Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29853277-20180310063721/@comment-29853277-20190703135249

"In A Tale of Lost Swords, the world is in a constant cycle The timeline loops back on itself in a constant cycle of creation and destruction, of rise and fall of civilisations The reason for this, is when the seven heroes reconstructed the world out of the shattered pieces of the multiverse, they didn’t actually have unlimited “time” They could only reconstruct the timeline to a certain length So although they knew it was kinda dumb to make the world loop on itself, to them it was the only way they could allow the world to continue “forever” However, one of them, the “fallen” hero, hatched a plot He had more faith in humanity than the others you see. He believed that given enough time, they would find a solution and become able to make their own “time” So that their world could continue into the future instead of just repeating So, in an incredibly risky move, he intentionally created cracks in the spiral (Spiral = world/timeline) This would allow chaos in (Which is very dangerous and is the reason for many horrible plagues and monster hordes in the world) But at the same time, the chaos would allow some humans to retain their memories of prior cycles It would free their souls from being bound to the repeating spiral The other heroes turned against the fallen hero for this, and declared him fallen which is how he got the name They preferred the safety of an eternally looping yet stagnant world to the possibility of destruction that allowing Chaos back in would cause Which I guess you can’t really blame them for Anyway, the fallen hero hoped that eventually, someone would use their accumulated knowledge from the repetitions of the spiral to find a way to create a new future Infection by chaos causes more than just memory accumulation though Also messes with self control Order and logic become less important The worse the infection, the more insane the infected becomes Eventually the soul eroded away All that is left is a husk And of course Because the infected’s souls are free of the loop The infection can accumulate over loops New born children whose souls have experienced dozens of loops and accumulated infection are born as the Mindless Catatonic brain dead living “corpses” Of course, this means there is a “time” limit to the fallen hero’s plan Eventually, if no “new future” is found, all souls will be eroded, and the spiral will become a world of soulless husks. Which puts some more justification on the original heroes’ anger at the fallen hero for doing this In case you are wondering, each length of loop is about 20,000 years It’s also not incredibly easy to be infected by chaos And the time taken until the soul’s complete erosion is a while Like, several lifetimes even if you’re consistently being exposed to chaos and worsening the infection So it’s not a quick process, just a near inevitable one Also, minimal infection by chaos doesn’t let you fully remember everything from past loops So you can’t just get slightly infected and then never do anything to worsen the infection and still remember everything At best, you’d have some dreams of past lives that you’d nearly completely forget as soon as you wake up."