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===Origins=== | ===Origins=== | ||
According to the Lore Book "Unveiling," which is seemingly narrated by the Darkness itself, both the [[Light]] and the Darkness have existed since before the start of time, and thus before the universe came into existence. Being unbound by the laws of causality, neither the Light or Darkness can be said to have a beginning. Rather, they are emergent properties of even more fundamental "mathematical structures" that in turn underlay reality itself. <ref>https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/gardener-and-winnower#book-unveiling</ref> | According to the Lore Book "Unveiling," which is seemingly narrated by the Darkness itself, both the [[Light]] and the Darkness have existed since before the start of time, and thus before the universe came into existence. Being unbound by the laws of causality, neither the Light or Darkness can be said to have a beginning. Rather, they are emergent properties of even more fundamental "mathematical structures" that in turn underlay reality itself. <ref>https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/gardener-and-winnower#book-unveiling</ref> | ||
In the allegorical story recounted in the Lore Book, the Darkness and Light occupied themselves by engaging one another in a game, analogous to a vastly more complex version of the "Game of Life" devised by Earth mathematician John Conway. This game would consistently arrive at an end-state dominated by a single, self-perpetuating pattern, which subsumed all others in the game. The Darkness found this to be a pleasing outcome, but the Light felt the pattern to be boring, and desired that the game endlessly produce novel patterns instead. In order to promote this novelty, the Light transformed itself into a new "rule" within the game; the Darkness did the same, to counteract the Light's efforts. | |||
===The Distant Past=== | ===The Distant Past=== | ||