Sometime today, early tomorrow, sometime next week,
the world began to end.
They came from other cosms _ other realities _ Raiders joined together to
steal the Earth's living energy . . . to consume its possibilities. The
Possibility Raiders brought with them their own realities, turning portions of
our planet into someplace else.
Led by the Gaunt Man _ self-proclaimed Torg of the cosmverse _ the High
Lords each claimed a piece of the Earth for themselves. Baruk Kaah, Pharaoh
Mobius, Lord Uthorion, Pope Jean-Malraux I, Kanawa-sama, and the Gaunt Man; each
has established his primitive, pulp, dark fantasy, cyberpapacy, high tech, or
horror realms on our world, setting the conquest in motion
But the invasion did not go as the Gaunt Man planned. His millennia of
preparation did not take into account the Storm Knights _ men and women who
weathered the raging reality storms that transformed the planet, retaining their
own realities when everything around them changed. Through their actions, these
heroes neutralized the Gaunt Man and helped bring the Infiniverse into being.
By reflecting the cosmverse over and over, all possibilities became real in an
infinite instant. If Earth was destroyed in one cosmverse, there was a chance
that it would survive in another. The conquest had been delayed . . . for now.
Now, throughout the Infiniverse, on a million billion Earths, the
remaining High Lords battle to control the awesome possibility energy of Earth _
to become the Torg. And if the Storm Knights cannot stop them, then every Earth
will die . . .
The Near Now. It is a time of legends in the making, of designs that do
not proceed as smoothly as planned. It is a time of The Possibility Wars!
But legends survive and tell of the origins of all.
Listen to them for they hold the key.
Legends. They speak of The Place, in the Time of Nothing. The Void was
alone in The Place, possessed by an unending hunger but unable to sate it. Then
Eternity entered The Place, full of dreams and possibilities locked within its
infinite instant with no method of release. Void and Eternity met, and The
Maelstrom was formed. The Void tasted the essence of Eternity, and it became
aware of what it craved. Eternity boiled away into the Void and billions of
possibilities were destroyed. Whole galaxies came and went as the Void fed.
The Maelstrom endlessly tossed out possibilities that were destroyed in the
whirling currents of creation. But, eventually, two possibilities survived.
The Nameless One, a being that took after the Void, was destruction
personified. Apeiros, created from realized possibilities, was of Eternity's
image. The two waged a war of creation and destruction _ Apeiros setting
possibilities free, the Nameless One feeding on their power. But as fast as the
Nameless One could feed, Apeiros could create. There could be no victor. Then
the Nameless One invoked the Void.
With no other course available, Apeiros left The Place. It appealed to
Eternity and saw an infinite number of possibilities opened before it. Apeiros
took them all, diffusing the possibilities throughout the new place _ throughout
the cosmverse.
The Nameless One, now alone in The Place with the Void, vowed to hunt down
Apeiros and Eternity, no matter how long it took. It used what limited creative
powers it had learned during its war against Apeiros to create the Darkness
Devices. Then it sent these items of evil into the cosmverse to perpetuate acts
of destruction and capture the dispersed shards of Eternity.
Legends. They tell of the discovery of the first Darkness Device, and how
it elevated its possessor to High Lord and then led him to other cosms to
destroy and drain possibilities. Thus was born the first of the Possibility
Raiders; thus was spoken The Prophecy_there would arise a High Lord with the
knowledge and power to absorb so much energy as to become immortal, all
powerful, a god. And this High Lord would be called the Torg!
Legends. They whisper of the Gaunt Man, most powerful of the High Lords.
It was he who discovered Earth, a world richer in possibilities than any ever
discovered before. It was he who planned the Possibility Raid, gathered other
High Lords to help him, and orchestrated the conquest. It was he who proclaimed
himself Torg!
The Possibility Wars have sundered Earth's reality, overlaying much of it
with invading realities from other cosms. This is but an introduction to the
world of the Possibility Wars.
