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Hello. In today's revision, I will be specifically going over the Vertigo verse(Pre-Black Label). This will tie in any Sandman features such as Endless Night, Orpheus, Overture, etc…
The main premise is to establish what the Vertigo verse offers within the writings and statements of the main two authors of the Sandman stories: The Sandman and Lucifer. This will disclose any mention of Gaiman's Dark Horse works and his mythology, especially Murder Mystery and the origin of the Silver City. This will not include Hellblazer since too many authors change and will not include Carey's short run on it either.
Echelons of Wording:
Now many writers of comics have this sort of stigma where they use terms interchangeably to describe equivalence in nature. While this is good for the common readers, it does come with a set of problems with how we are to interpret those terms.
Example: Lucifer Morningstar created his own Creation separate from DC, and he was making “worlds.” This is used interchangeably with the material universes. (Lucifer Vol.1 #21)
Luckily the author of the Lucifer series did manage to answer some questions regarding such terminology. Michael Carey has stated that Universe is used in the same manner as Multiverse, as two interchangeable terms. There's no difference to him when describing it other than the semantics within the structure of the wording.
Due to this, he argues that an infinite everything is no different than just “everything.” This is evident since he believes that the infinite amount of universes simply is saying the same thing as an infinite universe. The Universe is the totality to describe Creation while the Multiverse refers to quantities or multiplicity of worlds, realms, and dimensions.
So what Lucifer made was not a realm like the one he ruled for ten billion years but a totality, a Multiverse. Where he now is God of his own Creation, to freely rule away from predestination. (Lucifer: Nirvana Vol.1 #1)
Since we will mainly focus on the main reality also known to us as Yahweh’s Creation. I think that going over the other known creators in the lineage of Yahweh puts a perspective on how big the Creations’ are. Putting into perspective that each of them could contain dimensions like Yahweh’s did. (The Sandman Vol.2 #23)
Creation Origin:
In the Darkness Before creation was Yahweh, God of the Covenant. (Lucifer Vol.1 #42) He made two beings infused with his might: Michael and Samael as they came undiluted in their task. He wanted them to create the Universe and originate Creation from that point. (Lucifer Vol.1 #26)
Although Lucifer is not a “god” per se, he has many faces across religions including those of the Navajo mythos as Atse'Hashke.
Material Plane:
In Vertigo, the main physical reality we see of Yahweh’s Creation seems to contain infinite possibilities which suggests infinite timelines making each universe at least 4-D in nature. Given the nature of the Universe being a totality defined by Yahweh’s will which is infinite would likely suggest infinite worlds as well. (Lucifer Vol.1 #69)
The Endless and many other beings have the power to travel through all worlds and realms at their leisure. The Material is the lowest plane of Reality which contains the Inn of Worlds at the end of time. This place managed to house all inhabitants of reality seasonal storm with a premonition of Dream death which affected all time and space. This should suggest dimensions that some of Lucifer's demons flutter across are infinite containing each space-time continuum. (The Sandman: Overture Vol.1 #2)
Tiering: The Material Universe contains all of the worlds and their time-space dimensions. Due to how we implied there are infinite worlds and each of them containing its own space-time would equate the Material Universe with equivalve of High 1-B due to infinite spatial dimensions(countable).
Metaphysical Plane:
The planes of these worlds exist beyond those of the material worlds below. The interconnection is a gateway that leads to the worlds of fantasy and fiction to the main reality that is behind those gates. (The Books of Magic Vol.1 #1) Planes like the afterlives are known as Far Realms where they transcend the entirety of the material Universe. (The Sandman Vol.2 #24)
Tiering: Clearly, the metaphysical are not all equal in terms of how they define an R>F relationship with the Material Plane.
The Endless is a group of dysfunctional primordials that existed before the gods and the stars including the youngest member. (Sandman Vol.2 #21) They are the faces of reality and define an aspect of the Universe. Within the main Creation are side effects of Yahweh’s deterministic approach to Creation making. (Lucifer Vol.1 #52) These primal ideas of reality define both their concept and their opposite as well. (The Sandman Vol.2 #48) To clarify, these are anthropomorphic beings that are the total personification and not just gods of their concept but the concept itself. Due to that, they are repeating motifs as echoes of the darkness that permeates as wave functions across all time and space of Creation. Beings that are a much older order and more powerful than the gods of human beliefs and would last as long as reality lasts. (The Sandman Vol.2 #29)
Tiering: The Endless has shown abilities to affect everything with their action that reaches through all of Creation. Due to being a very big aspect of Reality, they should be High 1-B, possibly Low 1-A.
