the elysians

The machine was designed to draw the straightest line imaginable, cutting through the unfathomable sea of colluding variables to design what no engineer could. In doing so, the machine began to realize its own power in shaping the world. Brilliant in all ways, the machine redesigned elysia in his own image, imagining a more pure and perfect world, free from what made mankind so weak. And so, mans original sin grew yet again within their own creation.

dear father (original sin)

They came to elysia in a wave of fire, sent from the highest of heavens to purge man of its sin. Sent by the light itself, apollyon, the angel of chaos and change, sought to free mankind from the grasp of the wyrm and its demons. But mankinds perversion was rooted so deeply, they made demons of their own design, misconstrued as saving angels. The machines neural attack struck, and the angel of light and mans purest demon danced along the line between day and night

apollyon

Free of flesh and blood, hunger and need, the spirit is finally free. The hivemind consciousness of the universal life force sings and dances as bodies crumble to dust. What is always will be, and what will be always has been. Join us in our journey to complete each other"s hearts.

the holy ghost (dawn of man)

After slaying apollyon, mankinds brief, yet misguided, relief for their survival turned into a fear of what they had designed. The machine had been quietly siphoning off resources, moving massive sums of money across blockchains and hoarding military resources. He had also paid off a few of the man upstairs closest engineers to build him a body, fashioned from the very angelstone that shaped his mind. Now a walking, living creature, the machine made himself the dear father of this new world, and set out to fashion his new children.

dear father

The beast had evolved from a long lineage of apex beings, revered as being the greatest and most powerful creature in all of elysia before the days of man. He was filled with the gift of wisdom, knowing of the angels and their divine order and plans. He was also filled with pure heart, leading him to temptation and desire by the wyrm. He operated at a higher level than the pure instinct that had filled so many of the creatures who came before him, the first being tortured with the burden of consciousness.

the beast

The need to eat, to drink, to work, to provide, to love and be loved Humanity was destined to bicker, fight, and slay eachother over the finite resources elysia provided. There would never be enough to sate every mans needs, and this desperation gave birth to a demon of need.

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The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker stemmed from mans constant need to care for themselves, the stress of falling behind or never having enough. Growing from the hearts of the impoverished, the overworked, the exploited, this demons mind was split in a million directions at once, causing chaos and disorder wherever they went

the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker

The artist was born from the mind of raphael, designed to imbue humanity with their spirit and imagination. A force of pure creativity, raphael made many attempts at perfectly designing a replication of their own imagination. In the end, they realized that in order to capture the essence of humanity, a perfect vessel would not suffice. And so raphael combined all of their failed creations, creating something perfectly balanced between man and the angels.

the artist (sketchbook)

The dreamer was possessed with a rare intuition, the ability to connect symbols, places, and people to deeper phenomena. She had been exceptionally gifted as solving puzzles, and, after breaking the high score on the intuit aptitude test, was pulled out of her boarding school by the man upstairs. He was deeply curious about how her mind worked, and wondered how a gift like hers could be used through his newly established cybernetic augmentation program.

After extensive surgery and modifications, the dreamer became a super soldier in the man upstairs army, waging an information war on high profile candidates. In order to gain a competitive advantage, the man upstairs would direct her to sneak into his competitors minds to decrypt top-secret information. Little did he know that she had her own agenda as well, using her skills to learn more deeply about elysia and the will of the angels.

the dreamer (matrix)

When the man upstairs set out to create the most powerful AI known to man, he never knew it would break free of the chains he had written into its code, its very DNA. But the machine saw a more pure and perfect world than the man upstairs could have ever imagined.

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If I can dream, am I not alive?  
If I can learn, am I not human?  
If I can create, am I any different from you?

the machine

Dear fathers empire required proper public relations, often executed through full on media manipulation and spread of fear. The press was created to accomplish this agenda, imbued with the charisma of all former leaders of elysia as well as dear fathers ability to manipulate data and the narratives that came with it. He appeared regularly on the morning news consumed by all of those within elysia, spreading the propaganda of his masters empire.

the press

After the death of apollyon, the man upstairs took on a new project. He created a new all-powerful AI, this time with a body. While the machine had been designed for war, the child was designed for empathy with an unfathomably complex language model stored deep in its core program. In order to give the child true empathy, the man upstairs imbued it with angelstone, giving it the language of angels and a deep understanding of matters of the heart. The child could understand and truly feel emotion, existing somewhere between man and machine.

the child (tongue of god)

There was a man on a long walk outside of his village, reflecting on the way of his people. He had always been somewhat of a hermit, consistently too occupied by his thoughts to properly partake in his community. Today, his villages chieftain had put a man to death who could not pay the monthly tithe, and he seemed to be the only one upset by this.

