vex who managed to enter the materium.
  18. But some patterns emerged into our newborn cosmos as ripples moving through a six-dimensional manifold present at every point in our familiar four-dimensional spacetime.
  19. These patterns were the Ancients.
  20. They were formless, existing as pure energy and thought in the vacuum of space.
  21. They were Nameless. Forgotten victors of an ageless game of life.
  22. Like the Tarrabah of old - the forgotten name of the Tasmanian Devil - they too were simply forgotten ideas.
  23. One such pattern intends to resurface the survivors of Patternfall.
  24. The Osiris Prophesies point to the fact that in order to keep our future safe we must destroy an Ancient Nameless fraud, robed like a god, whose death was blessed.
  25. This may point to an Ancient who was not in fact a victor of the flower game, whose death was blessed by the Winnower but nevertheless managed to cheat the game through fraudulent means.
  26. In the dreams of Alpha Lupi we see the perspective of one such nameless hiding amongst other nameless. It was pinned by the knife, the Winnower. The knife stole so much and cut away its godly flesh but it managed to escape - a fraction of its former self.
  27. Perhaps this Ancient will never cower when dusk doth fall? How wicked. How divine.
  28. Osiris prophecy also mentions that dusk has happened many times.
  29. Time began with the birth of Light. Sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
  30. We are east of the patternfall, but we are west of Sunfall or Lightfall.
  31. Once the sun sets and the clocks strokes 12 we will have the Nameless midnight when strange things wake.
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