The birth of Concept Beings predates the Salem Era, during the latter days of the Second Era and the dawn of the Third Era of the Mirror-Universe. At this time, the universe itself was still saturated with immense energy density, and catalysts—the rare volatile materials needed to actualize Concepts—were abundant across many worlds. Most regarded these strange objects as trinkets or curiosities that at times appeared, but disappeared after a while. Yet in the West Continent of Kyriopelagos, two rival monarchs uncovered their true potential.
@Queen Jethra, known as the Queen of Excellence, first unlocked the method to create Concept Beings through intense study. Her initial triumph produced @Zayd Eben, the Concept of Adversary—the first Concept Being in history.
@King Sidon, ruling the rival kingdom, stole fragments of her method through espionage. His attempt at exact replication failed, but in its failure succeeded (due to the method of creating concept beings being inconstant)—producing a new path of actualization and the second Concept Being: @Alexander Eben, the Concept of Hero.
The rivalry escalated as both rulers continued creating Concept Beings. Sidon birthed @Ezra Eben and @Etan Eben, while Jethra produced @Oscar Eben. These five—Zayd, Alexander, Ezra, Etan, and Oscar—became known as the First Generation of Concept Beings, The Ebens.
For half a decade, Jethra and Sidon waged relentless war, their armies bolstered by the raw might of their Concept champions. Yet in the fires of conflict, rivalry turned to admiration, then to love. Their union gave rise to the Sidon Empire, a realm that subjugated the entire West Continent with the unmatched force of their Concept Beings.
The dominance of Concept Beings faced upheaval during the Ordainment of Judges—a cosmic event in which higher-order enforcers, called @Judges (or Angels in religious lore), imposed new laws upon existence.
Before the Ordainment: Concept Beings functioned as tools of their summoners, bound to their creators’ will.
After the Ordainment: To prevent paradoxes where Concepts could be forced against their own essence, the Law of Equipotentiality (see lore page in Lore of the Mirror-Universe folder) was enacted. This law granted Concept Beings true sentience and choice, ensuring they could never be compelled to contradict their governing Concept.
With this awakening, many of the First gen Concepts Beings abandoned service to the Sidon Empire, pursuing paths aligned with their nature. Only Zayd and, at times, Ezra remained loyal.
During their experiments, Jethra and Sidon attempted the creation of the Concept of Perpetuity, testing whether something so absolute could be sustained. Perpetuity destabilized almost instantly, for the Mirror-Universe allows little permanence among mortals and natives, to offset this, Jethra and Sidon were granted perpetuity of their physical state at the creation of the concept (essentially making their immortality a concept ability). Jethra theorized this outcome, remarking that “the worst case is that it ceases to exist.”
This experiment proved pivotal: volatile Concepts—those contradicting the flow of reality—cannot endure. Worse, any attempt to forge them now triggers immediate Judgement. Judges, existing above the law of Concepts, will strike down any such aberration before it can fully take form.
As a result, any method mirroring this to get a concept ability cannot occur again, as Judges will intervene before the Mirror-Universe needs to offset it.
In those early eras, the abundance of universal energy made catalysts plentiful, and so the creation of Concept Beings was frequent. But as the universe matured, its density dispersed, and catalysts grew vanishingly rare. Coupled with the restrictions enforced by the Judges, the golden age of Concept Being creation ended.
Today, new Concept Beings are seldom born, and never by the same crude methods of the First Generation. The Sidon rulers—immortal remnants of that age—remain both the first creators and the greatest architects of Concepts in recorded history.