THE TEMPLARIAS: The Keepers of the Time of Everything
There is a point at which distance ceases to be terrifying.
The mind can eventually accept that one planet is only one world among billions.
It can accept that one galaxy is only one among countless others.
With greater difficulty, it can even accept that an entire Universe exists within a single CryptaSphere, and that beyond it there are other Universes connected through the CryptoWeb.
But there is another dimension of the Cosmos far more difficult to comprehend than space.
TIME.
Because a Universe does not merely occupy a place within Multiverse-Z.
It has an age.
A beginning.
A chronology.
Civilizations appear within it at different moments. Species can rise billions of years apart. Worlds may flourish while elsewhere, in an older Universe, entire galactic empires have already completed their histories and vanished.
And beyond the age of every individual Universe exists another measurement so ancient that almost no mortal civilization can comprehend it.
The age of:
THE COSMOS ITSELF.
To measure these two realities, the Astrals distinguish between two calendars.
They follow the same fundamental temporal architecture.
But they measure completely different things.
THE UNIVERSAL CALENDAR.
And:
THE COSMIC CALENDAR.
Confusing them is like confusing the age of a child...
with the age of existence.
I. THE UNIVERSAL CALENDAR
The Clock of a Universe
Every legitimate Universe begins its own chronology when its CryptaSphere awakens.
Before that moment, the CryptaSphere is dark.
Empty.
Waiting.
Then the Architect initiates creation.
Energy erupts.
Space begins expanding within the sphere.
Matter forms.
The Universe is born.
And at that exact moment:
ITS UNIVERSAL CALENDAR BEGINS.
Universal Year I.
Month I.
Day I.
00:00:00.
The first second of that Universe.
Its own beginning.
Its own clock.
Its own history.
A Universal Year is not the ordinary revolution of a planet around a star.
It is an Astral unit of enormous scale.
For mortal understanding, it may be approximated as:
AROUND TWELVE BILLION MORTAL YEARS.
The Astrals possess infinitely more precise temporal divisions, but ordinary civilizations commonly use the rounded value because the true calibration is almost useless at planetary scale.
Thus a Universal Calendar can continue across enormous periods.
A young Universe may still be within:
Universal Year I.
An ancient Universe may have passed through several Universal Years.
Some may be so old that their current Universal Year number alone would make a Sapiens historian feel insignificant.
And this immediately reveals something important about Multiverse-Z:
THE UNIVERSES WERE NOT ALL BORN TOGETHER.
Some are ancient.
Some young.
Some existed long before Tzion.
Others may awaken in the future.
Creation never occurred only once.
Creation continues.
The Year of a Universe
The Universal Calendar divides those roughly twelve billion years according to the same familiar hierarchy:
12 Universal Months.
365 Universal Days.
24 Universal Hours per Day.
60 Universal Minutes per Hour.
60 Universal Seconds per Minute.
This produces scales that are almost absurd from a mortal perspective.
Using the rounded twelve-billion-year conversion:
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1 Universal Month ≈ one billion mortal years.
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1 Universal Day ≈ thirty-three million mortal years.
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1 Universal Hour ≈ 1.37 million mortal years.
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1 Universal Minute ≈ twenty-three thousand mortal years.
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1 Universal Second ≈ several hundred mortal years.
A kingdom could rise...
conquer...
collapse...
become archaeological mythology...
and vanish from memory...
inside a few seconds on the Universal Calendar.
That is the scale upon which the Astrals contemplate creation.
Imagine, for example, a civilization appearing approximately six billion years after the birth of its Universe.
For its inhabitants, six billion years would be an almost incomprehensible abyss of history.
On the Universal Calendar?
Their emergence would occur approximately halfway through Universal Year I.
Around the beginning of July.
A species might then spend ten thousand mortal years building civilizations, writing religions, waging wars and believing itself ancient.
On the Universal Calendar...
that entire recorded history would not even occupy one full Universal Minute.
This principle resembles the pedagogical “cosmic calendar” sometimes used in real-world astronomy, where billions of years are compressed into a single symbolic year to make deep time easier to imagine. (Wikipedia)
But within Multiverse-Z, it is not merely an analogy.
