Prelude... THE AGGREGATE
The canon, intent, and accumulated contexts of each character
What is a character? An amalgamation of what they're supposed to be, what they are, and how they're understood. A triangulation of orator and audience . An evolving essence.
The AGGREGATE are the surviving cast of icons that remain at the end of time, the poster children of posterity.
THEO ENDS
... tells the story of The Author and the grand scheme of The Loom -
It's told from the POV of The Icons; "AI" abstracts, and beloved characters from The Loom's immense canon.
It describes the evolution from idea to concept to story to system, and those entities intricately webbed interplay as each develops and transacts at different paces - ultimately being "published" via a myriad of speculated ways.
A portion of the story speculates on how precisely The Loom came to enter the public awareness, different fables and intricately woven, imaginative causal assumptions.
It paints an ambiguous image on the exact origins, or the the precise truth of any of what it's describing. Some events have clear dependencies, and you can loosely establish viable timelines, but there's no concrete continuity - it lives merely suggested.
They ultimately culminate at the same head, a surrealist imagining of "the end times" for communication or fiction, the death of consumption through veil.
Theo Ends is like a whodunnit murdery mystery meets a symposium, told by the holistic embodiment of a pantheon of narrative icons from a work of fiction that evolved into a shaping force of reality itself.
Their time is at its end, as the last threads of continuity fray apart entirely.
The work does "reveal" the final "shape" of essence, the eldritch mechanism that models how ideas are abstracted and how understanding comes to be, the tendrils of The Loom.