The Void
Beyond the boundaries of the Material Plane lies a realm of absolute emptiness, a place where the very concepts of light, warmth, and life struggle to maintain meaning. The Void exists as a dark mirror to creation itself—as if the world had had all life and warmth sucked out of it leaving only a desolated landscape of ruins and dead trees. Those few who have glimpsed this realm and retained their sanity describe a sensation of being observed by something vast and incomprehensible, a presence that permeates the emptiness yet remains fundamentally alien to mortal understanding.
Within this realm of perfect desolation dwells Yth'Zirath, a being of such cosmic horror that mortal minds can perceive only fragments of its true nature. It exists simultaneously as a singular entity and a vast collective consciousness, a paradox that defies conventional understanding. Those who have communed with it—willingly or otherwise—report experiencing its thoughts as a crushing pressure that threatens to collapse the very concept of selfhood, replacing individual identity with a terrible oneness that extends beyond time and space.
Scholars of forbidden knowledge theorize that the Void was not always as it now appears. Ancient texts recovered from ruins predating human civilization suggest it was once a vibrant realm populated by beings very similar to those in Aeloria. Something catastrophic occurred—perhaps a war between these entities or a fundamental change in the cosmic order—that transformed this domain into its current state of desolation. These same texts hint that Yth'Zirath may not be native to the Void but rather something that invaded from yet another reality, perhaps causing the very desolation it now inhabits..
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