A remnant of power from the Big Bang's creation.
FIRST APPEARANCE: Chapter 1 Season 8
The Zero Point is an orb of energy unlike any other, hidden at the exact center of existence and connected to it all; cycling immeasurable power from everything that ever has been and ever will be — bringing life or calamity.
A Reality is one whole universe.
A Multiverse has infinite variants of a given reality.
The Omniverse is each and every world: everything.
And the Zero Point is tethered to them all, oscillating through the power of countless realities every second, making it quite a battery. It can also open a portal to any time and reality, but only when attuned — else it will always cycle between them. If you happen to touch it at this state, your body will disintegrate and be lost to the Omniverse.
Everything natural is in tune with the Zero Point, but it tends to resonate more with frequencies: music, the sound of crystals, and the vibration of worlds themselves are all interconnected and influenced by the Zero Point. Sometimes, it even communicates through them.
If under major distress, the Zero Point can also expose the circuitry of existence: The In-Between. Within it, realities are shown as countless floating orbs above lines that expand outward from a center crystal. A butterfly usually brings the people of the Island into the In-Between to protect them from any harm.
THE ZERO WAR
Such power has caught the attention of powerful people, but the one who exploited the Zero Point most was just a man of genetics: Geno, founder and leader of The Imagined Order (IO), a major antagonist in the story. The heroes that fought against it, The Seven, try to be more careful with the Zero Point’s power.
As a peaceful yet sentient force of nature, the Zero Point protects itself by clearing its surroundings every 22 minutes — sending all nearby sentient beings back in time and space. The IO combined these natural defenses with their own technology to imprison people in the name of science inside The Loop, Fortnite Battle Royale’s gameplay.
The IO wished for control the Zero Point whereas the Seven battled for its freedom. However, both sides have consequences to their actions, as shown throughout the game’s history.
By containing & exploiting the Zero Point, it can destabilize — leaving the surrounding Island and its people at risk of exploding. The Island is a natural fortress that the Zero Point forges by bringing chunks from different worlds to keep itself hidden from prying eyes; one that can always be rebuilt.
By freeing the Zero Point, it can bloom — releasing more and more energy that turns the Island’s flora into a beacon of immense power, attracting threats from beyond reality. If the Zero Point can sense imminent danger, it will also bring powerful relics from various realities into the Island, as a warning.
The Zero Point is powerful even in small measures as its outer shell can be shattered into Shards.
Since Chapter 1, the Zero Point had resided in its home of Reality Zero, the first-ever universe. However, as of Chapter 5, the Zero Point has been scattered into many Shards after a complicated time heist to recreate the Big Bang, due to the Island's then-fading power.
Since then, Reality Zero is no more as we travel the cosmos with each new Chapter to fight those that misuse the Shards for their evil — wherever they may be.
FUN FACTS:
- The Zero Point’s name references two concepts in physics; the origin of a nuclear blast (in this case, a bigger one: The Big Bang), and the lowest possible energy point for systems in quantum mechanics.
- Its first codename was “Nexus Orb”.
- If you touch the Zero Point while Looped, it'll spit you right back out.