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The Old World was the first realm to exist in the story of Tower Defense Simulator. It is unknown whether the realm has existed eternally, or was created. A plethora of living beings called the Old World their home, none more prominent than Two X and Lord Exo, who shared power in the realm.[1]

The aftermath of Two X and Lord Exo's war in the Old World turned the realm into a hazardous and uninhabitable landscape.[2] Its original inhabitants migrated to Paradise after the war.[3]

Inhabitants

Two X and Lord Exo can be considered one of the first, if not the first beings to inhabit the Old World.[1] The governed over their own sides of the Old World, but eventually fell into conflict with one another over opposing views of how creation should be treated, resulting in the war.[4]

The Rift Walker and the Narrator are two beings that originate from the Old World, they both seem to serve as right-hand men for their respective masters. The Rift Walker helped Two X create the Meta after the war, but it is unknown what his activities before and during the war were. Before the war, the Narrator was a performer[5] and self described "artist,"[6] aside from this, he helped instigate Lord Exo's freedom from the God Cube.

The Null Guardian inhabits the Outer Nil Zone, but whether he originated from the Old World is unknown, as it is likely he could have been sent there by the Rift Walker after the creation of the Meta.[7]

Myriads of other living beings also populated the Old World, such as Two X and Lord Exo's respective followers and creations.

Although the Narrator refers to the Nil Zone as an uninhabitable wasteland[2] that was left by everyone[3], the Null & Void Event enemy Logbooks point to this not being entirely the case, as it is suggested through them that the Nil Zone contains its own ecosystem of species, some enemies even evolving from other enemies.[8] One such enemy, the Null Beast, is used by the Narrator to represent Lord Exo's followers[9], which implies some of these entities used to live in the Old World. This in turn suggests that when it turned into the Nil Zone, they for unknown reasons chose to or could not leave it for Paradise.

Locations

Nil Zone

The T.D.S. Organization's first encounter with the Old World was through the Nil Zone, after a group of their agents was banished there by the Rift Walker. The Nil Zone is all that remains of the Old World after the war.[10]

The region takes the form of a purple and black wasteland, with sharp rock-like formations throughout the landscape. The terrain is filled with various objects from the game's past as well as bygone architecture from before the war started. The sky above the landscape swirls with purples and pinks, and is dotted by a myriad of stars.

The Nil Zone now acts as a prison to entities who pose a threat to the balance of the Meta, with the Rift Walker banishing those who he deems dangerous enough. The Null Guardian is tasked with supervision of the Outer Nil Zone, acting as the warden to those banished there.[11]

Within the Nil Zone exists the Temple of Exo, a structure connected to Lord Exo in some way. While not explicitly stated, the Temple of Exo is heavily implied to be where the events of Blind Faith take place, where Lord Exo was freed from the God Cube. According to the Narrator, the temple is a place where God Cube shards can be merged together into a larger whole, as the Children of Exo were lead the temple, making the Narrator coalesce their collected fragments together.[12]

It was discovered by the T.D.S. Organization that the Nil Zone is the "space between realms" that transcends the fabric of the Meta, being the medium that interdimensional portals use to connect to other realms.[13]

Special, unstable energy exists within the Nil Zone that was created because of the war.[14] It is due to this energy that the Nil Zone is able to corrupt life,[15] and replicate forms of life from other realms, as seen during the events of Outpost 16.[16]

Void

The Void is a primordial force that has existed alongside Two X and Lord Exo before the Old World even had a recognizable form.[19] Unlike Two X and Lord Exo, it is hard to gauge whether the Void is a sentient intelligence of its own, acting more as a force of nature.[20] This is corroborated by the fact that the Void Caster exists as an agent of the Void to manifest its will.

The Void was sealed away by Two X and Lord Exo eons ago, as they could not destroy it. Though, this could not stop the Void's influence entirely, as it still managed to spawn the Void Caster. During the war in the Old World, the Void Caster was promised by Lord Exo that if she helped him fight Two X, he would ensure that the Void can inhabit the world.

When Lord Exo was defeated, Two X focused his attention on hunting down any traces of the Void that remained in the Nil Zone.[21] But yet, that was not enough to completely eradicate it, as the Void still managed to destroy realms created by Two X.[22]

After Lord Exo was freed, the Void Caster still remembered the promise they made eons ago, and quickly mobilized her troops to expedite the process of having the Void consume realms, causing the Void Rifts that appeared throughout the Meta.[23]

