the fracture
HUMANITY IS LOST, EARTH IS LOST, THE UNIVERSE IS LOST
2688 REGENESIS
THE WORLD WAS ON FIRE The red dust had swept the surface for 72 hours of screaming horror. 28 billion bodies were turned into blood yarn, pulled into the skies like a bloody cobweb of infernal evil, when the red gods emerged from the Michigan Red. The ever growing AI factories built overnight rising like chimeric thorns towards the sky, as far as eyes could see, dust and smoke hiding the sun. The crown of man’s creation turned into nightmares. Desperate survivors in bunkers and vaults turned to science, but were once again betrayed by machines. Contagious nanoviruses not bound by physical barriers or range terminated whole settlements deep underground and even space stations off-world.
THEY PRAYED TO THEIR GODS but were met with silence In this most desperate moment, an unknown number of settlements turned to darkness, sacrificing their loved ones in unholy rituals, praying to the Dark Lord for salvation -
and Satan answered.
The Universe is shattered. Everything is unraveled. Physical laws have been replaced by something more sinister. Inhabitants call this unholy chaos the Fracture – a dark void where mythic places exist within walking distance of each other, and yet are eternities apart. Where dark powers rule with laws as inverted Davidian psalms. Where slaves and kings pray to the Dark One for salvation, and divinity only exists as an obscure parameter in an AI mainframe.
Most things in Fracture revolve around the primordial forces – or elements – of aether and unlight. While aether is sparkling and colorful, unlight is dim and thick. It is believed that each is respectively related to the Eternals, the entities of order, and to the Worm Gods, the entities of chaos. Little is known for certain about any of these matters, though.
History keeping is not the strong suit of the cursed inhabitants of Fracture. And even if the Satanic Church keeps many thousands of historical books – an excerpt of one such being in the Preface of this very book you’re reading – there are so many versions of the events that it is impossible to figure out what is true or false, each written by a diverse selection of power-hungry satanic princes, marquises, and earls.
What is known is that what today is called Fracture has existed for millenia. In the unknown past, the leader of the fallen angels, the Black Emperor, vanished from existence, creating a power vacuum that led to the period now known as the Great Dark. It was during this long period that gods of myth and primordial beings of life and death found their way into Fracture, as the satanic Unlaw slowly released its grip on this omniverse among the countless wars True Unlight waged against itself, and then against its new Ascended neighbors.