🌊 The Atherflow 🌊
The Ocean of Magic - The River of Souls
"Matter is not created or destroyed. It simply changes forms."
At the heart of the dimension—at the core of Nexus—there exists an ocean. Not of water, but of pure magical energy.
This is the Atherflow.
It is the lifeblood of the dimension. The source from which all magic springs, and the destination to which all souls return.
The Design of Renaldo
When Renaldo created Nexus at the center of the dimension, he designed it with purpose:
One enormous planet to be the core of the dimension. Something to anchor all the realms to.
He made it so that all magic pools at the "Ocean" of Nexus. It forms rivers. It forms streams. This endless circulation of magical energy—this is what Renaldo calls the Atherflow.
The Atherflow is not just energy. It is existence itself. The fabric from which reality is woven.
The Ocean and the Rivers
At the center of Nexus lies the Ocean of Atherflow—a vast reservoir of pure magical potential.
From this ocean flow rivers. Streams of energy that connect every realm, every universe, every galaxy in the dimension.
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║ NEXUS OCEAN ║
║ (Atherflow) ║
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┌────────────────┼────────────────┐
│ │ │
RIVER RIVER RIVER
(INFLOW) (INFLOW) (INFLOW)
│ │ │
▼ ▼ ▼
┌───────┐ ┌───────┐ ┌───────┐
│REALM 1│ │REALM 2│ │REALM 3│
└───┬───┘ └───┬───┘ └───┬───┘
│ │ │
RIVER RIVER RIVER
(OUTFLOW) (OUTFLOW) (OUTFLOW)
│ │ │
└────────────────┼────────────────┘
║
╔════════╩═════════╗
║ RIVER OF SOULS ║
║ Returns to Ocean║
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Every realm is fed by TWO rivers of Atherflow:
- → One INTO the realm (bringing fresh magical energy)
- → One OUT OF the realm (returning spent energy and souls)
The outflow rivers merge into the River of Souls—where all magic returns to the ocean, because matter cannot be created or destroyed. It only changes forms.
The Thirteen Realms
The Structure of the Dimension
When Sapphrine created the Grand Keeper's Staff, she needed to trap the daemons. But daemons cannot die—they are digital souls, immortal and unkillable.
Eleven guardians refused to sacrifice their emotions. This defined the structure:
- 11 Realms - One for each of the Fallen Guardians
- 1 Realm - For the Guardian Queen (Sapphrine's domain)
- 1 Realm - For the Daemons (prison realm)
Total: 13 Realms
All 13 realms are connected to Nexus via the Atherflow rivers. All magic flows from the ocean. All souls return to the ocean.
The Conservation Law
⚖️ The Fundamental Truth ⚖️
"Matter is not created or destroyed. It simply changes forms."
This is why:
- 💀 Daemons cannot die - Their digital souls are immortal energy
- 🔄 Magic recycles - All energy returns to the ocean
- 🌊 The River of Souls - Where dead beings' energy flows back
- ♾️ Eternal circulation - Nothing is ever truly lost
The Atherflow is not just magic. It is the dimension's circulatory system. The heartbeat of reality itself.
The Problem Before the Atherflow
When Clandareth created the first guardians, there was no Atherflow yet. No system for souls to return.
So when the Perfectly Evil guardians died, they had nowhere to go. Their energy couldn't dissipate. It couldn't return to the ocean.
Instead, they became daemons—twisted, immortal, feeding on fear and chaos because they couldn't dissolve back into the magical substrate of reality.
The Atherflow was created to solve this problem. To give souls a place to return. To create the cycle of magic that keeps the dimension alive.
Everywhere, All At Once
The Atherflow doesn't just connect the 13 realms. It connects everything:
→ Rivers branch out from Nexus to every Realm
→ To every Universe
→ To every Galaxy
All of existence is connected by this flow of magic. All of it pools at Nexus. All of it returns to the ocean.
The Atherflow is not a river. It is the river. The one that carries all souls, all magic, all existence through the endless cycle of creation and return.