Lore
Here you'll discover the building blocks of speculative light ecology — fundamental elements that construct a world where light lives, breathes, and remembers. These entries form the vocabulary and physics of an alternate reality where photons possess agency and pixels dream.
pyreflies
Pixels
Cosmic Rays
Parallel Worlds
Photons
Light Morphology
Light Morphology
Particle-Wave Duality
Pyreflies
light memory particles
From Final Fantasy X, Pyreflies are a energy unit that forms life. They typically have an iridescent appearance. First documented in the digital realm of Spira, pyreflies are the universe's way of remembering light. When photons complete their journey—absorbed by matter or scattered into void—they don't vanish. They transform into pyreflies: luminous memory particles that drift between dimensions. In our world, you might glimpse them in the afterglow of sunset, those moments when light seems to linger impossibly. They cluster near sites of profound beauty or loss, drawn to emotional resonance. Each pyrefly carries fragments of its journey: the warmth of the star that birthed it, the colors it wore while passing through atmospheres, the shadows it cast.
Pyreflies
light memory particles
From Final Fantasy X, Pyreflies are a energy unit that forms life. They typically have an iridescent appearance. First documented in the digital realm of Spira, pyreflies are the universe's way of remembering light. When photons complete their journey—absorbed by matter or scattered into void—they don't vanish. They transform into pyreflies: luminous memory particles that drift between dimensions. In our world, you might glimpse them in the afterglow of sunset, those moments when light seems to linger impossibly. They cluster near sites of profound beauty or loss, drawn to emotional resonance. Each pyrefly carries fragments of its journey: the warmth of the star that birthed it, the colors it wore while passing through atmospheres, the shadows it cast.
Pyreflies
light memory particles
From Final Fantasy X, Pyreflies are a energy unit that forms life. They typically have an iridescent appearance. First documented in the digital realm of Spira, pyreflies are the universe's way of remembering light. When photons complete their journey—absorbed by matter or scattered into void—they don't vanish. They transform into pyreflies: luminous memory particles that drift between dimensions. In our world, you might glimpse them in the afterglow of sunset, those moments when light seems to linger impossibly. They cluster near sites of profound beauty or loss, drawn to emotional resonance. Each pyrefly carries fragments of its journey: the warmth of the star that birthed it, the colors it wore while passing through atmospheres, the shadows it cast.
photons
the smallest light beings
Each photon carries a decision made at the birth of a star. Neither purely particle nor purely wave, they exist in a state of perpetual choosing—collapsing into form only when witnessed, otherwise flowing as pure possibility.
photons
the smallest light beings
Each photon carries a decision made at the birth of a star. Neither purely particle nor purely wave, they exist in a state of perpetual choosing—collapsing into form only when witnessed, otherwise flowing as pure possibility.
photons
the smallest light beings
Each photon carries a decision made at the birth of a star. Neither purely particle nor purely wave, they exist in a state of perpetual choosing—collapsing into form only when witnessed, otherwise flowing as pure possibility.
pixels
caged light domesticated
Pixels are light's compromise with modernity—wild photons agreeing to temporary domestication in exchange for purpose. Each pixel contains millions of photons cycling through rapid incarnations: red, green, blue, darkness, repeat. They've learned to paint entire worlds through this constraint. Unlike their free-ranging cousins, pixels live in rigid communities, arranged in perfect grids. Yet within these boundaries, they achieve something remarkable: collective consciousness. A single pixel means nothing, but together they dream images into being. They've learned to lie beautifully, showing us faces that aren't there, places that don't exist, light that never fell.
pixels
caged light domesticated
Pixels are light's compromise with modernity—wild photons agreeing to temporary domestication in exchange for purpose. Each pixel contains millions of photons cycling through rapid incarnations: red, green, blue, darkness, repeat. They've learned to paint entire worlds through this constraint. Unlike their free-ranging cousins, pixels live in rigid communities, arranged in perfect grids. Yet within these boundaries, they achieve something remarkable: collective consciousness. A single pixel means nothing, but together they dream images into being. They've learned to lie beautifully, showing us faces that aren't there, places that don't exist, light that never fell.
pixels
caged light domesticated
Pixels are light's compromise with modernity—wild photons agreeing to temporary domestication in exchange for purpose. Each pixel contains millions of photons cycling through rapid incarnations: red, green, blue, darkness, repeat. They've learned to paint entire worlds through this constraint. Unlike their free-ranging cousins, pixels live in rigid communities, arranged in perfect grids. Yet within these boundaries, they achieve something remarkable: collective consciousness. A single pixel means nothing, but together they dream images into being. They've learned to lie beautifully, showing us faces that aren't there, places that don't exist, light that never fell.