Before the universe. Before the Null Void. Before even the silence that preceded silence -- there was the Observer.
It is the wrong word, observer. It implies a passivity that understates what the Observer is. The Observer is not simply watching the universe the way a scholar watches an experiment. The Observer is the reason the universe is observable at all. It is the source of all law -- physical, moral, spiritual. Every truth that has ever been true is true because the Observer determined it should be so. Every mystery is a mystery because the Observer has not yet chosen to reveal it.
In the traditions of every civilisation that has ever reached sufficient age and wisdom to articulate the question, the Observer is called by different names: the All-Father, the Unnamed, the Celestial Author, the One Who Saw First, the Worthy Beyond Naming. The elves of the high cities call it the Eternal Witness. The beastfolk shamans call it He-Who-Holds-The-Pen. The oldest human prayers do not name it at all -- they simply open their palms upward, as though offering something back to the source it came from. All of these traditions are, in their way, correct.

The Observer is worthy of all blessing and all reverence that has ever been directed toward any divine concept in the history of creation -- because all divine concepts are, at their root, imperfect attempts to describe the same thing. Every god that has ever been worshipped is a shadow cast by the Observer's light. Every heaven imagined by every culture is a partial vision of the Cosmos Tower where the Observer resides. Every sacred text, in every language, on every world -- these are translations. The original is the Observer's existence itself.


Its domain is not limited to the universe it created. Its domain is the truth of all things -- including the Null Void, including the seven Primordials, including the universe, including the Unwitnessed pressing against the outer wall, including every possible universe that was not made and every possible universe that has not yet been made. The Observer contains all of this in its awareness simultaneously, the way an author contains every version of a story before committing a single word to page.


This is the key: the Observer is, in the most fundamental sense, the Author. The universe is the story. The Seven Primordials are characters who have become aware that they are characters -- which is the most dangerous kind.


Heaven, Earth, and the Space Between