The Lands Beyond reside past the natural planes of life and perception. They exist in many different dimensions simultaneously, and symbolize distinct concepts in each.
For us, The Authorities, it is a land gifted to our hands by a higher power, to restore balance and create flourishing utopias across the universe. 

It is for that reason that we molded a worthy vessel capable of fulfilling that purpose. A deity with the power to arise life from lack thereof, and the psychology necessary to prevent deviance. 
Her name was Violet.

Our star vessel soon began her journey across the troubled lands, ambition and eagerness rampant and uncontrolled. This was the motivation we desired. 
Much like our traditions, Violet recognized that the most effective way to ensure the stability of the troubled lands was to create lesser deities in her image, imbued with her power.
Thus began the origins of her daughters.

The Lands Beyond reflect not only one’s own journey, but also those that one has travelled and resonated deeply with. To most, they will merely pierce into Violet’s memories.
To others, they may see beyond.

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Scarlett was born directly from the abominations below, the very fortitude upholding the monstrosity we know as The Crimson. It appears Violet intended this for her first daughter, and believed that it would lead to the spawn’s greater understanding of how to forever banish the corrupt evil.
However, it seemed to have the opposite effect.

Scarlett quickly spiralled out of control. She possessed an intense passion for pain and chaos, and would spread just that across the ruins of the already-barren wasteland. 
A single crimson tower, far beyond any hope of repair, acts as the only reminder of the deity’s original purpose.

Interestingly, despite this abysmal and destructive personality Violet’s first daughter adopted, she still seemed to yearn for her mother’s approval. She did not receive it.
Soon, Violet departed from The Crimson forever. She was devastated by her failure, but confident in her next attempt, with the knowledge she had obtained.

Next, she would bring life to The Cosmos, a dazzling yet empty world full with uninhabited galaxies. The perfect opportunity to create a utopia to flourish for eons. The task would be difficult, but Violet was confident in her capabilities.

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The birth of Comet was the exact opposite of Scarlett’s. Instead of exposing the lesser deity to the world they were to be entrusted with at creation, Comet was sheltered during her first eons, brought up to resonate with Violet’s exact ideologies, and to never intend to harm the world or a creature under any circumstances. 

While this approach may have initially worked as planned, transforming the once curious and energetic Comet into a calm, levelheaded creature, Violet would soon be devastated to realize that her second daughter did not believe herself capable of tackling the practically infinite abyss of space beyond her.
More than that, Comet was terrified.

Violet believed that this initial phase of intimidation would soon wear off, but was greatly mistaken. Over the durations in which she periodically visited her second spawn, it became clear that Comet was convinced, without a shred of a doubt, that there already was life somewhere within The Cosmos. Not only that, but she was certain that this lifeform’s power potentially rivalled her own. Even now, we are unaware of what this could have been.

Devastated by her mother’s lack of care or attention, Comet resorted to a complete, endless solitude, burying herself within a palace of her own empowered terror, where she remained for a supposed eternity. 
Much like Scarlett, it appears that she only desires affection and approval from Violet. The mother deity, however, was only interested in abandoning yet another troubled land, and travelling to the location of her final task.

Despite her first two failures, Violet refused to give up. Even if she had failed her purpose, she would ensure that her existence had at least provoked a meaningful outcome.
So, with her willpower pushing her where her ambition could not, she travelled to The Aquatic, a desolate, empty universe of liquid. Supposedly, unlike The Crimson, which had been formed by the mistakes and malpractice of a former world, this body had never before experienced the wonders and consequences of life.
It was a perfect basin for a perfect utopia.

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And so, a perfect utopia it became.
With the knowledge she had so costly obtained, Violet ensured that both fear and deviance were emotions that her third and final daughter, Willow, would neither possess nor express.
With her power, the lesser deity would arise a flourishing utopia, resonating with bright and deep colours, organisms of various shapes and sizes.
Violet was ecstatic. Finally, her efforts had come to fruition.

However, ill-fated as she may have been, conflict was never far from our star pupil.
What Willow could not comprehend was the cycle of life. She refused to understand how, after eons of building up her idolized utopia, she was simply supposed to allow it to eventually be destroyed, and rebirth as something entirely new.
She possessed an incredibly childlike demeanour. Truthfully, it was not far from that of Violet herself.

To Violet’s frustration and horror, Willow began to conjure her own calamities to wrack her world, her utopia crumbling apart each iteration. However, this was not performed out of spite.
Willow believed that, if she forced her creations through every possible disaster at every possible extremity, she could sufficiently fortify it to make her world indestructible, permanent. Following through with these troubled aspirations, she would irreversibly damage the basin of The Aquatic in a ceaseless cycle of demolition and desolation, known now as The Tsunami. 

Despite Violet’s outrage and desperate attempts to cease her spawn’s malpractice, Willow was ultimately, already, a lost cause. She would forever seek perfection in her utopia, endlessly tormenting it with trials that could never be fully nullified. 
To this day, the lesson she failed to understand is one that we, The Authorities, also struggle on.
Perfection is impossible. It should only reside in one’s mind as a motivator. It does not exist as a feasible concept.

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In the end, our prophesied deity was a failure, although not for a lack of effort.
Violet returned to us, apathetic and deeply depressed, requesting to be departed from The Lands Beyond.
We obliged.

We now recognize that the defining characteristics that each of our pupil’s children possess are the very same flaws rooted in life itself. Chaos, cowardice, and overambition. They are unavoidable factors of our very existence. Ones that even we, as the entities entrusted with said existence itself, retain to some extent.

These very qualities are what led us to create a deity so utterly consumed by them that even we could not notice until it was too late. There are mistakes in the troubled lands that can never be undone. Yet, we must accept that fact, and seek the light out of the tunnel.
Perfection may be impossible, but what should be achieved is a world sufficient enough to seem that way to those within it.

Additionally, we are well aware that our perception of Violet’s journey is only one of many. 
With every event that happens throughout the infinite eternity that is our existence, an equally-infinite quantity of interpretations will arise, both intended and otherwise.
While we do not know many of these interpretations outside of our own, we are sure of one.

The worlds that Violet travelled to symbolize eras, periods of time that together maintain something incredibly significant for a single individual. Perhaps it is our creator. 
The past, present, and future. Together, they form an entire timeline. A life, in a sense. Only the one who it is meant for will truly and thoroughly understand its meaning.

That is the way of The Lands Beyond.