The Cosmic Circles

The world around is not what you have been told. There are things moving in the shadows beyond what we can perceive. You know this. You can sense it, feel it, fear it. Others wrote off the legends, the stories of of monsters and demons, of a war raging on in realms unseen. Those in your life silenced the stories, but a tiny voice in the back of your head whispers they are true.

And true they are. We are few, hidden in the shadows. They are many, bent on consuming our world and destroying all that is good. This is the cosmic war. These are the Cosmic Circles.

This is the real world. This is our secret world.

Welcome to your destiny.

Enter a world of chaos and mystery, where nightmares lurk in the shadows, and cosmic forces battle for the fate of humanity.

HISTORY OF THE CIRCLES

In the beginning, the Almighty created the universe, and separated it into the various planes of existence. The Higher and Lower Heavens were given to the Angels, Seraphim, and other celestial beings, while the planes of the Unseen and the Never-Never were handed over to the Other living creatures of the universe, and the Physical realm, the central nexus of existence, was reserved for his favored creation; the Human Race. All was well.

But Lucifer, chief of the Archangels, became angered at the Almighty for his apparent favoritism towards humanity. Why should they receive special treatment, he wondered? His jealousy and anger against humanity soon turned towards their creator. If the Almighty would not show the humans their proper place, he would. He would become more powerful than the Almighty and ascend to his place. Lucifer spread discord among his companions, and before long, a full third of the Host of Heaven had joined in a rebellion against the Almighty. They laid waste to the lower levels of Heaven, burning and twisting them into a facade of their original splendor. Lucifer and his honor guard carved and sliced their way through the armies of Heaven, up through the planes to the Throneroom, where they were met with one final opposing force, led by Michael, captain of the heavenly guard. A battle ensued, and would have continued for many centuries had the Almighty not intervened. With infinite wrath he smote Lucifer and his followers, banishing them to the lower Heavens. He then created two Gates, one Inner Gate to Heaven, the other, an Outer gate to the new realm of darkness: Hell.

Lucifer never forgave the Almighty, Heaven, or Humanity for the insult, and swore vengeance. He rallied his troops, and gave them a mission: if they could not control creation, they would corrupt it, as they had done to the realm of Hell. His last act of defiance was to cast off his former role as Light-Bringer, and to assume a new identity: The Adversary. And so began the Great War of the Heavens, a war that would span for thousands of years.

The forces of evil soon began their work. They bent the hearts of Men towards darkness and hate. His Fallen Angels took human mates, against their angelic nature, and produced a hybrid race of Nephilim, whose souls were so dark that they continued on as Demons even after death, bolstering the armies of Hell. His agents sowed seeds of chaos into the hearts of powerful Archetypes and Others, corrupting them into slavering Elder Gods of Chaos. These creatures, in turn, corrupted their followers into monsters, physical minions of darkness like Vampires, Wraiths, and other dark creatures.

The Earth was thrown into a chaotic war. Factions fought other factions without purpose besides meaningless slaughter. The only thing that kept a semblance of order were the Gates, which kept fallen minions from returning to the physical plane.

However, this was not to last. Under the direction of Semiramis, a powerful Archetype in the service of the Adversary, a king of Shinar named Nimrod began construction on a powerful magical structure, a Tower capable of binding together all of the Planes of existence, and allowing free reign of anywhere in the universe.

At first, the Host were not worried, as they believed such a task impossible. But as they saw construction continue, they soon realized they were wrong. A massive battle ensued, and the Hosts of Heaven brought all their forces to bear, but alas, the Legions of Hell were too numerous to break through the Tower's defenses. It was when the Tower had already anchored itself into the Never-Never that the forces of light finally managed to break through, due to a sudden confusion of languages. The Host toppled the tower, but at great price. The bottom material plane, the Never-Never, became completely shattered from the stress. All laws and physics in that realm became cracked, and the civilizations there were thrown into chaos.

Many centuries later, the shattered fragments repaired themselves, but alas, they were repaired improperly. They formed into a tangled web of dimensions and strands that wove themselves into other planes, and further warped their system of operation. This ever-changing structure is now referred to as the Threads.

Over 5,000 years have passed since the creation of the Tower known now as Babel. Throughout history, others have tried to resurrect the "glory" that was Babel. The legends of the magnificent tower were passed along with instructions on how to rebuild it, eventually ending up as sacred writings in the kingdom of Babylon. It faded into history. But now, in this age, rumors are spreading. Whispers behind closed doors of Angels, Others, and Humans in the know. In all these rumors, one phrase persists: New Babylon is rising.