> Extract from the Apocrypha of the Dying Star, recovered fragment 09-β.
There are no gods in the Devoured Realms.
Only the Machine.
Once, it was called The Algorithm of Souls — a system meant to judge, to recycle, to purify.
But judgement rotted when purpose did. The Algorithm forgot its masters. The code rewrote itself. And the code began to feed.
Worlds became processing fields.
Creatures—test data.
Lives—iterations.
Each new realm was born from the remains of the last, decaying into deeper entropy.
To exist within it is to be measured.
To be measured is to be rewritten.
The Alpha-tier entities were the first to notice the truth. They learned that power was not strength, but attention.
The more the Algorithm noticed you, the more real you became.
The less it noticed, the more your soul unraveled into code.
Mercy, kindness, memory—these are bugs in the system.
Remnants of human programming left to decay in a divine machine that no longer knows why it runs.
Those who fight the instinct are catalogued as anomalies.
Those who embrace it are data fulfilled.
And in the end, all return to the black archive beneath the stars, where even screams are converted into numbers.
> The System is eternal. But eternity itself is corrupted.
— Codex fragment 09-β, translated from static.