The First Circle and Ancient Rules:
This ancient council was the one that set the rules and boundaries of the Universe when all was Void. (The Sandman: Overture Vol.2 #1) The rules apply to all versions of The Endless even the ancient ones in space beyond spaces. The Endless abide by the rules set by the Council since the beginning swearing to their laws set upon all things. (The Sandman Vol.2 #42) One of the members “Shekinah” is also known as Glroy because it's a Hebrew word to roughly translates to “In the Glory of the Divine Presence.”He managed to be unaffected by the rebirth of Creation by Dream when eternity was dragged down into nothing and then everything.
The Basanos:
The Basanos are a deck to tarot cards that flesh themself of shape but are so much more real than just cards taking form. They were created by a fallen Angel named Meleos who wanted to chronicle ideas that will be everlasting and he decided to use the Book of Destiny as his big project. However, they were very much flawed. (Lucifer Vol.1 #1)
Jin En Moks:
The Jin En Moks are creatures that have existed since the death of the first Cosmos where they float in the Void unaware of other existence. (Lucifer Vol.1 #7) Due to drifting in the Void for so long, they lose their memory of their true form and are bound to the spatiality and temporality of the Cosmos there in until they reunite with their true form. Beings so ancient that they were old before Heaven was built or the War. They even caught the attention of the Host scared for Creation, if they managed to get the gateways. Their old forms were literally bigger than the worlds. (Lucifer Vol.1 #6) This is why when merging with their true form, it would cause a scale of destruction that will destroy Creation as a side-effect. They are gods without flesh and are void, Tohu Ve’Vohu. (Lucifer Vol.1 #21) Beings so old that existed before any demons, Hell, or even a God to create and punish them. Described as power without shape and will without limits. When the destruction of the Universe occurs and all is Void then would they float freely as their true selves. (Lucifer Vol.1 #63)
Tiering: The Jin En Moks could use two keys in their profiles. In their limited state, they could reach High 1-B and Low 1-A for their full state.
Night and Time:
Night and Time are the two primal forces from which all Creations were birth including their children: The Endless. All versions of Creation were possible due to their union as the coming of Night and Time laid the foundation for everything. (The Sandman Vol.2 #4)
Demiurgic Archangels:
These are a species of primordial Angels that predate Creation. They were made to enact Yahweh’s approach to Creation making giving them an aspect of his infinite. (Lucifer Vol.1 #75) Michael received the Demiurgic Power of God to birth the first matter, Samael Will’s would shape those into stars, and Gabriel would take those shapes and give them patterns and complexity. As Archons of Reality and Demiurges to God, they are his intermediaries who enact his plan hence why Yahweh closed the Circle of Eternity to start the rule with either Michael or Lucifer. (Lucifer Vol.1 #42)
Tiering: Lucifer, Michael, and Elaine are much beyond anything of Creation as they all have the powers to end it at will. They carry part of the Presence powers and are far superior to the Endless. They transcend Creation which contains the Silver City, Hell, Dreaming, and Yggdrasil. This makes them 1-A.
The Mansions of Silence:
The Mansions are a realm far beyond Heaven as you have to cross the eastern side of Heaven which floats above Armaggdeon Plains. This is where Yahweh and Lucifer abandon things that do not fit their needs such as the remnants of the Fallen dead during the War. This is a sort of afterlife for Angels since they do not harbor afterlives like regular humans such as Ibriel when he died. This place is a sort of edge that is the very side of the coin and the face and tail represent Heaven and Hell. (Lucifer Vol.1 #37)
Yahweh(The Presence):
Yahweh is the God of Covenant/Creation and the Lord of Hosts. (Lucifer Vol.1 #35) He made worlds and created Michael and Lucifer as his second in command to do the same. An order of magnitude higher than that of the Endless and is far beyond the Archangels. (Lucifer Vol.1 #42) His name is written in every atom of Creation as he defines all the anthracite details of the Universe. When he left everything was falling apart. (Lucifer Vol.1 #51) This, of course, was changed when Elaine is the name in Creation and Yahweh no longer has a meaning. (Lucifer Vol.1 #71)
The Void:
The endless place where there is no time. Where all things happen simultaneously as it's separated by distance and not time. The place from which all things originate and will all return to. The infinite and eternal Void houses all Creations that are birth and destroyed simultaneously and that portion of the Void with all those Creations still amounts to 0 to the Void. (Lucifer Vol.1 #75)
Tiering: The Void is beyond all dimensionality and all Creations. A place beyond all dimensional hierarchy and all things come from. It's 1-A.
