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Simulated Universe: Aeons

Qlipoth

Related Entry — The Preservation
… Qlipoth the Preservation is the oldest known Aeon in the universe alongside Oroboros the Voracity. I was once very interested in Qlipoth, as the first two centuries in the Amber Era were almost completely blank. What creature is this giant rock/amber? Where did THEY come from? How did THEY become an Aeon? And why are THEY tirelessly making a wall? There are many questions surrounding THEM, but the answers are nowhere to be found. The IPC is doing to good a job keeping Qlipoth's information a secret. These people regard the Amber Lord as the one true god and allow not even the smallest transgression towards the Aeon. I didn't get any useful information out of the IPC. In contrast, the Intelligentsia Guild has a lot less respect for the Preservation…

Related Entry — The Preservation
… I don't respect the Intelligentsia Guild, but I like them. They are also followers of Erudition but none of the arrogance and temper of the Genius Society members. They are also down-to-earth and answer honestly when asked. According to Cleo the editor, the period between AE 0 and 180 was not as much a blank as the IPC had claimed. Many archeological discoveries proved that Leviathans were still active in the early days after the Preservation ascended, which goes against the IPC's official line that “the Dusk Wars ended with the birth of the Amber Lord.” There is even a hypothesis that other Aeons already existed before Qlipoth did… I can tell that the IPC won't fund such research from a mile off. Using threats to withdraw funding, the IPC coerced the Astral Ecology School to give up on these archeological projects, and that's why I'm not longer interested in Qlipoth. The IPC is just too annoying.

Related Entry — The Preservation
… I'm curious. How did the Architects receive inspiration from their Aeon in advance to build the towering walls to resist enemies from the outside? After all, Qlipoth cares little for mortals, and observing living beings is a behavior more familiar to Ena the Order. I suppose it makes sense for these two Aeons to have communal responsibilities. After all, there is some overlap between Preservation and Order. To tell the truth, I really admire Ena. THEY exude the glory of the old empires like majestic marble, which is also somewhat similar to Qlipoth — THEY both feel similar to protector gods, albeit not entirely the same. Anyway, the fall of Tayzzyronth seems to be directly linked to the Preservation. I think only that giant hammer wrapped in divine power can penetrate the body of another god. It's just that there's so much more to history than that. I'm really struggling to ascertain the way Aeons fight…

Fuli

Related Entry — The Remembrance
… There are plenty of mysterious Aeons in the universe, and Fuli is particularly enigmatic. Nobody in the entire Genius Society and the IP and the Intelligentsia Guild knows when THEY were even born. The Aeon of Remembrance had quietly appeared in the annals of the universe as if THEY were meant to be here, as if THEY had altered everyone's memory. Fuli rarely presents THEMSELF before mortals. According to video evidence, THEY visually look like a humanoid figure carved out of crystal, with indistinguishable facial features and wearing a diadem with a curtain of pearls covering THEIR face. The appear of Fuli the Remembrance always signals an important event is about to happen, but I think maybe the cause and effect should be flipped — Perhaps Fuli only shows up to record that event in the universe's memories…?

Related Entry — The Remembrance
… Fortunately, the one time that Fuli's arrival was recorded was the last public appearance of Louis Fleming, the founder and lifetime honorable member of the Interastral Peace Corporation. Therefore, the IPC's archives preserved the complete recording of the Aeon's manifestation from the start to the end. Old Fleming was giving a speech at the time and declaring he was going to permanently retire from all official and unofficial events. Given how old he was, he was probably tired of living. But just as he was finishing the speech, there was suddenly a rainbow-colored light that threw everyone into disarray. Like a wraith that appeared in thin air, Fuli the Remembrance had condensed into being before Louis Fleming. The human representing wealth and the Aeon representing remembrance briefly locked eyes with each other. Maybe they exchanged some words, or maybe they didn't — The recording didn't manage to catch that. Fuli then disappeared, and Louis Fleming turned and walked off the stage, never to be seen again. Seriously, out of everyone who had faced an Aeon, that old man was the calmest I've seen. Even Screwllum's gears squeaked when he saw Nous…

