They are not enemies of humanity. They are what existed before the idea of humanity mattered.
The Pre-Human Continuums are not a faction in the political sense. They have no hierarchy, no shared ideology, no unified will. The name is a human classification error—a way to group phenomena that defy intent, morality, and even identity.
They are states of existence that predate:
Human consciousness
Linear time as humans experience it
The rules that distinguish life from environment
Where humans see “entities,” the Continuums are closer to processes—patterns that reality once used to function before human perception hardened the world into stable forms.
They did not evolve.
They were overwritten.
The world was not meant to be static.
Human civilization stabilized reality through:
Repetition
Categorization
Memory
Collective agreement
Cities, laws, routines, and belief systems flattened the world into something survivable—but unnatural. The Black Moon represents a fracture in that stabilization: a reminder of older rules pressing back in.
The Pre-Human Continuums do not awaken because they are summoned.
They reappear because the conditions that erased them are failing.
The Pre-Human Continuums do not seek domination, destruction, or worship.
Their “purpose,” if it can be called that, is reassertion.
They exist to:
Restore forgotten states of reality
Reintroduce fluidity where permanence has calcified
Undo rigid distinctions between subject and environment
In short, they are corrections, not invaders.
Humanity interprets this as catastrophe because:
Cities cannot survive fluid reality
Identity dissolves when boundaries blur
Memory becomes unreliable
To the Continuums, this is not cruelty.
It is functionality.
N.O.C.T.U.R.N., the Sanctum, and even the Apostolic Remnants agree on one thing:
You cannot reason with something that does not recognize “you” as separate from its surroundings.
When a Pre-Human Continuum manifests:
Gravity may localize
Time may loop or smear
Thought patterns synchronize unnaturally
Physical structures behave like soft matter
This is not aggression.
It is recontextualization.
Trying to fight a Continuum is like punching a storm.
The Black Moon is not their master.
It is a resonance event.
The Black Moon recreates conditions similar to those that existed before humanity stabilized reality:
Heightened emotional intensity
Reduced conceptual boundaries
Increased symbolic causality
These conditions allow Continuums to remember how to exist.
They do not serve the Black Moon.
They recognize it as familiar.
The Continuums are not hostile—but they are indifferent.
Humanity survives because:
Most manifestations are incomplete
Human denial dampens full reassertion
Cities act as containment through repetition
The Continuums have not fully returned because the world has not yet agreed to let go of its current shape.
The most dangerous aspect of the Pre-Human Continuums is not physical annihilation.
It is ontological erosion.
If they fully manifest:
People stop being individuals
Buildings stop being objects
Thoughts stop belonging to thinkers
The world does not end.
It loses its categories.
N.O.C.T.U.R.N. fears collapse.
The Sanctum fears impurity.
The Apostolic Remnants fear irrelevance.
But all of them share one quiet terror:
The Pre-Human Continuums might be right.
That humanity’s version of reality is:
Artificial
Fragile
Temporary
And that the Black Moon is not a threat—
—but a reminder.
The PCs are dangerous not because they are powerful, but because they are transitional.
They can:
Perceive instability without dissolving
Act within human systems while sensing older rules
Choose between reinforcement and release
To the Continuums, PCs are not enemies.
They are data points.
The Pre-Human Continuums do not want the world to end.
They want the world to remember what it was before it decided to stay the same.
Whether that memory is survivable is a human concern.
“You call us ancient because you forgot that you are recent.”