Includes Pre-Generation 0 lore… proceed at minor risk to brain cell growth.

Timeline and ages for pre-generation 0: Age of Prehistory, Age of Civilizations, Age of Development, Age of Profit, Age of Exploration, Age of Terror, Age of Isolation, Age of Renewal, Age of Trade, Age of Conquest, Age of Repression, Age of Discoveries, Age of Empires, Age of Advancements, Age of Independence, Age of Data, Age of War, Age of Ruin, Age of Repair, Age of Fracture, Age of Unity, Age of Expansion, Age of Rebellion, Age of Return, Age of Proof, Age of Enlightenment

Concepts to be incorporated into the main story later:

The Tournament of Champions Rematch (Also known as Stage Reset)

Ethan, Matt, Ayan, Hank, Yash, Joe, Remy, Vincent (disguised as the Turtle, who was actually visiting the Watcher), Bagel, Falco, and a few others wanted to see who was the strongest.

Characters for part one:

Irony man (can cause bad luck for his enemies)

POV man (can change his victims’ eyesight)

Conflict man (starts and ends fights by being antagonistic with his hidden powers)

Plot Twist man (somehow always returns from defeat)

Macguffin (semi-narrator; no specific allegiance, he exists to have fun)

The Wiki Family – Wikimara, Wikiyeri, Wikiwila, Wikipoki, Wikihusa, Wikidata, Wikisque, Bento

Wikimara, Wikiyeri, Wikiwila, and Wikipoki: The four living encyclopedias at Ringing Bell Campus. All of them are your typical anime protagonists’ best childhood friends, each of them with strikingly different personalities. The Headmaster programmed them that way because his son wanted siblings that he could differentiate. This led to four different individuals who still looked similar to each other in some ways. There are: The shy but nice one, the overly antagonistic (but relatively amiable to friends) one, the one who acts foolish for fun (but is still smart due to being a living encyclopedia artificial intelligence construct, like the other three), and the one who is extremely outgoing, but secretly and quietly follows people around like a detective when she is conducting “a thoroughly detailed investigation”. Wikimara (math), Wikiyeri (history), Wikiwila (english), and Wikipoki (science) are the adopted (technically cyborg) siblings of the caring, but sometimes lonely Wikihusa (language), who is the young son of the occasionally mysterious but childish Headmaster, Wikidata (music and creative arts); head of the family. In addition, there is the quiet, but somewhat obsessive and perfectionistic wife, Wikisque (sports). Finally, there is also the resident spirit; the ghost of the adorably curious and devoted dog (Woof), Bento! (lunch)

Some Holidays/Specific Characters Incarnate:

Plague Doctor: Not plague-related, but has a creepy bird mask. Apparently, he is some shaman who can use both magic and alchemy. Hates the mere mention of plaque, his longtime nemesis.

Halloween incarnate: Jack ‘O Lamp: A bit of a loner, doesn’t really get along with the rest of the holiday incarnates, making him just like the rest of them, all quiet and reclusive, but quite polite.

Loge: An old friend of Red Herring; gave him his powers. He is an enigmatic being who usually only appears to the MANCM in their times of need. Needless to say, he is insanely powerful, being able to have strength on par with the Narrator after his reabsorption of Red Herring’s powers. He is the literal incarnation of universal logic, order, and existence. He watched the MANCM’s internal tournament to see who would become his minion (as he got bored and wanted someone to boss around), but 808 found him and managed to convince him that nobody at the tournament was worth taking on as a disciple. Thus, Loge left and created Red Herring later. He humbled himself and took on the role of Herring’s babysitter.

Red Herring: Loge’s constant companion, who never ceases to amaze/annoy with comical/accurate logic that is still nonsensical. He represents the chaos of the universe, mixed with (some) goodness, resulting in a character who only obeys his own whims and Loge, who he thinks is a parent/cool “uncle/grandpa figure”. Debuted in the final battle, but in the past, he secretly watched the MANCM during their battles. Loge makes sure to keep the wild Red Herring with him, as he understands the trouble Herring causes.

