The Eschaton

The Eschaton, or Omega Point, is, according to Claravian doctrine, the ultimate end state of the universe. It is the point at which the epistemological Realm of the Known finally fills the Realm of the Knowable and breaches the hitherto impassable boundary obscuring the Realm of the Unknowable, bridging the gulf between natural and supernatural.

Obeying the Great Commandment and uniting the noospheres of other sapient races either hastens the Omega Point or makes it possible in the first place, depending on one’s theological school. The Bright Way teaches that while they are sophonts with rational souls, yinrih are still animals whose intelligence is limited and bound by their neurology. There are likely concepts that yinrih simply cannot grasp, just as one cannot teach a dolphin or a chimpanzee to understand the causes of the war in the Middle East or particle physics. The Bright Way believes that other sophonts should be able to uncover things that the yinrih cannot, and that the yinrih can in turn make up for the shortfalls of their new sapient friends. Uniting the noospheres of all sapient races makes that interchange possible.

Put another way, Wayfarers don’t prepare for the End of Days, they are preparing the End of Days.