Concept Art 80: Entropy

If you've been following Arcadia lore since Exodus Reports, you might remember that "entropy " was mentioned once before describing it as a multiversal disease. Entropy is the main antagonist of the trilogy Arcadia Nights is a part of (Trinity Kosmos Apocrypha), yet reducing it to the root of evil that Adam was trying to eradicate would be deceiving, cuz the real story is far more complex.

When Üriin Død Jivana, the creator of everything, came into existence they first gave birth to the Absolutes, the fundamental forces that would shape the cosmos:

Antariksa: Space
Vremya: Time
Zereg: Order
Lykt: Light
Skotádi: Darkness

After the stagnation of the primordial universe, Uriin originated its last offspring, Entropy. Her purpose was to create the concept of change and evolution, so she was the catalyst for the initial singularity, which we now know as the Big Bang. This event took all the preexisting energy, matter, and anti-matter that the absolutes created before and concentrated it in a single spot called the Eye of God (Üriin Død Jivana)  which later on would be designated as a "black hole" by humans.

From that moment Zereg, the absolute of order, started to resent Entropy profoundly as she took the harmony he carefully crafted and disrupted it with the concept of change, but that would only be the beginning of their conflict.

After Entropy fulfilled her initial purpose, which create the prime universe, she became the keeper of cycles, basically watching over the Absolute's creations until these started to reach an energy limit that would endanger the stability of reality. When that moment comes she will be the one to purge the universe devolving it to its cradle, the Eye of god, starting the process over again. For Entropy, this became a monotonous task that only came with affliction, as she watched how her siblings forge stars, planets, and life from basically nothing, her duty only consisted of observing all these precious creations and becoming the grim reaper at the end that would plunge it all into nothingness.

All the suffering her celestial purpose inflicted on the existence of other lifeforms started to become unbearable making her question her reason for existing:
   -is this all I'm good for? destruction, suffering, nothingness, is that all I can do? am I not allowed to create like them?--Entropy whispered to herself.
She knew very well that creation was something forbidden for her, a thing only the absolutes must do as Zereg arrogantly imposed, but the more she had to endure the cycles, the more she desired she could change that fact.
Uriin felt the heartache of her youngest daughter across the cosmos and pronounced itself:
   -I, in my infinite might, created you as the principle of transformation, there is nothing in this reality you cannot change, that's the only truth of your existence and nobody can ever take that from you, my daughter.

Entropy took the words of the all-creator as permission and, with all the power she had was able to create a miracle: a son named Kaos Kadmon (primordial chaos). The progeny of entropy could control time, space, and energy, making it so powerful that its existence started to split reality into branches of infinite possibilities, what we now know as the multiverse. This new shape of reality went against all Zereg believed the cosmos should be, it destroyed the new harmony he crafted through the machinations of fate and disrupted a cycle of existence putting everything on the brink of destruction, it needed to be controlled or better, eradicated.

Kaos was only a newborn, it didn't have full control over its abilities, he might be mischievous sometimes but still had an innocent spirit. That was what entropy said to the absolutes, but Zereg couldn't accept such an unstable existence holding so much power, he had to do something and knew Vremya and Antariksa wouldn't be too happy either knowing that their domains could crumble with a hand movement from Kaos. Zereg tried convincing them to help him take Kaos away from entropy in order to seal him but they were hesitant to go that far, yes the multiverse was difficult to maintain compared to the previous cosmic model but it was still doable as long as he didn't mess with the domain of Lykt and Skotadi: energy.

The absolute of order knew that the only way everyone would agree he was the cosmic level hazard he thought it to be was if Kaos committed a mistake so grand not even the All-Creator would be able to protect him from it. So he decided to play the part of the good uncle and told Kaos that his mother was exhausted with work because of him, since his existence made the multiverse a reality Entropy had to take care of every single universe to prevent an overload of information that could create a chain reaction destroying everything including Uriin Dod Jivana.
  -If only the multiverse was easier to manage, you could be less of a burden to your mother- Zereg said to the infant
  -I don't wanna be a burden to her, I wish I could help somehow..- the kid said
  - Well, if the multiverse was smaller it could benefit the order of the kosmos and your mother wouldn't have to work so much, but it needs a lot of knowledge of Magh- the elder god told him
  -Magh?-Kaos exclaimed
  -You have been using it since you were born and you don't know what it is? Magh is the code of reality, the instructions that configure the existence, once you know how they work reality could be reshaped in more specific ways, if you reconfigure the energy channels of the multiverse, branches could be fused making them easier to maintain.

With that Kaos put all his might into learning the code of reality, and once ready he went to the heart of Lykt and Skotadi's domain as Zereg advised him to do. Kaos modified the energetic heart of the kosmos and that was all it took for Zereg to triumph.

Just like that  50 % of the multiverse collapsed and vanished taking with it millions of lifeforms and severely injuring Uriin, all because Kaos tinkered with the code. The absolutes all pointed to him, as Entropy abruptly arrived to see what was going on she saw Kaos trembling in fear, she knew he wouldn't have done this willingly, and as much power he had he didn't know how to make such precise changes to the code of energy . Kaos tried to explain but nobody but his mother believed him, he even tried to reveal that Zereg coerced him to do it but Zereg played the fool and said he had no idea what the child was talking about. With that the absolutes agreed Kaos proved to be too dangerous and had to be sealed, Entropy wouldn't allow it so there was no other option but to fight.

Zereg was able to sever her mind and Skotadi was able to inflict a curse that would allow the absolutes to control her, meanwhile, Lykt, Vremya, and Antariksa sealed and split Kaos into 3 parts. These later would be known as the Kadmonic Artifacts, which would be hidden in different points of time, space, and energy making them hard to find. Thus Entropy woke up with no memory of the confrontation and continued to play her role as the keeper of cycles.

 Although everything seemed normal she was unable to shake up the feeling she was missing something important...