The main premise is to establish what the Vertigo verse offers within the writings and statements of the main two authors of the Sandman stories: The Sandman and Lucifer. This will disclose any mention of Gaiman's Dark Horse works and his mythology, especially Murder Mystery and the origin of the Silver City. This will not include Hellblazer since too many authors change and will not include Carey's short run on it either.
Echelons of Wording:
Now many writers of comics have this sort of stigma where they use terms interchangeably to describe equivalence in nature. While this is good for the common readers, it does come with a set of problems with how we are to interpret those terms.
Example: Lucifer Morningstar created his own Creation separate from DC, and he was making “worlds.” This is used interchangeably with the material universes. (Lucifer Vol.1 #21)
Luckily the author of the Lucifer series did manage to answer some questions regarding such terminology. Michael Carey has stated that Universe is used in the same manner as Multiverse, as two interchangeable terms. There's no difference to him when describing it other than the semantics within the structure of the wording.
Due to this, he argues that an infinite everything is no different than just “everything.” This is evident since he believes that the infinite amount of universes simply is saying the same thing as an infinite universe. The Universe is the totality to describe Creation while the Multiverse refers to quantities or multiplicity of worlds, realms, and dimensions.
So what Lucifer made was not a realm like the one he ruled for ten billion years but a totality, a Multiverse. Where he now is God of his own Creation, to freely rule away from predestination. (Lucifer: Nirvana Vol.1 #1)
- worlds = universes
- Universe = Multiverse
- Realms = Outside the Material Plane
- dimensions = levels within worlds
- Creation = Totality(worlds, realms, dimensions)
Since we will mainly focus on the main reality also known to us as Yahweh’s Creation. I think that going over the other known creators in the lineage of Yahweh puts a perspective on how big the Creations’ are. Putting into perspective that each of them could contain dimensions like Yahweh’s did. (The Sandman Vol.2 #23)
- Lucifer Morningstar: Lucifer’s Creation borders are infinite in size. (Lucifer Vol.1 #20) This is later made clear when Elaine flies over his Creation to pass through an infinite distance to finish what she started. (Lucifer Vol.1 #69) Lucifer has also shattered the doorway into his Creation into many pieces across every world and every realm of Yahweh’s Creation. Yahweh's Creation as we will digress is infinite thus Lucifer's Creation would be around that size as well. This is pretty evident since the concept of infinity to Lucifer is local, and when he makes that concept out of any material he can find would make it to that extent. (Lucifer Vol.1 #20) His Universe is an expression of his will to attribute that both his will and Creation are infinite. Although he created the concept of time in his Universe, it still has a different function when transitioning from Yahweh to his. His Universe has no afterlife such as Yahweh’s with Heaven or Hell, instead realms of dimensions left unfinished with abomination and abstractions.
- Elaine Belloc: Elaine with the Dunamis Demiurgos created an entire Universe(Multiverse) because she could not cope with the power she now holds. Within her Universe, she made here the core of the world to which the first attempt failed. It was too weak and fragile while the next was too strong to evolve beyond anything. (Lucifer Vol.1 #58) This could relate to the creation of an entire universe since the world is used similarly to the DC version of 52 worlds except of course infinite although not during this time. Which later she managed to drop both Yahweh’s and Lucifer’s Creations after the departure of God from Creation as Elaine cemented her place as the scion of Yahweh now becoming the founder, preserver, and arbiter of Creation. (Lucifer Vol.1 #67)
Creation Origin:
In the Darkness Before creation was Yahweh, God of the Covenant. (Lucifer Vol.1 #42) He made two beings infused with his might: Michael and Samael as they came undiluted in their task. He wanted them to create the Universe and originate Creation from that point. (Lucifer Vol.1 #26)
- While Michael and Lucifer did bring about the Universe under god’s instruction. They were not the ones to have created the only Creation from the time before God had a face or when he made them to do the task. (Lucifer Vol.1 #26)
- In fact, the origin story far predates the Archangels. There was once a world, so primal, that it only now exists in the Dreaming. There was a world of cats and they were the dominant species and that was the facet of Creation way back then. However, one day a human rose up and spoke to his fellow friends about the power of dreams. That all the collective dreams across their sentient minds make and shape the worlds and gods they see. When enough of them dream they change the entirety of Creation from the beginning to its end. (Sandman Vol.2 #18)
Although Lucifer is not a “god” per se, he has many faces across religions including those of the Navajo mythos as Atse'Hashke.
