In the late 1930s or early 1940s, Lucas Lite saw how the world was falling to ruin: natural disasters, violence, crime, civil unrest, disease, and war.
He came to the realization that people had forgotten about magic, specifically the magic of stories. Stories could take you anywhere and to anytime. They can help you forget about your troubles. You can be anyone in a story. You could do anything.
With his friend Simon Darkk, he created Blue Light Technologies, a company designed to create a theme park with simulated rides so real they were beyond real.
Lite believed that if he could return people to the magic of stories, the world would become a better place again.
Except, the science of the 1940s fell vastly short of being able to create a virtual simulation, little alone one so grand the riders believed it to be true.
Lite would need magic.
He and Simon studied everything from the arcane to the modern looking for something that could power Lite’s dreams.
From their studies, Lite found amazement and wonder while Simon found fear and power. Magic reminded Lite of Life, Love, Hope, Community, Faith, and Creation. Magic only reinforced Simon’s growing nihilistic views.
Lite saw Creation as a grand adventure of Hope and Joy while Simon saw Creation as a vile thing, an intruder. He saw Creation as unnatural. Darkness is the absence of light. Chaos is the absence of order. Everything falls to entropy. It is Creation that takes energy, takes work. Light is the thing that pushes against the dark.
Simon did not begin to follow Evil or Death as Evil and Death are still things. They are still part of Creation, a part of Everything. No, he believed in Nothing.
As Lucas Lite studied the Everything, or as some call it the Big Bang, Simon Darkk befriended The Nothing, the chaos and emptiness that existed beforehand.
Just as Adam and Eve taking the fruit was the first choice, or the beginning of free agency, the Big Bang was the moment when something existed. Before the Bang, matter and energy were nothing, just there with no purpose. Afterwards, they became something.
However, after all the years of study, all the money and resources used, Lucas Lite still didn’t have the answer he truly wanted. No spell, ritual, or relic could provide him with the power of simulated reality. He could control the weather, turn lead to gold, even manipulate the flow of time and bend space, but nothing could allow him to create world of imagination–not until he heard rumors of the Keystone, also known as the Seed of Creation, the Gate of Eden, the Cornerstone, the Orb, and the Sphere.
According to legend, the Sphere was a Heavenly semi-sentient machine that created worlds. Some believed one was still on Earth. Lite needed that Sphere. He spent years
Joe Rover 