Before Observable Existence became stunted, there was that age of nothingness.
Countless years stretched across spans of time so vast that measurement itself had not yet learned to exist. In that age, there were no Civilizations rising and falling across the fabric of reality. There were no conflicts or advancements or pursuits of power that complex life would later consider meaningful.
There was only potential.
Glimmers of multiple forces moved through that emptiness, currents of possibility that would ultimately cause the emergence of THE First Cause. These forces interacted in ways that defied later classification, their interplay building toward something that would reshape the nature of existence itself. And when THE First Cause finally occurred, it led to the emergence of Observable Existence.
Or in this case, a stunted Observable Existence.
