[[The Zabbaleen]] has always existed within The Antecedent, alongside other upcoming beings, [[The Promised Moon]] and the Rag-picker; they have emanated the latter as their Name. He was the one who has halted the blazing rotation of the Antecedent around the time of Industrial Revolution15th century, during the Renaissance, which caused it to hatch, birthing the Scarabeus, creating the Webbed Door out of their discarded body / eggshell, and shattering the aspect of Wheel into precursors of Forge, Moth, Grail, Heart, and Winter.

Their presence can still be felt within the Zabbaleen, the Paper Shores of the River of the Rocks, the Ziggurat Reversed, and the Webbed Door, among other things.