Ok so I've kept the cards close to my chest with this since I eventually want to do more with GgW, and in said more I'd want this to be revealed through the story, but this project is super on the back burner so I'm gonna share this now both because I think it's very cool and want people to know about it, but also so that I don't forget the details.
Let's talk about the cosmology of Gloopgolp World.
There are 2 deity figures in the universe of Gloopgolp World. Well at least 2 real ones, there are of course many many deities invented by cultures across the multiverse, but those are made up.
The first is e82. e82 is this immeasurably big robot that exists in its own pocket dimension. e82 is sort of the "backend" of the universe, with every single thing being represented by a part of it's machinery, and its sole goal is to keep everything running as it's supposed to for exactly as long as it's supposed to.
The only way to access e82 is through a superposition. Every single superposition is portal to e82. The problem is that the whole thing with superpositions is that they exist in multiple states UNTIL you observe them, and interacting with them observes them and thus collapses them into a single state. So to get to e82 you have to create a stabilized superposition; one that remains as being in two states while you interact with it. These are incredibly hard to make. Only one person has ever done it, and she kinda discovered how to do it through luck.
e82 in a sense IS the universe and everything within it. However when it comes to what actually happens within said universe it's kinda indifferent. It has a philosophy of everything happening as it will, and thus it will not interfere no matter how dire things get. Technically traveling to e82 will get you a sort of boon (this is how Schmymoon and Zlonk got their powers) but this is more a product of one's cosmic data being corrupted by going into e82's domain.
Oh also e82 is the source of all robots. Eon watches exist because e82 needs a connection between its dimension and the rest of the universe to run things, and some of e82's power sometimes leaks through that connection. This is why robots are able to do magic btw, or at least they could before Loxxa hunted them all down and ate their eon watches, which gave him knowledge of e82, who he now worships.
So since e82 is everything that exists, and its domain is every that exists, why are there 2 deities? Well now we have to talk about ℵᵢ (pronounced al-ef-eye. If you want to type it I recommend just copy/pasting).
ℵᵢ's domain is everything that doesn't exist. Impossibilities, timelines that could have happened but didn't, imagination, all of these are just as much part of ℵᵢ as things that exist are part of e82. e82 is the "is", ℵᵢ is the "isn't".
Similarly to its counterpart, ℵᵢ resides in a pocket dimension. Its is a small beach island under a moonless night sky, surrounded by endless, bottomless ocean. This ocean is ℵᵢ in that it represents and contains all possibilities except for the one that's real. However ℵᵢ also has a more personable avatar that it uses to commune with anything that arrives in its dimension. This form is a dark silhouette that takes the shape of whoever is receiving it, but said shape can be a bit hard to make out as you can only see it by observing the negative space between the stars behind it.
To reach ℵᵢ's dimension it also involves a modified version of a superstate, except for this one you need an inverted superstate, which is something that is simultaneously in -1 or less states at once. Needless to say these are even harder to make.
If you make it though you will find ℵᵢ is significantly more sociable. It cares for the well being of the universe and those within it, but also plays favorites to anyone that manages to make it to it. If you ask for a favor of something from ℵᵢ's ocean, it is likely to give it to you, although you can't leave with what you get.
ℵᵢ is both infinitely stronger and infinitely weaker than e82. Stronger in the way that for every one of the infinite things e82 has dominion over, ℵᵢ has infinite variation on it. But weaker in the way of none of it is real, so- you know.
So those are the two deities; the god of reality and the god of unreality. One last thing I wanna mention; e82's name comes from the estimated amount of atoms in the universe, and ℵᵢ comes from the fact that ℵ₀ is a mathematical way of saying infinity, with any subscript over 0 signifying "larger" infinities (for more info see the vsause video), and i is the imaginary number, so the name literally means "imaginary infinity".
