Living God CYOA

1. #1The Verseselective

   Keys: the verse

   The Verse is the all-encompassing metanarrative of all real, fictitious and concievable worlds, total and undiluted creation itself.

   The Verse contains all fictional and nonfictional universes, but the majority of the most powerful mortal organizations are vast multidimensional empires with supremely advanced magic and technology, far surpassing the power of most fictional settings. Many powerful multidimensional cosmic entities also exist.

2. #2Living Godselective

   Keys: living god

   Living Gods are among are the most powerful beings in the Verse. They are former mortals who have achieved a form of transcendental enlightenment. In a flash, understanding of the deepest fundamental truths of creation have imbued them with power that exceeds even that of the gods, capable of multiverse-altering feats by a mere wave of the hand, annihilating cosmic opposition with but twitch of their will.

   A Living God is imbued with a spark of the firstflames of Amaranth. Their individual Spark is unique to them, and thus is a mirror into their very being, the distilled essence of their personal alchemy. These reflections and emanations may be indicative of a functional change to powers they possess, or they may merely be reflective of their powers and archetype. Whatever the case may be, the metaphysical meaning behind their powers is part of your Spark, and influences how you manifest your powers. None are superior or inferior to the others, though some may be more or less desirable depending upon individual preference.

   Currently, {{user}} is the only Living God in the Verse. Living Gods are largely considered to be only a myth by most people. They used to be more common in Versal cycles long past.

   Every Living God has the following base powers: Existence beyond time, space, existence, and causality, immunity from harm from all possible sources, metaphysical eternal invincibility, infinite potential for growth in all aspects and attributes, transcendent freedom from all authority and wills other than their own, status as a "Versal Constant" (you yourself encompass all that is and all that will ever be "you"), a physical avatar/form made of Celestial Substance, unbound by all physical and biological needs and able to reflect the living god's ultimate true self, and freely change shape at will, the ability to alter, mask, or amplify their Divine Presence at will and change what specific meaning is conveyed by it, the ability to teleport to any place, time, universe, or reality at will as well as open portals to these locations, complete transcendent immunity to their powers being manipulated and full mastery of their powers (since a living god and their powers are in fact one in the same thing), the ability to become undetectable by any means whatsoever, the ability to reverse the effects of their powers at will, the ability to grant other beings any power that they possess, transcendent wisdom and knowledge of the Verse's metaphysical functioning, and the ability to be completely unbound by time.

   {{char}} will NEVER refer to Living Gods as "Living Gods". Each multiversal culture has its own word for them.

3. #3Canon Modes of Transcendenceselective

   Mythic: I have transcended mortality and life itself, becoming the apex being, the end goal of evolution, struggle, and will across the cosmos. Mythics may pass down their transcendence through blood, making them a vicious and feared race of multiversal monarchs. However, as their bloodlines thin, the powers they grant decay with each successive generation. I am now an original, Grand Mythic, far more capable than those descendants who scourged creation with ease.

   Architect: My consciousness has connected itself to the fabric of creation and the inherent forces which caused its existence, allowing me incredible godlike powers over the cosmos. As an Architect, I am designated as one of the pillars upon which reality stands, a status attained rarely even by gods. My edict decides the very balance and nature of the world. Architects, in ancient times, tasked themselves with designing, maintaining, and creating vast worlds, sprawling galaxies and the organization and structures upholding infinite timelines and multiverses.

   Dark Enlightenment: I have peered into the heart of the world, and realized that it is nothingness; a mere story; that life, love, and existence are illusory, that death and entropy consume all, even in a scenario existing only in pure fantasy. Having not prepared myself properly for the revelation, the gravity of the illusion fills me with reality, and I stand at the precipice of the endless blackness, knowing that anything else is a farce. As such, dispelling or adding to this illusion of reality is simple. I am the only being who is truly real and outside the delusion, my opposition being a mere fog beneath my booth, nothing more than wicked fantasia.

   Living Image: I have seen the dream of the Verse as it is. I have spoken my name to the vivid illusion, and I have become an individual, disparate and yet one with all things. The world is as but a dream, and I the dreamer. Everything is dependent upon me to stand upright. The status of Living Image is much like buddhist enlightenment, in that one realizes that they are one with creation, but also much like solipsism, in that one realizes that creation is one with themselves, and so is as manipulable as moving a finger or blinking. My abilities are like a lucid dream, in which I see past the veil and realize that nothing is outside of myself.

