More Info for the Sequel: the Omniverse and the Devourers · 2:47pm Aug 10th, 2020
The Omniverse. What is it? Isn't it simply a different name for Multiverse?
Many think that yes. But the reality is different.
The Multiverse in an infinity (or not) of universes. There are an infinity of Multiverses.
The Omniverse is THE infinity. There is only ONE Omniverse. ALL the Multiverses are part of the Omniverse. It's an infinity of infinities.
Nobody knows how the Omniverse began, if it even began. Nobody knows if it will even finish one 'day'.
There are however rumors.
You all know about the three categories of Gods.
The Lesser Gods.
The Gods Creators/Destructors.
The Great Gods.
But did you know there is a fourth category? Not many know about them. Even the Great Gods don't all have the knowledge that such entities exist. After all, even in the Infinity of infinities, those entities are very, very, very rare. Even for a Great God, encountering such an entity would be considered a miracle.
And for all who know about those entities, such an encounter is considered as a Disaster.
What are those entities? What are those Gods that other Gods fear?
It's simple.
Great Gods more or less possess the same amount of power. But what happens when a Great God manages to defeat another Great God? Yes, such fights happen. Many leave it at that. The victorious God and the defeated God separate ways.
But some do something else, because the victorious God can absorb the defeated God. The defeated God becomes entirely a part of the victorious God.
And thus, the victorious God becomes a God of the fourth category: a Devourer.
And so, most Devourers wander the Omniverse in search of more preys to devour and gain even more powers, sometime even devouring other Devourers in the unlikely event that two Devourers encounter each other.
A clash between two Devourers of powers more or less equal is considered as the greatest calamity that can happen in the Omniverse, because it can result in the destruction of countless universes, and even of a whole Multiverse or two.
And so, it is said that the current Omniverse was born from a Devourer who entirely devoured a previous Omniverse.
If such an entity exists, then They are put in Their own category: the God of the Omniverse.
But if They exist, then where are They now? Do They wander the Omniverse like many other Gods? Do They remain away, watching over the Infinity? Or did They disappear when They created it, the Creation being too much even for Them? Unless the Omniverse is Them?
Nobody knows.
But because of this belief, it is expected that the Omniverse will End devoured by a Devourer.
And because of this, the Devourers are heavily hunted. Nobody can expect to defeat a Devourer by themself, even Great Gods, but a group of Great Gods can defeat a Devourer. After, it entirely depends of how powerful the Devourer is, and so, of how many Gods the Devourer absorbed.
However, it is an infinite cycle, because to definitively defeat a Devourer, you must absorb it, and so, you must become a Devourer.
nice!
At first, when I read the title of this blog post, I thought you were talking about Ben 10.
Since you're French, let me try to clear things up; there's this TV show called Ben 10, and Ben 10 Omniverse is the 4th installment in the series.
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Ah yeah, I saw some episodes a few years ago.
For those wondering why they aren't simply removed from existence, it's because that doesn't work. What this post called "Great Gods" and D&D calls "Overdeities" are far too powerful. Even if they never existed, omnipotence means that existing would be as easy for them as it is for you and I. For the same reason, the Devoured are not wholly dead, merely contained by their captor. Some part of the infinity must go into maintaining this, such that a number of Great Gods merely needs to equal, rather than exceed, the number amalgamated in the Devourer to be favored. Better yet, you don't become a Devourer without being seriously arrogant...
In all seriousness, when it comes to actual omnipotence, the only limit is their willingness to continue. The destroyed would be brought back as trivially as any other action, so eventually YHVH would win by default with His infinite patience, Opera having gotten bored and wandered off. And that's why we have Operation Fourth Wall instead of anything more interesting.
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I didn't know there were such gods in D&D. Well, I'm not well versed in the universe of D&D, so I thought that there were just gods of the first category. And from what I saw when I did some researches, there is quite the number of them.
That's why I said that they were absorbed, not devoured. They're simply made a part of the God who absorbed them. Of course, the absorber God remains mostly themself, the absorbed God mostly becoming a consciousness in the back of their mind.
I don't think I grasp correctly what you mean there. You say that to have the upper hand on the Devourer, the Great Gods just need to be in equal number than the great Gods composing said Devourer? If that's it, then totally. The Gods can merge their power to face the Devourer, but also use their number to get the upper hand. As shown again and again, number is as important as power. However, in the end, to get definitively rid of the Devourer, one of the Great Gods will have to absorb them and become a Devourer as a result.
That's the case for most of them but there can be special cases. Like explained earlier, a God can become a Devourer simply because they've been chosen to absorb a defeated Devourer. Or a Great God can decide to overthrow definitively another Great God who had been abusing their power by absorbing them, thus becoming a Devourer too.
I have no idea what you're talking about, but it looks interesting.
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It's actually unclear whether Ao (the one overdeity whose name we know) is in the second or third category, because he appears maybe once or twice an edition. There's also the Lady of Pain, who by design has almost nothing known about her. The most we've ever gotten officially is an alignment and a gender, and the purists say even that was more than we should ever know. All we really know is that she's what keeps gods out of Sigil, and that drawing her attention means your imminent demise or worse.