The mark of sapience is the ability to look at oneself, to look at one's future and one's past, and to ask where they came from and where they will end. Every civilization in every history, from the largest empire to the smallest tribe, has a tale of the beginning and a fear of the end.
One of these theories is known as the Big Bounce Theory. It is the idea that the universe was born in fire and explosion and expanded outwards, cooling down and filling with life. But eventually the expansion slows, and it reverses. Gravity crushes everything, existence collapsing under itself - and then bouncing back out to start anew. An endless cycle of birth and death, past and future, time repeating ad infinitum.
But sometimes, rarely, something persists from one iteration to the next. Memories of those with especially strong minds, objects enchanted to the point that they don't just exist but exist, places that are only halfway inside of reality.
These are the Untethered, remnants of previous iterations of existence, and they hold the secrets to anything and everything.
It is real, yet not real. Existant, yet never there. The future, but the past. Alternate timelines that have completed.
Stories that have finished.
Perhaps you have found one of these objects, something that is only halfway real. Perhaps you are one, harboring fractured, dreamlike memories that never happened. Perhaps you simply stumbled across a place that should not be. One way or another, you have discovered it. You are trapped in it. You found us, the harborers of these Untethered.
We are the Lorekeepers, seekers of what was and will be, what could have been and might be.
We will build a future off the knowledge of the last.
Will you join us?