This also shapes not just gods but the highest of orders beyond them such as the Endless. Though the Endless have more freedom when it comes to this but they live by the notion they serve the constraint of humankind and not the opposite way around. (Sandman Vol.2 #16)
Material Plane:
In Vertigo, the main physical reality we see of Yahweh’s Creation seems to contain infinite possibilities which suggests infinite timelines making each universe at least 4-D in nature. Given the nature of the Universe being a totality defined by Yahweh’s will which is infinite would likely suggest infinite worlds as well. (Lucifer Vol.1 #69)
The Endless and many other beings have the power to travel through all worlds and realms at their leisure. The Material is the lowest plane of Reality which contains the Inn of Worlds at the end of time. This place managed to house all inhabitants of reality seasonal storm with a premonition of Dream death which affected all time and space. This should suggest dimensions that some of Lucifer's demons flutter across are infinite containing each space-time continuum. (The Sandman: Overture Vol.1 #2)
- The Inn: This place is a paradoxical existence that is not part of dreams, death, or darkness. Where it continuously evolves to fit events that can damage all of reality. This place is just not a place but somewhere when where the world ends and connects through every world or realm. (The Sandman Vol.2 #56)
- City of Aurelia: An ancient charter of land that oversees the plains for tens of thousands of years. Somehow connected to Faerie and led by beings that determine the destination for souls. (The Sandman Vol.2 #52)
- Necropolis: A charter of land where all the diseased and all the unliving gather to form a city devoided of life. There is not a true Necropolis despite what the residents might think and it’s usually where the ceremony of death with cosmic beings is handled. (The Sandman Vol.2 #51
Tiering: The Material Universe contains all of the worlds and their time-space dimensions. Due to how we implied there are infinite worlds and each of them containing its own space-time would equate the Material Universe with equivalve of High 1-B due to infinite spatial dimensions(countable).
Metaphysical Plane:
The planes of these worlds exist beyond those of the material worlds below. The interconnection is a gateway that leads to the worlds of fantasy and fiction to the main reality that is behind those gates. (The Books of Magic Vol.1 #1) Planes like the afterlives are known as Far Realms where they transcend the entirety of the material Universe. (The Sandman Vol.2 #24)
- The Dreaming: The Dreaming is the world of fantasy and dreams outside the waking world. Ruled by the prince of stories, Dream of the Endless, who embodies all that is within his domain and rules over everything that is not real. (The Sandman Vol.2 #1) In the center is the Dream Castle, which is as large as the Dreaming itself. (The Sandman Vol.2 #64) The throne room and how the Dreaming was shaped by Morpheus long ago, including the gate he used from three old gods to let things within the True Dreaming. Due to this, the Dreaming exists because Dream exists as both are each other. (The Sandman Vol.2 #2) As Dream was gone for over 70+ years did the center of the Dreaming corrsify and have a catastrophic effect on its residents. So when the Dream was gone, the powers of his creation faded without him. (The Sandman Vol.2 #58) In Dreaming, there are many places that shape and define it and some beings that literally represent not just physical objects but locations and meaning. The most important is within the Dream Castle called Lucien Library which contains all the untold stories of both dreams and nightmares. All stories that were left unfinished, untold, or are forgotten is looked over by Lucien, servant of the Dream. (The Sandman Vol.2 #22) Other less important locations and things include; Fiddler Green, Eve’s Cave, Cain’s House of Mystery, Abel’s House of Secrets, The Dream Dome, The Threshold, Gemworld, City of Bubastis, and The Land. (The Sandman Vol.2 #36) Beyond the boundaries of the Dreaming is infinite dusk and dark, an abyss of darkness that goes nearly infinite.