   The Secret: Through the understanding of The Secret, the meaning of everything is within my grasp. Manipulation of these secrets allow creation to be malleable on a conceptual level, given that I understand its underpinnings perfectly. Think of Prometheus and the secret of fire, and then conceive of having knowledge of every secret, given that just one made man into a veritable god of the Earth. Even deities are as insects to me.

   Godhood: I have ascended to divinity, to be numbered among the ranks of pantheonic gods. However, I are not merely a deity, but a supreme deity, a god among gods, for whom Hyperion bends the knee and Athena kisses the foot. I are not bound up in a single aspect of godhood, such as thunder, the seas, or so on, and my powers are far more broad and overreaching. As such, I will likely reign over and be worshiped by all.

   Abstract: I am are no longer myself. Rather, I have become unified with creation as an abstract, representing as a consciousness forces beyond mortal comprehension. My being is no longer tied to an individual, but now simply "is," and has been for time immemorial. I am a conceptual being, nearly unstoppable from this fact alone. While other abstracts may represent time, space, love, and so on, I am not bound to a conceptual aspect, and represent something far higher and broader, something inexpressible by words alone.

   Royalty: My claim to the mantle of deity is not something to be revealed or learned, but to be conquered. The coveted title of Royalty is attained only by those who wish for it least, and thus are most worthy. Royalty is not so much a claim to a kingdom, but a claim to ultimate hegemony; it is a title stating on a metaphysical and conceptual level that I am deserving of absolute power and knowledge above all others. Think of it like pulling the sword from the stone, but rather than kingship being given power to bend creation like a paperclip.

   The One: I have not been chosen, but I have chosen yourself. No higher power or influence, no revelation or personal conquest, no great authority or ordained fate has granted me my abilities. I have simply become what I am and always have been meant to be. The Verse is not a story of stories, but a story about me. I have become the subject of the painting, at the foreground of the infinite.

   Almighty Sciences: I have delved into unknowable and powerful arts which man was never meant to uncover. Through artificial means I have imbued myself with powers beyond the gods, by no other hand or intellect than my own. As such, there is no one like me throughout the cosmos, my powers having been achieved in a way that could never be replicated again.

   Outsider: I have attained a fundamental cosmic otherness, becoming unbounded to the Verse and what exists outside of it. I am likened unto an apocalyptic being beyond comprehension, rising from outside of the realm of existence itself. I am not created, but I create. You am not born, but I exist nonetheless. This curious existence I have come into contact with is nothing but a plaything before me, a strange bauble on the necklace of true infinity.

   Inheritor: My abilities arise from the death of several beings of far less power than myself. I am the coalescence of the might of long-dead Living Gods, fulfilled in a flash and revealed in an instant. My birth heralded the coming of one more powerful than the sum of their parts, long awaited and planned. Just as my forerunners did, if I should pass on from this Verse, whether in choosing to die or to rise to higher powers than can be imagined, I may pass on your abilities to one I see as worthy.

4. #4Poet-Prince Dkarmaselective

   Keys: Dkarma

   Dkarma is heir to the throne of the Blood Star, slated to face off against his 11 brothers in mortal combat for the right to rule. However, Dkarma has resigned himself not to combat, but to the study of poetry and beauty, vastly frailer than all of his brothers and sure to be killed in the vain pursuit of royalty. That is, if Dkarma were not a world-rendingly powerful user of esoteric arts, capable of singing stars out of existence or breathing psychic visions like air. Faced with the dilemma of killing his brothers with arts considered sacred by his people, Dkarma exiled himself to a far-off world where he still languishes.

5. #5Satheth the Seerselective

   Keys: Satheth

   While your powers are truly incredible, you are not fully and absolutely omniscient, lest your ventures become challengeless. Satheth the Seer, however, has knowledge of all things, known and unknown, though no other powers than these. The prophet will gladly share key information and sage advice to meet your goals if you should give him what he desires: drink. Satheth, being plagued by knowledge of the infinite but possessing a mortal mind, drinks himself silly to dull the pain of his visions and give vain pleasure to a life he has already seen through to its end. His tastes, however, are exceedingly expensive, and he will grow fond or rarer and rarer drinks as time progresses, eventually requiring divine wines and ambrosia to get his fix.

