The Philosophy of the Time-Wheel
What are you really searching for, when you search for meaning?
This is a cosmology told in two voices. One speaks to the heart, through myth, soul, and goddesses. The other speaks to the intellect, through systems theory and information physics. Neither is the truth disguised as the other — they are two mirrors of the same reality.
One example, before you go further
How the book speaks of the very first thing
The point before everything began — told twice.
Before time, before space, before the first thought, there was only the Urnullen — the Primal Null. This is not emptiness as we understand it — an absence of something. Think of it instead as an infinite, deep stillness that contains everything that could ever come to be. A vacuum in which everything is, and nothing is, at the same time.
The Urnullen represents the theoretical state preceding the observable cosmological beginning. From an information-theoretical perspective, this is a system with zero entropy — a state of perfect order and infinite informational potential, but without manifested information or dynamics.
Every concept in this philosophy — every stave, every law, every realm — exists in both versions.
Choose your way
Four doors into the same wheel
256 epochs
Of 1321 years each, distributed across 13 staves — the microscopic time-wheel, humanity's journey.
13 staves
The archetypal steps in any process of creation, from Æra’Lindra to Thalorien.
4 realms
Humans, elves, sea-beings, and wind-beings — four domains of the same consciousness.