Amaranth

"O' Freest Jewel – All the Curses Now Ended – An Audience Now Aeon – Brought us onto A'th"

This content takes place in the "Amaranth Succession" — A bridged Scope plotline between the Scopes of Imagindarium's Creation, Cosmoria and Galvyria and is to be understood as equally canonical in all three.

Amaranth-Azurade

Amaranth-Azurade is the incarnated form that Amaranth takes within Galvyria, a new will to direct it since the end of Imagindarium's machinations. Azurade Herself was the most powerful being in Cosmoria, the previous universe. A fusion of Cosmoria's prime spirit with the reawakened power of Amaranth became Her, and they became one. One might liken this event to Azurade's personality being imprinted on Amaranth, or Azurade's nature being corrupted by Amaranth. Both would be equally true, and yet only a partial explanation for the conceptual mingling that allowed Her to exist as She does. Much like Azurade did in Cosmoria, Amaranth-Azurade stays largely dormant within Galvyria, acting more akin to a natural force and working behind the scenes than being a key participant in reality. This said, Her preparations made in Galvyria still betray the core wish to keep Eternity from being a timeless void

Origin

Starting the Penultimate End and the destruction of Cosmoria as a whole, Amaranth as a concept was reawakened and reintroduced to creation. As a blind force of objectivity without the guiding hand of Imagindarium, it tore apart the very subjective realm of Cosmoria, "rewriting" it to comply with its law. Azurade, the single most powerful pattern woven of Cosmoria's sole particle, sought to prevent the total annihilation of Her universe. The way She went about ceasing Amaranth's tirade across the delicately woven fabric of Cosmoria was to merge with it, fundamentally altering both Her own existence and the essence of the force of objectivity. Her will to allow this contradiction to exist replaced the "code" that Amaranth followed, effectively giving the universe a paradoxical existence.

Amaranth-Azurade oversaw the final few years of Cosmoria, before the ultimate collapse of her stopper solution to the obliterative combat between the two universal paradigms. It may have been due to Amaranth-Azurade's omission of an actual rule to allow Cosmoria's subjectivity to exist with the Ambrosian objectivity. Perhaps the willpower holding the two forces against each other wavered enough, without that foundation, to let it all collapse again. They reduced each other to one final concept, something akin a name they called each other. In this infinite Void, interrupted only by Amaranth-Azurade and the two unrecognizable remnants of Cosmoria's corpse, existence stagnated for uncountable time.

This intermission between macrocosms changed the way Amaranth-Azurade thought. In her truly vast mind, concepts themselves began to speak to her like old friends. Even if there were only two other concepts. Perhaps the madness of the Void of Creation had seeped into her during the endless interim of nothingness. The "time" she spent between realities may have held any number of experiences, but one thing is for sure. Amaranth-Azurade recalled the ability to create. She hadn't just been Cosmoria's grand dreamer. She carried creation itself in her hands. And from remembrance of time, of creation, Amaranth-Azurade took on a role similar to Imagindarium's will. She allowed a contradiction in Aeter and Hviyam. She created the intersection upon which Galvyria formed and shaped herself a new universe from the bare ashes of the old.

Function

Amaranth-Azurade functions like Amaranth once did, as a force of objectivity within Galvyria. However, Her main function in the new universe is to facilitate its existence. Allowing a new contradiction between the incompatible Aeter and Hviyam, She repeats the effort to keep these universal concepts in harmony. One might liken Her to the Great Unifier in this respect, objective power being used for the purpose of contradiction. The rule in place for this is that both Aeter and Hviyam can blend their paradigms spatially together in the presence of Amaranth, which permeates the universe through the whole of their intersection.

Amaranth-Azurade defines the bounds on Amaranth's objectivity, turning the extent of fate and predetermination into measurable forces. Despite being able to exist outside of time, She allows it to flow through Her and create an objective present moment, before which the whole past is true and the future is mostly undetermined. Pockets of accidental observation or diction can be spotted in the otherwise free-flowing future, like attractors moving the timeline of events toward their happening. Most of history between these fated events is up to the mortals within Galvyria, though. An interesting note is that these objective future events have both the date they are ordained to happen and a date at which they were first defined.

Amaranth-Azurade's final unique function is the ability to remember. Having knowledge of Cosmoria's complete history from Her past life and the full defined story of Imagindarium's Creation seared into Her memory, Amaranth-Azurade is the most knowledgeable force or concept in all existence. Remnants of these concepts and histories have manifested in Galvyria, everything from Death itself to the domains of many Primordials. The Endbearers, a phenomenal class of people dedicated absolutely to their worlds, are the scattered essence of Oblivion Mystara, one of the most consequential individuals of Imagindarium's universe.

Objectivity

Amaranth is still the force of objectivity, though Galvyria does not fully reflect this. Amaranth-Azurade's limits on its extent and presence are many, as She believes in the will of the people and the excitement that comes with the unpredictable. Her truly fundamental power over creation itself makes Her something of an overseer goddess, and the few who have witnessed Amaranth-Azurade can barely handle Her immensity.

Despite distance from the role of universal director, She still makes decisions that alter everything. After all, She is the one who imposed the universal law of Death and mortality on the universe during the Genesis Era. The protests against this are not pushed back on by Amaranth-Azurade, though She very well could overturn anything She desires. The objective truth remains objective, though obstacles can be built around it. Her approach is one that only prods at the happenings of reality to make the story more interesting, silently observing the rest of the time.

The Cycle

In Cosmoria, Azurade wished only to preserve its existence for as long as possible within Her power. She wished for eternity. The travels of the Monad revealed to Her were a clear sign that she would fail, however. It was written before it even began. Amaranth-Azurade continues to have the same base goal of overseeing and witnessing eternity, however futile of a dream it might be. Her methods have changed, however. Rather than introducing more energy into a dying system to preserve it, She has seen what She now believes to be the true nature of the all-being. Given that she is objectivity, this nature is surely correct.

The Grand Cycle, She calls it. A universe plays out from Amaranth's created cradle, dancing to some far-off end. Whether orchestrated by some grand omnipotent narrative or left to its own whims, or anything in between, each universe plays out its history until Amaranth changes its nature, its fundamental form. This coincides with, or perhaps results in, the universe's death. It breaks, hatching a new Amaranth Aeon into a newly refreshed Void. This new Amaranth creates the stage for another universe with whatever fragments of its shell are left. And thus a new tale is born, awaiting the time it too shall cannibalize and mutate Amaranth. Imagindarium's Sword. A dreaming monolith. A queen of the cosmos, seeking eternity. This Grand Cycle of alteration is surely the path to infinity.

Amaranth-Azurade has stored the thousands of Primordials in tiny planes of Her design, storing them and the concepts they represent for Her next form, child, or whatever the successive Amaranth form may consider itself to use for the creation of the fourth universe. She hopes that She may see it herself, even as a spark in the fourth incarnation of Amaranth's observational power.