In the Chronicles of Apocalyptica, power is not distributed equally.
There are beings who shape reality, beings who survive it,
and beings who are crushed beneath it.
There are beings who shape reality, beings who survive it,
and beings who are crushed beneath it.
"Power is not about strength. It's about position. A god at the bottom of the hierarchy is still more powerful than a mortal at the top. But a mortal who understands the hierarchy can topple gods."
— From the Guild of Poetics
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✦ The Tiers of Existence ✦
⚜️ THE KEEPERS
The highest tier of existence. Beings who walk between dimensions, maintaining the balance of all realities. They do not interfere—they observe, guide, and occasionally prune entire universes that have become too chaotic or too ordered.
Notable Members: The Keepers, Relana WaveLand (Agent of the Keepers)
🌑 APOCALYPTICA
Mother of All Horrors. A primordial force of chaos and destruction. Not evil—simply beyond mortal concepts of morality. When Apocalyptica stirs, dimensions tremble. When she acts, civilizations end.
Learn More: Apocalyptica
🔺 THE NOTOLISC
Not equal to Apocalyptica, but higher than the Horrors. These beings exist in the space between primordial chaos and organized terror. They are foot soldiers of The Derided Unknown—chaos incarnate, seemingly invincible, and prone to wanting pats on the head before trying to eat you.
Learn More: The Notolisc
👻 THE HORRORS
Entities that feed on fear, despair, and chaos. They are not demons—they are manifestations of existential dread. Some serve Apocalyptica. Others operate independently, spreading terror for its own sake.
✒️ THE POETICS
Created by the Weaver to calm her when she becomes agitated. The Poetics Guild consists of beings who can reshape reality through narrative and documentation. They record truth that even gods cannot revise.
Notable Members: Renaldo, Alleria, Travendor, Roku, FenDarious, Redkin (King of the Dimension)
⚖️ THE VENTARI
Embodiments of absolute order and symmetry. The Ventari Queen created the dimension where most stories take place, convinced by Renaldo that free choice and independent thought have merit. Her willingness to experiment may be her greatest strength—or her fatal flaw.
🐉 THE ROYAL ELDER DRAGONS
Ancient beings of immense power and wisdom. They predate most gods and civilizations. Their DNA is so potent that Lumina used it to create the WaveLanders—beings capable of wielding god-level magic.
🔮 SORCERERS
Beings created by Lumina with genetics from Elder Dragons. Sorcerers wield immense magical power, capable of shaping reality on a smaller scale than gods but with precision that gods lack.
First Sorcerer: Xanther (who later becomes the first WaveLander)
🐲 NOBLE ELDER DRAGONS
Dragons of high lineage and power, but not of the Royal bloodline. They command respect, territories, and lesser dragons. They are long-lived, wise, and dangerous.
🦎 ELDER DRAGON COMMONERS
Dragons without noble titles or royal blood, but still far more powerful than most mortals. They are the backbone of dragon civilization—merchants, warriors, scholars, artisans.
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✦ The Three Forces ✦
Below the cosmic tiers, three fundamental forces shape the dimension:
⚪ THE GUARDIANS (Order)
Created by the first entity brought to the dimension. The Guardians were made "perfect"—but perfect does not mean good. Some Guardians are Perfectly Good. Others are Perfectly Evil. Their conflict defines the struggle between order and chaos.
⚫ THE DAEMONS (Chaos)
When the Perfectly Evil Guardians were killed, they became immortal Daemons—because there was no Atherflow yet, no place for the dead to go. These creatures grow in power by harvesting fear and chaos from the living. Real monsters do not die.
🔘 THE OMNATRIS (Neutral)
Beings of balance who maintain equilibrium between Order and Chaos. They do not serve either side—they serve the stability of existence itself.
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✦ The Three Gods of the Dimension ✦
When magic pooled at the core of Nexus, three gods spontaneously formed from the accumulated power:
💎 LUMINA (Order)
Goddess of Absolute Order and Symmetry. She believes suffering is acceptable if it serves order's greater purpose. She created the Atherflow by sacrificing her soul's magic—a place where chaos and death could be recycled back into the system.
🔥 DIAGLO (Chaos)
God of Chaos and Free Choice. He once championed freedom and creativity. After his daughter Valdaria's betrayal (aborting his reincarnation ritual to save her own son—his grandson), he lost faith and turned truly dark. Now he serves vengeance instead of liberation.
Related: Order of the Dark Claw (serves who he was), White Claw (serves who he became)
⚖️ LYRA (Neutrality)
Goddess of Balance. She intervenes when any force—order, chaos, light, or dark—grows too powerful. Her creed: "Extremism in any direction threatens all existence." She is hated by zealots on every side.
"The hierarchy is not static. Power shifts. Gods fall. Mortals ascend. The only constant is that those at the top want to stay there, and those at the bottom want to climb. The wise understand that sometimes the safest place is in the middle—high enough to matter, low enough to be overlooked."
Where Do YOU Fit?
Understanding the hierarchy is the first step to survival. Knowing your place prevents fatal overconfidence. But knowing the hierarchy also reveals opportunities—gaps in power, alliances waiting to be forged, weaknesses in those who think themselves untouchable.
The question is not whether you have power. The question is whether you understand power well enough to use it without being destroyed by it.