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Description
Terror
Prologue
A single glorious planet hung in space. Pristine, bright, and perfect. Colonized by ancient and powerful beings.
When they found this world they knew it would be their home forever. Weary from living among the stars made them yearn for a place that they could call their own, and they found it. Upon arrival they found it to be unstable, on the verge of self-destruction. Their greatest minds conceived a way to save it. The answer to this was a device that controlled the planets energy, distributing it evenly. Given to all who needed it, the world saw a golden age of peace and prosperity. However this would not last.
As this world was bright and full of life, there was another. Cold and dormant, a perverted twin of its opposite. However it was without form.
Unknowingly the planets residents went on with their lives, oblivious to the darkness that was to come, unconcerned with anything beyond their sight.
When the planet reached its zenith, when the inhabitants thought nothing could have turned things dark, something did.
A stone of equal size from the void, darkness gifted with life, raced to this perfect world. When the worlds inhabitants were aware of the doom that was swiftly approaching it was already to late. They attempted to divert its path, but it was in vain.
The rock collided with the planet. The world shook threatening to crumble, but it held. Of the Stone, there was no sign that it had even existed…… in that universe. And finally the darkness that had been silent, lying quietly in its domain, was given life.

Act One
It stirred, slowly at first, but with each moment becoming more and more aware. It rose from the ground, breathing in the dark fetid air. It saw that it was in a room surrounded by a naturally pulsing, yet clearly non organic matter.
It felt the energy the matter stored and for the first time it felt hunger.
It fed on the substance becoming empowered, strong, sentient.
He knew there were others like him emerging from the void, some emerged near him. They to became aware and….. hungry.
One slithered towards him feeling the energy coursing through him. It wanted it, but he wouldn’t let that happen. As his foe came closer he focused all his will into doing something he didn’t understand, but it felt right.
And so he stood, on razor limbs, the first of his kind to have solid form.
He jumped on the one coming close to touch him and tore him apart, separating the liquid into many pieces. It tried to regain form, but couldn’t and was the first of its kind to return to the void it emerged from. He stood above his dead enemy and consumed what remained. The others moved back out of fear and respect.
And so stood the Emperor of the Ing.

Act Two
So the Emperor grew becoming more powerful with every step. Taking in energy from the very planet itself. As he traveled he found a peculiar thing. There was an object that he could see, but see through it. Could feel , yet feel through it.
And it was here he first encountered something he did not recognize.
It was vivid and bright, unlike anything he had ever seen, and it was dying. And as he stared at it, for he could not blink, he felt something new. It was rage. He couldn’t think straight as he flew towards this abomination all that raced through his mind was to destroy it. And as he was about to pierce its obviously solid skin, it batted him away.
And here the emperor first felt pain.
Enraged, he flew at it again. Its body opened, and a new form of energy flowed out of it, but the emperor did not go near it. It felt as twisted as the creature it had poured from. And the Emperor shook with such ferocity, with such rage, it did something it had never done before. A hole opened, and from that hole shot forth the same foul energy that the creature had expelled. The energy struck the dead creature, and burned it.
Here the Emperor first discovered light.

Act Three
He continued on puzzled yet obsessed with learning more.
He fought with many others of his kind for his title as ruler, but he was always stronger, always faster, always…. Smarter. And at one point when he crushed an enemy that had constantly made efforts to destroy him, he shook to summon the foul light and burn his foe. But now he focused so much of his power into this blast as he could, intent on making it as devastating as he could, to show all others he was no ordinary Ing.
A hole opened, like so many times before, but unlike the many times before it did not spew forth light. Instead it hung there, as if on invisible strings, and beckoned to the Emperor.
And so the Emperor learned of the gateways.
He felt compelled to go and touch it, but hung back considering that though he used it as a weapon it could destroy him just as well..
The other Ing watched and the Emperor made up his mind. He charged at it, fell into its flow, and was transported away.
He could fell light coming through. It burned, but it also did something else.
He felt his essence being shaken apart. He resisted at first, then embraced it.
And so the Emperor came to the new world.
He felt horrible light come across him and saw something he had never seen before, and never wanted to see again, a star.
He then realized he wasn’t solid. He wasn’t even liquid. He was many.
He tried to pull himself together, literally, but he couldn’t.
He felt he was dying and desperately tried to fall back into the hole he had come in. As he fell through the opening, back to the darkness, he saw something else. It looked like the creature he killed so long ago but many times bigger.
It had long slender limbs, a furry chest, wings, and sad looking eyes.
He came back to his world, dazed but alive.
And so the Emperor discovered Aether.

