THE
CONTROL CHARACTER
When
Eru The One, spoke all creation—the multiverse—into
existence, He placed one Control Character over each individual
universe. This nearly incomprehensible being is the highest of the
Upper Echelons, the utmost authority in the enforcement, upkeep
and continual maintenane of all laws fashioned by Eru. Below the
Control Character is the
Autoexec, then
The Powers That Be, and
further, the host of
Implementors. Some see the Control Character as an
extention of The One into each of His universes, as each of these deus
ex machinas are believed to have had an active hand in the creation of
the particular one to which he is assigned.
For thousands of
years, many beings, including those of the
Supernatural and Fantastic
Wayfarer's Association believed the Control Character to be mere
non-existent myth. While there has been only one recorded sighting of
the Control Character, it seems skeptical to believe that other
occurances have not arisen. This possibly exclusive encounter took
place at the
White House in the mid-tenth century near the close of the
First Age of Magic (966 GUE), when he deleted
Morgrom the Essence of
Evil from existence and then proceeded to award
Mirakles of the Elastic
Tendon,
Spike the Protector, and
Glorian of the Knowledge for the
successful quest of the recovery of the
Golden Dipped Switch and the
defeat of the Autoexec (who briefly threatened to usurp the Control
Character, something which could not even have been done had his plans
been carried out). One of these rewards included the promotion of
Glorian to an Implementor (a type of promotion that has not been
recorded elsewhere in the annuals of
Zork).
These eyewitnesses
reported that the Control Character's appearance was in the likeness of
a mysterious blur to mortals. But to the trans-dimensionally-enchanted
eyesight of Glorian, it was an even weirder sight. It was a figure that
was in constant change—a lion, a bluebird, a tulip, an old woman, a
reindeer, an oak sapling, a slime mold, a teenage boy, a gray squirrel,
a lobster, a
salamander. The figure was changing so rapidly and so
constantly that it did not hold the same form long enough to be visible
to human eyes as other than a blur. A talking blur.
| SOURCE(S): The Zork Chronicles, A History of Quendor |