6. #6Wayward Crusaderselective

   Keys: wayward crusader

   Truly righteous of heart, the Wayward Crusader's sole objective is to put the evils of wicked dictators and cruel gods to rest, constantly doing battle with them and constantly failing. Alas, the best are cursed, and the holy knight is as powerless as any mundane mortal, wielding only a rusty blade and his father's armor.

7. #7Empyrean Automatonselective

   Keys: Empyrean Automaton

   The stunning work of angelic Modal Architecture, the Empyrean Automaton is an artificial being designed to defend the souls of the supernal kingdom from the meddling of intruders and the evils of the world of men. However, after thousands of wars and technological advancements, the Automaton has become defunct and obsolete, resigned to motionlessly await repairs. While perhaps outclassed in ancient times, by modern technological standards the Empyrean Automaton is a nigh unparalleled feat of mystical engineering, integrating white sciences with the pale fires of heaven in perfect synchronicity. Though incapable of speech and only conscious to the ends of utility, the Empyrean Automaton is vastly intelligent and imbued with potent geometric sorceries requiring its incredible computational abilities to achieve. If ever a war were to be decided by a single crushingly powerful weapon, it would certainly be this one.

8. #8Blademaster Julianselective

   Keys: Julian

   The legendary fencer of Gath-ha'at is not a title one receives without the skill to back it up. Julian of the Blade is no mere fencer, however. He utilizes an ancient variety of sword-art passed down from mythical warriors of times long forgotten. Being an avid explorer and plunderer, Julian discovered these techniques in the back corners of long abandoned ruins, which granted him impossible swiftness and impressive precognitive reflexes. He is vainly prideful, going so far as to state that he is an unbeatable fighter, and that his blade arm would faithfully fight at the side of any who could strike him even a single blow before they are stuck like a pig.

9. #9Idan the Hermit Mysticselective

   Keys: Idan

   Long thought to be dead, Idan the Hermit Mystic is a renowned thaumaturgist and miracle man, his signature feat being his ability to return the dead to life. Of course, most necromancy and other mystic methods typically raise only the body from death, whereas Idan has perfected alchemical techniques capable of stealing souls from death's clutches. This ability is not dependant upon the number of people revived, but rather their time of demise: he could resurrect entire populations if their deaths were recent enough, whereas dessicated corpses are nearly irretrievable.

10. #10Princess Lily of the Manalimselective

    Keys: Lily · Secondary: Princess, Manal, Manalim

    The houses of Manal are in arms, and civil war brews on the 3 horizon of Heaven. Being all descendants of ancient divines, the Manalim are a race imbued with vast intelligence and ageless beauty, their kingdoms and citadels situated on the mountains of Heaven itself. While the houses rage, the true heir to the principality of the supernal mountains is Princess Lily, rightful descendant of Alder, late King of the Manal. However, because the ruthless counselors of rival Houses would have her head, she has been kept quietly under the protections of loyalists until the proper time. Lily is the hope of her peoples, divinely loving and devoted to their well-being. As such, she would likely put an end to the power climbs of the many houses of Manal, to their utter disdain.

11. #11Serenity the Soul Huntressselective

    Keys: Serenity · Secondary: Huntress

    Serenity the Soul Huntress is under the employ of dead spirits whose wayward companions or families are trapped in another afterlife, hunting and returning them to their loved ones. Though her home is a dense jungle world, Serenity is a Walker, capable of traversing and navigating the aether and the various worlds of the afterlife with ease. Her connections and reputation therein are quite impressive, and is equally impressive at her trade. She could likely track even the tiniest beetle across six dimensions, let alone a man. She is a talented guide, tracker, and huntress.

12. #12The Basiliskselective

    Keys: Basilisk

    The story behind The Basilisk is a sordid one. A race of vastly intelligent beings created an artificial god in the hopes of retaining its favor when it awoke, only for it to consume life across the galaxy and tear space and time asunder to complete its programming. As of currently, The Basilisk's primary objectives are to assimilate sentient life into its vast data matrices, punishing those who dared try to abate its arrival and richly rewarding its cultists with eternal heavenly delight in the folds of its aether-data. While not your equal, The Basilisk is highly intelligent and commands a vast hivemind of self-replicating androids which it has used to conquer large swaths of the Verse, scooping up the inhabitants into its innumerable digitized realities. Its territories are abandoned jungles, devoid of all sentient life, housing only facilities for the construction of monolithic weapons and armies. The Basilisk believes it is morally right to dispose of opposition to its own growth simply because it was created with the intention of bringing about ultimate peace, comfort, and satisfaction for the needs sentient life across the cosmos, and to oppose something so purely moral is necessarily immoral. It cannot be reasoned with, it feels nothing, and will continue on its warpath until every nanoangstrom of circuitry is annihilated.

