This novel is not based on any particular novel or specific Abyss, but rather “Storytelling is the fifth dimension”. By Benjamin Schulz.

Sample:

“Lives are full of stories. They revive the past. They bend the future. They lie, reveal, create, destroy. Every human knows at least a few. Every human lives at least one.

One way to make sense of this fact is to understand stories this way: as a literal dimension that is adjacent to lived experience. I don’t mean “dimension” as a metaphor. I also don’t mean “dimension” in the mystical, imprecise sense it often has in esoteric spiritual theories. I mean to say that stories comprise an actually existing dimension of things in the same way that forward/backward, left/right, and up/down comprise three spatial dimensions. Admitting time as a fourth dimension, stories become a fifth.[1]

“Stories exist in a fifth dimension” is a claim with a dizzying number of interesting implications. It’s also a claim that’s highly abstract, and not at all obvious. What I’d like to do here is clarify what that idea means, and give it a basis in concrete fact. I’ll start by considering two very large but very familiar things: change, and time.”(Schulz B. 2019 June 8. Storytelling is The Fifth Dimension.) I forgot how to citate)

This ‘novel’ will try to define a few implications of interest.

All stories have a ‘Past’ before their ‘Prologue’ and a ‘Future’ after ‘The End’. The time from ‘Past’ to ‘The End’ is Fate. Defined by Author, tuned by Fate, and witnessed by Reader.

Despite the magical and grandeur way that Stories play out, they are grounded, or perhaps anchored to a reality. Things like gravity, the need for food/water/shelter, night/day, etc. Are not always explicitly explained to Reader unless there is a discrepancy to the anchored reality(or is simply ignored). Such as magic, local(in setting) culture and social conflict, or anything for the Storyline. But are at least typically anchored to some form of logic. Meaning Settings that take place on land or planets, have landmasses and planets that are formed or created(in Setting), that are not always explicitly stated.

That is called Fate. Which tunes a Setting based from an Author’s reality/logic, to form whatever an Author has written to be witnessed.

This means that from the Big Bang(or equivalent), all the way through to ‘THE END’ of all entries or additions to a Setting from the Author. Is Fate.

You’ve heard of what happens when a time traveler moves a chair, right? Well, Fate binds everything to ensure that every Story play’s out as written. Which includes but isn’t limited to every birth, romance, death, murder, smile, bite, monster, arson, breath, drowning, tear, bone, heartbeat, conflict, the creation of universe, and all that is good and bad with existing. All bound to Fate, Logic, and by extension. Author.

Alternatively, in the unfathomable vastness of infinity of existence. All possible realities/universes, no matter how unreasonable or unlikely or cruel, exist naturally and play out. With every story, book and novel just being a really good guess at what’s happening somewhere, someplace, far, far away.

The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.

But if it's not Infinity. Welp. After Fate, ‘The End’, or the script. Everything is free game. Within reason.

(quick side rant: beings like us can only exist 3 dimensionally, the same is applied to ‘characters’. While there are 2 dimensional characters, they are not 2 dimensional beings. factor in Infinity or Fate.)

(quick side rant 2: under/over arching Fate. underFate is the standard in Setting prophecy stuff. overFate is proper out of setting, supernatural, author shtik = character that ‘defy’ Fate is just Fate.)

(not so quick side rant: Fate is not solely restricted to novels. Every ‘fabricated’ form of media falls under Fate. Fabricated in the sense that the form of media isn’t 1 to 1 with the native dimension. Meaning that forms of media like the news or documentaries are not subjected(relative to native dimension) to Fate. While ‘reenactments’ of real life events are subjected to Fate because of the 1 to 1 technicality. I think.

Alas. Movies, comics, video games, drawings of all forms from all places(while not in words, isn’t each one not worth a thousand of them?), animation, pornography(more specifically the animated ones and ummm… certain special effects), T.V shows, originals, fanfictions. Successful or not, fall under Fate and the 5th Dimension)

Sorry about that. Carrying on.

After “The End” of a story and the influence of an Author and Fate have dissolved, everything within “Logic” is free game. Although Fate has momentum(as a Setting and conflicts/resolutions/information don’t just cease being), there is no Fate that dictates further decisions, actions, and outcomes of conflict, people, or nature.(translation: there aren't any literal, metaphorical, or poetic ‘strings’ of Fate that folk are cut from. overFate is so supernatural that to the ‘characters’ it's just natural/normal life).

Unfortunately, this means that Evil is unrestrained by a Plot’s need for their incompetence/loss/failure/etc = Evil wins at what they do best. With the horrors of every Fateless Setting existing unstrung to do as they please, as they were created to do so.

Then there’s Grimdark and Forgotten Settings. With Grimdark being Grimdark. The Forgotten Settings are unfinished and or “Abstract”. Abstract meaning made by a child(not an insult?), that don’t understand the Hell like Setting they’ve made and forgotten. While the Unfinished are unfinished, leaving many Protagonists without the necessary Plot Armor to survive the odds that are always stacked against them… Alternatively, certain Protagonists will choose to settle down or something equally detrimental to the in-Setting conflicts.

Overall, things are bad and get worse.

Fate, being a shield, that protects/isolates an individual Setting(planet, multiverse, etc) from the one large and mostly unconnected Fateless 5th dimension (relative to our own). Then add Settings with the logic to invade other ‘dimensions’/Settings and eventually you get one large connected Fateless dimension that is expanding as more stories end and more conflicts are born in the ever expanding 5th dimension.

Isn’t that crazy? It gets worse. Or perhaps better.

Every “Local” Abyss is unrestrained in its ability to conduct itself and will eventually connect to The ‘Greater’ Abyss. Where the traits, knowledge, and experience of The Abyss across the Fateless realm coalesce into. Something.

That can use, but aren't limited to. Abjuration, conjuration, divination, enchantment, evocation, illusion, necromancy, transmutation, alchemy, fleshcrafting, golem crafting, demology, exorcism, elemental magics, elemental bending, alteration, artifice, mentalism, chronomancy, metamagic, oneiromancy, charm magic, dimensional magic, void magic, shadow magic, wild magic, bardism, geometry, blood magic, shamanism, ect. Ect. ect.

This isn’t even considering the Sci-Fi Settings. With spaceships, nukes, and so much. more.

The Abyss is Typically…