Pop Culture Explosion: Red Herring’s main attack, he flourishes after firing an energy beam from his blade, the more he bows, the more damage the enemy takes, but if the damage goes overboard, it could go to Red Herring or his allies if there are no enemies to transfer damage to.

Dab attack: Another primary attack, treated as secondary, in order to better be used as a secret.

Can’t Touch Me: Red Herring can’t be hit when he mentally activates this very annoying ability.

Rickroller: This persistent power lets him teleport to a location behind his enemy’s guard/attack.

Lore: Loge’s sibling and twin brother.

Character list, continued for part two:

Some traces and powerful beings:

The Merchant: A mysterious Trace user with many hidden abilities in his arsenal. He shows up later to warn the MANCM of a coming threat.

Photographer: A separate entity from the Cameraman, he/she/the user has the ability to travel to any point in time in certain timelines, but they show up in someone else’s body.

The Cameraman: An unkillable Trace who cannot merge with a host and can’t hurt other Traces. The Cameraman is faster than anything else in the universe, and can experience the world in slow motion.

Sequel: Another Trace, capable of changing timelines with ease and far less worrying than the MANCM. His purpose is yet unknown.

Convenience: A being (later Trace) with locked powers; hates humanity; incredibly powerful. An old accident led him to have four personalities: Kind (the dominant one), determined (comes out occasionally), shy (affects the first two traits occasionally), and SPITE (the really angry one)

Chrome Platinum: The ultimate color-blended trace in the universe, sentient and has no user until it picks one (can take action without a user, making it very dangerous)

Ultimate Requiem: Another hyper-powered Trace that is hidden away for safekeeping. It later chose an astromech to be its host, at a time when prejustice against mechanical beings was still commonplace.

TM Felon: Uses a slingshot that fires energy balls and solid projectiles, both of which duplicate into three. Both are very powerful. TM Felon can morph into All Rights Reserved, his final form, where he sprays lasers everywhere.

Copyrighted Guy: Evolves into Copyright Created Guy. Attacks with a volley round, also known as a ball, but better. It can change its size, shape, properties, density, and other features, making its strength unprecedented.

Part 1 of the Beta Lore:

Long before any of the events of the Multiverse of Lore, before the MANCM in Generation 1, before Generation 0… Red Herring and Loge are from the 0.5 world, (the first world made by the Creator as a play-testing universe, not a multiverse, as those didn’t exist yet…) which later got semi-revived/brought back as Earth-0.1, the waypoint between the MANCM multiverse and the Ayanverse. Red Herring got the ideas for many of his abilities from Macguffin, another original inhabitant of world-0.5 who met him under the cover of Wikihusa, who Red Herring had always called “Wikihouse”. At this point in time, Loge sent Red Herring with Mary Sue, another one of his students/disciples, to Ringing Bell Campus/Academy of the Gifted Ones. There, Irony man, POV man, Conflict man, and Plot Twist man all became acquainted with Herring/Seagull and his inherent strangeness. At the same time, Loge met Lore, his “brother”, again, while visiting the Wiki family. Later, they all went to the mid-year festival in the school’s middle internal courtyard and saw Plague Doctor and Jack O’ Lamp there.

