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The history
In 2000 on the hard drive of one of Nikita's computers were discovered mysterious files which were not put there by any of our company's programmers. These files were in fact fragments of a programming code which generated random numerical sequences in the computer's RAM. When perplexed engineers started the program they discovered a remarkable thing: in addition to numerical sequences it also generated information which could not be traced to any of the software installed on that computer. The information was in the form of BMP images. The pictures showed medieval cities, fabulous creatures, an old man dressed in white cloak with a long white beard and enigmatic scripts cut in stone. Scores and scores of the enigmatic texts were collected. When a professional linguist was summoned he said at once that the texts were in Old French. So the mysterious writings were read and here is what they say…
The beginning of the illusory world
Year 1203 AD. A Greek pilgrim Theophilus, who spent the last 15 years of his life in India and picked up a number of heretical ideas there, passes through Constantinople on his way back to Europe, carrying an ancient Indian Lokashastra manuscript in his bundle. In the manuscript is recorded a detailed instruction how to create illusory worlds. While in Constantinople, the pilgrim falls ill and, weakened by the severe deprivations of his long journey, dies. Writing materials at that time were valued very high because of their scarcity. A piece of parchment could be used and reused several times, erasing an old text and writing a new one. Before he dies, Theophilius, to save the precious text from being lost forever, lies to the priest who receives his death-bed confession, that the parchment contains several chapters of the Holy Scripture translated into Sanskrit. As a result, the manuscript is put in the library of the Constantinope Patriarch. But as the future proved, this deception brought nothing but catastrophes and wretchedness.
Year 1204 AD. The IV Crusade against the Muslims. After a long siege the crusaders finally capture and destroy Constantinople. Pope Innocent III in Rome receives the gold-trimmed manuscript as a trophy. In 1244 another pope, Innocent IV, fleeing from his bitter enemy Emperor Frederick II, takes refuge in the Saint-Just monastery in Lyons, France. With him he carries a part of the papal library, including Lokashastra, which remains in Saint-Just.
In 1345 the manuscript is discovered by an old monk Batist, secular name Viscount De Sou. As a young man he, like Theophilius, traveled widely and spent several years of his life in India studying Eastern philosophers. When he returned back to France he discovered that people turned away from him as a heretic and so, to escape the horrors of inquisition, he first became a novitiate in a monastery and then took the vows.
Brother Batist stumbled upon the manuscript in his monastery's library and, knowing the language, was able to read it. And here is what he learned. A world is created by meticulous and diligent recitation of mantras which takes several days to complete. The mantra reader may change the sequence of mantras in accordance with certain rules and thus create different mantra patterns. Because of the complexity of the task and the long time required to make a particular mantra pattern, the person who reads the mantras and creates a new world is called Weaver in Lokashastra.
Different mantra patterns create different worlds. Weaver's concentration and his emotional state during the reading also are very important. When he reads the mantras without worry and anger, the weaver creates an illusory World of Happiness or Sukhaloka, where you can take a temporary refuge from natural disasters. The World of Happiness, connected to the External World by a Umbilical, not only serves as a refuge in times of troubles but also softens the disasters which happen in the External World. The time in Sukhaloka is 12 times slower than in the External World so that one month in Sukhaloka equals one year in the External World. After a month or two of its own time Sukhaloka dissolves without causing any ripples in the External World and all who were inside return peacefully and happily home.
On the other hand, if the Weaver is distraught and abstracted while reading the mantras and makes mistakes, the result is just the opposite and a Word of Sorrow is created or Dukhaloka.
The World of Sorrow is deceptive. Indeed, at first you can find protection from external troubles there but gradually this place of refuge becomes a source of misery. Through the Umbilical which connects it to the External World, the World of Sorrow sucks the life force out of the External World and grows larger and larger. The time is 12 times faster in the World of Sorrow and one month in our world equals twelve months in the World of Sorrows. However, the lives of the humans and animals inhabiting the World of Sorrow do not increase very much, they start to lose their memory, their appearance changes and after a while they lose their ability to return back to the External World altogether.
After 8000 of its own years (or 666 years in the outside world) Dukhaloka finally hardens, the Umbilical snaps and all the inhabitants of the Wold of Sorrow die. And just before this happens the External World is struck by a series of disasters.
