Before THE Five, there were THE Four.
This is known, and this is recorded. This is truth that predates THE Infinite Unfurling and persists through every transformation that Observable Existence has undergone since its first differentiated breath.
THE Creature. THE Primordial Paradox. THE Primordial Chaos. THE Living Paradox. And for a time, before betrayal rewrote the hierarchy of claim, there was only a single bearer of Paradox rather than two.
What is less known, what is debated in whispers among those who dare to debate such things, is the nature of what these beings claimed. For they did not merely accumulate power as lesser Absolutes accumulate power. They did not simply grow strong through cultivation and conquest and consumption. They laid claim to something far more fundamental.
The Four Aspects of the Oldest Paradox in Existence.
Chaos. Existence. Paradox. And THE First Tongue.