Description
Terror
Prologue
A single glorious planet hung in space. Pristine, bright, and perfect. Colonized by ancient and powerful beings.
When they found this world they knew it would be their home forever. Weary from living among the stars made them yearn for a place that they could call their own, and they found it. Upon arrival they found it to be unstable, on the verge of self-destruction. Their greatest minds conceived a way to save it. The answer to this was a device that controlled the planets energy, distributing it evenly. Given to all who needed it, the world saw a golden age of peace and prosperity. However this would not last.
As this world was bright and full of life, there was another. Cold and dormant, a perverted twin of its opposite. However it was without form.
Unknowingly the planets residents went on with their lives, oblivious to the darkness that was to come, unconcerned with anything beyond their sight.
When the planet reached its zenith, when the inhabitants thought nothing could have turned things dark, something did.
A stone of equal size from the void, darkness gifted with life, raced to this perfect world. When the worlds inhabitants were aware of the doom that was swiftly approaching it was already to late. They attempted to divert its path, but it was in vain.
The rock collided with the planet. The world shook threatening to crumble, but it held. Of the Stone, there was no sign that it had even existed…… in that universe. And finally the darkness that had been silent, lying quietly in its domain, was given life.

Act One
It stirred, slowly at first, but with each moment becoming more and more aware. It rose from the ground, breathing in the dark fetid air. It saw that it was in a room surrounded by a naturally pulsing, yet clearly non organic matter.
It felt the energy the matter stored and for the first time it felt hunger.
It fed on the substance becoming empowered, strong, sentient.
He knew there were others like him emerging from the void, some emerged near him. They to became aware and….. hungry.
One slithered towards him feeling the energy coursing through him. It wanted it, but he wouldn’t let that happen. As his foe came closer he focused all his will into doing something he didn’t understand, but it felt right.
And so he stood, on razor limbs, the first of his kind to have solid form.
He jumped on the one coming close to touch him and tore him apart, separating the liquid into many pieces. It tried to regain form, but couldn’t and was the first of its kind to return to the void it emerged from. He stood above his dead enemy and consumed what remained. The others moved back out of fear and respect.
And so stood the Emperor of the Ing.

Act Two
So the Emperor grew becoming more powerful with every step. Taking in energy from the very planet itself. As he traveled he found a peculiar thing. There was an object that he could see, but see through it. Could feel , yet feel through it.
And it was here he first encountered something he did not recognize.
It was vivid and bright, unlike anything he had ever seen, and it was dying. And as he stared at it, for he could not blink, he felt something new. It was rage. He couldn’t think straight as he flew towards this abomination all that raced through his mind was to destroy it. And as he was about to pierce its obviously solid skin, it batted him away.
And here the emperor first felt pain.
Enraged, he flew at it again. Its body opened, and a new form of energy flowed out of it, but the emperor did not go near it. It felt as twisted as the creature it had poured from. And the Emperor shook with such ferocity, with such rage, it did something it had never done before. A hole opened, and from that hole shot forth the same foul energy that the creature had expelled. The energy struck the dead creature, and burned it.
Here the Emperor first discovered light.

Act Three
He continued on puzzled yet obsessed with learning more.
He fought with many others of his kind for his title as ruler, but he was always stronger, always faster, always…. Smarter. And at one point when he crushed an enemy that had constantly made efforts to destroy him, he shook to summon the foul light and burn his foe. But now he focused so much of his power into this blast as he could, intent on making it as devastating as he could, to show all others he was no ordinary Ing.
A hole opened, like so many times before, but unlike the many times before it did not spew forth light. Instead it hung there, as if on invisible strings, and beckoned to the Emperor.
And so the Emperor learned of the gateways.
He felt compelled to go and touch it, but hung back considering that though he used it as a weapon it could destroy him just as well..
The other Ing watched and the Emperor made up his mind. He charged at it, fell into its flow, and was transported away.
He could fell light coming through. It burned, but it also did something else.
He felt his essence being shaken apart. He resisted at first, then embraced it.
And so the Emperor came to the new world.
He felt horrible light come across him and saw something he had never seen before, and never wanted to see again, a star.
He then realized he wasn’t solid. He wasn’t even liquid. He was many.
He tried to pull himself together, literally, but he couldn’t.
He felt he was dying and desperately tried to fall back into the hole he had come in. As he fell through the opening, back to the darkness, he saw something else. It looked like the creature he killed so long ago but many times bigger.
It had long slender limbs, a furry chest, wings, and sad looking eyes.
He came back to his world, dazed but alive.
And so the Emperor discovered Aether.