These are the secrets Brother Batist learned from the manuscript. He translated the text into Latin, with the intention of passing the dark knowledge to his future pupil and spiritual successor. Brother Batist did not intend to use the knowledge himself, partly because in his opinion there were no calamities in this world to justify such and action and partly because he was scared of the evil number 666 mentioned in the text.
However, in just three years, in 1348, Europe was laid waste by a terrific epidemic of a bubonic plague which came from the Gobi desert. Millions of people died and France was especially hard hit. The gates of Saint-Just were closed to all external communications to avoid the ravages of the epidemic but in vainÅ. Each day several monks fell victim to the horrible pestilence and the Superior was among the first to die. The brothers were in panic, only very few of them were able to keep their self-control. In neighboring villages the frightened peasants burned not only the corpses of the plague victims but also alleged witches and magicians whom they blamed of invoking the pestilence.
Brother Batist decided that it was just the time to become a Weaver and create an illusory world where people may escape from the ravages of the plague. For two days he intoned the mantras in his cell without other brothers noticing anything. The severe self-discipline of the monastic life helped him to keep in check his emotions and to concentrate. Unfortunately, at that time of trial, the brothers were very suspicious of one another and on the third day one of the monks overheard Brother Batist reading magic spells. He was instantly accused of sorcery, tried by a civil court, found guilty and condemned to death by burning the very next day. Meanwhile he was put in a dungeon. The justice in the time of pestilence was swift.
Brother Batist, however, kept his self-control and continued to intone the mantras, which he learned by heart, until the smoke from the fire filled his lungs. At that moment he saw the Umbilical stretching up into the sky and he had only a few more words to whisper to finish the web and he did whisper them but the smoke filling his lungs distorted the magic sounds and the Umbilical became unstable. It sucked in Brother Batist together with several other people standing nearby and started to dance madly all over France and England moving from place to place with tremendous speed and drawing in people, animals, trees and even buildings as it went. Then it made the last tremendous leap into the Atlantic, slowed down and disappeared somewhere in the ocean within the Bermuda Triangle. And because of this the connecting passage from the newly created illusory world to the External World became flooded with water with it entrance buried at the bottom of an internal sea.
Thus, because of the fear of the monks who decided to burn Brother Batist, the fabric of mantras became flawed and instead of a World of Happiness a World of Sorrow was created.
The history of the illusory world
But what about the people who were sucked into his illusory world? They saw a world with several fresh-water lakes and an abundance of edible fruits. The sun progressed across the sky at a steady and regular pace, the length of the day was exactly the length of the night and there was an eternal summer. The earth within this illusory world was in the form of a huge disk floating in the middle of an infinite void later the disk was named Hyperion.
At first people were very frightened, some believed that they were in the purgatory or even Hell itself, others Ö that they were elevated into one of the celestial spheres. Some lost their sanity from shock and it was only several months later that they adapted to a degree to their new and strange surroundings. Domestic animals, which were sucked in together with humans made their life much easier. The world of Duhkaloka was at its very beginning and there were no signs of any disasters yet. During those first quiet years the inhabitants built a town called Sheepstone and started to refer to their world as the Sphere. The majority of the inhabitants were English since it was in England that the Umbilical reaped its richest harvest. In all there were about twenty thousand inhabitants.
Brother Batist kept his secret fearing violent attacks against himself from outraged and distressed people, especially since the only exit from this world was buried deep under water. Later Brother Batist realized that the blocked exit was not an accident but the natural result of the internal workings of this World of Sorrow.
Brother Batist posed as a Weaver from Saint-Just and settled on the outskirts of Sheepstone. The Weaver resolved to find the exit even if it took him the rest of his life. He discovered that this new world was receptive to magic and using the mantras from the Indian manuscript as a basis, learned nearly all the laws of this world of his own creation. He had a lot of time for that since people who were transplanted into this new world now lived much longer. The Weaver established that the aging of humans in this world was 12 times slower and was close to finally opening the door to the External World when various unfortunate events started to happen within the Sphere, giving justice to its true name - the World of Sorrow.
The trouble was that the Weaver was not the only person who learned how to work magic, some other people had also acquired that ability. At first they only knew how to make the simplest of magic but gradually their skills grew until finally they developed really amazing powers. All the magicians split into two hostile groups - those who wished to return back to the External World and restore their former peaceful pattern of life if at all possible (they were called the Outgoing ones), and those who wanted remain in the Sphere and acquire still greater magic powers (the Remaining ones).
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