Here's a brief suggestion for editing our DC Cosmology blog following the merger. Please note that these are simply my thoughts, based on a combination of elements from the Crisis, Vertigo, and DeMatteis cosmologies. They are by no means face values.
1. Material Realms
Physical reality: contains the Orrery of Worlds, the Bleed, all universes, branching realities, and separate Multiverses.
- Tier: Low 1-A (Bleed and the Totality of the Material Realms)
- Notes: The Bleed is Low 1‑A, as it contains all levels of reality and serves as the transdimensional medium between universes and Multiverses. The Orrery is High 1‑C, reflecting its containment of multiple dimensions (often cited as eight or eleven) and feats of destroying universes within the Orrery vary depending on context and era, ranging from 2-C to 2-A. The Totality of the Material Realms scales to Low 1‑A, due to its limitless time and space at the edge of the cosmos and its inclusion of all levels of existence emanated from the higher planes of the Implicate Order.
2. Metaphysical Realms
Archetypal realms: contains the Sphere of the Gods, Comic Book Limbo, the Monitor Sphere, the Dark Multiverse. Their inhabitants typically exist as living ideas or thoughts and their realms are often considered as fictions or archetypal and platonic. Even the universes in the Dark Multiverse are sometimes referred as nightmares or unrealities.
- Tier: High 1-A (Highest parts of the Metaphysical Realms)
- Note: The Sphere of the Gods is 1-A for existing on a higher level of existence than the Material Realms. Comic Book Limbo is possibly High 1-A for having R>F over the Orrery of Worlds and the Sphere of the Gods and is where the Writter live. Realms like the Monitor Sphere, the Dark Multiverse, the Fifth Dimension, and the Sixth Dimension are High 1-A via quantitative superiority over Limbo.
3. Source Wall and the Totality of Creation/Divine Continuum
Totality of the DC Universe: contains all physical and metaphysical domains and dimensions cited above. The Source Wall is its final barrier.
- Totality of space and time across creation; includes Omniverse (space) and Hypertime (time)
- Tier: High 1‑A
- Notes: Contains the Multiverse, the Sphere of the Gods, the Dark Multiverse, infinite webs of Multiverses, Limbo, and the Vanishing Point; likely contains the Monitor Sphere and the Sixth Dimension as apex layers of Creation.
4. Greater Omniverse/Infinite/Place Beyond All Places
Outer Realms: contains all Creations shaped by various creators and agents of The Source, such the Hands, across the Void. Beings or entities living there are beyond comprehension and typically occupy a hierarchical position superior to that of all the inhabitants of the Multiverse.
- Void before Creation; higher agents of The Source operate here.
- Tier: High 1‑A
- Notes: Higher realms beyond the Multiverse and the Source Wall, where many agents of The Source live and create or maintain infinite Creations across the Void. It is also where creation parasites or beings originating from past versions of Creation exist.
4a. Endless
- Embodiments of universal archetypes (Death, Dream, Desire, etc.); localized in the Sphere of the Gods and born from the Big Bang, yet their influence extends across all Creations in the Greater Omniverse.
- Tier: High 1‑A
- Notes: Conceptual constants with omniversal influence, independent of any single Creation or Creator.
4b. Forces of Creation (Honorable Mention)
- Fundamental aspects or energies of existence that shape and sustain reality, including the Speed Force, the Emotional Spectrum, Magic, and many others.
- Often depicted as anchored to the Multiverse, but conceptually extend across all Creations in the Greater Omniverse, like the Endless, independent of any single Creation or Creator.
- Wielded by various agents of The Source, such as the Hands, to shape Multiverses across the Void.
- Form poles of power: positive/connective forces (Anti-Crisis Energy) and chaotic/predatory forces (Crisis Energy). The Alpha and Omega Effects, the primal twins deriving from The Source, power all Anti-Crisis and Crisis forces at their core.
- Notes: Not all the forces scales the same; therefore, any feats of destruction or interaction with these forces must be approached with great caution and will vary depending on the context.
5. Light of Creation/Deep Change/Source’s Manifest Form
Manifest form of the Source/Presence/Overvoid: Fundamental creative principle underpinning all existence.
- Fundamental principle underpinning all existence; source of Speed, Still, Sage, Strength forces. All of existence enamates from it as a dream.
- Tier: High 1‑A
- Notes: Mathematical principles that created and sustain all existence.
6. Primordial Void (Pralaya/Mother Night/Great Darkness)
Primordial Darkness: Total darkness and absence of light and creation.
- Pre-creational nothingness; conceptual antithesis of the Light and Creation.
- Precedes the Multiverse and the Light of Creation.
- Tier: High 1‑A
- Notes: Same entity under different interpretations, but possessing their own identities and characteristics.
7. Source/Presence/Overvoid
God: Absolute ground of reality from all existence originates.
- Ultimate origin of all existence; God
- Tier: 0 (Boundless)
- Notes: Without beginning or end, immutable, indivisible, beyond all creation, duality, and hierarchy. Absolute origin of all things, beyond the Light of Creation and the Great Darkness.