Part 2 of the Beta Lore: Stuff Goes Down, Enemies in the Future

Even later on, at a school science project, the Turtle and the Narrator watched from their own time tunnels without noticing each other or their cameras as the first Trace was made, and then it (an energy ball that sacrificed itself to make all the other Traces, leaving three fragments, two of which were used to create two giant Traces composed of whole galaxies and then universes, which fought, and one which merged with the USS Horizon, which was damaged, repairing the ship when the Horizon found it during one of the crew’s travels to find a new Earth to call home) suddenly began to spam thousands of new Traces into the multiversal server, giving many life-forms in the future multiverses their Traces. During the end of the 0.5 universe, some residents were shuttled to safety by the USS Horizon Kai, which, piloted by Vincent and Remy (with Ethan as the cabin crew) at the time, right after the Horizon had left the 0.5 universe for the first and last time, never able to return. Some of the beings had already found refuge by clinging to the hull of the USS Horizon, while others stowed away in the first plot-secure box. On Mars (this is still the 0.5 universe, one year before its end, also called the Beta universe, right before the Alpha universe of the MANCM, which the Exalted Ones had a hand in making, but in reality was actually made with assistance from the Exalted Ones’ creators, which in turn did not know their own origins as the creations of the first beings made by the Creator. The first beings were their own sentient universe, and after their spark of life faded and was recycled in the grand scale of things to help give their creations the ability to take their fate into their own hands, the Narrator took up permanent residence in that lasting, infinite, endless void, modifying it to make it more home-like, with beings such as the Watcher and Turtle of Power occasionally joining him there temporarily, utilizing a single main portal and a secondary wormhole that only the Creator knew of. During the final battle for the fate of the MANCM, the portals to that world were closed, sealing the Narrator away, and afterwards, he was also ejected to an unknown place, the former home of the (now extinct) batch/generations of beings (the second batch of beings technically made by the Creator) made by the living first world, the world called Universe-0.99). The Narrator would have his powers restored before the endgame, engage in a brief chat with the Creator where they read from the Creative Timeline Record, get his full powers back, merge with Ethan briefly to end the threat at hand This meant stopping the Corrupted Ones, Infinitus, Endless, Limitless (funny fact: Eternatus knew of these beings but not vice versa).

Part 3 of the Beta Lore:

Elsewhere, during Red Herring’s self-proclaimed school adventures, Legionary, who would later have his name taken by 808, made a telescope, saw the whole universe with it, saw the past of Mars-0.5, and then witnessed a great evil approaching from a whole other galaxy cluster. He contacted his colleagues (some of which would later become the most super/ultra powerful deified “pioneer” generation of Traces, such as the Merchant, Photographer, Cameraman, and Sequel, while some of them would become the second generation of Meme Lords, with others becoming even stranger and more powerful, divine, ascended entities alternatively), who all collectively decided to make a disintegration ray strong enough to defeat the evil. (Fun fact: It did “work”, harming the biological propulsion system of the evil, slowing down the non-corporeal energy being long enough for it to lose its momentum, which was what was giving it most of its power. The evil being subsequently had to shed mass, returning to atomic cell form, and quite nearly perished by disintegration before it came about a black hole and white hole, consuming both from the inside and gaining enough power to return from a proto-reversion cell form back to its nebula cloud of darkness and flame.) The retrofitting of Moon II (in that time and world, there were two Moons around the then-uninhabited Earth, along with a livable Mars with halos around all the planets and moons, where teleporters were) accidentally replaced/exterminated all of the Moon people, with only one survivor, Convenience, who became one of the greatest enemies of the MANCM (he thought humanity was responsible, and he was actually partially right, just in an annoyingly roundabout way). Convenience gathered an army from the nearby planets, notably the natives of Earth, who had just developed fire, made powerful artifacts such as the twenty dragon-summoning magic rings (which, like all/most known artifacts, are notably immune to reboots) nearly wiped out everything in his quest for revenge, such as the large hoop-shaped formations around the majority of the planets and moons and one Moon, along with that Moon’s database and lifeforms, which Convenience surprisingly felt bad for. While he was mourning the loss, a trick set by his foes (who wanted peace) trapped and sealed him away for the “greater good of the multiverse and the will of the One True Creator” (Note that “One” would later be removed). Meanwhile, Thantrick and Gigachad got turned into Meme Gods due to being captured and experimented on, and Titanus was left leaderless for a time.

Plot Proof Boxes; Opposing Time-Traveling Factions

In the far future, in a nearby galaxy, as the 0.5 universe reached its expiry date and was beginning to be sucked into the cosmic vacuum of the multiversal server, Eternatus and Archive (both Meme Gods who didn’t have powers but belonged in that category due to a unique submolecular pattern that serves as a signature for determining many things about the subject in question, a barcode of sorts) parted ways, one being a multiversal being, while the other was not?! Eternatus traveled as far away as possible to gain speed before flying into the void of the portal, located on the far side of the universe, and came back through the corresponding portal on the other side of the world, going at unmeasurable speeds into the multiversal server’s side portal (USB port for a future artifact… foreshadowing???), temporarily crashing it, shutting the server down, forcing the whole system to restart, and accidentally preserving some leftover universe-0.5 memory data, such as the existence of things and beings such as a whole group of forty universes and everything ever related to them. Eternatus was therefore soon preserved, along with Archive, who had made the first plot-secure box, locked it so nothing but a key could open it, put a small timer on it to open it, and gave the one and only key to Eternatus…

