After Perpetua was sealed behind the Source Wall, the Cosmic Raptor turned back time and the Presence erased her Multiverse, restarting it as the “Original Multiverse,” home to an infinite number of universes. As it was in the beginning, the purpose was to create a vast engine for intelligent lifeforms on countless worlds to evolve into a higher level of consciousness.
Perpetua’s sons were reborn. Alpheus returned to the dark realm where he continued to create new worlds inside his World Forge. Stable worlds ascended to his brother Mar Novu’s “Orrery of Worlds” to become part of the Multiverse. Unstable worlds were destroyed by Alphaeus’s dragon, Barbatos, so their energy could be reused to make other worlds.
Mobius continued to blame Mar Novu for making his antimatter realm obsolete, since the Source Wall was now the boundary between the Multiverse and the rest of the Omniverse. He promised to eventually destroy the Orrery of Worlds.

Other beings may have survived from Perpetua’s Multiverse, among them Imperiex-Prime (the embodiment of entropy), Relic (a scientist reborn in the Original Multiverse as a giant), and Parallax (the embodiment of fear.)
The Structure of the Multiverse
The Multiverse is composed of matter, antimatter, and dark matter, combined to form life-rich planets and galaxies that exist in shared space-time. It’s populated by numberless races and species connected in infinite webs of interlinked planes, realms, domains, and energy fields.
Think of the Multiverse as a series of concentric rings or circles, nested in dimensional layers or “vibrational realms.” Layers we’ve already discovered include:
- The Overvoid lies beyond the outermost ring and is the massive cosmic consciousness in which the Omniverse floats.
- The Source Wall is the outermost ring and is a barrier separating reality from the Presence.
- The Monitor Sphere is the next ring, a realm of nothingness inhabited by Perpetua’s children: Mar Novu, Alpheus, and Morpheus.
- The Sphere of the Gods is the next ring, a realm of archetypal powers and intelligences. It is the source of all magic in the Multiverse.
- From within the Sphere of the Gods, arcane planes and mystical realms, such as Dream and Hell can be accessed.
- The Orrery of Worlds is the next ring and contains universes vibrating in the same space, all at different frequencies.

The Nature of the Multiverse
Eons later, the Multiverse was described as “a symphony of life and energy, all of its elements operating in harmony with each other.” The harmony comes from the most important energies of the Forces of Creation. The Dimensional Superstructure is one of those forces and governs all things imaginable and unimaginable. Other Forces of Creation (Anti-Crisis Energies) include:
- The Speed Force gives the Multiverse motion.
- The Emotional Spectrum gives the Multiverse feeling.
- The Sphere of the Gods gives the Multiverse magic.
- The Life Force connects all living beings down to their souls.
- The Collective Unconscious grants us wisdom and knowledge.
Each of the Forces of Creation has an opposing force, one of the Hidden Energies of Creation. Each of these forces lies waiting to be unlocked and to reveal previously unknown truths about the Multiverse. These Hidden Energies (Crisis Energies) include:
- The Still Force opposes the Speed force and is based around entropy and inertia.
- The Ultraviolet (Invisible) Spectrum opposes the Emotional Spectrum and feeds on buried primal emotions.
- The Void Wind opposes the Sphere of the Gods and extinguishes magic.
- The Death Force (Tear of Extinction) opposes the Life Force and brings death to all living things.
- The Black Apple opposes the Collective Unconscious and represents forbidden knowledge.
Finally, there’s an ethical component to the Multiverse. Like the Forces of Creation and the Hidden Energies, these components are balanced between positive and negative energy:
- Justice defined by fellowship, empathy, fairness, and shared goals.
- Doom defined by self-interest and personal gratification.
Interference with creation
As the Original Multiverse was born, a Maltusian scientist named Krona observed the first spark of creation through a machine he devised using time-bending technology nearly 5 billion years in the future. His interference disrupted the process, turning Mobius’s realm into an Antimatter Universe of pure evil which was unleashed and corrupted the millions of planets being created.

Another observer, Jan Arrah from the 30th century, was thrust back in time to the birth of the Original Multiverse. He watched galaxies form and die for millennia, then began building them himself.


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