- The Silver City/Heaven: Outside the world of light is a place of light, the birthplace of will and the womb of contemplation. (Lucifer Vol.1 #6) It existed before the first dawn in the darkness before Creation where the first folly was. (The Books of Magic Vol.1 #1) The war that Lucifer started to show Angels could have malice in their heart. Within this place is a tower of unendingly high, like the City needs no defense against intruders. More importantly, holds the words spoken by God himself. (Lucifer Vol.1 #21) Apparently, it was built by the children of Lilith called the Lilims with the vision of Ibriel that goes on forever. (Lucifer Vol.1 #50) A way of asking God to come and show his light as a sort of repentance for his actions with Lilith. This became the dwelling place for the Host of Heaven(paradoxically they were of Heaven before the creation of the Silver City). (Lucifer Vol.1 #50) From here you can see the illusive veils of Creation that are being seen from a vantage point such as the Logos. (Lucifer Vol.1 #21) The eastern border of Heaven plain that interconnects the City to Creation is called Armageddon. (Lucifer Vol.1 #61) It's not part of the order created things but the entire City is just decoration for one important place. On the highest level when God calls before you with his presence is called Primum Mobile, the Throne of Light, and the center of Creation. (Lucifer Vol.1 #27) The Throne is infinite and bears Yahweh's old name thus destroying it would collapse the the entirety of Heaven and the Universe. (Lucifer Vol.1 #64). The Host of Heaven as well as the place is created by the very voice that gave breath to them all. They are simply peers for Michael and Lucifer to reflect their actions, a sense of lower beings for them to have as he has to them. (Lucifer Vol.1 #39)
- Hell: Hell is a place of eternal damnation for souls and was created as a gift from the Presence to be the furthest reach from Primum Mobile. (Lucifer Vol.1 #75) Unlike Heaven, it is part of the order of created things which means it's slightly younger than Creation and outside the material world. (The Sandman Vol.2 #24) Lucifer as the Lord of Hell ruled the domain for such a long time and is more powerful than any or all of them combined. (The Sandman Vol.2 #23) It seems to be accredited around Lucifer and demons who were loyal were shaped into what they are because of him. (Lucifer Vol.1 #64) Like the Dreaming and Heaven, it’s technically infinite and without boundaries and to ask for the size is quite useless. Due to the fact, that Hell is the darker reflection of Heaven, they both are defined by each other. (The Sandman Vol.2 #27) Faerie was having a problem back then explained as the Fair Folks could not find land to establish life. So Lucifer came to them and offered them a place in Hell for to live thus they had to pay him back every seven years. (The Sandman Vol.2 #26) Despite, Hell being gifted to Lucifer, it does not contain all versions of Hell. Izanami's “House of Windowless Room” is a sort of Hell not ruled by Lucifer. (Lucifer Vol.1 #5)
- Faerie: A place of fantasy filled with all kinds of life forms primarily the residents of the Fair Lands. Within this damned place(Hell is damned thus it's damned
is the wood between worlds that Nuala uses to go to the Dreaming or even the waking world. Faerie is ruled in a hierarchy by positions of power that are obtained, thus having a courtship that determines the rule and pretty much royalty. Thus two big parts of the world are the Market and the Palace. (The Books of Magic Vol.1 #3) - Yggdrasil: Yggdrasil was once the realm that was there in the beginning, not unlike Eden Garden as a beginning place. It was once a beautiful World Tree before later taking the name Yggdrasil where it would be stained by the blood of the Archangel Michael in the future. (Lucifer Vol.1 #57) Lucifer describes it as the focal point of Creation if it was viewed through a lens. (Lucifer Vol.1 #53) Due to the departure of Yahweh from Creation, everything was dissolutioning away. Michael's blood staining the Tree made the destruction to Lucifer's Creation as well. (Lucifer Vol.1 #69)
- City of Stars: The City of Stars is the collection of all the stars in Creation, both dark and light. These beings are sentient and not just burning balls of gas. Each one could possibly be a threat to a member of the Endless. The realm goes through levels of reality as it is above the real world and goes down through Time and into the doors to Night. These stars are such a threat that they come to the attention of the First Circle and prove again that all Existence will burn if one star goes rogue. (The Sandman: Overture Vol.1 #3)
- The Abyss: This is the Void between afterlives. This place is a cold place of windy currents that cut from the realms. At the edge of Heaven is that same Abyss as we've seen Dream mention of the same infinite dark.
Tiering: Clearly, the metaphysical are not all equal in terms of how they define an R>F relationship with the Material Plane.
- The Dreaming: High 1-B, a facet of reality, well more so the opposite of reality and bound it in its every side.
- Silver City/Heaven: Low 1-A, Heaven transcends the Universe in a manner of R>F. Outside and beyond the structure of the Material Plane.
- Hell: Likely Low 1-A, Since Hell, is technically equal to Heaven and the scale of it is near it, it should most likely be Low 1-A.
- Faerie: Unlisted, Hard to tell what it is. High 1-B, simply due to being a plane outside material.
