Point-Null

The universe with one resident, which became the universe with everything in it. Named for the chapter that opens the saga.

Before

A realm where matter was a concept rather than a reality, and only ideas resided. "This place was neither empty nor full. It simply was" (ch. 0).

It held exactly one consciousness, and that consciousness was not in it. He was it: "He was the space, and the space was it, an existence consuming itself eternally."

Ink, who had travelled everywhere, had found nothing else like it. Its resident appeared nowhere else in the multiverse.

After

Ink brought the last fragment of Zero home and laid it down. It did not fade. It dissolved outward "not into nothingness but into everything", seeding the empty reality (ch. 2).

Where there had been only concept, matter began. Where there had been only sameness, variety began. The narration says plainly that it would take eons, and that this reality "would eventually teem with countless forms of existence, each one carrying some infinitesimal fragment of the being who had given himself".

Ink sealed the passage behind him so it could develop undisturbed.

What it is now

Almost certainly the world the rest of the saga happens in. The text does not say so outright, and this entry does not claim it does. What it does say is that everything here carries a fragment of Zero, and every later volume runs on essence that everything contains. See ../systems/essence.md.

Open questions

• Whether the seal Ink set still holds, and what it would mean if it did not.
• Whether The End is contained inside this universe, since the prison was made out of Zero and Zero became this place.