CP WORLD MECHANICS
Vol. 1: Cyrus & Co

Chapter 1: The Basics of Beyond
As composed from the author’s (disorganized) notes

        Existence is dominated over by a great, unnamed organization run by the gods, with one ruling “Great God,” for lack of a known term, who oversees the others beneath Him, who in turn govern over “assigned” spaces of time/universes/space/existence/etc. With their designated realm (their “Omni-realm”), the rules are theirs, for what they create. As such, each god creates His own rules of reality within their Omni-realm. It is unknown what precedes over this “Great God.” It’s a question that likely should stay unknown, even to other gods. Possible theories are that the Organization’s hierarchy simply keeps going, with other gods preceding over other gods, and so forth into infinite. Perhaps somewhere, in existence, at the very end and in turn making a cycle, We are the gods, creating and generating rules for universes completely unbeknownst to ourselves. Is this ignorance for the better? Or will we someday come to wake up to what our imaginations have been conjuring all this time? What would be the consequences of such an awakening? Are we all simply the result of another being’s imagination? If so, what makes marks the difference between what is real and what is imagined?
        There is a single rule that comes attached to being a god within this unnamed, Divine Organization: They cannot directly kill/erase a being they did not create, lest they be dismissed from their status as a god, resulting in their world and their license as a god revoked. Fallen Gods, as such, are gods that have broken this rule. Doing so reveals mortal weakness, and makes them unfit to be Divine. If this is the case, it may beg the question of whether or not mortality may actually be better than Divinity?
        Controlling everything in existence and nonexistence are what are called gods. A god is defined loosely as a sentient, immortal, omniscient being with the ability of Creation and Destruction. They have precedence over their own Laws of Reality, and are thus able to manipulate them at their discretion (to be put simply). Once these laws are set in motion, they cannot be eliminated, only manipulated. And, of course, they are immortal, and ageless. They Have Always Been, and Shall Always Be.
        Daemon Gods are beings who are not bound by the Organizations’ laws, and thus pose a serious threat. However, conversely, a daemon god is a status that is transcended into and created. Thus it is theorized that it is possible to destroy one. A daemon god comes to be by the synthesis of two high-order daemon-joined mortals (read: four souls, total. Two high-order daemons, kiiga, become one with two mortals from birth, and then one would consume the other’s physical body and soul. More on daemons below).
        
        Aldin The Father is the resident God, known as “Father God,” “Aldin the Father,” “Designer,” or “Desig.” Within his designated realm were what as known throughout existence and in other Omni-realms as “Outer Beings,” or pre-existing, immortal beings that exist outside the Organization as free-flying entities. Following Aldin’s creation (and continued maintenance) of the laws of physics, he created the planet and sky, followed by the creation of his three daughters; Elysia, Julyan, and Caella, to help oversee his divine realm. They found these Outer Beings known as “kiiga,” high-order daemons and “cesai,” high-order syrephs, hurting and warring with each other due to their conflicting configurations (such as water versus fire for example), and decided to separate them to a new plane of existence to save them the pain, and then split the plane in two. This plane became known as the Lower Plane, split into Novexun for the kiiga and other daemons that would follow, and Mesronus, for the cesai and other syrephs that would follow.
        For the remainder of time, the daemons’ realm remains as Novexun (“Novex”), and the syrephs domain, Mesronus, each now banned from what was later called the Higher Plane, or the plane that they previously occupied before it was assigned to Aldin for take-over. Syrephs became to be thought of as the more angelic of the two groups of entities, because they agreed to serve the gods, whereas daemons (read: kiiga) did not—they conceded to the gods stepping in and taking precedence over their old plane, making it suitable for mortal life, but they refused to do their bidding. Daemons act on their own will, with restrictions set in by Julyan, Aldin’s second daughter. Kiiga do not comply with the organization, and therefore became marked with the connotation of being evil (the term “daemon” is simply a mortal’s term to generalize the beings residing in Novexun), simply for not conforming.
        The goddesses, Aldin’s three daughters, work in perfect collaborative balance with each other while at the same time governing their own “district.” Being there are three goddesses, the number three is often repeated throughout various themes of the Divinity (and the story as well), often alongside subtle reference to each goddess’s domain (death, life, and decay).
        Despite numbering the goddesses later becoming the norm (“Elysia the First Goddess” for example), in reality, there is neither a first nor a last goddess. Neither of them are more important than the next. This “Ring of Divinity” is about balance; hence the significance behind the general triangular shape in most Divine symbols.
        Like His daughters, Aldin works in unison with other higher spirits/minor gods, giving rise to minor religions in other various societies when religion came to be in the living world. However, most if not all mortals don’t know anything beyond what they believe, therefore dispute still exists. On the same hand, it’s quite “illegal” within the Organization for a mortal to know the truth about the gods/Organization, otherwise that soul would have to be destroyed permanently (“silenced”). Should this information be used by mortals, it’s possible for them to destroy precious balances, evolve too far, or intentionally attempt to surpass the “system” for whatever reason, thus ruining what was already working, or trying to fix what wasn’t broken.
        A question that arises then, is such a systematic method of Creation and celestial power really for the better? What sort of things or beings exist to prevent such knowledge from being discovered by mortals, and what could a person do to escape with this information? And what would work better, if not a method that’s so systematic and perhaps even bureaucratic? Is the idea of such a system what Outer Beings (kiiga and cesai) disagree with? What are their feelings on the existence of the Organization?
Or is it really not as cut-and-dry and bureaucratic as it seems?