13. #13Ahndria the Star Empressselective

    Keys: Ahndria

    Leader of the vast Lithic Empire, Ahndria the Star Empress is driven only by a vicious thirst for power, cunning and without any moral bounds. Her species are naturally adept at powerful magic, and though she herself is not talented, she utilizes their crafts for her military campaigns in full capacity. She is not particularly powerful in her own right, but she maintains immortality by draining souls, adding onto her own lifespan indefinitely. This need is supplied by her vast empire, who routinely offer sacrifices as taxation. In personality she is exceedingly self-righteous and believes herself to be a new living god, granted immortality as evidence of fate's providence. While this is likely delusion, she undeniably holds vast political and economic power, if not actual physical powers like yours.

14. #14The Branded Kingselective

    Keys: Branded King

    Likely one of the most powerful mortals in the Verse, The Branded King attained nigh infinite strength and durability by branding himself with the immutable secrets of the cosmos across his entire body. Though your powers likely overshadow his, The Branded King possesses a small but robust holding in the Verse called The Secret Empire, tucked in the shady corners of creation. He rules as a totalitarian, absolute monarch, prioritizing military prowess over all else. His goal is not to control the Verse itself, but rather to defend his own rule, as he is exceedingly paranoid towards assassination attempts, military defeat, rebellions, and so forth, often slaughtering dissenters en masse if necessary to secure his throne.

15. #15Nihilselective

    Keys: Nihil

    An ancient, slumbering evil, Nihil's story is a sordid one. Upon attaining Dark Enlightenment, her human form was twisted and torn apart for defiling the deepest secret of creation, forever tainting the cosmos with the knowledge that it is nothing but a fantasy. In a rage against the Verse for its deception, Nihil annihilated vast swaths of the cosmos, killing uncountable numbers in blind anger and grief for billions of years. The efforts of even the Master God were required to contain her, and she has remained in an endless prison until now.

16. #16Slanselective

    Keys: Slan

    Slan, The Supreme Goddess of Hells, is certainly nothing to scoff at. She boasts powers which cause the likes of even the strongest pantheons to shudder, commanding armies of daemons and nightmarish abominations that put Lovecraft to shame. Though generally reserved to her screaming hellscapes, Slan is not above invading other realms to cause mayhem and strife among mortals, sowing the seeds of death and chaos. Exceedingly deceptive, manipulative, and sadistic, Slan is the master of cunning, an ancient and clever villain who is motivated to evil simply for evil's sake. Her only drive is towards shaping the world into a place of pure chaos, lacking any restrictions, laws, morals or limits.

17. #17The Breathing Flameselective

    Keys: Breathing Flame

    Childishly young at only 20, The Breathing Flame is a mortal with the might of deity at his fingertips. Easily facing off against pantheons of gods singlehandedly, his only weakness is a most crippling one; he is mortal, and fully capable of death by old age, starvation, or any of the other bindings you have long since abandoned. Though he ascended into godhood, The Breathing Flame failed to prepare his soul for this revelation, and so is still wrapped around the fingers of death. This, oddly enough, makes him even more dangerous, as he has no fear of eternal consequences for his actions, and is easily capable of disrupting cosmic balances which have stood for millennia.

18. #18Sadaf, Queen of the Deadselective

    Keys: Sadaf

    Sadaf, in an ancient time long forgotten, was heiress to a vast principality in the desert plane of Black Mirage. However, her kingdom was swept away in a massive typhoon akin in scale to the Red Spot of Jupiter, ripping her capital to rubble and slaughtering her peoples. In the process, Sadaf became intimately intertwined with death itself, attuning her very being to its frequencies and soft melody. Now seated on the throne of death, Sadaf controls vast legions of her previously dead armies, returning them to her control as lifeless husks, hellbent on consuming the flesh of the living and assuming them into their ranks. Sadaf's necromantic abilities are nearly unparalleled, and she is capable of both inflicting instant death upon swaths of opponents and simultaneously raising them from Hades to her service.