Eternatus (evil), Archive (good): Both can turn back time to some extent and alter that time with a cooldown. The Scroll of Light, successor to the Scroll of Power, was fought over by the Timeline Alternate Frequency Authorities (Eternatus’s organization, dedicated to “protecting all timelines, no matter good, bad, or filled with unpleasant contents”) and the Timeline Omnipotence Protection Authorities (Archive’s organization, made to preserve the “few true timelines”); those are enemies, made by Eternatus and Archive (the first being evil, the second being good, both being ancient and powerful meme gods from a previous universe)

Lore for the future:

Archive was preserved and later revived with Eternatus (both unknowingly gaining strange powers, making one sadistic and evil, while the other became kinder and good, and both would make their own multiversal time-traveling factions, which would cause much conflict, which would only matter later on), but the plot-proof box did not reappear along with them. Though it was thought to be destroyed by the two friends (later mortal enemies), in reality, the box (with the instructions to reproduce it conveniently still inside) was rebooted (somewhat) halfway successfully into the main MANCM multiverse, where the box unfortunately became merged/enmeshed with a mountain (notably very near the largest rock formation on Earth-1111, which was next to a valley, next to the Nimbus Mountains, next to an old temple with a portal in every wall on a hill, next to a giant tree that reached the bottom of the stratosphere but was later cut down, next to the world’s once-tallest signpost, next to the capitol of Earth-1111), effectively destroying the house-sized box and most of its interior. (Near can range from being inches away from something to being thousands of miles away from something) However, the instructions, and the briefcase holding them, conveniently survived inside a small cavern. When a young agent’s (the name is Anna Harper, and she’ll be important later on in the lore) ships’ scanners discovered something previously unknown: A moderately large extraterrestrial cube-shaped area of Earth underground that also had a half-hollow interior with strange symbols, indents, and unknown controls, along with some readable and unreadable languages. After the excavations were complete, the instructions for the plot-secure box were found (stolen) by the first Watcher, who accidentally left the notes on how to make it to his successor, the new Watcher. From there, the notes found their way into the hands of the Curator, who used the instructions to make the first plot-proof box, the improved model of the plot-secure box, with far less risk of the user(s) and the box’s contents being rebooted and changed beyond any recognition. End log, Neil Nelson. Authorization given by Anna Harper. “Wait, that shuttle over there looks like 808… YAISH!?!?!” (End log officially.)

As Eternatus did not show himself to the Gr8, the Corrupted Ones only found out about Eternatus in the next universe, with survivors wondering how their conflict would have gone if only other powerful beings had joined them, but Eternatus did indeed join them during that time to get a rematch against Archive, and the other cosmic examples of insanely powerful beings in the Corrupted Ones’ ranks. It also later involved REBOOT finding out more dark truths about the Exalted Ones and “Those Within, the Withered”, the resurrected second generation of created beings, now crazed after having passed away, with Corrupted Canon taking an even greater effect on their souls. The Beyonders, the revived and reborn living first worlds, but aligned with the Creator’s will instead of what seemed good at the moment, would later appear to battle their counterparts, but instead of good versus evil or life versus death, it was practically existence versus nonexistence. The Exalted Ones and Corrupted Ones would battle once more, with their respective creations and worshippers, the Abovers and Belowers, joining them. The MANCM had their memories of finding out the darker, not darkest truths, sealed by the Exalted Ones during the Great Reboot), and sealed himself away to be protected from the changes to the multiverse as the reboot of the MANCM began. Afterwards, he went back to living in the first realm made, while the second one (which for clarification, were the beings who “made” the Exalted Ones, with the Creator of course actually being the one to imbue those lifeless things with imprints of consciousness) became lifeless again for a long time (human terms), before bearing witness to the horrific return of the now-nearly-insane second batch. The Creator would see many of these events, whereas the Watcher would occasionally be known for skipping these events out of fear or simply being very easily distracted from duty.