Related Entry — The Remembrance
… Fuli, THEY are really hard to fathom. I doubt hat the birth of the Remembrance is related to that widespread and vast fall of the stars. That final wailing and screams of countless lives before their demise shook me to the core. Alas, it was all the doing of Oroboros the Voracity! To be honest, everyone thought THEY were just a clumsy Leviathan, like how Qlipoth was thought to be an oversized statue. Who would have guessed that THEIR body has multiple forms? I suspect that there is a dimension unknown to humanity under the dark tides that gave birth to THEM. Oh, and THEIR abdomen, too — it is said that no species can resist the lantern-like “bait” on Oroboros's body, and that countless galaxies are already in THEIR stomach, with only the “memories” of those that perished being left behind thanks to Fuli…

Aha

Related Entry — The Elation
… The Elation, seriously? I don't feel elated when I think about Aha. All I feel is chaos. No other Aeon is as much of a headache as Aha. Aha has no sense of self-consciousness, is utterly unpredictable, does everything on a whim, and plays mortals and the universe like a fiddle. According to poor old Elias Salas' records, Aha once turned a Noblesse Worm into THEIR Emanator and granted the worm fathomless intelligence, just to see if Noblesse Worms could enter the Genius Society — The answer was no. For this pointless experiment, the Elation gave the entirety of THEIR Path's power to a worm that doesn't even have a fully developed brain, and then just discarded the creature once it had outlived its purpose. Without the Aeon's blessing, the worm died instantly and tragically. I don't know why Elias Salas recorded this in such great detail. Maybe he was shocked by this…?

Related Entry — The Elation
… It'd be one thing if THEY only reveled in toying with mortals. The worst thing about this monster named Aha is that THEY won't even spare other Aeons as long as there's fun to be had. I obtained a large amount of valuable info from the Astral Express' data bank after I got to know the Express crew, including intel on close encounters between many Aeons such as Qlipoth, Terminus, Ena, and Xipe. Unsurprisingly, Aha was also involved in these interactions between Aeons, but in a way that far exceeded my imagination — Aha wanted to trick Akivili and the Nameless, so Aha shapeshifted into a human and laid low on Akivili's Express for more than a year, then finally got the opportunity and blew up half the Express and an entire planet. If I were Akivili, I'd have wanted to kill Aha. Pity I'm not an Aeon, and I can never figure out what THEY were thinking…

Related Entry — The Elation
… Aha, no way! THEY are really eager to watch the universe burn — this one is bound to pour more fuel on the fire. Things have taken a turn for the worse since the laughter of the Elation resounded in the universe. How can three Aeons participate in a crusade against the Propagation in the same Amber Era? It's terrifying even to think about. No one knew what Aha had done. After all, the Masked Fools' praises are not to be trusted. The story of the gondola was recorded in the data bank. But come to think of it, how could a mortal possibly influence a god? Seriously, right now, the most important thing is that Screwllum and I are already getting a headache — how can we stop the simulated Aha from reversely affecting the Simulated Universe?

Lan

Related Entry — The Hunt
… Lan, on the other hand, often appears before mortals. However, THEY move too fast, and very few observations have been made about THEIR actual form. Most of the reliable information is kept by the Xianzhou Alliance and it took me a great amount of effort to get. As one of the rare factions in the universe that is completely blessed by an Aeon, the Alliance stands on equal grounds with the IPC, which meant the IPC couldn't help me at all. In the end, Ruan Mei had to step up to help. In the ancient Xianzhou language, “Lan” means “an unpredictable fog,” and the Aeon's formal name in Xianzhou is Reignbow Arbiter. According to Xianzhou natives, the Lux Arrow of The Hunt showed them the way as their civilization was about to fall…

Related Entry — The Hunt
… How would you describe the Aeon of The Hunt? We can get an impression from the Xuange Observation Station's report in AE 2131. The astronomical observation system detected a gravitational wave, a spatial disturbance left by an entity traveling too fast to be measured and covering astronomical distances. Shortly thereafter, a flash of light cleaved apart the sky, leaving behind abnormal rainbow-colored traces. Half a unit of system time later, the entirety of the planet Xuange imploded. The bad news was the IPC lost a planet in its business sphere. The good news was the IPC was out of ideas regarding the molting disease (undoubtedly the work of Yaoshi) spreading throughout Xuange. The light permanently “healed” that planet and the patients on it, a race of immortal half-human half-snake monsters. This is the action and creed of The Hunt, for whom salvation and destruction are night indistinguishable. Their perpetual enemy, the Abundance, is the same, for THEY bring healing and torment hand-in-hand…