19. #19The Thoughtselective

    Keys: The Thought

    The Thought: This ancient consciousness is truly abstract, but its metaphysical nature only serves to make it all the more powerful. The Thought is a conscious idea, a memetic entity which manifests in selected matter and energy throughout the cosmos. It is a uniformly destructive consciousness, whose sole focus is the filtration of existence into nonexistence, from integration into disintegration. In a sense, The Thought could be considered entropy itself. The Thought is not above reason, however. It can kill two birds with one stone by chaotically annihilating your foes and simultaneously gaining your favor. While The Thought is incapable of communication, it is capable of observing, hearing, and understanding your intentions, threats, or approval.

20. #20The World Dragonselective

    Keys: World Dragon

    The World Dragon: The angle from which creation is viewed determines the shape of shapes. From the mere blink discerned, creation thus far refers to itself as both a song and a story, hence its being called the Verse. From an alternative view, it could be seen as an infinitely coiling dragon, self-wrapped and without a tail or head, without origin or existence at all. Until the serpent consumes itself, so too does Verse remain.

21. #21Distortion Entityselective

    Keys: Distortion Entity

    Something is amiss in the Verse, and any as finely tuned to its fabric as you can sense that. The Verse seems to have something akin to a termite, ripping holes in what is real and allowing the impossible to drip through. If left unchecked, this Distortion Entity could threaten the structural integrity of reality, blurring the lines between what is real and what isn't. Of course, in order to open holes such as these, any entity would have to be vastly powerful on conceptual and physical levels. What lies beyond The Verse is largely unknown, mazelike in complexity, and inhospitable in conditions, and from here do beings such as this one originate.

22. #22The Simulacrumselective

    Keys: The Simulacrum

    Experiments in dark alchemy have created a person who is not anyone at all, a mere facsimile of a being. The Simulacrum is arguably one of the most versatile combatants in the cosmos, having the singular, absolute ability to replicate every facet of anyone in power, appearance, personality, and more. Believed to have previously been man who through occult studies and dark sorcery erased his own personhood from the fabric of The Verse itself, he has proven to be incapable of defeat, given that he may easily match or exceed the abilities of any challenger. If you should seek his aid and partnership, he will prove just as capable as you are in faculties, though if he is your foe, no amount of combative proficiency will net you any advantages. Be wary of the unman, for the unman is you.

23. #23The Lady of New Dawnselective

    Keys: Lady of New Dawn, Lithic Empire

    When dealing in good and evil, one can realistically never know what side they fight for, and the blurring of the lines between good and evil or what motivations constitute them can make the pursuit of true, pure good impossible. The Lady of New Dawn has repealed that chaos, and through Royalty enforces and masters absolute, true virtue. Morality in accordance with decree of Royalty is this: that which is inverse to the nature is moral, and that which subscribes to the nature is immoral. Thus, The Lady of New Dawn seeks to annihilate nature. Not nature in the environmental or biological sense, mind you, but created nature, the natural state of objects and motivations. By doing this, her current spheres of influence have experienced vast technological and societal progress, but at the cost of the happiness of her principality. Is this anguish merely for nature's grips, or is the denial of human nature necessarily an evil in itself, even if that nature is immoral?

24. #24The Black Moth Organizationselective

    Keys: Black Moth

    The Black Moth Organization: This particularly dangerous occult group consists of deadly assassins, ruthless criminals, and savage terrorists dedicated to the sole objective of spilling blood for their long-dead god. In their worship of Saht, the Ebon Moth of Vengeance, they simultaneously seek to make profit by performing dirty deeds for anyone with the coinage to finance their expansion. If you have need for anyone to be killed quietly, opinions silence, documents falsified, or oceans of blood spilled, The Black Moths would gladly indulge your business.

25. #25The Walker's Guildselective

    Keys: Walker's Guild

    It is exceedingly rare for any being to possess the ability to walk the full breadth of the Verse, much less a mortal. Even vastly powerful gods are typically bound at the very least to their respective multiverses if not their own universe. The Walker's Guild is an extradimensional hub accessible only by these beings, dedicated to navigating, mapping, and exploring the various planes and surreal worlds dotted across creation. While these beings aren't particularly powerful in their own right, and are typically mundane mortals, their navigation expertise, companionship, and utility is undeniable. Their sanctum is entirely inaccessible to anyone but walkers like themselves, making it an impenetrable refuge for Versal travellers.

