Annuat

Overview

The Annuat ("All-Creator" in Typhonian Tongue), also known as the First Beings, and the Primordials were the very first beings in creation, forged from the very essence of Amaranthia by the Imagindarium itself, near the dawn of the Amaranth Conception, the genesis of which spawned forth the whole of Ambrosia. The Annuat have forever held the title as both the origin of life as we know it, and the crown as the single-most powerful living entities to ever exist throughout time.

The Annuat, as we understand them, rather then being a singular classification of being, was a term given to first four, then eventually five different types of beings all given the suffix "Uat" ("All" in Typhonian Tongue) at the end of their respective titles. Each Annuat group represented a specific aspect of reality, and the members of said group all possessed the limitless ability to infinitely control said aspect of existence their respective group happened to represent.

The five groups of beings that make up the collective Annuat are as followed: The Aethuat, ("All-Being" in Typhonian Tongue) representing constant and stasis. The Voiuat ("All-End" in Typhonian Tongue) representing change and end. The Niuat ("All-Created" in Typhonian Tongue) representing creation and make. The Driuat ("All-Destruction" in Typhonian Tongue) representing destruction and unmake. The Reiuat ("All-Collapse" in Typhonian Tongue) representing failed and collapsing processes.

The collective Annuat have been credited with the creation and origin of many aspects of reality within Ambrosia, the most notable of these being the origin of the first life, spawning numerous organic lifeforms across several worlds. Along with serving as the origins of life, the Annuat are credited as the progenitors of Magic, or Thaumaturgy, as their frequent use of their realm of origin, Amaranthia, allowed the Fragments of Creation from within the Amaranth Veil to flow across the stars, saturating all of Ambrosia in an ever-present, all consuming presence of magic, the very force that spawned forth Ambrosia's creation itself.

Along with the creation of numerous forces of reality, the Annuat hold the distinctive honor as the inventors of conflict between opposing forces, as during the Third Dawn Epoch, the functions of the collective Annuat, which normally were able to occur without even the slightest amount of failure, began to founder in certain instances due to the machinations of the all-powerful force, the Great Unifier. As this occurred, the possibility of a process or function to fail was introduced into reality, leading to the creation of the Reiuat, the beings that represented failed processes. With this, the Annuat that held conflicting functions with one another began to undermine the functions of the other, leading to the event known as the "First Conflict," as this was the first time in creation that two opposing forces had entered in some sort of conflict with one another. The introduction of failed processes lead to many different concepts to come to be that were antithetical to the whims of the Annuat, including the force known as Undeath, the failure of the process of the end of life, and self-doubt of a sapient being's own thoughts and whims.

During the Sixth Dawn Epoch, the collective Annuat would spawn forth the very first truly sapient being, able to think and feel beyond the whims of its creator. This being, known as the Primevaranth would continue on in a similar manner to its Annuat progenitors, paving the way for Ambrosia to come to be. However. due to the consequences of the First Conflict waged prior to its creation, the Primevaranth began to have doubts. As the Primevaranth doubt themselves and contradict their thoughts, creations of theirs would begin to fracture and break apart, until' their splintered mind caused them to shatter entirely. As it did, the remnant spirit of the Primevaranth poured all across the Ambrosia Galaxy, allowing for sapience to arise independent of a direct creator.

Along with magic, sapience and life in general, the Annuat's greatest feat would be the creation of the Divine Typhonians, God-Like sapient beings of immense presence and power, whose actions would ultimately forge Ambrosia into the galaxy we know it as today. Their creation was accomplished through manipulation of the Annuat's realm of origin, molding the Fragments of Creation into a shared shape until' its coalescence made a being of pure magical energy and power manifest within Ambrosia proper. The Typhonians themselves would ultimately be the very first beings to control magic as their Annuat creators did not actively access the inherent thaumaturgic energy contained within the Amaranth Veil, but merely Amaranthia itself.

The collective Annuat would ultimately vanish from existence following the creation of the Typhonians at the final Dawn Epoch. As they did, the functions of reality, creation, destruction, constance, change and collapse were now able to occur within Ambrosia unaided, allowing the natural functions of reality to come to be and ending the long stasis of existence. Ambrosia would be left to the Annuat's progeny, the Typhonians, who would use the functions of existence provided to them by their primordial creators to forge the functions of time and space, allowing the long and ever-changing line to the End to begin.

Characteristics

Collective Behavior

Despite each group of Annuat functioning radically different from one another, the Annuat as a whole shared a few commonalities. The first and most notable would be that all Annuat, regardless of group's only purpose in existence was to carry out the self-bestowed role of heralding the fundamental functions of reality, ensuring Ambrosia's future existence and paving the way to the Ultimate End. To accomplish this, each group of Annuat aimlessly wandered primeval Ambrosia, surveying the worlds yet to be, the life yet to be heralded, and the events yet to transpire. Through their aimless wandering, large tears in the fabric of space embedded themselves in a near infinite pattern of intertwining gateways, leading to the creation of the Janus Network, the last remnant of the Annuat's existence in the modern-day.

Whenever an individual Annuat began to make a function of reality occur, it would seemingly freeze in time, then, over an immense period of time to existence's perspective, the respective function being carried out will occur, whilst to the Annuat, the process of which occurs in an instant, ultimately leading to the Time of the Annuat as a whole to seemingly happen instantaneously, lacking any length of time to those not affected by primeval Ambrosia's timestream. The results of these functions can vary extremely, from the formation of entire star clusters and the beginnings of the world's around them, to the simple chemical reaction of hydrogen's meet with oxygen, as such was the Annuat's purpose to pave the way for these events to transpire independent of their direction or intervention.

On rare occasion, an Annuat may self-replicate itself to create what is known as an Annuat-Ni. ("All-Creator Child" in Typhonian Tongue) When this happens, the Annuat will once again freeze itself from time's affects, then begin to create a mutable Annuat-Ni, lacking any bestowed function and merely existing as a being of pure Annmaya energy. The respective parent Annuat will then begin to pour a portion of its own Annmaya essence into the created Annuat-Ni, slowly molding it into the mirror image of the desired Annuat class the creator Annuat is apart of. The creation of the Annuat-Ni collectively was extremely rare, leading there to only be in total three hundred Annuat in existence in the more then three billion standard year history of the Dawn Epochs.

Lack of Higher Intelligence

As the collective Annuat were nothing but a static force incapable of consciousness, personality, intent or will, they were nothing but an immutable static force that did not change or alter course in any way, shape or form. As such, they were not sapient in the way we would understand it, only being entirely directed vessels of Imagindarium's will and creative intention. Incidentally, the Annuat functioned very similar to that of your typical computer program, complete with directed coded commands built within the individual Annuat's very being.