        Gods create mortal life for one reason:
        Mortal experience. Occurrences. Events for the sheer purpose of being events. Existing for the sake of existing, and living for the sake of living. Mortals cherish life more than immortals, because theirs is limited. Gods create them because they like to observe this appreciation when they have so little of such a feeling themselves.
This is why gods love their creations so much. They feel passion for their own existence through the experiences they feel from their mortals. If this is the case, it can be hypothesized that the happier mortal life is as a whole, the nicer the gods are, and conversely the more general hatred there is, the meaner the god becomes.
This is a more open-ended explanation than anything. Nothing of course is concrete.
Perhaps at the end of everything is just an artist or writer creating everything with no knowledge that he’s even made all of this? But would all this not technically be fake? Maybe so. Because it is.
        If this is true then, another reason arises why mortals should not know the truth about the “Organization” (the real name of which at this point isn’t known even to myself). Because if they discovered everything is, technically, a lie, they would stop trying and stop seeing any value in what they do—thus the gods would be depressed and have no more reason to oversee them with no more love of existence, and would abandon the world or see it destroyed.
        Conversely, it’s also technically impossible for every living being to completely lose his/her value in living, however gods try not to risk it in order to protect them—out of love for their creations.
        Aldin, specifically, has faith in His own children to support themselves. Which is why his primary job is simply the maintenance of Natural Laws such as physics and chemistry, which is why he is known as the Designer. He designed the Laws that created the rest. The rest is left primarily up to free will, with a little bending and swaying by Fate.

        In a nutshell, the three goddesses are as follows:
        1.        Julyan: Goddess of Death—presides over all has died and does not live.
        2.        Elysia: Goddess of Life—“Lady of Light;” presides over all that lives and can die.
        3.        Caella: Goddess of Midway—presides over the dying and the yet-placeless.

Julyan
        Julyan houses daemons, syrephs, and mortal souls whom have no living body and await transference. She generally has presidence over all of the Lower Plane, i.e. Mesronus and Novexun. Julyan is the most boastful, or up-front/in-your-face/boisterous of the sisters, something that really rather qualifies her to do what she has to do.
        Julyan works in collaboration with Elysia when accepting souls who have passed on to domain. They judge the mortal’s actions during their lifetime. If the mortal was foul, the soul was sentenced to Novexun to be stripped bare of experiences after facing their sins and punishments by them. After isolation in Novex, the soul is cleansed of its experience in Novex and put in queue for reanimation. The soul’s experience in Novex is erased because the punishment is so severe, the memory would otherwise remain with the soul after it’s reincarnated, resulting in a very “ill” individual.
        Most of the time, a “cleansed” soul would start in a lower creature and work back up. The entire process of purging a soul of “evil” is excruciating and, though it’s not technically eternity, each soul experiences what feels like eternity, until they’re no longer capable of conceiving the existence of anything else. After that, it’s cleanse, queue, reassignment, and then birth. The question of time for this process is unanswerable, because time doesn’t exist in such a way that you or I would conceive of it.


Elysia
        Elysia houses the mortals while they live, and thus presides over the Higher Plane, or the Mortal Plane. She breathes life into new bodies, and is said to walk amongst the living somewhat frequently. She is a simpler being, softer spoken than her other two sisters, generous and loving of every plant, animal, and mineral. She created the four basic elements, earth, fire, water, and air, and from the four derived everything else that exists within the Higher Plane using Natural Laws already set in affect by Aldin the Father. Elysia’s duty is primarily that of vigilance, judging, and blessing, jobs she takes very seriously despite her sisters’ frequent jokes that she has it easy.

Caella
        Caella presides over the dying and lost souls who have already left their mortal bodies—she provides guidance to get them home, however some still walk lost between worlds. Ghosts, banshees, the undead and so forth are all part of her area.  
        Caella chooses a mortal form once ten-thousand years or so to maintain a spiritual connection with mortality/life as much as the immortal/death. Last time she was human she got together with a mortal man and had a daughter whom she named Jyn, mortal but long-living, in order to have a mortal link to the Higher Plane to help her, and to provide a barrier against undead influxes. With Elysia’s help, who much more frequently takes a mortal form, they revealed themselves to the mortals, beginning the new era (Revelation Era), RE.
        Jyn is 1,450 years old before she dies—still young. She is revered as the center of a faith, and delivers good messages about family, love, and supporting your fellow man. “High Priestess Jyn,” is her title.

        A lot goes on during a soul’s disconnection from its body. By the time a person dies, the soul is bound so strongly to the body that a complicated procedure is needed to lift it, which is what Caella made upon Creation. She now oversees the dying and mkes sure it all runs smoothly, with Jyn as back-up on the Higher Plane.
        Though Caella is considered the “Third Goddess,” it’s her domain, “Midway,” and the concepts which she presides over, that tie together and act as the core for the other two sisters. Common themes in Caella’s Book are themes of connections, neutrality, balance, ties, and “being one as the whole.”
        Nexus (or Midway) connects the living with the unliving, providing the harmony between the two and demonstrating that the purpose of life is to live, and the purpose of existence is to exist. To be, is to be. Then again, to not be is, in the very same sense, to not be.

Next chapter: Daemons, Divinity, and the Undead with Ethan.