History¶
The player never gets a cutscene that says "here's what really happened." The truth is assembled, not delivered. Every faction has a version of history shaped by their perspective, their pain, and the information available to them. The player absorbs perspectives from all sides and reconciles the contradictions — or doesn't. The contradictions between accounts ARE the storytelling.
The history docs exist at two levels: what actually happened (design reference — no character has access to this) and what each faction believes happened (what the player encounters in-game). The gap between the two is the game.
The Truth¶
- True History — What actually happened. Thirteen eras from the void to the Boundary. Chronological canon. Design reference only — no character in the game has access to this. The player earns fragments through absorption.
Faction Histories¶
Each faction's account. Coherent but incomplete. Angels were there for everything and understood none of it. Demons saw the cage but not the architect. Humans hold the pen but didn't write the foundation.
- Angel History — The most dangerous kind of unreliable narrator: eyewitnesses who don't know what they were looking at. They were there for the golden age, the fall, the rebellion, the merge. They saw it all. They understood none of it.
- Demon History — The view from the bottom of the hierarchy. Shaped by imprisonment, liberation by Lucifer, and life as outcasts in a system never built for them. Their core grievance is real. Their leader's compass is broken.
- Human History — The most removed from the truth. Built on secondhand faith from angels, corrupted by demon whispers, written by humans who held the pen without knowing whose words they were recording. The Bible is their document. It's not wrong — it's incomplete.
Religions¶
- Religions — Michael's engineering iterations. Every major religion as a version of the same chassis — same foundation, different cultural customization, four layers of modification. Moved to the religions section.