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By Mctoran
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I am burdened ordained with the grave responsibility to transcribe the knowledge presented herein. I do hope the Lady understands that I have no choice in this matter. I will have asked her to inter this within the deepest recesses of the archives. Your reading of this text therefore suggests two possibilities. The first is that you are lost, and happened upon this by chance — in which case I ask for your own safety that you immediately close this, replace it whence it was found, and find your way back to a familiar path — lest the temptation towards forbidden knowledge prove too enticing to resist. The second is that you have sought this out with purpose — in which case I cannot and will not assume responsibility for adverse effects resulting from your exposure to it. Curiosity killed the cat, as they say. While I have taken every precaution to veil the full extent of the truth behind comprehensible vocabulary, the possibility remains that learning this knowledge shall open doorways to forces that will ultimately ensnare you.
It would do best to begin with the most familiar truths in this context. It is known that The Lost worshiped a pantheon of gods long ago. Having dwelt in The Backrooms long before any other being, these gods are considered its first inhabitants — its creators, even. Though that may be the narrative known to most, there is much more than meets the eye. Gods cannot bleed. Gods cannot die. Gods are absolute in power and authority. The so-called “gods” of The Lost are none of these, for the simple fact that they are not Gods. In truth, they play puppets to forces beyond even themselves: The Pillars.
Discerning the nature of The Pillars is nigh-impossible to lesser beings. A mortal mind is naturally averse to such knowledge, and when confronted by it, will degenerate in failure to comprehend it. To understand The Pillars is to understand the truth of reality itself, which shatters the common ego. I, among few others, stand as an exception — but only through extraordinary circumstances, and with grave cost. I shall nonetheless attempt to relay all that I can without bringing harm unto any soul reading this.
The Pillars, so-named for their role of holding everything together, are what one would deem “The Powers The Be”. They are the personifications of concepts, and thus are all-encompassing. If something can be thought of, then there is a concept for it, by the merit of its formulation within the mind. A concept is the purest, most fundamental state of an idea, and cannot be reduced nor fractured. The Pillars, being concepts in and of themselves, therefore cannot be weakened nor destroyed. Wherever a certain concept may cast influence, so too does its respective Pillar.
The Pillars are the origin of all concepts, and therefore all things. As they are direct personifications of the concepts which they represent, the properties of a concept are also those of The Pillars. Bearing this in mind, The Pillars are described as follows:
The Pillars are infinite and eternal — they have always continuously existed, for nothing else could have ever created them. They precede all forms of duality/polarity, such as Space and Time; Light and Dark; Existence and Nonexistence; Reality and Unreality. They are absolute, infinite in power — for there is nothing to limit, restrict, restrain, confine, disturb nor condition them; they are subject to no other power, for there is no other power. The Pillars are so fundamentally important to the stability of existence, that if even one were missing, everything below them — including all realities and their inhabitants — would immediately collapse and cease to be. It is just as removing a single pillar from a temple would topple the entire structure, as they are reality taken form; the very core of the many coexisting worlds.
Depictions of The Pillars are merely projected onto them by the observer’s own perception — for they have no true form. For one to directly observe a Pillar, or even a depiction of a Pillar, is to witness the Beyond. It would cause catastrophic psychological and even physical damage.
With their immense power, The Pillars do not directly interfere in any reality, for the risk of disrupting it is too great — just as a human risks trampling insects upon the ground which they walk. Instead, they cast an indirect influence, primarily via avatars through which they vicariously experience reality. A Pillar’s ability to affect reality is greater wherever its influence is stronger. While all Pillars are equal in baseline power, a Pillar’s presence is strongest within the sphere of influence which its respective concept resides.
This does, however, expose a vulnerability. Within the reality we occupy, The Pillars are only as powerful as their influence. We may not be able to harm them, but we may be able to lessen their influence. This may be accomplished by imposing the influence of an opposing concept against that of the targeted Pillar. However, this in turn will strengthen the influence of the opposing concept’s Pillar.
I am sorry. I cannot share that information.
The Pillars are not to be trifled with, nor are they to be challenged. Some have attempted to usurp their power, only to be imprisoned within their own cautionary metanarrative.
