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 (Totality of the Material Realms)
- Notes: The Bleed itself is High 1‑C for being 11-D and any feats of destruction of universes in the Orrery would vary depending on the context or era, ranging from 2-C to 2-A. The full Material Realms scales to Low 1‑A. As the debased Gross Plane, a ‘dream within a dream, it represents the simplest layer of creation’s dream. Its infinite potential and scope justify a Low 1‑A rating.
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 Multiverse 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.
3. Source Wall and the Totality of Creation/Divine Continuum
- 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
- 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 Creators.
5. Light of Creation/Deep Change/Source’s Manifest Form
- Manifest form of the Source/Presence/Overvoid.
- 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)
- 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
- Ultimate origin of all existence; God
- Tier: 0 (Absolute)
- 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.