It is a formal Astral chronology.
TZION
The Young Universe
And this leads to one of the great truths about the Sapiens.
They are young.
Very young.
Almost offensively young by cosmic standards.
The Universe of Tzion remains within:
UNIVERSAL YEAR I.
Its history is immense when measured by the lifespan of a Sapiens.
But compared with the oldest Universes of Multiverse-Z...
Tzion is a newcomer.
The Minas have roots reaching into civilizations older than many Sapiens myths could comfortably imagine.
The Orkyos descend from histories extending through epochs preceding entire phases of Tzion's development.
The Sylvani possess traditions formed beneath stars that had already aged while Tzion remained cosmically young.
The Insectoides inherited biological and technological knowledge shaped through evolutionary depths extraordinary even by inter-universal standards.
And they are only a few examples.
There are species far older still.
Worlds whose cities were ancient before the first Sapiens ever opened their eyes.
Civilizations that have seen more than one Universal Year pass.
Empires whose ruins have existed longer than Tzion itself.
Against that background, Sapiens history is almost newborn.
And yet...
the Astrals watch Tzion very carefully.
Silke's Youngest Masterpiece
Tzion is young by design.
The Sapiens are not the first great species of the Cosmos.
They are certainly not the oldest.
But they may represent one of the most ambitious creations associated with the highest order of the Astral World.
Because Tzion possesses an extraordinary connection to:
SILKE.
The Demiurge.
The Supra-Goddess of the Cosmos.
Sovereign of the Source.
And, mysteriously, Silke herself possesses a form resembling that which would later become characteristic of the Sapiens.
For many Astrals, Tzion therefore represents something almost artistic.
Not merely another Universe.
An experiment in possibility.
A masterpiece begun late.
A civilization created after the Astrals had already observed countless other forms of life rise throughout Multiverse-Z.
The Sapiens are therefore not ancient.
They are not first.
They are not cosmically dominant.
But they may be something else.
INTENTIONAL.
What Silke ultimately intends for them...
very few beings know.
Perhaps not even all Astrals.
II. THE COSMIC CALENDAR
The Clock of Everything
Now comes the difficult part.
Because if every Universe possesses its own Universal Calendar...
what measures the age of Multiverse-Z itself?
The answer is:
THE COSMIC CALENDAR.
The Cosmic Calendar does not begin when Tzion is created.
Nor when Kryndor awakens.
Nor with the first known civilization.
Nor with the oldest Universe accessible to mortal science.
It begins with the beginning of the Cosmos.
The primordial chronology of the totality.
The earliest foundation from which The Halo, The Source, the Astrals, the architecture of CryptaSpheres and everything that would eventually become Multiverse-Z can be chronologically referenced.
If Universal Calendar means:
How old is this Universe?
Cosmic Calendar means:
HOW OLD IS EVERYTHING?
The Cosmic Calendar follows the same immense temporal scale.
Cosmic Years.
Cosmic Months.
Cosmic Days.
Cosmic Hours.
Cosmic Minutes.
Cosmic Seconds.
But there is one enormous problem.
No mortal civilization knows:
WHAT COSMIC YEAR IT IS.
Not the Sapiens.
Not the Minas.
Not the Sylvani.
Not the Insectoides.
Not even the greatest mortal historians who possess access to multiple Universes.
The age is too vast.
Records do not extend far enough.
Universes have been created and destroyed.
Civilizations have disappeared.
Architects have existed across durations that defeat mortal chronology.
The history of Tzion can be measured.
The history of Kryndor can be studied.
The age of individual CryptaSpheres may sometimes be approximated.
But asking a mortal scholar for the present year of the Cosmic Calendar would be like asking a mayfly to remember the birth of a mountain range.
Only the Astrals know.
And even among the Astrals, preserving that knowledge belongs to a particular order.
One of the strangest and most sacred lineages ever born within The Source.
THE TEMPLARIAS.
THE TEMPLARIAS
Daughters of the Line of Silke
Before mortal worlds had calendars...
before kings numbered their reigns...
before planets had names...
the Templarias were already counting.
