Wan
From The Encyclopaedia Expurgatia
In the beginning, the end was near.
Before the multiverse was spawned, and even before the universe began, there was life.
That life was diverse and ubiquitous; it covered an entire world.
In that world lived the Wan.
The Wan was not powerful or fearsome or at all important; he was, in his world, nothing more than a guy with an overactive imagination. And rather a high IQ. That's not important to this.
The Wan disliked the world in which he lived, but was powerless to leave it. He daydreamed of other realities. Other places in other times. He ignored the real world surrounding him.
The more he ignored the world, the more unbearable it became when he awoke to find it there. He became paranoid. He feared and hated the world around him.
He shorted out.
He left his world, concentrating on the world in his mind. Building it. Expanding its boundaries.
Populating it.
He created worlds there. He created voids.
He created light, and darkness.
He created life.
The life lived and evolved and entertained him.
For a while.
Eventually, it included him. He walked the planet at the universe's centre, interacting with the lifeforms he'd designed. Teaching them. Learning from them. Becoming a part of their society.
It became too much for him. He shorted out again.
He went fully schizophrenic. He fractured into six different deities. The six deities each fought to control the universe in its own way. For millennia, the six fractions of the Wan built the new reality to suit themselves, only to find, later, that other Wans had undone their efforts and built the universe in a different way.
The Wans became paranoid of each other.
The solution was simple, and simply happened. Which of the six personalities--if any--came up with the idea is not known. But the six Wans split apart.
The one which had last modified the universe remained in its control; the other five went off to build new universions.
Those six universions were Universe ZeroOneA, ZeroOneB, ZeroOneC, ZeroOneD, ZeroOneE, and ZeroOneF.
The six Wans controlled the six universes. The six Wans were technically only different moods of a single being, who technically lived in his real world; but, from the Wan's perspective, he was six different people, and each of them ruled over all existence--inasmuch as existence existed wholly in a single universe.
The six Wans fractured into six Wans each; the six universions fractured along with them; thirty-six Wans ruled over thirty-six universions.
The thirty-six fractured to two hundred sixteen, and twelve hundred ninety-six, and forty-six thousand, six hundred fifty-six.
Then the forty-six thousand, six hundred fifty-six fractured to the sixth, resulting in ten octillion, three hundred fourteen septillion, four hundred twenty-four sextillion, seven hundred ninety-eight quintillion, four hundred ninety quadrillion, five hundred thirty-five trillion, five hundred forty-six billion, one hundred seventy-one million, nine hundred forty-nine thousand, fifty-six universions, each controlled by one of ten octillion, three hundred fourteen septillion, four hundred twenty-four sextillion, seven hundred ninety-eight quintillion, four hundred ninety quadrillion, five hundred thirty-five trillion, five hundred forty-six billion, one hundred seventy-one million, nine hundred forty-nine thousand, fifty-six Wans.
The stress of being ten octillion people was too great. The Wans merged again. More millennia passed; aeons passed; finally, there was a single Wan, and it was in charge of the entire multiverse.
That was also rather stressful.
So the Wan stopped controlling universes. He created demigods, and allowed them to control the various universions.
Some universes fell under the control of YHVH the Deity, who was also known as Yahweh and Jehovah; YHVH controlled a number of universions with the help of his son Y'shua, occasionally known as Jesus Christ, JC, and Charles Manson.
Other universes were controlled by Quetzalcoatl; others were controlled by Ra; some were controlled by committees led by Odin and Jupiter and Zeus.
The Wan delegated out the power of direct control to a number of universions. Other universions were left to fend for themselves.
The average resident of any given universe might believe that the universe was controlled by any or none of the thousands of gods which the Wan had invented; in some cases, that average resident might accidentally be right. In all universes, the actual existence of a given god--as well as the absence of gods in those which had no direct governors--was concealed; those who believed in gods--whether those gods existed within the given universe--relied completely on faith; they never saw any real evidence of their lords.
Because some universes had gods, some universes had souls and afterlives. Still, those souls and afterlives typically remained within the universe which the gods controlled. Souls were never immortal: the Wan had techincally invented them for his lifeforms; they were as temporary as the Wan was, which was quite, if on a slower biological clock than any of his lifeforms could understand. And afterlives were not technically extradimensional locations, since the entire multiverse was really nothing more than different rooms within the Wan's mind.
Of course, this entire entry is nothing more than conjecture. We have no real idea whether any of it's true or not. I personally feel that the multiverse is nothing more than a
Editor's Note: The writer responsible for this entry has been sacked. This entry will be completed at a later date, by someone who can do what they're bloody told.
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