Legacy of Chaos: Born Before Time

Time Since the Founding of the Weave: Year 0 to Year 5000

In the beginning, change was slow.

The world was still stabilizing. Magicules hadn't yet saturated the atmosphere in full. Evolution paths, though active, moved like continental drift—immense, inevitable, but imperceptible in a single lifetime. It wasn't until Year 92, when the first Domain fully anchored in the southern Ash Wastes under the rule of the newly evolved Demon Lord Geld, that time began to matter to the mortal races.

And with his awakening came something else: awareness.

It started small. A human child in the northern valleys, dreaming of fire. A beastkin scout who, wounded and alone, felt his body repair itself faster than possible. An elf who wept at the death of a tree and found herself hearing the songs of other trees nearby.

Their souls stirred.

By Year 148, the phenomenon had a name:

"The First Flickers."

These were mortals—humans, demi-humans, even monsters—whose souls began generating an unusual resonance. It was not tied to evolution or magicule saturation, but to intention. Beings who chose to walk a path, not just stumble into one.

The World System marked them quietly at first:

"[Notice]: Resonant Soul Signature detected. Enlightenment Threshold pending.""[Notice]: Skill Seed forming.""[Notice]: Mental Partition forming – Candidate eligible for Enlightenment."

Luke, observing from the higher strata of reality, recognized the signs immediately. This was the rise of the Enlightened—the middle step between Material and Spiritual lifeforms.

It was a process entirely volitional, triggered by an individual's awakening to something greater than themselves. It required not strength, but self-awareness. A goblin who asked why he killed. A human who chose to heal rather than fight. A dragonkin who wept for a slain sibling and sought to change her clan's laws.

The first to fully awaken came in Year 213: a human named Kairo, born of frost-ridden valleys in the north.

Kairo was no warrior. He had never wielded a sword or burned with desire for conquest. But he had asked the stars questions no one else dared: "Where does the soul go after death?" "Why do names change destiny?" "What lies beyond evolution?"

In his thirty-fifth year, Kairo died saving a goblin child from a greater demon.

And then… he rose.

Not in body, but in soul.

"[System Announcement]: First Enlightenment Achieved. Class: Soul-Awakened. Title: Warden of Still Flame. Unique Skill Acquired: 'Echo of Reversal.'""[Divine Alert]: First Mortal has touched the Astral Layer unaided."

It echoed through the higher realms. Even the gods—Aion, Velkarion, Liora, Kael, and Chronis—paused, each sensing a subtle quiver in the Weave. The first Divine Spark had manifested… and it had not come from them.

Luke smiled.

This was the moment he'd been waiting for.

Year 270–400: The Awakening Age

Within a span of a few centuries, hundreds followed in Kairo's footsteps. Many failed—burning out, lost in spiritual madness or consumed by conflicting desires. But a few passed through the crucible.

Those who survived gained new names:

Enlightened: Mortals who had awakened their soul's purpose, granting them resistance to magicules, extended lifespan, and Unique Skills born from will.

Proto-Saints: Enlightened who fused their awakened will with a spiritual principle—compassion, truth, defiance—and could channel energy directly from the World System itself.

Ascendant Seeds: Rare beings who, while still mortal in flesh, had begun generating enough conceptual weight that the world remembered them even after death. These became myth.

By Year 412, the World System shifted.

The code beneath reality evolved, adapting to these emerging spiritual lifeforms. The System now recognized not only bloodline or battle prowess but conceptual resonance. It began mapping Soulpaths, allowing Enlightened to ascend through tiers like classes in a sacred order.

The basic evolution ladder was now defined:

Mortal → Enlightened → Saint → Divine Human → Conceptual Being

Each stage granted:

Increased resistance to death

Access to Domains or reality-bending skills

The ability to interact with higher laws (Time, Soul, Concept)

Luke embedded triggers within the System:

Mental Breakthroughs (e.g., overcoming grief or betrayal)

Selfless Sacrifice (offering one's life for another)

Meditation in a Ley Nexus for 777 days

Soul Fusion through absorption of ancestral fragments

By Year 603, the first Saint was recorded: Elareia of the Verdant Silence, an elf who had fused her soul with a dying World Tree, becoming the first Spiritual Guardian. She could hear the emotions of the entire forest continent and guide the evolution of flora and elemental lifeforms.

"[System Notice]: Elareia has attained Sainthood. Title: Spiritmother of the Weeping Glade. Domain: Verdant Echo.]"

Her evolution changed the ley lines around her.

Forest creatures ceased predation in her presence. Elementals gathered in rings of wind and fire, bowing. Her roots reached other forests through the Astral Layer.

Time Skip: Year 1000–1500

The Order of the Enlightened Flame formed among humans and beastfolk, guiding other mortals toward spiritual awakening. Temples sprang up not in honor of gods, but of paths—Truth, Courage, Sacrifice, Wisdom, and Memory.

These weren't religions.

They were roadmaps.

By Year 1121, the first Divine Human was born—not awakened, but born, to two Enlightened parents. This child, Nerai, displayed Unique Skills before age five and accessed the Astral Veil by ten. By twenty, she had established a micro-domain tied to her dreams.

"[World System Announcement]: Divine Human Lineage confirmed. Nerai of the Dusk Gate. Ultimate Skill: 'Dreamweaver's Crown.'"

The world had changed.

The gap between god and mortal no longer felt eternal.

Luke observed from the edge of time, perched on the curvature of a higher realm, watching the threads of fate spiral.

He knew this was only the first spark.

Saints would soon challenge Demon Lords.

Divine Humans would forge realms within realms.

And somewhere in the void, other Chaos Beings—like him—would soon take notice of what this world had become.

The dream had gained its own will.

And the Enlightened were its chosen architects.