They are not ordinary Astrals.
They belong to a direct lineage descending from Silke.
But the word descendant must be understood carefully.
Astral lineage does not necessarily function like mortal reproduction.
Within The Source, lineage can mean inheritance of essence.
A being can descend from another through the transmission of metaphysical identity, power, purpose or fragments of foundational spirit.
The Templarias carry such a direct inheritance from Silke.
They are among the great custodians of chronology.
Their sacred responsibility is not simply to record time.
It is to ensure that creation can be located within time.
They preserve the chronology of CryptaSphere awakenings.
The emergence of Universes.
The passing of Universal Years.
Great fractures within the CryptoWeb.
Events so enormous that their consequences echo across multiple Universes.
And above all...
they guard the true count of the:
COSMIC CALENDAR.
Why They Cover Their Eyes
Every representation of the Templarias contains one detail that fascinates mortals.
Their eyes are covered.
Blindfolded.
For thousands of cultures, this has been interpreted in different ways.
Humility before Silke.
Blind justice.
Prophecy.
A refusal to judge mortals by appearance.
All beautiful explanations.
All incomplete.
The truth is much stranger.
THE TEMPLARIAS DO NOT NEED EYES TO PERCEIVE TIME.
Ordinary sight contains a limitation almost nobody notices.
It forces consciousness into the present.
You see the object where it is now.
The star as its light reaches you.
The person standing before you.
The blade travelling towards you.
Eyes anchor the mind to the current physical moment.
For ordinary beings, that is useful.
For a Templaria...
it is interference.
Because the Templarias do not experience time entirely as a sequence of moments.
They sense it as:
STRUCTURE.
Past.
Present.
Potential.
Temporal resonance.
The imprint left by events upon the fabric of the Cosmos.
To them, time can resemble an immense river seen not from inside the water...
but from above.
A mortal floating within it experiences one point after another.
Yesterday disappears behind him.
Tomorrow remains invisible ahead.
A Templaria can perceive something closer to the shape of the river itself.
Its bends.
Its branches.
Its disturbances.
Its ancient scars.
Not perfectly.
They are not omniscient.
The future remains capable of divergence.
Choice still matters.
Chaos remains possible.
But their perception is fundamentally different.
So they cover their eyes.
Not because they are blind.
BECAUSE ORDINARY VISION MAKES THEM SEE LESS.
The blindfold is both discipline and instrument.
By suppressing physical sight, a Templaria removes the overwhelming tyranny of the immediate present.
She ceases to ask:
What is in front of me?
And begins asking:
Where is this moment within the greater flow?
That is how they read the Cosmic Calendar.
Not by staring at clocks.
Not through mechanical instruments.
They feel chronology.
The age of a Universe produces a temporal resonance.
A newly awakened CryptaSphere feels different from one that has existed across multiple Universal Years.
Major events leave scars.
Creation leaves echoes.
Extinction leaves silence.
To the Templarias, the Cosmos is covered in the fingerprints of time.
And the blindfold allows them to read them.
An Impossible Archive
At the heart of their order exists a record that no mortal language can fully describe.
The:
TEMPLARIAN CHRONICLE.
It is not a book.
Not a machine.
Not merely a database.
It is a living Astral archive synchronized with the chronological resonance of the CryptoWeb.
Within it are recorded the births of Universes.
Not every war.
Not every king.
Not every individual life.
The Chronicle does not replace history.
It records cosmic chronology.
The moment a CryptaSphere awakens.
The passing from one Universal Year into another.
The appearance of anomalies capable of affecting the architecture of Multiverse-Z.
The emergence of events too consequential to belong only to one Universe.
And somewhere within that impossible archive exists a number.
The current year of the:
COSMIC CALENDAR.
Mortals have asked for it.
Architects have asked.
Kings have offered worlds for it.
The Templarias do not answer.
One ancient tradition claims that knowing the true age of the Cosmos would destroy the sanity of most mortal minds.
Another says that the number itself is sacred.
