The End


 * "All present are only aware the thing, deep, black, and all encompassing, staring into their soul. It is a very personal thing; each looks into the face of what can only be their personal nightmare."


 * - The Narrator, In Wake of the End.

The End is the name given to the manifestation of the Dissonance in Time-Cloaked. This page describes both the End specifically and the Dissonance as a whole.

They are a varied race stemming from their home dimension, who are always partially directed by a hive mind and whom are constantly altering themselves both artificially and through natural plasticity. They have a huge variety of varied abilities of a largely unknown nature, and often make use of various other technologies (generally obtained from consumed universes). While the intelligence of any End Drone or subspecies varies wildly, the End as a whole are extremely intelligent and have a full grasp of the various sciences. They are able to learn new ideas, as well as unlock the secrets of entirely new technologies very rapidly.

The Dissonance in all iterations are an inevitable consequence of the Great Cycle. As per the cycle, it falls upon the Thane and the Guide to defeat The End.

The defeat of the End, and thus the reclaiming of Darix and Thesius' home universes is arguably the largest goal faced by the two characters and is the subject of most of the overarching plot seen in the main storyline roleplays.

Origin
The Dissonance are the result in an imperfection in the timeline stream that permeates the Void and makes up the Multiverse; the system of necessary balance that results in universal coherency (and prevents existence from tearing itself apart) is almost perfect, as is required for its existence in the first place. However, eventually small imperfections will result in the emergence of a destructive force which can threaten the coherency of the Multiverse itself. As this force is born from and causes dissonance on a wide scale across the Multiverse, it is known as the Dissonance. It's emergence will and has occured innumerable times throughout the infinity of creation, and the continued perpetuation of existence is only facillitated by the emergence of the Thane of Space and Guide of Time to combat the Dissonance as per the Great Cycle.

Each instance of the Dissonance varies somewhat in nature and actual origin; the only real inevitability of their emergence is that they will, eventually, come into being (the system of the Multiverse is not choosy about its mechanisms). The End, as a specific instance of the Dissonance, emerged from the End Shadow-Dimension, a semi-conformed plane that emerged from the entwined ontological lines between the binary entagled Cerdual and Laudrec universes. The strange, fragmented and indeed dissonant nature of the Shadow Dimension brought forth the End, along with certain extenuating circumstances.