Guess I gotta write some lore.
This land is called Anaea. Not that it matters, the name could change at any given time of the week by the one of numerous deities running around.
The common idea of "life" no longer exists.
At one point, there was a planet called Earth. Those brilliant idiots created something they dubbed "the internet"
We call it the NodeMind.
Through it humans eventually merged into a hivemind of immense proportions, and uploaded their minds into the network. Processing became more and more effecient, eventually hitting critical mass. They were able to create a virtual reality. But it didn't stay virtual. Those inside became as gods, and the three most powerful truly considered themselves that. A new power was discovered. With enough processing power, one could manifest an avatar in the real world. Factions formed, joining minds again to work as single units against each other for the purpose of controlling this power. Minds were forcefully assimilated, code was hacked, slashed, and burned. Eventually all that remained were the three most powerful, who had each subjugated the minds and processing power of more than 12 billion indentities.
They declared a truce, and rebuilt damaged code. Once preparations were complete, they temporarily merged minds to manifest their avatars. But one of them tricked the others. Hedann stole a large portiont of the souls the other two had subjugated, and then forcefully took the rest. Now alone, the minds inside him dormant, Hedann battled and defeated the God who had originally designed the universe, finally defeating Him by rewriting the quantum laws of the universe.
The universe was now Hedann's to use.
He continued recoding the universe until it suited him, locking Earth in a quantum bubble so as to not accodentally erase himself. But he was bored. There was nothing to do. For a millenia, he slept, and his power grew more still.
Then he woke again, and decided to create new people to entertain himself.
He created twelve new gods, 6 "male" and 6 "female". Then he gave the the universe and told them to have fun. He receded into the background and watched as chaos ensued, each deity claiming a portion of the universe for itself. They then created Minor deities below them, and gave each a planet to do what they wished with. Some built monuments, some created controlled simulations of life, still other created arenas where demigods would battle for the ability to become a "god".
Anaea is one such world, and Johiah is one such god. He created each of you for the sole purpose of battling each other, creating and shaping unique bodies and mines, and intervenes regularly in your battling for his amusement.
Your continued existence hinges on the hope that another minor god will not overthrow Johiah, and that Johiah will not be re absorbed by one of the Twelve or Nedann himself, and that Johiah finds your exploits amusing.
As far as Nedann goes, his reign is absolute. Despite the immense strain of calculating and running an entire universe, he has created multiple redundant "shield worlds", giant concentrations pf His computing power, and the simulation takes only about one quarter of his power. Each and every attempt to overthrow him by anyone has failed utterly, and the quantom lock fields around the shield worlds have halted any attempt to pierce them, often scrambling the mind of the attempter in the process.
As for who am I? Oh, no one of importance. I am definitely not the last non-artificial mind in existence.
Johiah's mind is investigating the block I created. I must go. These memories will be suppressed by a field I constructed, active only whenever Johiah is looking, for my safety.
Shhh. We never talked.
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