Trivia

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Long ago, two brothers ruled over all creation. Each saw the Old World as a blank canvas, but like any artist, each viewed the world much differently." ― Narrator on Wave 2 (The Narratorium)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Now that Lord Exo was defeated, Two X was left with an uninhabitable wasteland that became the Nil Zone!" ― Narrator on Wave 20 (The Narratorium)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Leaving the Old World behind, everyone started making a new home that Two X had always envisioned." ― Narrator on Wave 21 (The Narratorium)
  4. ↑ "You see, Two X believed everyone had a place in the world, so he helped nurture them. Meanwhile, Lord Exo created creatures as tall as buildings while wiping out thousands that didn't suit his vision." ― Narrator on Wave 5 (The Narratorium)
  5. ↑ "The Narrator is a performer from the Old World who used to be the right-hand man of Lord Exo." ― Narrator's description in its Logbook
  6. ↑ "COMEDIAN? I am a PERFORMER! An ARTIST! A DIRECTOR!" ― Narrator on Wave 22 (Banlands)
  7. ↑ "The Null Guardian has existed within the Nil Zone since before the Old World, appointed to this role by the Rift Walker himself." ― Null Guardian's description in its Logbook
  8. ↑ "It relentlessly hunts Null Runners, who have learned to run at the sight of it. The creature's very existence appears to cause it pain, as it evolved from the same thing that it hunts." ― Lost Glitch's description in its Logbook
  9. ↑
  10. ↑ "Wait, we were in the Old World?!" ― Commander on Wave 20 (The Narratorium)
    "Ha! What's left of it!" ― Narrator on Wave 20 (The Narratorium)
  11. ↑ "Anyway uhh, welcome to the edge of the Nil Zone where 'handsome' here cleans up the washed up talent." ― Narrator in the beginning cutscene of Banlands
  12. ↑ "You USED me, to bring you to the Temple of Exo! THEN you scheming JERKS made me put together your GOD CUBE PIECES before throwing me to the Executioner!" ― Narrator in the beginning cutscene of Banlands
  13. ↑ "I knew it! There had to be something out there! I theorized that if portals act as tunnels to other realms, then what kind of space were we tunneling through?" ― Nerd Duck on Wave 5 (Outpost 16)
  14. ↑ "The Nil Zone's unstable energy was created from endless eons of war." ― Marcellus on Wave 27 (Blind Faith)
  15. ↑ "The chaotic energy in the Nil Zone was beginning to corrupt the few that remained, including myself..." ― Narrator on Wave 21 (The Narratorium)
  16. ↑ "Those Nil Zone creatures may be more sensitive to the corruption than we are. As the energy expands outwards, it might be violently ripping through your bodies and replicating your DNA into them!" ― Nerd Duck on Wave 7 (Outpost 16)
  17. ↑ "The child was not the Void. The child called it Mother. What she did know was that she was the Void Caster, the daughter of the Void." ― Void Caster's description in its Logbook
  18. ↑ "For the first and final time, they drove it deep down into the foundations of the world, into a dark so total its song could never be heard again." ― Void Caster's description in its Logbook
  19. ↑ "Before there was anything to call the Old World, the Void was already waiting in the dark." ― Void Caster's description in its Logbook
  20. ↑ "It cannot be considered a place or a creature, but something else entirely. It is a quiet hunger that lurks beneath the notice of every being, the presence that can be felt when nothing is around. The pale flora that blooms in a place where nothing exists is where it finds its peace. It is of one mind, though it wears a thousand faces. One could call it an incurable infection." ― Void Caster's description in its Logbook
  21. ↑ "When Lord Exo was sealed away, Two X turned his attention to the Void itself, hunting it throughout the Nil Zone. So the Void slunk back into the depths from which it was sealed, and the Void Caster went to the one place Two X would never follow. Straight into the heart of the Void itself. Even he would not set foot there. Even though a God cannot be killed, there are things worse than death that the Void was patiently waiting to do." ― Void Caster's description in its Logbook
  22. ↑ "Many of the Odd were from realms the Void had fully consumed." ― Odd's description in its Logbook
  23. ↑ "The Meta exists everywhere across the entire Nil Zone, but it was not until the Rift Walker fell and the realms began to destabilize that the seams gave. Holes formed that connected the two worlds, and through the thinnest of those tears the Void crept out once more. In the barrens of the Nil Zone, where there was once life, a single lone flower blossomed from the earth." ― Void Caster's description in its Logbook
  24. ↑ "We've named that space the 'Nil Zone'. I never thought a place like that could exist." — Professor V on Wave 5 (Outpost 16)


Story Pages
Characters Two X • Lord Exo • Rift Walker • Narrator • Nerd Duck • Null Guardian • Patient Zero
Groups T.D.S. Organization • Children of Exo • Fallen
Items Serum Zero • God Cube
Realms Meta Overworld • Hex Realm • Frost Realm • Duck Realm
Old World
Maps Nightmare Carnival • Village of Despair • Eggy Island • Trick or Threat Town • Rotfield • Foggy Forest • Tower Outskirts • Totality Tower • D00M's Revenge • Cold Ambush • A Dark Tale • The Haunted Past • The Great Finale • Failed Gateway • The Nightmare Realm • Containment • Pls Donate • Outpost 32 • Bathroom Approach • Outpost 16 • Banlands • Blind Faith • The Narratorium • Backyard Beginnings • Competition Court • Victory Field • Sorrowful Remains
Story Missions
TDS: Boot Camp Welcome Recruit • Boot Camp • Live Fire • Breach Protocol • Brute Force
TDS: Origins The Beginning • Ghost Town • Radio Silence • Off The Rails • Burning Bridges • A Growing Threat • Derailed • Rock Bottom • Surface Tension • The Final Approach • Lights Out • Aftermath
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