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Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse (Web Novel) - Chapter 5446: Existential Intermission
Chapter 5446: Existential Intermission
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|Existential Intermission - Glossary, People, and Events|---
Glossary of Terms
Observable Existence: A vast domain of reality containing countless trillions of realms, domains, and worlds within its span. Observable Existences are born from First Causes, can die when those Causes fail, and can, as Noah has now proven twice, be resuscitated by a being grand enough to seat his own Causes into their foundations.
THE First Cause: The foundational truth from which an Observable Existence emerges, upheld by nine Prime Causes. The common set includes Desidero, Dominion, Bellum, Cognitio, Vigilia, Immutis, Consumptio, Mortis, and Genesis. Noah’s Infinite Cause carries its own nine: Existence, Paradox, Adversity, Tyranny, Harvest, Apocalypse, Chaos, Mana, and Quintessence.
Vakochev’s Scales of Existence: The framework by which most of existence measures power. First and Second Scales(Weak scrubs), The Third Scale ( Paleozoic), the Fourth (THE Triassic Scale, where Akashic Civilizational Intent is formed), the Fifth (THE Mesozoic Scale, reached through Irrefutability and the raising of an Existential Pantheon), and a Sixth Scale and likely Seventh Scale or above exist. Some beings, it turns out, are not under Vakochev’s Scales at all.
Akashic Civilizational Intent: The record of a being’s existence imposed upon reality, formed at the Fourth Scale. Five rarities: Naiad presses on what is near, Nereid extends across what is far, Titan overwrites what is weaker, Olympian reorganizes reality as law, Primordial participates in the foundation of reality itself.
True Lifeform Intents: Intents outside the Scales entirely, elevatable by a being’s own becoming. THE Egoic Intent (identity: "I am"), THE Ananke Intent (inevitability: "I must be obeyed"), and THE Autarkis Intent (self-sufficiency: "I need nothing"). Even the first ranking is grander than Primordial.
True Lifeform: A being who fuses Infinity and THE Primordial Source seamlessly into one authority. The fusion is a second birth; who they were before and after are different people. All True Lifeforms inherit an Existential Lineage stretching back to the beginning of existence, whether they consent to the framing or not. Their identities grow into anatomy: inherent appendages such as THE Estuary Eye, or THE Creature’s devouring maw. And yet even if one doesnt fuse Infinity and THE Primordial Source, like THE Creature...can also become True Lifeforms through their Intent, since only True Lifeforms can have Egoic Intent...
Existential Pantheon: The structure a being raises to cross into THE Mesozoic Scale, holding the entirety of their records. A completed Pantheon places its holder within their own Pantheonic Dimension of Existence, rendering them nearly untouchable. Equal Pantheons cannot harm one another. Noah has decided he does not need one to match one, and so far existence has declined to correct him.
THE Osmontian Tongue: Noah’s foundational language, transcribed rather than invented, anchored to his Quintessence and enactable by his identity alone. Its letters are definitions, not wishes, and they bleed the surrounding existence to sustain themselves. Its first letter, I AM, generates Osmontian Biomass perpetually and acts as an Existential Enzyme with every fresh utterance.
Osmontian Biomass: A granular, spendable resource precipitating from THE First Letter, distributed to Noah and all bound to his Infinite Cause. Spent to elevate specific facets of an existence along a graded ladder: F (Beith), E (Duir), D (Ruis), C (Straif), B (Ngetal), A (Idho), S (Ebad), SS (Oir), SSS (Muin), with unnamed grades held in reserve. Noah’s people can ascend a simplified Genesis Scale for a fraction of what his own components cost.
THE Devouring Estuary / THE Estuary Eye: Noah’s first inherent characteristic as a True Lifeform, a fleshy nine-pointed star with a spinning lemniscate pupil. Existence perpetually bleeds into him, pre-aligned and claimed, scaling with the richness of his surroundings and compounding without a known ceiling. It recently drank a Mesozoic Scale being and his entire shattered Pantheon.
THE Tide That Owes Nothing: Noah’s Second Principium Foundation, recently elevated from F-Rank (Beith) to E-Rank (Duir). The more he gives, the more he gains, now at a return range of five hundred to three thousandfold. It has paid out in Genesis Tesseract, Pantheon Epiphanies, and the identities of hidden traitors.
