"Once upon a time, there was Nothing. Nothing was all alone, because there wasn't anything to be with it of course. And then along came Aperios, who was everything, and asked "What is your name?" and Nothing replied "I do not have one," because Nothing could not have something, or it would not be Nothing, it would be something. And so Aperios said, "Then I shall call you The Nameless One." At first, The Nameless One was happy. But the more it watched Aperios, the sadder it got. Aperios had everything, and would not let The Nameless One have any of it. "Go away," Aperios said, "I cannot talk to you, for you have no name. I can only play with things that have names." And The Nameless One was very sad. "I know," thought The Nameless One, "I will make Aperios go away, and then I will be Nothing again, and I will be happy."
So The Nameless One gave names to parts of itself, which became Darkness, which we call Devices, and sent them to Aperios to make it go away. And these Darkness Devices went to the cosms that were parts of Aperios, and found people who wanted technological marvels, religious and economic power, and even the perfect fear, and promised these people all of these things if they would make Aperios go away. And the Darkness Devices and their High Lords were all happy.
All except one Darkness device. This Darkness Device was the first to be named, and was the favorite of The Nameless One. But it was still unhappy. For in the cosm that this Darkness Device went to, the inhabitants did not want anything. They did not want technological marvels because anything they could think of they could have. They did not want power over one another because they knew that was Bad. And they didn't even know what fear was because they were never too hot and never too cold and never ever ever died. And the inhabitants recognized that this Darkness Device was Bad too, and would not play with it because it did not play well with others. And so this Darkness Device sat. Sat. Sat. Sat. And this Darkness Device begged to be played with. Begged. Begged. Begged. And this Darkness Device demanded to be played with. Yelled. Yelled. Yelled. But the Ideals wouldn't play with it, because it was Bad and did not play well with others. And so this Darkness Device went mad. Mad. Mad. Mad. So mad that it even forgot its own name, given to it first by The Nameless One itself.
And in madness came inspiration - if no one in this cosm would play with it, then it would find someone in another cosm that would! And so this Darkness Device began to look in other cosms for someone that would play with it. But the other cosms all had Darkness Devices already in them, and those Darkness devices had names, and enjoyed the games they played with their High Lords, and didn't want Aperios to go away and leave them with nothing. And so they drove it away, and told it never to return. But there was one cosm without a Darkness Device. In this cosm it found a man. And this man drew pictures that looked a lot like the Ideals that it hated. In these pictures the Ideals were crushed under anvils, or made all black and crumbly by dynamite, or punctured clean through by giant bullets. And that made this Darkness Device very happy, for it knew that it had found someone that would play with it, someone to be it's High Lord.
And so the man went with this Darkness Device to the cosm of the Ideals. He was no longer the man whose name flashed by so fast in the credits that even a VCR with super slo-mo doesn't help. No, he was The Man Who Draws Things, The Man With The Power! And he would use the Ideals to bring life to his visions, and prove his genius to the world, and the entire Infiniverse too! And so this Darkness Device and The Man Who Draws Things lived happily ever after, and they are really the only important ones, right?"
- The Ideal Darkness Device, called The Other Nameless One, relating the events of its existence to no one in particular, just talking, la de da - oh! what nice flowers...
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