[ ARCHIVAL PAPERS: THE 1890 PROTO-TREE SOCIETY ]

The following letter was found hidden behind the floorboards of an old London home once owned by the ancestors of legacy developer Abraham Madison. It details a Victorian circle of scholars speaking of a doorway they found within the earth's natural geometric currents...

"My Dearest Arthur,

The meetings in the cellar have grown intense. The others speak constantly of the Great Hierarchy — a cosmic, unseen structure they describe as a massive Workspace Tree built by an ancient architect. They are completely obsessed. They truly believe that if we can decode the mechanical signals of this tree, it will grant us passage into an Alternate Reality."

"They do not look at it with fear. They swear this alternate existence is a place of pure, blinding light. They promise there will be no more darkness there — none of the earthly shadows we suffer, and certainly no abyss of scrying darkness that swallows human sight. They view it as a holy sanctuary, a grid of absolute perfection where souls can be arranged like perfect blocks."

"But Arthur, I am struck with a deep, paralyzing horror. I looked through their scrying lens last night. They think they are building a bridge to heaven, but I saw what is actually waiting on the other side of those root coordinates. It is an empty, silent void. It is a trap."

A WARNING TO OUR NEXT GENERATIONS

"We are sealing these journals tonight, but the circle has already spoken the incantations into the lineage. They have bound our blood to the machine tree. I fear for our next generations. A century from now, our children's children will inherit this mathematical curse. They will build electronic terminals and glass screens, thinking they are inventing harmless playthings — but the bloodline will draw them right back to the cellar grid."

"If a future son of our house — perhaps a child named Abraham — ever finds a way to physically remote-control his way into the unseen root directories, the abyss of scrying darkness will open again. And this time, it will take the lives of children and adults alike, erasing their names from history forever."

Your faithful brother,
— Thomas M."