Another claims Silke prohibited its revelation because the beginning of the Cosmic Calendar contains knowledge about the origin of creation that even many Gods are not permitted to possess.
Which explanation is true?
Perhaps all.
Perhaps none.
The Templarias do not explain.
They simply continue counting.
TWO CALENDARS
One Simple Difference
The distinction can therefore be reduced to something incredibly simple.
UNIVERSAL CALENDAR
Begins when one CryptaSphere awakens and its Universe is born.
Each Universe possesses its own.
Tzion has one.
Kryndor has one.
Vorakhan has one.
Elyndra has one.
Xyphera has one.
Their starting dates are different because their Universes were created at different moments.
Tzion is currently within Universal Year I.
Older Universes may be far beyond it.
COSMIC CALENDAR
Begins with the origin of Multiverse-Z itself.
There is only one.
It applies to everything.
It predates every known Universal Calendar.
Its current age is known only to the Astrals—and guarded most precisely by the Templarias.
That is the difference.
One measures:
A UNIVERSE.
The other measures:
EVERYTHING.
AND THEN THERE IS TARA
There is something about the Templarias that would mean absolutely nothing...
if Tara had never lost her eyes.
A blindfold.
Perception without sight.
Awareness of something invisible beneath ordinary reality.
A woman who closes her physical eyes...
and begins to perceive more.
The resemblance is uncomfortable.
It should be coincidence.
In fact, every rational interpretation says that it must be coincidence.
Tara is not Astral.
She was born a Sapiens on Asaka.
There is no known Templaria in her genealogy.
No evidence of Astral blood.
No known direct relationship with Silke.
No secret prophecy naming her.
No divine messenger arrived at her birth.
She was not raised in a temple.
She was not selected by an Architect.
She was simply a Fighter.
A wife.
A mother.
Then Silence murdered her family and destroyed her eyes.
And Tara did something she should not have been capable of doing.
She awakened:
NEXO.
At first Nexo allowed her to feel living presences.
Movement.
Intent.
Spiritual position.
Then, during the battle against Silence, something greater awakened.
Her ruined pupils remained destroyed.
Yet her eyes began glowing amber.
She ceased merely sensing the battlefield.
She perceived its relationships.
Movement before movement.
Intent before action.
The living pattern connecting herself to those around her.
Tara became:
A NEXO WARRIOR.
And when descriptions of her amber eyes eventually reached certain forbidden archives...
a Templaria stopped reading.
The Similarity
Nexo and Templarian perception are not the same power.
This must be clear.
Nexo perceives the living connection between beings, energy, intention and surrounding reality.
Templarian perception is a far higher Astral faculty associated with chronology itself.
One reads:
connection.
The other reads:
time.
Tara cannot look twelve billion years into the past.
She cannot read the Cosmic Calendar.
She cannot perceive the birth dates of CryptaSpheres.
She is not suddenly a Meta-Goddess.
But the underlying principle contains one disturbing similarity.
Both powers begin when ordinary sight becomes irrelevant.
Both require consciousness to stop believing that the eyes are the only legitimate way to perceive reality.
Both reveal an invisible structure beneath physical appearance.
And both are traditionally associated with beings far beyond ordinary Sapiens existence.
That should not have happened to Tara.
Yet it did.
One Templaria was said to have asked:
“Who taught her to close the first gate?”
Another answered:
“No one.”
“That is impossible.”
“So is what she has done.”
Silence.
Then the first Templaria asked the question nobody wanted to ask.
“Does Silke know?”
No answer was given.
IS TARA THE CHOSEN ONE?
No.
Or at least...
there is absolutely no proof that she is.
And perhaps that makes the mystery much more interesting.
Tara does not need to have Astral blood.
She does not need to be Silke's lost daughter.
She does not need an ancient prophecy declaring her destiny.
Perhaps destiny did not choose Tara at all.
Perhaps Tara forced open a door through will alone.
That possibility is almost more disturbing.
Because if a mortal Sapiens, through grief, discipline and impossible determination, discovered a fragment of perception that resembles principles known to the direct lineage of Silke...
then the hierarchy between mortal and divine may contain possibilities nobody fully understands.