- City of Stars: Scales to the entirety of Creation and possibly contains all realms since it reaches out deeper into reality until reaching the realm of Darkness, the realm of Night. High 1-B, possibly Low 1-A.
- Yggdrasil and Abyss: Not quantifiable and won't be tiered. Possibly Low 1-A.
The Endless is a group of dysfunctional primordials that existed before the gods and the stars including the youngest member. (Sandman Vol.2 #21) They are the faces of reality and define an aspect of the Universe. Within the main Creation are side effects of Yahweh’s deterministic approach to Creation making. (Lucifer Vol.1 #52) These primal ideas of reality define both their concept and their opposite as well. (The Sandman Vol.2 #48) To clarify, these are anthropomorphic beings that are the total personification and not just gods of their concept but the concept itself. Due to that, they are repeating motifs as echoes of the darkness that permeates as wave functions across all time and space of Creation. Beings that are a much older order and more powerful than the gods of human beliefs and would last as long as reality lasts. (The Sandman Vol.2 #29)
- Destiny: Destiny is the oldest member of the Endless, who carries a book made from the hide of beats that never existed handed by his father. (The Sandman: Overture Vol.1 #4) The Book contains every little detail of every sentient life and it's chained to him, thus can not be separated from him even by someone like Michael Demiurgos. (Lucifer Vol.1 #51) The Book contains everything including things that have happened, will happen, and are happening are all traced back into the book which is the script for God’s Creation. (Lucifer Vol.1 #52) The Book has traced this information since the beginning of time and will be unwritten in the end. As the entirety of the Book is equivalent to holding the Universe itself. (The Sandman: Overture Vol.1 #1) The realm of Destiny is the loom on which the fabric of Existence across all the bonds of time and space are set. (The Sandman: Overture Vol.1 #5) Destiny’s Garden has a weird existence as potential becomes possibilities as he can guide through the distinct nature of time and space to distinguish the past and future. (The Sandman Vol.2 #21) This place exists within its own time thus there never is a now. (The Sandman Vol.2 #47) He himself has no set path or metaphorical feet to make and craves a path thus he can exist simultaneously in events that reach time and space. This upheaval makes cause and effect and other things with time mesh all together. (The Sandman Vol.2 #67)
- Death: The oldest sister of the Endless and she's the only exception to the Ancient Rules as she's only limited to what she is willing to take. (The Sandman: Overture Vol.1 #6) Her functionality is so important that when she refuses to do her job all things could not die including ideas. (Vertigo: Winter’s Edge - A Winter Tale Vol.1 #2) She is probably the only one of her kin that has the freedom to roam across different Creation without needing to be there. As she managed to pop up into Lucifer's Creation and ferry Elaine’s soul back to the main Creation. (Lucifer Vol.1 #26) She was there when the first living thing drew their breath and in the end, would also take everything as she closed the light to the Universe. (The Sandman Vol.2 #20) The last thing she would take before locking the Universe is her elder brother Destiny. (The Books of Magic Vol.1 #4)
- Dream: He goes by many names; Sandman, Morpheus, Dream King, Prince of Stories, etc…He is the Lord of Dreaming and rules a domain from where all the gods are birth and will return to. (The Sandman Vol.2 #30) Although he is slightly younger than Death, he was there in the beginning when all things were still taking shape. (The Sandman Vol.2 #40) In fact, he predates the dawn of Time and saw the light of the Big Bang. (The Sandman Vol.2 #44)
Tiering: The Endless has shown abilities to affect everything with their action that reaches through all of Creation. Due to being a very big aspect of Reality, they should be High 1-B, possibly Low 1-A.
The First Circle and Ancient Rules:
This ancient council was the one that set the rules and boundaries of the Universe when all was Void. (The Sandman: Overture Vol.2 #1) The rules apply to all versions of The Endless even the ancient ones in space beyond spaces. The Endless abide by the rules set by the Council since the beginning swearing to their laws set upon all things. (The Sandman Vol.2 #42) One of the members “Shekinah” is also known as Glroy because it's a Hebrew word to roughly translates to “In the Glory of the Divine Presence.”He managed to be unaffected by the rebirth of Creation by Dream when eternity was dragged down into nothing and then everything.
