Fractayle: The Collision of Worlds
The Passage
Questions, not answers
Connecting two worlds of infinite differences is the mysterious and little understood Passage that takes the form a strange and ancient pyramid-like construction in the Realms of Wonder and the Theory of Transportation in the Far World.
What is the Passage?
Where does it come from?
Does it connect to any other worlds?
Does it connect different realities or different times...or both?
There are many tales, myths, legends, and theories concerning the answer to these questions and many more ones that have been asked...but the truth is that no one actually knows any of the answers.
The Passage is like gravity in that its existence proves itself. Once it opened people now know that it works, but they just don't know how it works.
Parallel universes, differing times
Many believe that the Passage connects parallel universes that run in different time frames. This theory is confirmed by the fact that time passes differently in the two universes. Travelers that have moved between the worlds find that they have gained or lost days, months, and even years sometimes when crossing back to their own worlds.
It appears that "time" in the Far World moves quicker than in the Realms of Wonder: those Far Worlders that travel in the Realms of Wonder find that almost no time what so ever has elapsed in the Far World since they left it...despite months and years having been lived in the land of Fae. On the other hand, Fae that make it past the Templar guards and into the Far World come back to find that years have past, families and friends have died or moved, and the entire world is different.
The latter is what is sometimes thought to have happened to the Yellow Emperor and some even go so far as to suggest that he is still actually alive in the Far World and might return one day.
So...are there other parallel worlds?
Are there other times in other worlds?
Are there times that go backwards...?
Could you not live forever hoping between different times...or end up erasing your past and loosing your past?
Past, present, and the future
Others speak about the Passage in terms of it being a tunnel connecting the past and the future. How the Realms of Wonder are actually the Far World in times before the Web.
This is given weight by an odd few ruins found on deserted Far World planets that resemble strange pyramids and hint at a distant inhabitation. Perhaps, even one of them is the Realms of Wonder...whisper some on the fringes of this theory...or (stranger yet) that the Realms of Wonder are the long-fabled "Earth"...
Some say that Dr. Starke and those that disappeared after the successful experiment on Section 51 were thrown into another time and lost somewhere in the past or future, and others discuss the Yellow Emperor in the same terms.
Perhaps the two are sitting somewhere on an island floating in distant times...
The only bothering bit of this theory is, which is the present...or where is the present.
Is the Realms of Wonder the past of the Far World; making the Far World the present?
Is it the other way round?
Or...is there another world that lies between the two: the real present...?
...and the Fractayle continues.
Amidst all the mystery the single certainty is that the Passage truly exists and with it's opening the two worlds that it connects will never be the same again.
In every sense of the word: the Fractayle begins now...