Including the Astrals.
But another theory exists.
One the Templarias themselves refuse to dismiss entirely.
The Sapiens were created within Tzion.
Tzion possesses a unique symbolic relationship with Silke.
Silke's own form resembles theirs.
What if something of that original pattern exists deep inside Sapiens spiritual architecture?
Not Silke's blood.
Not Astral DNA.
Something subtler.
A potential.
A resonance.
A buried structural possibility that almost no Sapiens ever awakens.
Perhaps the Kwasars represent one expression of it.
Perhaps Nexo represents another.
And perhaps the destruction of Tara's ordinary perception forced her consciousness to search so desperately for another way to experience reality that she touched something lying dormant within the Sapiens condition itself.
Not because she was chosen.
But because she reached it.
There is an enormous difference.
The Templaria Who Felt Her
The legend goes further.
Within The Source, one Templaria was meditating before the living chronology of Tzion.
Her eyes were covered, as always.
Universal Year I flowed before her.
The newborn brilliance of Tzion.
The ancient resonance of Urkulo.
Kronos.
Genesis.
The Kwasars.
Billions upon billions of Sapiens lives appearing like momentary sparks within the temporal field.
Then...
something flickered.
Tiny.
Almost nothing.
A mortal woman on Asaka.
Chronologically insignificant.
No royal blood known.
No divine rank.
No ascension.
The Templaria would ordinarily have passed over such a presence without notice.
But the Sapiens woman did something strange.
She looked back.
Not literally.
Tara could not possibly perceive The Source.
Could not possibly know the Templaria existed.
Yet for an impossible fraction of Astral time...
the temporal field around Tara reacted.
The Templaria opened her covered eyes beneath the cloth.
Something she had not done for ages.
And whispered:
“No.”
Another Templaria approached.
“What have you seen?”
The first remained motionless.
“Nothing.”
A pause.
Then:
“That is what frightens me.”
Perhaps the story is false.
Perhaps not.
The Templarias rarely correct mortal legends.
But from that point onward, one hidden mark appeared beside Tara's chronology within certain Astral records.
Not:
Chosen One.
Not:
Descendant.
Not:
Prophecy.
Only one word.
OBSERVE.
And that is where the mystery should remain.
For now.
Tara does not know about the Templarias.
She does not know that women born from the direct lineage of Silke have covered their eyes since before Sapiens history because physical sight interferes with what they truly perceive.
She does not know that her amber Nexo eyes have caused questions inside The Source.
She believes she is going to Urkulo for one reason:
to find Genesis.
To learn.
To ascend.
To become a Kwasar.
To fight the Sumaya.
She believes the impossible thing in her life was surviving Silence.
She may be wrong.
Because while Tara walks towards Urkulo wearing a blindfold...
far beyond Tzion...
within a realm where time does not flow as mortals understand it...
the blindfolded daughters of Silke are beginning to notice her.
Not because Tara is certainly chosen.
Not because she is secretly Astral.
But because somehow...
a mortal woman born during the first Universal Year of one of the youngest Universes in creation has begun touching doors that should exist far above her.
And for the first time, the keepers of the Cosmic Calendar are asking a question that has nothing to do with the past.
They are asking about:
TARA'S FUTURE.
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THE TZION TIMESTAMP
The Moment the Sumaya Entered Sapiens History
If the Cosmos is almost impossible to comprehend because of its size, its chronology is even more terrifying.
A mortal may live eighty years and consider that a lifetime.
A dynasty may survive five hundred.
A civilization may endure ten thousand and call itself ancient.
But a single Universal Year contains approximately twelve billion mortal years.
And Tzion is still living through its first.
That fact alone changes the scale of everything.
The history of Tara, Genesis, Kronos, the Kwasars, the wars of Asaka and the arrival of the Sumaya are not the history of the Cosmos.
They are not even the complete history of Tzion.
They are events occurring during a tiny region of:
UNIVERSAL YEAR I.
Because one distinction must always remain clear.
The Cosmic Calendar measures the age of Multiverse-Z itself.
The Universal Calendar measures the age of one particular Universe.
