The World Forge is contained within the Dark Multiverse as is the worlds. That's literally what inhabits the realm. Yet none of that fills it in its entirety nor was it only created after the Forge or the worlds, which it predates both.
If it predates realities, then it wouldn’t be a multiverse, as a multiverse entails worlds of some sort and this would just be “darkness” without any worlds.
Being connected is not the same as being within, and this statement isn’t even talking about some type of physical connection anyway. It’s a connection of belief and imagination. Similarly to how Hecate gave herself shape the moment humanity had its first thought of the impossible, the Upside Down Man did the same thing but for the Dark Multiverse. As in he represents the Collective Unconscious of the dark multiverse similarly to how Hecate does for the positive multiverse.
The domain which becomes the Godsphere doesn’t predate Hecate, it is Hecate. I’ve been saying this for a long time and you’ve never addressed it. Circe directly references Hecate as the name given to that bright light of raw magic. Which makes sense, considering that in Witching Hour scans I linked earlier, it’s stated that she shaped herself out of the light, meaning she had to already exist in some capacity. This same thing goes for the Upside Down Man, they both were already there, they just didn’t have any form or shape until beings in the dark/light multiverses first dreamt of the impossible.
The barrier that Hecate created was to separate her from Upside Downman. So the barrier is between the Sphere of the Gods and the Otherplace which both are connected to their larger Multiverse totality. The realm isn't somewhere in the middle of the Dark Multiverse or anything of the sort especially if it does “surround” which would mean it's at the exterior of the Dark Multiverse.
Correction, it’s a barrier made to separate the Collective Unconscious’s that correspond to each multiverse. This is shown and mentioned in one of the Witching Hour scans I already sent you where Wonder Woman finds Hecate’s aspects.
Um, I never claimed it was in the middle of the Dark Multiverse? I’ve always said that the Otherplace encompasses it, and that’s because it’s backed verbatim by a scan I’ve already posted.
Plus, before Alepheus was created.
Perpetua already designed the dark matter realm for him to create worlds. That means that the realm which is the Forge which exists within the Dark Multiverse would imply it was there before the creations of worlds. The semantics here is the name “Dark Multiverse” which wasn't established until later, but, obviously refers to that dark realm that existed before and eventually beneath the Multiverse.
If you think the dark realm is what the Dark Multiverse was before it was called then the Dark Multiverse, then that would contradict your earlier claim that the Dark Multiverse predates Perpetua. So are you conceding on that point or something?
I digress, this is still very wrong. The scan I posted earlier with Dream of the Endless pretty much directly acknowledges that the universes which make up the Dark Multiverse are the left overs of the universes created from the World Forge. And this goes back to a statement I made earlier in this post, being there If there’s no worlds or universes that are there, then it’s not really a dark “Multiverse” it’s just darkness. And this explains why Perpetua’s third domain which she made for the World Forge, was called the Dark and not the “Dark Multiverse”. The implication is that it’s the dark Multiverse because it’s a “multiverse” in the dark. If there’s no “Multiverse” then it’s not really a dark multiverse but just darkness.
This same exact error in logic you’re making is also reflected in the analogy you typed somewhere above about how you think Hecate was in the Sphere of Gods before it was called the Sphere of Gods. That domain she represented was called the Sphere of Gods only after Gods and godly realms had manifested there. Meaning the term sphere of gods refers to that aspect of the domain, where there’s gods. However, prior to the Gods it was just the Collective Unconscious as supported by her barrier being there. And the Collective Unconscious still exists, it just simply underlies that Sphere of Gods in that domain.
If the Multiverse contains all realms up to the Monitor Sphere as well as the two highest planes of existence: Fifth and Sixth Dimension which the Perpetua already states that it is not part of her design which means it isn't tied down to the dimensional superstructure of all three tri-matter realms then clearly the Dark Multiverse encompasses the entirety of the totality of the Multiverse.
Once again you’re misinterpreting Perpetua’s statement. When she states it’s not a part of the design, she’s not speaking about where it exists but rather if it was meant to exist. Her initial design did not intend for a multiverse to sit in the Dark with the World Forge, as that’s a byproduct of Barbatos defying the World Forger.
She reached into the Dark Multiverse to get “Chaos Magic” implies it wasn't hers to begin with. After all, Magic was first and she was the first magical “being” formed from Magic which comes form the Source of All Things as stated by Nabu stating the Otherkinds draw their powers from the Source.
Right, but we’re not talking about whether it was hers, we’re talking about whether it predates her or not. Your claim is that it predates her, but if it’s of the Upside Down Man then it clearly doesn’t since he’s her twin.
Genuine question, Kendra literally is using the anology that the “Multiverse” as in the entirety of it floats upon this giant oceanic subconscious realm so much vaster and bigger than the Multiverse. Yet, you claim its less than the Sphere of the Gods? Your logic makes no sense.
She wasn’t referring to the whole map, she was just talking about how it contains more universes. This directly acknowledged in the scan you posted, where she starts off claiming
Hawkgirl - “
This is a map of our multiverse. Not just our universe but all the universes made of matter and anti matter in existence. We know of fifty two, we believe it to be a set number but the energy coming through Nth metal, Carter(Hawkman) couldn’t trace to any know universe on the map.”
So Multiverse in the context of her statement is clearly referring to the 52 universes in the Orrery.
This leaves us with an ordering of the
Sphere of the Gods > tripartite multiverse > Dark Multiverse > positive matter and Anti matter Multiverse. This is obviously an oversimplification that leaves out some stuff in between but it’s not really relevant to the point I’m making m.