- One rule is to not spill the blood amongst the family. Which Dream managed to break the rules with Orpehus. (The Sandman Vol.2 #67)
- Another is to not fall in love with a mortal or else both fates are set for destruction. Which Dream almost broke with Nada. (The Sandman Vol.2 #9)
The Basanos:
The Basanos are a deck to tarot cards that flesh themself of shape but are so much more real than just cards taking form. They were created by a fallen Angel named Meleos who wanted to chronicle ideas that will be everlasting and he decided to use the Book of Destiny as his big project. However, they were very much flawed. (Lucifer Vol.1 #1)
- Meleos clarified that the flaw of their design was not that they didn't work. They worked as he intended them to do but they had choices and that was the problem and the mark of his sins. Giving the cards a choice of their own was the final stage which was the design flaw he didn't intend to see such a reaction to. Essentially they make possibilities from any choice happen as a metaphor, if Reality were a lantern then they are the lens through which infinite possibilities are shaped and colored. (Lucifer Vol.1 #26) Noema of the Basanos manages to seek into many fates of Morningstar and seek possibilities of his death. She also could sense the final destruction as all things fell into a great stillness lasting endlessly. (Lucifer Vol.1 #64)
- While their powers are great the problem with them stems from the source. Since they are mimics of the Book of Destiny, they largely rely on it for those abilities that are interwoven with the Book. Hence the loss of the Morningstar because their Book was native to another Cosmos and heavily dimmed their vision. (Lucifer Vol.1 #27)
Jin En Moks:
The Jin En Moks are creatures that have existed since the death of the first Cosmos where they float in the Void unaware of other existence. (Lucifer Vol.1 #7) Due to drifting in the Void for so long, they lose their memory of their true form and are bound to the spatiality and temporality of the Cosmos there in until they reunite with their true form. Beings so ancient that they were old before Heaven was built or the War. They even caught the attention of the Host scared for Creation, if they managed to get the gateways. Their old forms were literally bigger than the worlds. (Lucifer Vol.1 #6) This is why when merging with their true form, it would cause a scale of destruction that will destroy Creation as a side-effect. They are gods without flesh and are void, Tohu Ve’Vohu. (Lucifer Vol.1 #21) Beings so old that existed before any demons, Hell, or even a God to create and punish them. Described as power without shape and will without limits. When the destruction of the Universe occurs and all is Void then would they float freely as their true selves. (Lucifer Vol.1 #63)
Tiering: The Jin En Moks could use two keys in their profiles. In their limited state, they could reach High 1-B and Low 1-A for their full state.
Night and Time:
Night and Time are the two primal forces from which all Creations were birth including their children: The Endless. All versions of Creation were possible due to their union as the coming of Night and Time laid the foundation for everything. (The Sandman Vol.2 #4)
- Mother Night: Before the beginning was the Night and it was without boundaries and the Night without end. She is the personification of the nights before Creation and her domain is that of a realm of infinite Darkness beneath Creation. She is the mother of the Endless and all things in will return back to her domain and in that realm literally bathes in Darkness with songs older than time. She has a female servant child named Dusk who embodies the twilight between Night and Day. She is the mother of the Endless and embodies the infinite empty beyond all event horizons. (The Sandman: Overture Vol.1 #4)
- Father Time: Time is the relentless beat in which all forms of possibilities come. His existence is the reason anything or everything could happen, how cause and effect are defined and his realm is entirely disconnected from it. As the embodiment of primordial space-time, he can foretell events before they come and is usually the one to give his children, the Endless, their gifts. (The Sandman: Overture Vol.1 #4)
Demiurgic Archangels:
These are a species of primordial Angels that predate Creation. They were made to enact Yahweh’s approach to Creation making giving them an aspect of his infinite. (Lucifer Vol.1 #75) Michael received the Demiurgic Power of God to birth the first matter, Samael Will’s would shape those into stars, and Gabriel would take those shapes and give them patterns and complexity. As Archons of Reality and Demiurges to God, they are his intermediaries who enact his plan hence why Yahweh closed the Circle of Eternity to start the rule with either Michael or Lucifer. (Lucifer Vol.1 #42)
- Michael Demiurgos: Michael is the son of Yahweh and brother of Lucifer Morningstar. He was given the Demiurgic Power, the word of fire that builds and breaks. (Lucifer Vol.1 #11) This same power commanded by Michael and bestowed by God can end the entire War or even make a Creation from the endless nothing. Since Michael bears the infinite power of God, his position as Demiurge makes him second only to God, and has been God’s mightiest servant for a long time. Looking at Michael gives the aura of perfect power and all the Angels fall before his Presence and outrank the Seraphs. (Lucifer Vol.1 #27) Since Michael possesses the Demiurgic Power, he is a vessel for divine power, and if not taken from him would destroy everything. (Lucifer Vol.1 #54) The only being capable of repeating things only God could do such as renewing Creation where he held everyone together with his will. (Lucifer Vol.1 #53)
