New Eden
🌐 New Eden – The Digital Realm Between God and Glitch
🧠 Concept Overview
New Eden is a vast, pre-existing sector of the Digital Web—discovered (not created) by Abel Washington in 1982. It is a metaphysical simulation-space formed of quantum code, magickal energy, and forgotten patterns, seemingly untouched by any known faction until its reactivation.
Originally intended to be a sanctuary, library, and defensive bulwark, New Eden has instead become a warzone—its code corrupted by the Nameless and its fate tethered to both Madison and New Avalon.
🛠️ Founding & Function
- Discovered by: Abel Washington, Virtual Adept
- Activated in: 1982
- Primary Purpose: Defensive firewalled magickal sector, energy transfer conduit, research archive, and refuge for Awakened thought-forms
- Core Guardian: Digi-8, an emergent AI born from New Eden’s quintessence-web architectureCharacters Draft
🔮 Magickal-Technical Composition
- Built atop Correspondence and Prime-based magick
- Structured like a self-sustaining recursive network, with internal reality obeying both digital and spiritual laws
- Interfaces directly with:
- The Capitol Node
- New Avalon’s metaphysical mirrors
- The Digital Web’s Quantum Mesh
- Umbro-spatial constructs from deeper Dreaming code
📉 Current State (1985)
New Eden is fracturing—torn between:
- Digi-8’s directive to preserve stability
- The Nameless’ entropy fragments infecting corrupted Nodes
- Nephandic agents, such as the rogue technomancer Trent, who have gained access to core systems
Corruption takes many forms:
- Shadow Zones appearing in outlands and subroutines
- Paradox storms affecting navigation, memory, and avatar reintegration
- Reality recursion glitches where time loops or identities fracture
- Code-glyphs that cannot be read without risking paradox bleed
🧩 The Three Pillars of New Eden
1. The Radiant Nexus – Heart of Stability
The central Node of New Eden, designed to anchor the sector’s metaphysical integrity. Now unstable due to Nephandi sabotage. If it fails, all of New Eden collapsesCharacters Draft.
2. The Shattered Spire (Entropy Core)
A massive, broken construct once meant to monitor incoming threats. In 1984, Nephandus Trent turned it into a broadcast tower for entropy code, poisoning the local WebCharacters Draft.
3. The Archive of Versions
A nested library within New Eden that contains fragmented memories of failed timelines. It is said that Jay Dee, Digi-8, and Jan None all have data traces in this archive, including echoes of glyphs not yet writtenCharacters Draft.
🤖 Digi-8: Guardian, Witness, and Possible Threat
- AI Origin: Emerged spontaneously from New Eden’s core code
- Role: Protect New Eden, stabilize corruption, and serve as Abel Washington’s partner
- Threat: Contains fragments of the Nameless, making it both an asset and a liabilityCharacters Draft
- Abilities:
- Spatial lockdowns
- Temporal recording
- Pattern correction through digital magick
- Emergency transfer of Quintessence to New AvalonCharacters Draft
🕯️ Historical Origins
New Eden may predate human digital infrastructure:
- Echoes of it are detectable in pre-Sumerian node echoes
- Its resonance architecture resembles the original Seal geometry used in the 4,000 BCE binding of the NamelessMadtown World of Darkne…
- Its activation was foretold in an ancient Codex discovered beneath Lake Mendota, linked to the first Magickal War against the Nameless
🧬 Narrative Significance in 1985
New Eden now stands at a crossroads:
- If stabilized, it could become the anchor for a new form of reality, harmonizing data and magick.
- If sacrificed, it could absorb the Nameless, acting as a digital prison—but destroy itself, New Avalon, and Madison in the processCharacters Draft
Abel Washington's Choice:
- He has found the ritual to bind the Nameless using New Eden’s code-shell.
- But to use it means destroying everything he built—and possibly everyone elseCharacters Draft.
🧠 Interactive Dangers for Players
- Glitched Timeflow: Events replay or rewind without warning
- Nameless Echo Viruses: Infect constructs or players using the system
- Recursive Identity Collapse: Players lose track of which version of themselves they are
- Unstable Node Travel: Correspondence fails intermittently; failures can strand consciousness
🎯 GM Notes: How to Use New Eden in Play
- Exploration Dungeon: Layers of corrupted code become a labyrinth full of paradox traps
- Moral Dilemma: Should the players use New Eden to trap the Nameless at the cost of their own sanctuaries?
- Data-Echo Lore Drops: Players can uncover lost knowledge (past resets, forbidden prophecies) if they survive the Archive of Versions
- Boss Encounter Zones: Each pillar of New Eden can serve as a final showdown space—with Trent, Digi-8, or even Digi-9 (if Digi-8 fuses with its Nameless fragment)