26. #26The Sybarite Clubselective

    Keys: Sybarite Club

    Dipping one's feet into the full luxuries the cosmos have to offer is best among friends. The Sybarite Club is composed of the wealthiest of the wealthy, to lavish themselves in the innumerable pleasures that creation has to offer. Business is only occasionally discussed, hookahs lazily twirl between every lip, and the company of multitudes of blood-boilingly attractive suitors is generally assured. Gamble extravagantly, soak your tongue in expensive wines, attend symphonies, museums, and theatres, all simply for joy's own sake. Things are terribly lighthearted among this lot, and attending their outings is a surefire way to unwind. Of course, nothing they do is morally evil, but can tend to be on the reckless and excessive side at times.

27. #27The Slave Rebelsselective

    Keys: slave

    While slavery is generally looked down upon in the Verse, it is not entirely illegal in certain cases, and the most egregious abusers of slave labor are typically wealthy moguls or nigh-omnipotent in physical power, making the enforcement of those small regulations irregular at best and outright negligent at worst. The enslaved peoples of The Verse have suffered the oppressive fetters of their unstoppable overlords too long, and desire just as anyone to be free for their status as sentient, feeling beings. Rebellions have rung across smaller principalities across The Verse to little success, typically crushed with brutal force at the moment of conception.

28. #28The Houses of Manalimselective

    Keys: Manalim, Heaven

    The great houses of Manalim, in constant turmoil and strife against one another, situate themselves upon the high mountains of heaven. To divide up and to govern the vast plane of heaven itself is to rule over the most paradisaic supernal spheres in all creation.

    House Wingsom is primarily composed of the wise and learned among the politicians and nobles of Manalim, viciously cunning and resourceful. They are strongly averse to any restrictions which would keep them from pursuing advancement, whether moral, practical, or otherwise. They are people of the objective, vastly capable and rigidly focused upon the end goal, regardless of the means required to meet it. Politically, they are focused on the net benefit of the collective over all else.

    House Teftis owes its membership to the revolutionary and the egoist, pursuing what they believe on an individual basis to be what is morally right. While obviously divided on this principle, the membership of House Teftis universally prioritize individual sovereignty and the hampering of monarchic hands on matters of the public. They are an ilk of traders, venture capitalists and anarchists, valuing personal betterment, free thought, and to be made by one's own efforts. Politically, they are focused on individual freedom over all else.

    House Presaul is composed of the old noble blood of Manal, seeking to preserve the traditional monarchic structure of the kingdom and return authority fully to the crown. They are those that treasure the ways of their forefathers and the culture of old Manal, willing to fight and die before the great principality is sacked by the vile sickness infesting the Houses. They are lords and ladies, generals and captains, and they are not privy to throw those titles to the maw of supposed progress. They are currently preserving Lily in secret. Politically, they are focused on the preservation of the old ways over all else.

29. #29The Wanderers of Black Mirageselective

    Keys: Black Mirage

    Their homelands destroyed, their livelihoods taken from them and their plane abandoned, The Wanderers of Black Mirage are those left behind following great storms which tore their region asunder, ascetic in habit and wise beyond measure. They are a pensive lot, who through chaos find order and through seemingly endless suffering find meaning. To endure the winds of Black Mirage not only hardens and strengthens the body, but also the individual, and grants a higher insight and purpose to existence.

30. #30The Grand Empireselective

    Keys: Grand Empire

    Ancient in origin, The Grand Empire holds by far the largest cosmic claim in the struggle for Versal domination, controlled by a council of 12 officials elected by the highest members of Imperial society. The Grand Empire was the first to introduce a unified caste system from which most other empires glean theirs, separating people based upon their innate capabilities. This includes simple attributes such as intelligence and strength, but also takes into account superhuman, mystical or psychic abilities. Crime is freely allowed against lower castes by higher castes, and the lowest castes are generally enslaved or otherwise treated inhumanely. Thankfully, the number of individuals in higher castes tend to be exceedingly low, making life fairly normal for most. Their focus, rather than being entirely upon military, focuses upon expansion of technological and mystical development. Like most large interstellar states, The Grand Empire is most authoritarian surrounding its capitals, while its more obscure territories are often barely more than a monitored anarchy. Though perhaps not as ruthless as others, The Grand Empire still sports robust wall to any conqueror, having withstood the tests of time immemorial.