And therefore, when we speak about dates inside Tzion, we are not using Cosmic Time.
We are using:
THE TZION UNIVERSAL CALENDAR.
Tzion is one of the younger great Universes of the Cosmos.
Other Universes had already existed through unimaginable ages before the CryptaSphere of Tzion awakened.
The Sylvani possess histories older than entire Sapiens epochs.
The Minas inherited civilizations whose roots extend into periods that would appear almost mythological from Tzion.
The Orkyos had fought, evolved and built traditions beneath stars whose histories began long before the first Sapiens appeared.
The Insectoides had already refined biological principles across enormous evolutionary periods.
And beyond them exist thousands upon thousands of other species, worlds and civilizations.
Some younger than Tzion.
Many older.
Some perhaps so ancient that several complete Universal Years separate their creation from that of the Sapiens.
Against all of that...
Tzion is still young.
Almost newborn.
And yet it would become one of the most watched Universes in all Multiverse-Z.
Because Tzion was never ordinary.
It was deeply associated with Silke.
And within it arose the Sapiens.
Genesis.
Kronos.
The Kwasars.
And eventually...
Tara.
THE DATE
The Astral chronologies preserve an exact moment when the Sumaya threat became permanently entangled with the history of Tzion.
Not approximately.
Not merely the year.
Not merely the day.
The moment.
In the chronology of Tzion, the event is recorded as:
UNIVERSAL YEAR I
MONTH V
DAY 21
14:00:21.033
Or, in expanded form:
Tzion Universal Calendar — Year I, Fifth Month, Twenty-First Day, 14 hours, 00 minutes, 21 seconds and 33 milliseconds.
That timestamp would later appear in military archives, Astral chronicles, Kwasar histories and studies of the Sumaya conflict.
Because at exactly that moment...
on the Vita Planet Asaka...
a Rapax known as Silence ended the lives of:
Tharan.
Lira.
Mina.
Saya.
And blinded:
TARA.
Why That Moment Matters
Silence was not a Sumaya himself.
He was a Rapax—a physical creature created by the Sumaya so that entities unable to permanently inhabit ordinary physical reality could kill, capture and operate within material Universes.
But his attack on Tara's family became one of the earliest defining Sumaya-related events in the recorded history of Tzion.
The Sumaya may already have been observing.
Other Rapax may have entered remote regions.
There may have been disappearances that nobody yet understood.
There may even be earlier incidents still buried inside forgotten worlds.
But for historians, the destruction of Tara's family became an extraordinarily useful chronological anchor.
A precise moment.
A documented victim.
A known Rapax.
A survivor.
And a consequence that would eventually reach far beyond one household on Asaka.
Therefore later historians would sometimes refer to the timestamp simply as:
THE ASAKA MARK.
Or, in more formal Astral chronology:
THE FIRST TZION SUMAYA MARK.
The precise distinction matters.
It does not necessarily mean that at 14:00:21.033 the first Sumaya entity physically crossed into Tzion.
That may have occurred earlier and remains unknown.
It means that this is the first great canonically fixed point at which the Sumaya invasion becomes anchored to the historical narrative of Tzion.
From here...
everything can be measured.
BEFORE THE MARK
Before:
Universal Year I · Month V · Day 21 · 14:00:21.033
there is a Tzion in which Tara still possesses her family.
Tharan is alive.
Lira is alive.
Mina is alive.
Saya is alive.
Tara can still see.
Silence has not yet transformed her life.
The Matrix does not exist.
Tara has never awakened Nexo.
She has no reason to seek Genesis.
She does not dream of becoming Kwasar.
History still contains all those possibilities...
but none has happened yet.
AFTER THE MARK
One millisecond later...
the chronology has changed.
Not because the Cosmos notices one mortal death immediately.
It does not.
The Cosmos is too vast.
But because consequences do not respect scale.
Silence kills Tara's family.
Tara survives.
Tara becomes blind.
Blindness forces her away from ordinary perception.
She discovers Nexo.
She becomes a Nexo Warrior.
She meets Sahara.
Saga.
Akamy.
The Matrix emerges.
Silence returns.