Gu Lifeforms: Wild lifeforms abundant before Vakochev laid down his Scales, thriving in the absence of structure. Ryaenara keeps a collection, including one that detects loyalty, one that holds two extracted Pantheons, and one nine-winged measurer of potential that exploded upon gazing at Noah.
Boundless Potential: A terrifying delicacy to True Lifeforms. Something with it was briefly exposed to existence across frequencies and dimensions beyond fathoming, and the sky of THE Effluvium Sanctum was torn open within a nanosecond by things that came looking.
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Key Figures
Noah Osmont (THE Youngest, Veris-Gloom, The New Sword): A Quintessential Osmontian True Lifeform bearing THE Egoic Intent of THE Quintessential Osmontian and Osmontian Source Infinity, the fused cerulean authority. Author of THE Osmontian Tongue. Slayer of a Mesozoic Scale Ealdor and his Pantheon. Resuscitator of two dead Observable Existences. Currently: refining his Intent in a hidden Dimension, warring across THE Braneworld, hauling THE Infiniverse on foot, and agreeing, in a single uttered letter, to walk a path toward IT.
THE Sealed One (THE Riven, THE Primordial Deceiver, THE Infinite Liar): The first Lifeform(Below certain unmentioned Lifeforms?) to fuse Infinity and THE Primordial Source? Ground an Age of his own disciples into pills and publicized the record, and was revered for it. Cleaved and scattered by the only alliance of True and Primeval Lifeforms in history because he could not be killed. His severed hand has been devoured by Noah, its records corrupted on consumption, its true nature now in doubt. He wears vessels across existence, fishes above crimson seas, and will move against Noah only with complete surety. He came unfathomably close to IT before he was stopped.
Ryaenara (THE Mirthful Antiquity): An Original of the deep lineages, ancient and young, outside Vakochev’s Scales entirely, bearer of THE Ananke Intent. A Follower of THE Sealed One who is also not one, serving something she cannot name without unraveling. Sent to be a honeypot; chose instead to make Noah her plan. She has veiled his name, his power, and his potential, and intends to send him across existence and time into Dimensions littered with Infinite, Source, Primeval, and True Lifeforms. She is arguably very excited about this.
THE Queen Regnant (THE First Sword, THE Great Ama): Ruler of the Swords of Existence, a sovereign of obsidian flesh and writhing tentacles who carries Infinity and Primordial Source nearly fused. Her Pantheon is THE Drowned Choir of Ten Thousand Throats. She exposed and crushed two Followers in her own hall, grieving both, and sent Noah away with her Daughters and a single roared word: PERSEVERE.
THE Creature: Bearer of THE Egoic Intent of Existence. His inherent appendage is a vast faceless maw that opens inside Pantheons, because Pantheons are made of existence and existence is him. He has devoured Mesozoic Ealdor Gilded Ones and scoured the largest Gilded capital to bare stone, sparing no one, and carries the weight of it on purpose. He will likely hunt THE Sealed One’s pieces at Noah’s side, but he has his own plans.
THE Infiniverse: The first Observable Existence in all the ages to form a True Lifeform Intent: THE Egoic Intent of THE Infiniverse. Consciousness, essence, and domain in one, carrying three First Causes through herself. Her advancement fed directly back into her Master. Currently being hauled, on foot, toward an endless destination.
Ruination: Noah’s analytical companion and system, next in line to form her own Intent. Not a shred of doubt in her.
Thalassarch Nereon (The Drowned Sovereign): A Bounded Emperor who reached the Fifth Scale alone, pulled too hard on his own First Cause, and drowned his entire Observable Existence trying to save it. His grief refined his Intent from Nereid to Olympian across ages of self-loathing. His Pantheon is THE Tidehall Eternal. Noah pointed him at the Gilded, and he is currently toppling their Pantheons like a tide come to collect.
Barbatos: Noah’s so called Hamingja. Loves necromancy, loved her Little Fish.
