E. Christopher Clark

E. Christopher Clark is a fictional character in the world of Eden who some folks believe to be real. He is an author and illustrator from a world very much like the ones which the first refugees came from, except that his reality supposedly encompasses the sister goddesses’ reality, which in turn encompasses the reality which Eden exists in.

For most Edenians, the myth of the nested reality is just that: a myth. But for some—for the literalists out there—the fact that the sister goddesses turned out to be real means that this E. Christopher Clark fellow must be real as well.

Supernatural Abilities

Clark is able to create new realities at will, though he mainly chooses to tinker with the same one he’s been playing with since he was a kid—and that’s only if he can keep himself focused and not get distracted by comic books, video games, or pondering the nature of his own existence.

Appearance & Personality

Accounts differ, but most of the folks who believe Clark to be real describe him as a dashingly handsome man with washboard abs, a smile that can melt hearts, and a full head of brown hair that is miraculously absent of gray despite his advancing age. They say he is a listener, a giver, and an attentive lover, though can’t say why they know this. The more cynical among them believe it’s because he’s telling them what they know.

Biography

The creator of the sister goddesses is not named in the earliest versions of the myth of the nested reality, so it’s not certain where and when the name E. Christopher Clark was added to the mix. That said, those who believe him to be real have concocted several details about his life which are now widely agreed upon.

He was born in October of 1977 in his world, delivered amongst a camp of cultists devoted to a chocolatier of some sort. Thereafter, he was raised in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and encouraged by his family and teachers to pursue his dream of telling stories for a living. He came of age during the 1990s, an era when flannel-wearing rock stars did lots of heroin but mysteriously never died. And then he went off to college and wrote things everyone loved and somehow ended up making a boatload of money as an artist—something that just isn’t meant to happen.

He took many lovers over the years, but all of his relationships ended amicably and each of his exes remained a friend for life. Each of his novels was apparently a New York Times Bestseller and his comic books regularly won Eisner awards. His ego should have swelled to an uncontrollable size, but he remained humble through it all.

Clark was in his 40s when he created the sister goddesses Mira and Phina. Then he tasked them with creating their own world within his world, not because he was lazy but because he wanted them to experience the joys and sorrows of creation for themselves.

He is not typing this right now, the naysayers say. He is not making them say the things that they say. He is not.

But of course he is.

Species

Human

Ethnicity

Earthling

Eyes

Hazel

Hair

Brown

Height

5' 9"