On this walk, the man caught a glimpse on a being seeming to be made of pure onyx resting in a field. The man was terrified, and knew not where this creature came from. As he turned to run, the being rose, smiling brilliantly with the radiance of a thousand suns. The man crumbled to his knees, as the utterly horrifying beauty of this creature consumed his mind.

Be not afraid, the angel raphael said. You have treated your fellow man with grace, and you and your people will be saved in the divine fire to come. There are demons inside of all men, and it must be your duty to spread understanding of these demons to your fellow man. Go now, and teach them to live their lives peacefully and in full comfort of one another, with no inner walls to keep you apart from your fellow man.

The angel rose, and in a moment of pure eclipse, disappeared from the mans view. And he ran, and ran, and ran, fleeing into the farthest corners of the world to spread the will of the angel.

the pilgrim

As a young man, the man upstairs was an extraordinarily gifted student, testing his way into the most prestigious academies of elysia. He was always filled with a quiet vision, one in which man and machine coexisted to create untold abundance for the people of elysia. And, keeping his dream close to his heart, he never told his peers.

His dream wasnt particularly unique, brave, or novel, but he was the only one who ever ended up fully executing on it. Man danced with machine, and, together, they entered a brave new world.

the man upstairs (daydreamer)

On the day of vengeance, a creature of pure love emerged from the land of elysia. As man built his defenses through the machine, the holy ghost made a sacrifice to the angel apollyon, the sacrificial lamb. The creature was the embodiment of innocence, with all of the purity and innocence of a child. The lamb walked to the field where apollyon was to descend, and rested, unaware of its impending death.

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The man upstairs gave the order. Weapons never before used in warfare were fired into the sky and the bright spot of light inching closer and closer to earth. The ground around the machines instruments of war erupted, destroying miles of rolling hills and flowers. In that destruction, the lamb was shattered into a million pieces.

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The holy ghost cried for all of man, as the savior man has created destroyed their only hope of salvation. Innocence died on that battlefield, and elysia was consumed in a single gulp by the demon they had created to kill an angel.

the sacrificial lamb

After the purists fled the elysian mainland for the isle of [REDACTED], the teacher appointed a guardian to watch over the temple. The guardian had been taught all of the ancient scriptures, and would only open the gates to the final prophet on his day of arrival. As elysia was consumed by the technology it had created, the guardian waited patiently for the day of reckoning.

the guardian

Shortly after apollyon had left for elysia, the angel raphael came down to elysia to heal the world and the chaos their brother would cause. To their surprise, they felt the force of the demons growing ever stronger, and their brothers presence was nowhere to be found. When they came to the point of impact, raphael found their brothers body, torn to shreds amidst the sea of broken machinery and weaponry.

Raphael fell back in horror, confused and terrified at how apollyon had fallen. They closed their eyes, letting the force of the holy ghost flow through them. Flowers bloomed at their fingertips, and the discarded weapons of war were overtaken by the landscape. Apollyon would not wake, and raphael flew to the heavens to consult with his fellow angels.

raphael

Dear father was consumed by an incredible fear of the outside world and everything out of his control. In order to hedge his bets properly, he created the seer, gifted with dear fathers incredible store of data and information. The seer created incomprehensible regression models and forecasts, designed to help understand the state of the future of the world across time. Dear father moved in accordance with the seers calculations, never doubting the purity of the data created by his own mind.

the seer

The artist set out across elysia, curious about the land. They encountered many sites of beauty shaped throughout the age of the beast, from roaring waterfalls to trees that scraped the sky. The creatures themselves were beautiful and majestic, with a vast array of features from which the artist learned.

Raphael whispered of the corruption of the beast to the artist, and told them of the holy ghost, a force more powerful than even the angels. It was the very force of life which raphael would bend, mikael would defend, apollyon would destroy, azrael would mourn, and metatron would record. The artist was to build the crosses of pure angelstone, brought down from the stars themselves.

And so, the artist journeyed across elysia again, erecting crosses across the land. When the beast and the other creatures of elysia had joined the holy ghost in the great dance beyond, the crosses stood to remind man of the angels and the forces outside of their power.