The story

Before readyplayerjs there was the Blank: white, endless and waiting.

On the first day, the First Steward struck a light at its center, and the light held. That light became the Nexus. Everyone who arrives comes through it as a spark, numbered in the order they came.

Each spark is given a piece of the Blank to fold into a home. That is a Fold: private, and theirs alone. Its outer face, the Front, turns to the street, so the world can see what they've made.

The light that came through the Nexus split four ways, and each became a lineage. Ember make by hand. Tide tend and grow. Star dream upward. Volt wire things to move. None is stronger than another. They differ only in how they see.

Around the Nexus, the First Steward raised seven Joint Spaces. Then the First Steward left the rest unfinished, on purpose, for the people who would come. The Archive keeps the record of everything built and everyone who built it.

At the edge of it all is the Frontier, where the Blank still shows through. It changes every season, because the world is still being made.

The story is short on purpose. The later chapters are written by the people who arrive. Each season will be a chapter, and its recap will go into the Archive as canon, never taken back.

When you join, you will be able to start your own Fold from the Blank, like the First Steward did.