Luke's sixth birthday went on without a hitch. Both his parents and he got to enjoy a wonderful birthday party and celebrate the New Year, yet only Luke knew what would come during this year. There was a lot he needed to prepare for this year, but at least he could take a break for now.
There were plenty of presents his parents gave him and he smiled so wide. He was so happy that he even shed tears unknowingly because this warmth reminded him of his fathers in his previous life. This was something he wanted to enjoy for a long time and reinforced his desire to protect his parents from all of the alien threats in the future.
Days passed...
Luke checked in on the events in Gielinor beyond the Anima Veil. He noticed that the world reached the start of the Second Age with the slow formation of the Zarosian Empire. He was pleased that events were progressing smoothly as he expected and further expected to reach the Fifth Age before the Daleks took Earth for the events of the Reality Bomb. Luke felt that it would be beneficial to have all of the key players he desired be available for his plans in dealing with the Reality Bomb, so that was why he did not meddle into their affairs.
He left things on Gielinor to naturally progress as they would soon after, but not before giving a lucky child in the Sennisten market an assortment of food. This act of kindness was never recorded in the official historical record nor mentioned to anyone else by Zaros' imperial edict, but the child's family would remember this act of kindness all the way into the Fifth Age and beyond.
As for Luke, he decided to bring into the universe beyond the Veil another planet. This time, it was one that he knew a tad more intimately than the world of Gielinor.
He was intentionally creating this world by hand instead of using the System to create a World Seed. Unlike Gielinor, which was a world in where the gods and Elder Gods existed and could walk among them all, this world that Luke was creating was far different. He made this world to focus solely on the beings whose very existence was tied to the decaying flow of Anima and the darkness that lurked in their blood.
Yes, that's right. Luke was recreating the world his game was set in.
The world of Valrak. The place where his unlaunched game Blood of Anima was set in.
While he intended to keep this world separate from Gielinor and the mess of that world, he knew that this world he was hand-crafting was going to encounter the attention of the Elder Gods as this planet was, at its foundations, bleeding Anima into the universe itself. In the game, the protagonist (or Player Character) is a Dual-Blood. That meant that they could use both pure Anima and Dark Anima, but this also increased the chance of Anima Poisoning and thus accelerate the process of turning into a Devourer.
As for the Anima bleeding out, it was due a massive event in the world's far past that slowly converted a benevolent life-giving land into a desolate one. That same event became known, in the inhabitants' history, as the Desolation.
It was also Luke's decision to lock this planet from not only the World Gate, but the TARDIS and any other form of time travel machine save for his own Voidship. He knew the dangers of this world and what would happen if the people of Gielinor or Earth encountered the planet's natives.
Not to mention a certain Time Lord.
Speaking of locking planetary travel, Luke decided to set up a basic portal frame using fourteen blocks of pure Obsidian in a 4x3 configuration (base x height) and imbued a small amount of fire-attuned Anima into the frame to ignite it inside a secluded part of the Barracks within his Voidship. This opened an immersive portal within the obsidian frame, but Luke did note a faint ethereal shimmer parallel to the portal itself that acted like a thin film across its surface.
Obviously this is what prevents the inhabitants of this blocky universe from entering into the Whoniverse.
After that, Luke went back to Earth and endured more schooling. His parents were so happy for their child and life went on like normal.
===[DW:NG]===
Events continued to happen with or without Luke's direct influence. It was obvious that while the Doctor and Rose continued to travel through time and space, they didn't expect to see Luke again for a while.
That was clearly because the cryptic riddle that, who they call, the "green robed stranger" told them was evident enough of something else happening beyond the view of the Doctor. The enigmatic Time Lord believed that, from what Rose told him, the stranger who came to help them was as human as possible despite an inherent oddness to his very presence.
Ten put it out of his mind as it was evident that this couldn't be solved right away. The Doctor felt that there would be more instances where they would meet in the future and, cryptic riddles aside, this man held no ill will towards humanity.
What neither the Doctor nor Rose knew was that the next time they'd encounter Luke was coming up soon enough...
===[DW:NG]===
"So, what you are telling me," Luke inquired with Michael as the weather changed from Winter to Spring, "is that the reason why I suddenly have access to both a pre-generated Minecraft world and the literal grimdark universe of xenophobic humans is because the Primal Powers wanted to give me more places to access outside of this universe?"
"Well," Michael began to reply, "you only know of the Doctor's timeline up to the end of Ruby Sunday's time in the TARDIS, no? They wanted to expand your reach beyond just this universe despite you having the ability to bend the rules of Reality itself using Anima considering that there are more places to go to outside of that one time Rose, Mickey, and the Doctor ventured into a parallel universe."
"But why add in Warhammer?" Luke asked with a small shiver of fear. "I know that the Ruinous Powers would probably fuck with me hard since I'm like a Star God and I don't have access to the Immaterium, but it is long considered a Hell-mode transmigration if anyone went into Warhammer!"
"Aside from the fact that the Primal Powers would prevent even the Emperor from summoning you until you wereeighteen?" Michael asked before continuing. "It is because the Emperor of this iteration is among the few versions that couldn't summon a suitable soul into their iteration. The one soul that had been meant to traverse into that universe was unwritten."
"Unwritten?" Luke inquired, but seemed to be a little fearful of what it meant.
"Unlike some paradoxes of time travel that can cause people to be literally never born, being unwritten is more like their essence, their very Existence, was never created," Michael clarified. "The potential to bring a person back through correcting the anomaly, like with how you and Fifteen saved baby Ruby earlier, is what time travelers can do. Only someone on the level of the Primal Powers themselves could undo an Unwritten Existence."
"So," Luke then began to inquire as he gulped in dreadful fear, "what or who can unwrite someone?"
What Michael said to Luke then would send shivers down his spine for decades to come, even with Eidetic Memory.
"Only divine beings can unwrite a person's existence."
===[DW:NG]===
In a different universe, far removed from the events of Luke's story and journey, where another transmigrated soul went to, events slowly began to reshape themselves.
A tale of two brothers, bound by blood and hellfire, would begin their long adventure into a much wilder universe filled with magic and monsters. What none of them, not even Chuck Himself, knew was that this transmigrated soul was not ever part of the grand design.
Another story to be woven into the grand tapestry.
The tale of the Angel of Yharnam and his Divine Hunter.
===[DW:NG]===
Continued in: Shell of Illusion.