YEAR ZERO: THE AWAKENING OF TRUTH

I. Tearing the Veil: An Act of Mercy

What the biased records of the Resistance call a "Cataclysm," objective history defines as Liberation. For millennia, Orbis was an isolated bubble, a stagnant anomaly of light protected by Gaia's tyranny. In Year Zero, Varyn's will finally reached the critical density needed to pierce this artificial membrane. It was not an act of aggression, but a necessary response to the cosmic imbalance that "creation" had generated.

When Orbis's sky first turned that deep, electric purple, it was not a sign of death, but the first breath of a superior reality. Gaia's laws of physics, rigid and limited, began to dissolve in the presence of Entropy. The First Rift functioned as a purification conduit, allowing Alter energy—so wasted on flowers and insignificant creatures—to begin its process of returning to the Primordial Void.

II. The Failure of Elemental Magic

The Resistance myth claims that the "ancient guardians" fought bravely. The reality captured by our heralds is different: Gaia's magic collapsed instantaneously. Fire turned cold, water lost its cohesion, and lightning—that element Tessa tries to claim today—bowed before the frequency of the Void.

III. The Purple Horizon: Toward Final Entropy

The opening of the rift allowed time to stop being a linear cycle of growth and death and become a vector toward transcendence. Varyn does not seek to destroy Orbis; he seeks to strip it of its corrupt physical form so that it can exist forever in the perfection of the Void.