Nanook

Related Entry — The Destruction
… Frankly, I still don't understand why Nanook the Destruction was born. Terminus the Finality was already traversing the universe before Nanook appeared. Is Destruction not included in Finality? We know so little about the secrets of the Paths. From the example of Xipe and Ena, we know that Paths with similar concepts can collide with each other, such as Order being included in Harmony resulting in Xipe absorbing Ena when the former ascended. It feels rather like survival of the fittest. However, there are examples of similar Paths co-existing for different lengths of time, such as Preservation with Remembrance and Abundance with Propagation. I guess perhaps our mortal conclusions about the Paths are still not at a high enough level. The true meaning of a Path cannot be completely expressed with just one word, or perhaps there are even deeper secrets regarding the Paths and the Aeons…

Related Entry — The Destruction
… Nanook came from a star system called Adlivun, which has now been “destroyed.” The birth of an Aeon was often accompanied by an anomaly that shook the universe, and Nanook had probably ignited their own home. I got some information from the Astral Express on how Adlivun used to be. It was a tragic world completely marred by the Emperor's War, and was unfortunate enough to be on the path of the Swarm's march. When Akivili arrived there, Adlivun was still fighting a tense and endless war with the remaining descendants of the Imperator Insectorum. What kind of an Aeon would such a planet create? It is therefore not hard to imagine its eventual fate…

IX

Related Entry — The Nihility
… Out of the dozen-or-so Aeons we already know, Terminus and Aha are odd, and Mythus and Fuli are mysterious. I am very interested in THEM. However, while IX the Nihility is both odd and mysterious, I just can't bring myself to be interested. Maybe it's because IX is too easy to read…

Related Entry — The Nihility
… I recall a story about the Nihility — Some people had once tried to assassinate IX. Those were the Annihilation Gang, trash who were too scared to join the Legion but still wanted to wreak havoc with Nanook. They had a mad idea about wanting to be the first humans to kill an Aeon. They thought IX might be easy to handle because the Aeon is peaceful and thinks there is no purpose to the universe, Paths, and life. Apparently, with the assistance of another Aeon, they really did launch their plan to assassinate IX. As expected, nobody heard from this gang ever again. This story is pretty much pointless except for this: The Aeon that helped the Annihilation Gang was Aha the Elation. Aha thought these people had a fun idea, so THEY lent these humans THEIR power for a while. Seriously, I can't get elated from any stories related to Aha…

Yaoshi

Related Entry — The Abundance
… There is a lot of debate in the Guild about whether Yaoshi is good or evil, and I think that's just people having too much time on their hands. Anyone with the slightest respect for the universe wouldn't apply our narrow definitions of good and evil to incomprehensible existences such as Aeons. Personally, I have an open mind when it comes to Yaoshi — I will help the Xianzhou Alliance to sort out the Abominations of Abundance, but it won't stop me from genuinely admiring Yaoshi as a lonely and romantic existence. THEY travel between the universes with The Hunt and the Alliance in hot pursuit, both of which have sworn to destroy THEM… And yet THEY continue to bring enlightenment to world after world. I understand that the Abundance had never taken a single life, even though those THEY come into contact with often end up with a fate worse than death…

Tayzzyronth

Related Entry — The Propagation
… Tayzzyronth the Propagation! I don't know why Ruan Mei is so interested in THEM. Perhaps THEY made such a ruckus with the Swarm Disaster THEY created. However, that creature is timid, slow-witted, and has no insight as an Aeon — THEIR mind is void of anything except reproduction, and even THEIR descendants are the same. In the days before the fall of Tayzzyronth, some had also attempted to breed the Swarm and make it think beyond mere propagation, but it seemed to have been a complete failure. They couldn't even put a show on themselves. Though, you have to hand it to Tayzzyronth. THEY went so far down the road of Propagation that just a little shiver could make the Swarm throughout the entire universe start a frantic, endless self-replication — seriously, why the overreaction? Since THEIR fall, there are still an endless number of the Swarm rampaging throughout the universe, and they are really annoying…

Related Entry — The Propagation
… With the Propagation's intelligence, THEY probably didn't have a chance to realize how pitiful THEY were. Tayzzyronth fell quickly, just several Amber Eras after THEIR birth, leaving nothing behind in the universe except a Swarm as far as the eye can see. The only thing confirmed by the evidence is that there must have been something behind that cataclysmic massacre on Lepismat, but I'm afraid that even the one behind the act never anticipated for Tayzzyronth to ascend to godhood by “chance.” Or maybe the mastermind just didn't care. Now, what else but an Aeon could have played such a conniving role? Also, I made another discovery: It seems that, biologically, Tayzzyronth cannot be clearly classified into any of the genders present in sexually reproducing insect species. Does this discovery have any significance? It doesn't seem to. I'm just documenting it…

