This is The Keeper – The Daemon of the Void
The Void has always been here and The Keeper has never left his post at its entrance.

He waits to welcome us, to let us know that this is the place.

All The Keeper knows is to keep The Void.
That’s all he’s ever known,
he has no predecessors, he has no descendants.
He is as eternal as The Void, inseparable from it, but distinct.
More than an alias, less than the thing itself.

While The Keeper is supposed to welcome all to The Void,
most people just skip right past him –
like he’s not even there, like they don’t even see him.

And they scream.
That’s all they know;
because what’s to know has been lost.

And because of this loss –

The Void is scary,
The Void is uncaring,
The Void has no echo;
The Void is devoid of meaning.

This makes The Keeper sad.
Not just for being unseen, but because this is not what The Keeper knows of The Void.
The Keeper knows The Void contains many things.
And those many things are here to help us,
to guide us,
to keep us safe.
The Keeper knows The Void is essential to all things.

As much as The Void is vacant — The Void is also all things.
It is both an absence and a presence.
It is essential,
fundamental for our well-being.

There’s far more important things to do than scream.

The Keeper knows people fear The Void,
avoid the Void,
that they see The Void as a last desperate measure before soldiering hopelessly onward.

The Keeper wants to do something about this.
Something more than just sit at a table and watch people move past him;
unaware of all the wonderful things he knows about The Void.

He wants to educate, comfort, and nurture people
to embrace The Void.
He wants to become something more than what he’s always been.
It has become necessary to do so.