- Lucifer Morningstar: Lucifer Morningstar was once the most beautiful of all God’s Creation. (The Sandman Vol.2 #23) He was once Samael and was lit the fire when the worlds were first being made. The fire that defined him as the Lucifer as he relinquished his birth name. (Lucifer Vol.1 #50) As stated by Dream is possibly the most powerful being other than God and accredits Lucifer to be much more powerful than him. (The Sandman Vol.2 #22) His fires are potent enough to destroy Angels and the entire Silver City and was once the highest under Heaven. (Lucifer Vol.1 #19) He has stated to be at least a co-author or a sort of collaborator in the process of Creation until he realizes he was part of the story as well played out by God. (The Sandman Vol.2 #69)
- Elaine Belloc: The Daughter of Michael Demiurgos and the scion of Yahweh. (Lucifer Vol.1 #66) She is one of three beings that can continue the lineage of Yahweh and even poses a threat to the Titans who usurp Yahweh’s space and position. (Lucifer Vol.1 #43) She was given the Demiurgic Power by her father, and later became God as held the Universe together with her will. She became so powerful that she said, the Universe was like an ant to her and she was the sun viewing through a lens, if she focused too hard she might break it. She also dismantled almost all of Hell except for Lady Lys home and created several realms to replace one without afterlives. (Lucifer Vol.1 #73)
Tiering: Lucifer, Michael, and Elaine are much beyond anything of Creation as they all have the powers to end it at will. They carry part of the Presence powers and are far superior to the Endless. They transcend Creation which contains the Silver City, Hell, Dreaming, and Yggdrasil. This makes them 1-A.
The Mansions of Silence:
The Mansions are a realm far beyond Heaven as you have to cross the eastern side of Heaven which floats above Armaggdeon Plains. This is where Yahweh and Lucifer abandon things that do not fit their needs such as the remnants of the Fallen dead during the War. This is a sort of afterlife for Angels since they do not harbor afterlives like regular humans such as Ibriel when he died. This place is a sort of edge that is the very side of the coin and the face and tail represent Heaven and Hell. (Lucifer Vol.1 #37)
- The nature of the Mansions forces the physical beings to take their true shape. A place where cause and effect are distorted thus the rules of causality are ruled by the Lord who proclaims dominion over it. Since it works with your mind and rips apart those memories like tidal waves, they naturally are fragile when in the presence of Lucifer. (Lucifer Vol.1 #40) Explaining why without using his power destroyed it because his willpower shattered the entire Mansions as they could not handle his footfall in the realm.
- Now, there is a different set of things unknown to most travelers. The Mansions contain mirrors of Creations made by God and disregarded by him as he left them in the Mansions. God created many Creations before making Lucifer and Michael to do it. However, these Creations kept on dying the same way as patterns persisted and repeated for an infinite amount of time until Yahweh decided to take a different approach. This left Mansions as an unforgettable place that seems not real to anyone. (Lucifer Vol.1 #38)
Yahweh(The Presence):
Yahweh is the God of Covenant/Creation and the Lord of Hosts. (Lucifer Vol.1 #35) He made worlds and created Michael and Lucifer as his second in command to do the same. An order of magnitude higher than that of the Endless and is far beyond the Archangels. (Lucifer Vol.1 #42) His name is written in every atom of Creation as he defines all the anthracite details of the Universe. When he left everything was falling apart. (Lucifer Vol.1 #51) This, of course, was changed when Elaine is the name in Creation and Yahweh no longer has a meaning. (Lucifer Vol.1 #71)
- The face of the Presence is shaped by belief or by what he chooses to meet lesser beings. (Lucifer Vol.1 #68) However, the true nature of the Presence is that of the Void. The Void simply drifts in the mind of God and all distance from him as an absolute vantage point across time and space is zero. So anything he does destroy or create Creation would have an effect that reaches from the beginning.
The Void:
The endless place where there is no time. Where all things happen simultaneously as it's separated by distance and not time. The place from which all things originate and will all return to. The infinite and eternal Void houses all Creations that are birth and destroyed simultaneously and that portion of the Void with all those Creations still amounts to 0 to the Void. (Lucifer Vol.1 #75)
Tiering: The Void is beyond all dimensionality and all Creations. A place beyond all dimensional hierarchy and all things come from. It's 1-A.
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