Lyra of the Everflow

Lyra of the Everflow was among the most ancient and powerful entities to ever have existed within the world of Ego Breakers, being a part of the Fated Twins.

Her domain was knowledge and time. She, alongside Ego, was considered among the tamest of the Twins, and both her and her followers often kept to themselves in pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake, and its eternal preservation within her mysterious Everflow.

Lyra's role in the story changes depending on the player's actions in the following way:

• Somnia Route: Dead and incorporated into the Incubus Mundi.
• Incubia Route: Dead and incorporated into the Incubus Mundi.
• Vera Oniria Route: Dead and incorporated into the Incubus Mundi.
• Bloodbath Route: Dead and incorporated into the Incubus Mundi. //Not really but idk yet lol

Character

Lyra became herself alongside her siblings in the Golden Age of Obsidya, growing from a fraction of the Maker's corpse into a full-fledged god through observation of the Obsidian people.

She admired the few Obsidian scholars that, despite their day to day hardship, vowed to make each generation more learned and curious than the last; but it was through their pupils' boundless curiosity, far too often left unsatisfied, that she truly came into her own, manifesting her own curiosity into what would eventually become the Everflow.

People of the day described Lyra as somewhat frenetic, as no mortal had ever really seen her still or tired; she would always trot on, unbothered by pain, filth or common decency, intent on uncovering yet another facet of the world she so dearly adored and sharing it with anyone who would listen. Despite initially being partial to the sciences, she truly spanned the breadth of human knowledge, and was as refined a songstress, poet, mathematician, mage, scientist, engineer and card game enthusiast as one could ever hope to come across.

The Everflow

The Everflow is a truth that came into being alongside Lyra, immediately intertwining itself with the fabric of reality as a whole; despite being forgotten by most and misunderstood by the remaining few, it is as integral to Ego Breakers' world as the laws of physics are to our own.

The Everflow can be summarized as the physical manifestation of the cumulative knowledge of Lyra's followers and, to a lesser extent, every living creature within Ego Breaker's world: its natural state is gaseous, and it makes up for roughly 70% of the Oniric Plane 's pervasive mist-like substance (the remaining percentage being filled up by natural byproducts of Onirics, dust and regular old water).

Lyra, her followers, and very few Archmages in the centuries since, were able to mold it and store it as a liquid within the Material Plane, utilizing an extremely complex process that Lyra famously described as "Ego in reverse, blindfolded, upside down and while petting a really angry cat in your lap", more academically spoken of as Everflow Stabilization.

Stabilized Everflow presents as a quicksilver-like liquid, a tad more opaque and somewhat translucent; its main properties, however, are its absurd ratio of information density (a single drop can contain information equivalent to several terabytes of data), reactivity to the Weave and an apparent disdain for the flow of time, as Lyra's disciples seemed to imply any information stored within a Stabilized Everflow cache would always and always have been within it, allowing for cross-temporal communication.

Despite the very obvious incentives to its re-discovery (and the frustration of having to wade through its raw materials whenever one would as much as step foot within the Oniric Plane) only a couple Archmages affiliated with the Citadel ever managed to divine some headway into this field, only to tragically fall victim to its last and most known property.

Being essentially memory given form, and an extremely compacted one at that, even a drop of Stabilized Everflow can prove deadly dangerous to come into contact with, for both one's Oniric self as well as its Material one; depending on its concentration, it may act as a de-facto black hole for memories, taking them and never letting them go (as was the case with the first Archmage who synthetized it, incident that set up a century-long ban on any and all Everflow research), or, given the similar nature of the Material and Oniric plane, just a straight-up black hole.

The latter incident was one of the closest calls Naluund and the world at large has ever suffered, requiring several centuries of time-manipulation aided research from the literal best Archmages around to control the damages; in the end, they settled on diverting its ungodly amount of memories within the soil of Naluund, due to its proximity to the epicenter of the event and its unique quasi-oniric conformation. As a result, most of the upper quadrant of the peninsula turned into the unstable and confusing Shifting Mounds, the result of reality double-guessing itself.

Needless to say, this caused a worldwide ban on Everflow Stabilization research: anyone who would even try would find themselves silenced before the first step, and those powerful enough to fear no enemies have no desire to pursue the technology.

In addition to her mastery of the standard Everflow Stabilization technique Lyra was able to naturally synthetize blank Everflow within her body and harvest it, either directly or from her bodily fluids such as blood, tears or sweat.

Relationships

Lyra dearly loved her siblings and her followers, although her aloof personality would very rarely allow her to show it, and she came off as insensitive at times. This would reportedly be followed by all manners of heartfelt and teary-eyed apologies, such that her disciples had to chase after her with cleaning instruments to prevent an Everflow spillage from her never-ending tears of sorrow.

• Eyra: Lyra's foil and closest sibling among all, Eyra and Lyra understood each other on a level that left even the other Twins scratching their heads, and it was commonplace for their followers build families with one another. They saw in the qualities of the other what each lacked, and as such they truly completed one another.
• Samaul: Despite being somewhat opposed to his natural relax and "chill" attitude, equating it to laziness, she deeply admired her brother's ability to reach the heart of people and his boundless compassion; although she would never admit it to a living soul, they would regularly meet up and (horror) hang out for an afternoon, doing nothing in particular and chatting like siblings ought to do.
• Simeon: Simeon and Lyra's relationship was truly dependant on their common interest: while they loved each other, they were both so absorbed in their respective tasks that sometimes years would pass without any real contact between the two. However, whenever their next goal happened to even slightly overlap, their respective followers had to reportedly try very hard not to chuckle at how inexplicably giddy their masters got, especially when the two were to meet and lose themselves for hours in conversation upon the common task at hand.
• Ego: Lyra and Ego believed to be each other's scholar, and as such respected each other deeply. They would mostly meet up away from their followers when they had both reached a breaking point, and usually play games together. While they sometimes chatted about something or other, they were both glad the silence between them was so comfortable.
• Cronodia: being by far the most wild of the siblings, Lyra's fascination with Cronodia's way of life carried their relationship: their followers would sometimes organize "field research opportunities", where Cronodia's physical strength helped the relatively frailer Lyra do what she couldn't on her own, and in turn Lyra's tutoring kept her sister from turning completely into a beast. And of course, playtime research was a must after the "real job" was done.

Synopsis

Most of Lyra's story can be read within the Creation Myths section; since her death in the Bloodbath she has been molded alongside her brothers Samaul and Simeon and her sister Eyra into the Incubus Mundi.