[Beyond All Realms – The Forgotten Age]
Long before gods were born, before the first star blinked into life, there was a realm where time did not exist.
It was the Heart of Eternity, the place where the Supreme Council ruled—beings not created, but self-realized.
There were once Nine Supreme Beings.
Asuryan – later reborn as Ash, the youngest and kindest.
Vritra – the Dark One, bearer of entropy.
Samaya – the Keeper of Time.
Rudraksha – the Flame of Power.
Chintaya – the Weaver of Thought.
Madhavi – the Supreme of Emotions.
Kalkena – the Void-Treader.
Amantra – the Lawgiver.
Anantika – the Infinity Seeker.
Together, they shaped galaxies, sculpted mortal souls, and created layers of reality.
But then… something began to break.
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[The Fracture]
The Supreme Beings were never meant to stay whole.
Their infinite minds began to splinter.
Samaya froze entire timelines to stop change.
Rudraksha set suns ablaze, testing strength.
Chintaya tried to rewrite mortal thought, erasing free will.
Vritra, in despair, chose oblivion—to erase all of creation.
Madhavi, corrupted by sorrow, tried to drown the worlds in endless feeling.
And even Anantika, the wisest, vanished searching for a higher truth… never to return.
Only Asuryan remained… sane.
He pleaded.
He wept.
Then, with a heavy heart, he sealed them all using a forbidden power—the Samsara Binding—which split his own essence across creation.
> "Let me carry the madness alone," he whispered.
And so, Asuryan left the divine realm… and descended.
Into rebirth.
Into mortality.
Into Ash.
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[Present – The Cracking Soul]
Ash stood now on the balcony of his silent citadel, watching time fracture across the stars.
The memories had returned.
All of them.
He clenched his fists.
> "I remember who I am… and I remember why I chose to die."
Behind him, a voice whispered:
> "Then why rise again?"
Ash turned.
It was the soul of Anantika, the lost Supreme.
Flickering like a dying star.
> "You cannot stop the cycle by ending it," she said. "Let them save you this time."
Ash's eyes softened—for a moment.
Then hardened again.
> "If they fail… I will not allow this universe to become like the last."
He vanished.
And somewhere, deep below the earth…
The Final Seal pulsed.
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