Amaranth Contravene

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What is an Amaranth Contravene?

An Amaranth Contravene, also known as a "Thavchronia," is a term referring to a cosmic event and temporal phenomenon wherein the flow of space and time within Ambrosia, Libation, or the Thavma Thoroughfare is affected in a major way. In other terms, an Amaranth Contravene is the term simply referring as to when either Amaranth, or Imagindarium itself directly manipulates its crafted Cosmos, meaning what an individual Amaranth Contravene actively entails can be anything and everything the mind could possibly conjure.

As a result, the effects of an Amaranth Contravene can vary greatly from one another, though usually they result in a change within either the matter composition within Ambrosia, the spatial dimensions, or the splitting of the natural flow of time, as well as the changes of fundamental laws of reality as we know them.

What exactly is an Amaranth Contravene is not well understood by the collective populace of Imagindarium's vast creation, and has remained a mystery throughout all of Ambrosian history, though theories abound exist. The most common theory involves Ambrosia's own gravitational bubble interacting with the numerous alternate planes that surround the Amaranth Realm, causing space and time to congeal and warp amongst themselves across the numerous alternate planes of existence now combining together, causing various temporal anomalies across Ambrosian space, though this remains unproven. Regardless, Amaranth Contravenes are an integral part of Ambrosia's very nature and have been known to happen throughout entirety of known existence.

Along with the mystery of what an Amaranth Contravene entails, it is not well understood what exactly causes an Amaranth Contravene, however, they most typically follow an event that has caused a large effect on life, society, or the nature of the Amaranth Realm itself. Examples include the creation of the collective actuality of the Divine Typhonians, known as "Phenomoth," as well as the God Legion's Red Galaxy Event, which caused the extinction of most life within Ambrosia at the time. The effects of these specific Amaranth Contravene vary greatly from one another, affecting matter, time, space, and gravity to an extent unfathomable to account for each and every change. Nevertheless, despite select commonalities, it is utterly impossible to predict when an Amaranth Contravene will happen, what it will affect, how much it will affect, or if it will affect anything at all.

Due to the prevalence of Amaranth Contravenes within Ambrosian existence, numerous sapient races have attempted to explain its effects on matter, space and reality. However, its effects on time are utterly incomprehensible to almost all intelligent species they affect, with only beings of select criteria being immune to its effects on time. These include the Amaranth Heirs, AIs of hyper intellect, and those who possess an immense amount of psychokinetic power and prowess, as well as very few sapient races.

Effects of an Amaranth Contravene

Its effects on the matter composition of Ambrosia most typically result in objects being relocated or disappearing from physical reality entirely. However, in rarer circumstances, an Amaranth Contravene has been known to change the physical composition and properties of an object. The extent of this can vary heavily, from objects the size of dust particles to entire star systems can be affected. During one Amaranth Contravene, around six hundred million separate star systems were seemingly blinked from existence.

Where objects go when they vanish from reality remains a mystery to Ambrosia's sapient populace, though many theorized they have been transported in a way akin to that of the alternate plane known as the Janus Network to other alternate planes, or even the Janus Network itself, though this remains only speculation. An Amaranth Contravene has been known to also effect space itself in very distinct ways akin to that of black holes, but lacking the gravitational effects of one, causing entire areas of physical space to become inaccessible, or change in ways completely at odds with what's traditionally referred to as "space."

In rarer cases, an Amaranth Contravene has been known to affect the forces of gravity. The strangest example would be the time in which an area of interstellar space spanning around a light-year in diameter above the universal plane suddenly and rather rapidly experienced extremely heavy gravity, causing entire planets within the sphere of influence to be torn apart by gravitational tugging. While this is an extreme example, most are rather tame, with certain planets causing their moons to orbit closer or further away than they otherwise would have, or causing a celestial object to have more or less surface gravity than its mass would normally create.

Along with these more predictable changes, the effect an Amaranth Contravene has on the fundamental laws of reality is much more varied and defies all common sense or logic. These include matter seemingly being totally created from nothing, objects with temperatures registering colder than absolute zero, objects naturally moving faster than light, and more. Due to the unpredictability of these effects, sapient races who have been made privy to these changes can do little to stop them and just hope that they are minor, and or do not affect them personally, though they sometimes may, causing an entire species to mutate into a new form, or disappear from the face of existence altogether.

When an Amaranth Contravene affects time, which is often the case, it influences numerous temporal causalities. The effects of which can vary from so-called "temporal loops," when an area of space is caught in a looping cycle of time which can last a few standard seconds, to cycles spanning a thousand years, only to reset back to the beginning of the loop. Due to this, it is believed by many that all of Ambrosia is within a temporal loop currently, and will one day reset back to the beginning, though no temporal loop has been known to last longer than a thousand standard years.

Along with this, Amaranth Contravenes can cause a shattering within the timeline of Ambrosia, causing events that would have happened to either no longer happen at all or be changed in very specific and random ways. As well as the future, it can also affect the past, though these effects remain mostly unknown, as the only evidence an Amaranth Contravene affects time at all comes from beings exempt from its effects, though they seem unable to peer beneath the veil of the past very far. Its believed by select individuals who have attempted to ascertain its effects on the past that an Amaranth Contravene that happens in the present or far future will somehow affect things in the past at the same time. When the Amaranth Contravene affects the timeline, it will reconnect, making all possibilities and outcomes reality, though contradictory to each other, causing chronologists' timelines to become askew through a mist of uncertainty and causality.

Relation to Ambrosia's Inhabitants

Cultural interpretations of Amaranth Contravenes vary as widely as the number of different individuals who have been made aware of the phenomenon's existence. Across most cultures, the common theory of Amaranth Contravenes being caused by oscillations of nearby alternate planes is mainly considered to be the most credible explanation as to what an Amaranth Contravene actually is.

However; numerous religious organizations either use Amaranth Contravenes as a way to support the claims of their respective faith as to the nature of reality, or will be formed around the concept of Amaranth Contravenes, with various fairly popular faiths being created following a widespread Amaranth Contravene. The largest and most notable of these types of religions is "Stagnationism," which believes that the realm of Ambrosia is in a constant state of fluctuation and change, meaning that sapient individuals must ensure that the current state of reality is recorded, and if possible, preserved.