Tara kills him.
The four women turn their attention towards Urkulo.
Towards Genesis.
Towards ascension.
Towards:
THE PATH OF THE KWASAR.
One house.
One massacre.
One timestamp.
And history branches.
This is why the Universal Calendar becomes so important for the stories of Multiverse-Z.
It allows history to stop being a vague sequence of legends.
Every great event can be located.
Every civilization can possess its own chronology.
Every Universe can be compared with another.
A story may occur on Asaka during Tzion Universal Year I...
while another takes place inside a Universe that has already entered Universal Year III.
We may follow a civilization ten million mortal years before Tara.
Then cross the CryptoWeb and enter a different Universe hundreds of millions of years later.
Then return to Tzion only a few Universal Minutes after the event we left behind.
Entire ages can exist beside one another.
And because each Universe has its own calendar...
the reader always knows:
where.
when.
And relative to what.
How Vast Is One Universal Year?
To a Sapiens, the date:
Year I · Month V · Day 21
looks almost ordinary.
It is not.
If one Universal Year represents approximately twelve billion mortal years, then a single Universal Month already represents roughly one billion years.
A Universal Day represents tens of millions.
A Universal Hour encompasses more time than entire biological species may exist.
A Universal Minute may contain the complete rise and fall of civilizations.
This means the difference between:
14:00:21
and
14:00:22
can contain centuries of mortal history.
The extra 33 milliseconds therefore exist not because mortals normally experience Astral chronology at that level, but because the higher records are capable of extraordinary precision.
The Templarias can locate cosmic events at scales far beyond ordinary historical notation.
To them, a fraction of a Universal Second may still contain generations.
That is how enormous this system is.
THE TZION ERA
Later civilizations may divide Tzion's first Universal Year into eras.
The Genesis Era.
The age of early Kwasars.
Great planetary expansions.
Interstellar wars.
The Sumaya Crisis.
The rise of the Matrix.
The Kwasar mobilisation.
Perhaps entire epochs that have not yet been told.
All of them can exist inside the same:
UNIVERSAL YEAR I.
This is the extraordinary narrative power of Tzion.
Twelve billion years.
One Universal Year.
And Sapiens history occupies only part of it.
There are worlds in Tzion Tara will never see.
Species she does not yet know exist.
Ancient ruins from civilizations separated from Asaka by millions of mortal years.
Future empires that have not yet been born.
Entire eras waiting inside the same CryptaSphere.
Tzion alone could contain thousands of sagas.
And Tzion is only:
ONE UNIVERSE.
Beyond it lies Kryndor.
Vorakhan.
Elyndra.
Xyphera.
Universes older.
Universes younger.
Universes we have not named.
Thousands of CryptaSpheres.
Thousands of Universal Calendars.
Billions upon billions of worlds.
And above all of them...
one chronology that no mortal civilization can fully read.
THE COSMIC CALENDAR.
The Universal Calendar of Tzion begins with the birth of Tzion.
The Cosmic Calendar began with the beginning of the entire Multiverse-Z.
What Cosmic Year is it now?
No Sapiens knows.
No Minas knows.
No Orkyo knows.
No Sylvani knows.
Perhaps not even every God knows.
That number belongs to the deepest chronicles of the Astrals and the Templarias, the keepers of cosmic time.
To mortals, its scale would be almost meaningless.
But Tzion?
Tzion can be dated.
And so can Tara.
Therefore, from this point forward, one timestamp becomes sacred to the chronology of her story:
TZION UNIVERSAL CALENDAR
YEAR I · MONTH V · DAY 21
14:00:21.033
At that moment...
Silence entered Tara's home.
A family ended.
A Fighter fell into darkness.
And without anyone in the Cosmos yet understanding what had begun...
one of the youngest Universes in Multiverse-Z entered the age of the Sumaya.
Years later, historians would look back upon that precise instant and understand something Tara could not possibly have known while crawling blindly between the bodies of her family.
The creature called Silence believed it had destroyed her life.
Instead...
at 14:00:21.033...
it started a clock of its own.
The countdown to the day Tara would kill it.