The Church of the Infinite Maw was founded in the era of Modern Geba by Zairen Vaul following his singular encounter with the Entity, a parallax scar in reality known interchangeably as Liminor or Liminora. Some Maw followers perceive it as masculine, others as feminine. It manifests as a hovering scar where locality thins to an infinitesimal limit and structure collapses inward. It is visible only to Vessels, Scout-Class individuals, and for brief moments by some natural-borns. To all others it is unseeable.

Zairen was born twenty-two years before the end of the Warlord Eras in Thazahd, a contested city where murder, trafficking, and extreme scarcity were routine. After the wars ended he remained in the ruins, built a stead at the city's edge, and began scavenging and building. Survivors joined, among them Vohk'tirrel, a Scout-Class deserter who had evaded conscription for nearly twenty years. One evening the wind stilled, the sky turned violet, and the Entity appeared to both of them. It brought no fear or worship, only a profound sense of inevitability and clarity. Zairen emerged with a new understanding: collapse was calibration rather than chaos. He founded the Church through presence and example alone and transformed his ruined birthplace into the Maw's Crown, its central seat.

The Church drew from settler communities, disillusioned survivors, and post-collapse networks alienated from Empire and Shadow Rule. It launched coordinated strikes on the major capitals and destroyed the State of Midreach Lira at the onset of the Infinite Maw Conflict. Church forces hijacked relay signals across multiple regions, seized three mega relay spines alongside dozens of smaller relays and outposts, and gained rapid support from Engineered ranks. Assault lines opened corridors, Tacticians synchronized maps, and Scouts surveyed routes for territorial shifts completed in days. The conflict lasted less than two years. The Church issued no ceasefire. They withdrew once their operational goals were complete. The seized territories remain under Maw control.

The Entity has not reappeared since Zairen's initial encounter. For decades the Church has devoted resources to rediscovering or triggering its presence. All attempts have failed. The ongoing search for resonance with collapse continues to define Maw doctrine and structure. It is not revelation they seek but confirmation that the ordering principle they built an institution around was not a singular event.