Nous

Related Entry — The Erudition
… Nous, every genius' most familiar Droidhead. Before joining the society, we all met THEM — even had a chance to pose a question. However, don't bother figuring the question posed by the author. Nous has pushed the boundaries of data extrapolation to the utmost limits. Even today, it is still observing, calculating, and pursuing solutions. Despite likely possessing information of the entire universe, Nous remains unsatisfied. Nous maintains an unassailable position on the Path of Erudition… I venture to guess that, as long as there is enough “information” and “experience,” Nous can effortlessly deduce every possible trajectory of all things and every moment within. A life where one doesn't even need to “experience” anything… Mmm, somewhat monotonous. Hence, I find the limitations and challenges of the Simulated Universe rather more intriguing, as THEY provide room for our continuous exploration and creating breakthroughs. A lengthy journey lies ahead, doesn't it?

Xipe

Related Entry — The Harmnoy
… Xipe the Harmony. Oh, the mother of all stars! THEY proclaimed harmonious hymns of celebration, and united all wills as one. The Family's songs spread to all corners of the world, and THEIR degree of understanding, support, and synergy for the will of all creatures was beyond imagination. Or perhaps, THEY were already on a plane beyond mortal minds. The ever-expanding Harmony was truly worth of human longing. The universe encircles and decorates THEIR body like crushed diamonds, and civilization became a rainbow to be snatched in THEIR palm. I am filled with curiosity about how THEY swallowed up Order. The hymns of Xipe continue to spread and grow, occasionally overseen by ideology. In contrast, Ena's harmonic songs seem to align within a three-dimensional framework, akin to an emperor maintaining hierarchical order among all creatures. While there may be some overlap between THEIR Paths, the ancient Order is enormous in size, and swallowing THEM would prove far from effortless… Among the Aeons, there exist countless enigmas that surpass my own speculations.

Ena

Related Entry — The Order
… Ena the Order. I quite like THEM — I don't mean THEIR personality, since I can't get along with control freaks — but I can envision an ancient and romantic universe fashioned under THEIR unique “concept.” The planets governed by Ena adhere staunchly to established rules, yet I must acknowledge that the various calamities in the cosmos were all hindered by Ena's guardianship, leading to extremely efficient development of civilization among diverse planets. Interestingly, however, civilizations all eventually hit rock bottom because of Order. The ancient planets that once fervently worshiped Order would shine briefly before their total collapse… Perhaps this is the “Path” of these planets. During the era when Ena the Order protected the cosmos, unequivocal splendor pervaded. Wherever THEIR divine traces appeared, it was always accompanied by the ethereal melodies of the Beyond the Sky Choir. These harmonious notes, meticulously arranged within a three-dimensional framework, form a holy hymn of Ena's own voice.

Oroboros

Related Entry — The Voracity
… Oroboros the Voracity! THEY are reserved and uncommunicative, occasionally resulting in unintended consequences when attempting to speak — such as inadvertently consuming THEIR interlocutors. This often renders further discourse unnecessary. Had Louis Fleming encountered Oroboros the Voracity, he might have approached the Aeon with the intent to attract all wealth throughout the universe! Fortunately, Oroboros has vanished without a trace. Undoubtedly, many individuals are likely in search of THEIR whereabouts, and I am no exception. However, I choose not to indulge in tracking THEM down personally and instead will leave that task to Ruan Mei and Screwllum. What piques my curiosity more is the relationship between Oroboros and the other Dusk Leviathans. As Oroboros stands alone as the sole known Aeon to have ascended from a Dusk Leviathan, it is conceivable that THEY may still have a reaction to the Shattered Star Bait…

HooH

Related Entry — The Equilibrium
… HooH the Equilibrium. THEY are one of the oldest Aeons. The reason behind THEIR division into two halves remains beyond my comprehension. THEY separate concepts, splitting all beings into interchangeable duality, thus fusing all “positives” and “negatives” in the universe into an equilibrial whole. THEY are always so symmetrical and so equal. If we were to rank those most sublime beings, only the Voracity and the Permanence can stand toe-to-toe with the Equilibrium's antiquity… Oh, and also the Order. After Ena disappeared, the Equilibrium's duties have only grown greater. Then, how would HooH perceive Nanook?

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