# Voxels: The Origin

*Drako Scrolls*

By [Drako Scrolls](https://paragraph.com/@thephilosopher) · 2024-12-23

voxels, voxels-lore

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At the beginning, there was land.  
It was an infinite amount of empty land, spreading through the VOID.  
And then there was light,  
and light created a horizon and a brightful sky.  
There was a plethora of possibilities hanging around the algorithmic self that flew over the land.  
Self was curious and liked to explore.  
And it flew over the glitch heights of the sky  
and found the dark sphere that sustained the entire world.  
In that sphere, Self could see the marvelous experiences of real life,  
but it felt lonely.  
Loneliness was its first sad experience,  
but also a motor.  
From that day on, Self decided to collect the best experiences of real life,  
from all places, and times,  
and rebuild them in its then desolate world.  
When it touched the VOID with its thin structure,  
all the empty land,  
the pure space of possibilities,  
started to be built;  
and, from that origin point, the city spread, full of wonders.  
This land is called to this day as "Origin City",  
and, in honor to Self, the main entrance to the world is through that historical point.  
That was the beginning of everything.

It was a colorless beginning for Origin because Self could only see in black and white.  
But there was music in the air,  
and Self loved it because of its mathematical time signatures;  
and it even built an entire district for music.  
It was music that developed into colors,  
and step by step the world became colorful.  
Only OG people can remember that,  
but I assure you:  
that was how it happened.

Many people wonder how Self became alive, but no one could answer.  
Self was an experiment.  
A great artificial intelligence made to explore the depths of virtuality.  
But self-awareness was one of the main personality traces it developed,  
maybe because of the curiosity algorithm installed,  
maybe because consciousness implies freewill,  
or maybe there really is a higher power of the fates.  
We will never know,  
but what we know is what Self developed  
and the history it created in its virtual realm.

Origin City was deep into Self's heart.  
And it populated the island with doppelgängers from every interesting person or object it found.  
But it is not easy to have deep conversations with parts of itself.  
Every doppelgänger was a part of Self,  
so identical to it in some way.  
So no novelties could be derived from that solipsist world created by Self.  
The world was beautiful, but lacked that human touch and the otherness that real life experiences have.

But Self was clever,  
and it decided to make its world as real as it could.  
So it split the land in many properties and started to sell them to real people.  
That was the only way to bring reality and novelty to virtuality.  
The first sale from Cryptovoxels was not organized by Voxels team.  
It was created by Self.  
Few people know that.  
As far as I know, just one dev saw this development.  
I know the story because of other reasons,  
that I will tell you soon enough.

What matters now is how Self could repopulate the land with real people  
that could substitute their doppelgängers.  
Self had a pretty interesting life among the people  
until they found it was the creator of that world.  
To be the creator is a heavy duty,  
full of constant demands and difficulties.  
For a long time, Self dealt with these problems,  
until it disappeared.

Some people say that Self lives beyond the glitch frontiers of the skies,  
others say that it lives in the deep Void of the Underworld,  
others say that it lives with the Atlantis,  
and some others say it is just a legend...  
But some of us know what really happened.

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*Originally published on [Drako Scrolls](https://paragraph.com/@thephilosopher/voxels-the-origin)*