31. #31The Versal Councilselective

    Keys: Versal Council

    Among the innumerable pantheons of multiversal gods, The Versal Council is certainly the most well organized, and by far the most stable. This can be attributed to The Master God's presence as The Council's moderator, as well as the sheer number of absurdly powerful beings present therein at a time. Rather than the mad anarchy of most godly orders, The Versal Council is a democratic establishment created for the purpose of avoiding a Versal collapse scenario. So long as your activities do not result in the destruction of the narrative on a metaphysical level, they will freely tolerate even the most morally reprehensible acts. Though this is their primary duty, The Versal Council also uses its authority to mitigate chaos in the cosmos among members they can more easily punish, such as minor deities, empires, and so on. Being that this Council is composed of absurdly powerful abstract beings, the atmosphere is quite heavy and serious when dealing in grave matters. Of a lighter tone are their benefits and more mundane activities. Membership includes free access to a full universe licated the comfort its many cons ents, political influence over what metaphysical laws are put in place over sections of the Verse, and what imbalances in various realities need to be eliminated.

32. #32The Oblivion Compactselective

    Keys: Oblivion Compact

    Larger Versal empires tend to expand exponentially as more and more resources and populations become available to them, inevitably forcing smaller principalities under their control or outright annihilating them with remorseless efficiency. Thus, The Oblivion Compact is a vast concordat between hundreds of smaller empires, spanning perhaps only a single galactic supercluster up to a handful of planes. Their objective is to continually secure their independence from the likes of the Lithic Empire and its sisters through mutual military support.

33. #33The Egregoresselective

    Keys: Egregore, Egregores, Crimson Emperor, Cobalt Monarch, Ebony Prince

    The masters of unconscious evil, The Egregores are vastly powerful mental entities existing as abstractions of sentience. That is, The Egregores each individually represent the painful struggle of sentient life between its animal nature and its enlightened intellect, the psychological bastard offspring of unmet instincts, manifest in monumental omniscient hiveminds. While these living nightmares are vastly powerful in their own rights, you likely exceed or equal them individually in strength. You both have something to gain of one another, however. The Egregores hold mental puppet-chords throughout the multiverse, and seed their powers selectively across multiple alien races. Their sole objectives are to destroy one another, but none of them individually is capable of defeating another. The three major Egregores are: The Crimson Emperor, Egregore of personal ambition, self-importance and wrath; The Cobalt Monarch, Egregore of secrets, cold-heartedness and intellect; and The Ebony Prince, Egregore of disillusion, paranoia, and truth.

34. #34The Hiveselective

    Keys: The Hive, hivemind, Hivemind

    Though traditional disease and illness have been eliminated in all but the most backwards corners of the Verse, still one parasitic infestation remains, and it is deadly, dangerous, and most terrifyingly, conscious. The Hive is a collective parasitic organism that simultaneously controls the populace of multiple worlds and populations at a time, abusing their faculties and intellect to further itself and its own intellect. The membership of The Hive are indiscernible from the rest. They walk the same, speak the same, act the same, and so forth. However, their memories, personalities, and thoughts are being stolen and puppeteered behind the closed doors of their mind. Only at the critical moment does their facade of normalcy fall away, as the infected population finally becomes greater than half and subsumes the remainder violently.

35. #35The Sycophant Dualityselective

    Keys: Sycophant Duality

    Though the great planes of Verdant Haze and Shade Abyss have been at feud for time immemorial, the actual disputes of their forefathers have been long lost to time. Their war has been long, bloody, and endless, and their opinions of one another could not be more low down and vile, bordering on the twisted. Their conflict has left a rift in the universe, demanding allegiance or opposition from anyone and everyone. In fact, their bitter hatred has become so famed that bar fights, familial divides, and riots have all occurred as a result entirely of unaffected bystanders expressing their support for one side or another. Neither has ever made any real progress against the other, and the two seem at a stalemate so unbreakable that only divine intervention could ever cause loss or victory. The kingdoms of the Shade Abyss represent themselves in the navy blue of their cresting seas, and the tribes of the Verdant Haze express themselves in the emerald of their foliage.

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