NOVEL WEB The Chaos Realm
The Chaos Realm
“The Chaos realm is the first of the major realms. It was created by an elder lifeform in the void forcing energy into one of the cracks and manipulating it. The crack, full of energy, changed and became a realm. This was the first realm with spatial dimensions, if a bit twisted to modern sensibilities. Various void lifeforms rushed to it, but could not survive. Their bodies, previously made of pure, dimensionless energy could not survive the conditions of this newly formed realm and perished. The 'flesh' of their bodies formed the ground and sky of this realm, their souls condemned to wander for eternity within it. The being that created this realm, over aeons, manipulated the very nature of the realm. The denizens of this realm, and even the very land turned hostile. Everything killed eachother, but nothing able to fully die. Death unknown, but violence common.
[...]Most attempts at expeditions to the Chaos Realm almost always end with tragedy. The few that survive speak of the horrors of the realm, the lack of people, the lack of viable food and water, the literal oceans of blood, the craggy land that seems to try to kill at every twist and turn, the nonsensical way space turns in on itself, and of course, the creatures that live there. The things that live in Chaos seem to only know how to kill, a departure from the early days of the realm. Three prevailing theories for why death is possible now is that the being that made this realm either got bored, could no longer sustain whatever changes it was attempting, or completed the goal it had to set to go about. The exceedingly few who have been able to see (and survive) contact with the chaos denizens always speak of four things: The massive souls they have, the way none of the documented creatures look the same, the lack of intelligence of the creatures, and the endless bloodthirst they possess.
Only one sample of a chaos creature has been recovered, and current theories suppose that the massive souls they have is because they consume the souls of every kill, the way their digestion works lets the souls they consume grow their own soul, endlessly. This is not unlike certain Abyssal species or certain Demonic spells. Based off of examinations, the creatures entirely lack internal organs, instead being purely made of a single material. This material appears energy-malleable and full of potential, the specimen likely able to change parts of its body entirely by will, capable of subtly transmuting different parts to be more or less flexible, thus mimicking the muscle and bones of Middle Realm creatures without the need for the parts themselves.
Biologists and historians alike posit that whatever conditions the original Chaos Realm may have had, has changed to such a degree that the creatures living in this realm can no longer be stationary lest they be a target (explaining the lack of plants), and they cannot not be flexible lest they be an easier target. It may be that all remaining lifeforms there now have similar biologies to the single remaining sample, and possibly an example of convergent evolution or the only 'species' (if Chaos creatures can be divided into such) that have survived.
[...]Interestingly, attempts at studying the flow of souls between realms has indicated that the Chaos Realm is a massive soul sink, able to capture souls but not able to release them. Perhaps this is the real reason the Chaos Realm was made. Or perhaps, according to some Cults, the creature that made it screwed up.
[...]Current Anti-Chaos Treaties in the Middle Realm, enforced by the Spiritual, Celestial Realm and even Demonic Realm, severely limit summoning of anything from the Chaos Realm. The few times things from the Chaos Realm have crossed into the Middle Realm, inconceivable damage has been caused, and entire civilizations have ended, continents destroyed, and in rare cases, all life gone extinct. Or at least, in the timelines where that happens. The main timeline is free of such summonings, purely on account of the form of enforcement the Chaos Treaties take. [...] Any further discussion on the political side of the Chaos Treaties is outside the scope of this book[...]”
--A series of excerpts from The History of All That Was and Likely Will Be, from the chapters "Creation of the Chaos Realm", "Creatures of the Chaos Realm", "Studies of the Chaos Realm", and "History of Various Policies regarding the Chaos Realm" by The Historian