For a time beyond measurement, the Unbound lived without crisis.Every discovery immediately reshaped their world; every encounter redefined what "encounter" meant.Knowledge flowed without resistance.Curiosity was constant but calm.
Then they found the Edge.
It was not physical.It was the lingering boundary where the Sea of Inference ended and pure absence began—the region untouched by intention, untouched even by potential.
To most Unbound, the Edge was sacred: the origin that never participated, the last proof that existence did not own everything.
To a few, it was invitation.
The First Divergence
The explorers called themselves Seekers.They believed that understanding would never be whole until the Absence itself was comprehended.
Opposing them were the Preservers, who held that the Absence was the essential counterweight to all meaning—the untouched core that allowed the universe to breathe between thoughts.