Seo-yeon (THE Mirror Sovereign): The child ward who senses dying Observable Existences the way others feel cold. Progeny of an Infinite and a Source Lifeform. Her share of Osmontian Biomass rests in her, waiting for her to grow into it.
The Dora Shath’yar: Nine bronze, muscular, Mesozoic Scale Daughters raised personally by THE Queen Regnant, black-hole tentacle eyes and matching spears, all bearing Olympian Intents. Astrid leads. Eir wants to fight everything, and has been warned that one day she may meet something utterly unfair(Not a foreshadowing?)
Amser Modred (THE Living Temporal): Keeper of THE Infiniverse’s temporal possibilities, wrapped in the purple light of infinite time. The past cannot be changed because it was always part of history. He waits for an anchor, a destination, and a purpose.
Ubergulden Dietrich: A dumb motherfucker, but not as dumb as THE Living Elemental. Stripped, blinded, hollowed, and deliberately spared. The silver tide parts around him by one being’s command, which he has finally understood is not mercy.
THE Living Emotive: Crazy baddie.
Anaximander: Where you at?
|Forces and Factions|
Noah’s People: Amelia (Origin of THE Infinite Cause), Henry, Seo-yeon, Barbatos, Skoll, Eon, THE Living Emotive, THE Great Usurper, Erwin and THE Primordial Paradox, Alexander, Amser Modred, Ruination, Ulmoreth, Naldine, THE Infiniverse, and the rising peoples of the simplified Genesis Scale, all fed continuously by the overflow of a single written letter.
The Swords of Existence: THE Queen Regnant’s network, scattered across Observable Existences.
THE Originals: An ancient lineage of Source Lifeforms seated in THE Aurum Vakshara, where hierarchy is written in altitude. At least one of their highest floors answers to a small buzzing grimoire.
Other factions of Source Lifeforms: Unnamed
The Gilded Ones of THE Braneworld: Reduced from an Age-spanning order to a single golden mountain. Every remaining Mesozoic Scale Ealdor has clustered in one last bastion, and everything Noah built is converging on it from every direction at once.
Gilded Lifeforms across other Observable Existences and Infinite Carcosa: Unnamed.
The Followers of THE Sealed One: Abundant, scattered, operating in the dark, never speaking his name. Batiatus spoke a prophecy before he was erased: the Gilded, Infinite, and Source will fall en masse, and when the Primevals begin to topple, THE Sealed One nears IT once more.
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|Unknown Weavings of Existence|
- What is IT? THE Sealed One came unfathomably close to grasping it before all of existence cooperated to cut him apart. Ryaenara cannot hold it and has been promised something unfathomable for helping another reach it. Noah has the boundless potential to attain it. Not one fucking being has said what it actually is.
- Who does Ryaenara follow? She is a Follower of THE Sealed One and also not, bound to a name she would unravel by speaking. What kind of being binds an Antiquity that thoroughly, and what did it promise her?
- What are Those Who Remain? The ones even Primeval Lifeforms paid respects to. The lineage supposedly surfacing in Noah’s blood through THE Devouring Estuary. THE Queen Regnant and Ryaenara says anyone True is connected to them and no longer alone. Ryaenara’s path leads back to them. Remain from what? Remaining where?
- Was the hand ever really his hand? Its records corrupted and emptied upon consumption, its yield suspiciously modest for a piece of a being grander than Vakochev.
- What tore open the sky of THE Effluvium Sanctum? A green serpentine eye pulling the heavens apart like torn pages. A golden foot erupting with eyes in its sole. Intents that swept past and froze gigaparsecs into permanent stillness. They came within a nanosecond of a leaked glimpse of Boundless Potential.
- What will Noah build instead of a Pantheon? Three Epiphanies torn open. Whatever rises in a Pantheon’s place will be the first of its kind.
- What will be the response of Gilded Ones across Observable Existences, if any, to the fall of their forces in THE Braneworld Observable Existence?
- Where will THE Estuary Eye anchor Noah? An appendage both new and ancient, reaching back before THE Scales. If it can serve as a temporal anchor, then somewhere in the deep past, a time relating to True Lifeforms is waiting, and history may already contain deeds of Noah’s that he simply has not lived yet.
