the dreamers

 

The ones standing on one tip of the Triangle. The ones able to dream consciously - and to travel through it without the risk of wandering off the safe paths.

Most of them have left to follow the Path of Chaos. Vast majority of those who stayed behind were  cast out from the Dreamer society, exiled becaue of their controversial or outright heretical views - or simply because they were criminals / madmen.

Why do they prefer to remain anonymous? One reason is because when they first appeared, they were pursued by the Old Corporations. Now-extinct Thought Hunters were specially designed post-humans, created solely to track down and exterminate Dreamers.

Second reason is because the deeper you delve into the dreams, the more of your former self you leave behind. Maybe it's because of sensory overload, maybe (it's just a theory) you trade the parts of your souls with denizens of the dream.

black plains of NNNNN

• Spatial phenomena occurring on the planet NNNN.
• Described as 'tears in fabric of reality', 'cracks leading to a vast, colorless and lightless plain, stretching infinitely in every direction'.
• Planet NNN was listed in the Corporate record 1022387 as one of four 'lethal worlds'.
• Some observers of spatial distortions had described the plains as 'curved inwards', resembling an inner surface of Dyson's Sphere.
• F.M. supposedly went there and 'reappeared elsewhere, decades later'. But there are theories that Meis was already dead for over one hundred years before his doppelganger went to the Black Plains. 
• All drones sent to explore the NN anomalies ceased to function. 
• There are reports of an 'entropic vortex in place of sun'.
• N isn't the only one. Black Plains connect many places. But they weren't made as a highway. They were made as a prison.
• Iron Pyramid. Maybe. Reports of the Perpetually Dying One aren't very believable. But, on the other hand, what is? We live and die by the words of insane machines, chasing directions we cannot understand. 

fyan meis

 

The Philosopher. The Interpreter. The one who deconstructs the words of the others. The One Who Explains.

He started his journey when the first Vectors were given to us. Later, after decades of cryosleep and countless words of knowledge shared with us, he had finally reached the Palace. It is said that he descended into planet's surface unscathed.

Others claim he's still alive, sleeping somewhere amongst the worlds of the Outer Border - or somewhere in the Dead Worlds.

Others claim he was transformed into something else.
Or that he confronted the Destroyer, and failed.
Or that he's always been a Doppelganger. 

1. It was always a lie. A madman made saint, a supposed savior of mankind, in fact just an old, broken man.
2. There are secret messages hidden in all Meis' words. Coordinates leading to the secrets of the past.
3. He bears a Brand of HVEROD. Just a puppet of long-dead kings!

Selected works:

The Dreaming (excerpts: 1,2,3,4,5) 
Monuments of Incompetence
Tomb of Dreams
Unexplained Visions
The First Vector
The Journey (excerpts: 1,2,3)
Ancient Prophecies
Artificial Light
Gods of Cosmos - Interpretations of Corporate Religion

DR#1 interpretations

Perpendicular to the Vectors may mean being non-human in nature. We do not know who or what was the author of the report. There are rumors about the existence of Artificial Dreamers.
Or maybe it could mean something happening contrary to the Traditions of Pilgrimage - or independently from them. We have no power over forces of universe - over the laws of physics and over the Void.

I don't think that the 'gates' were an object or even an idea. For me they sound more like the limit of perception, the boundary of things that can be interpreted by mind and by senses. And some force was able to 'open' them, thus allowing the Dreamer to understand things unfolding before them.

This might be some entities, denizens of the 'Unknown Beyond', probing and analyzing the Dreamer. But it's more likely that this was the effect of the simplification mentioned before - the Dreamer was able to see them as the 'anti-suns' because his mind was trying to contain it within their frame of reference. 

The next paragraph is the easiest to understand - the Dreamer wasn't alone. It's possible that the Dreamer was invited or lured by the entity. It's possible that the 'Unknown Beyond' was a construct of the entity's own dream.

The entity learned about the Dreamer - and probably also learned about the world outside the slumber, because of the Vectors. It seems that Vectors are somehow interfering with the 'Unknown Beyond', disturbing it.
The question is - are the disruptions caused by the minds of the Pilgrims or by the establishment of the Vectors?

'He comes to undo' - was it the first known mention of the Destroyer? The First Report is really old - it may be older than the Artificial Prophets, therefore older than Secondary Vectors. It's almost impossible to determine.

DR#1

the three sages

1. Are they the Great Sages Of Our Time? Are they contemporary?
2. Did they all die?
3. Are they just aliases, ways to conceal the workings of groups of researchers?
4. Which one am I? Am I real? 

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•  CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE S.M. AND THE M.E.

s.m WERE THE DRIVING FORCE OF THE OLD TIMES - A GREAT EQUALIZER, KEEPING THE BALANCE OF POWER

m.e. EVOLVED OUT OF THE MASTERS - THE OUTCASTS WHO DECIDED TO LEAVE THE OLD WAYS BEHIND,

thus marked traitors by the rest of the S.M.

BUT THEY WERE TOO POWERFUL AND TOO SECRETIVE TO BE DESTROYED
even by the Masters

IT WAS THE FIRST TIME - the FORMER shadow masters started to work together
THEY FORMULATED THEIR OWN GRAND PLAN 

they TRY TO MANIPULATE THE S-TIP to SAVE US FROM DESTRUCTION

but the outer peril may be surpassed by the INNER ONE - a memetic hazard:

WE MAY BE SPARED FROM BEING DISSOLVED INTO NOTHINGNESS
by the destroyer

BUT INSTEAD WILL MELT INTO A FORMLESS MASS OF INSANITY OF INTERCONNECTED
MINDS

devoid of persnonality, the hive mind
no longer human