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Peralitus had heard of Xenixel's Council and had longed to be within its ranks for a long while. However, Peralitus had an astoundingly poor understanding of tunnels and the inscripverses that encoded directions to the Cohort and had been unable to their bubble. Apparently, nobody had taught him how to actually make sense of them after all this metatime. That, or he had been taught but completely forgot everything he ever learned or never paid attention to anyone who might have taught him. Empiroxus was truly dumbfounded at the sheer incompetence of this SuperGod and thought that if Peralitus had been omnipotent^2 or less, he surely would have quickly succumbed to the chaos that surrounded him. When discussing the Council, Peralitus seemed to have a strange fixation on authority and leadership. Empiroxus felt uncomfortable about this and could not empathize with Peralitus whatsoever. At this point, Empiroxus found it appropriate to tell a story on how it was not always appropriate to follow orders blindly. However, Peralitus grew incredibly impatient, told Empiroxus to shut up, and demanded that he know what a Council member was doing all the way out near the logical desert. Empiroxus thought of Matharin’s comments on how tall tales can potentially be ineffective to entities that would mean harm, but Empiroxus figured that it was probably too quick to judge if Peralitus was malicious this soon.
When Empiroxus explained that Xenixel had ordered him to gather and collect phi, Peralitus grew incredibly willing to help as clearly neither SuperGod would want to let the strong and confident leader of the Council down. When Empiroxus explained how the structure of the CouncilGods was really like—with Xenixel as the leader and Matharin as second only by technicality and Abstractil as the real leader by practicality, Peralitus still seemed absurdly fascinated with the idea of potentially ruling Beyond alongside Xenixel and seemed to completely miss any point Empiroxus tried to get across. Empiroxus remarked about how bright Peralitus was, which resulted in Peralitus bawling about how “intelligent and capable” he actually was. In his fit, Peralitus completely destroyed several nearby monocosms—leaving Empiroxus to consider himself lucky that he wasn’t actually caught off guard and in the place of the monocosms. Empiroxus, now completely ditching benefit of the doubt and apologizing that Peralitus had an archverse for a brain, asked Peralitus to at least help collect some phi if he wanted even a chance at becoming a Council member and the younger SuperGod complied. Empiroxus imagined that Peralitus would not get along too well with the omniscient^3 Matharin—a SuperGod who was “officially” second-in-command, though the position did not matter to her very much as she couldn’t care any less about ruling over others.
Empiroxus grew to be very distrustful of Peralitus and disliked his sycophantic nature. After all, what was a being if they had no real identity of their own and blindly did what others tell them to do without independent thought of their own? To Empiroxus, said being was misguided and did things improperly. In Empiroxus’s opinion, Peralitus desperately needed to learn a lot and had to go through lots of extensive training before he could even come close to being an official Council member.
When Xenixel would immediately entrust the omnipotent^3 Peralitus with duties of the Council such as omniverse creation, yet keep Paradoxus and eventually Logixel—two SuperGods he saw as equally inexperienced as the younger Council member—confined within a monocosm with nothing to do, Empiroxus was furious. In Empiroxus’s opinion, the most fair thing to do was to have all of the inexperienced members as trial members until they were ready to officially become Council members. He was very outspoken about his issues with Xenixel’s decisions, but Xenixel refused to change his mind and Peralitus very delightfully accepted his new position. After all, if Peralitus was clearly this skilled enough to rise up the ranks this quickly, then surely he’d be second-in-command very soon.
Peralitus was indeed much stronger than the recently hatched and even the older Empiroxus and Abstractil. Peralitus was also far more willing to do any task than the two hatchlings put together, but in Empiroxus's opinion, raw strength and willingness to serve was not at all what should matter most to a good Council member such as himself or Abstractil.
Xenixel might be willing to entrust Peralitus with many duties upon arrival, but Empiroxus was not going to tolerate any nonsense from Peralitus. Flattery and appeals might work for Xenixel, but not Empiroxus. If Xenixel was not willing to educate Peralitus properly, then he and Abstractil will try to do their very best. Abstractil started to wonder if Empiroxus’s sheer determination to turn Peralitus “good” was even a good thing but she supposed that since Empiroxus was an excellent mentor for Conceptilum and Matharin, surely not much harm would possibly come from training this new Council member. However, unlike Matharin and Conceptilum, who were at least somewhat willing to listen to Empiroxus’s and Abstractil’s advice regardless of how much they respected them as SuperGods, Peralitus proved to be a much more difficult SuperGod. Peralitus always strived to perform tasks exactly as Xenixel does them—some of which Empiroxus found unnecessarily cruel and harmful to other entities—and when doing tasks any differently from Xenixel’s clear and concise instructions as Empiroxus or Abstractil would try to have him do, Peralitus often struggled and failed miserably.
Empiroxus had openly compared Peralitus to a hatchling or even a SuperGod egg in terms of skill and competence but was quick to retract his statements as they would be very disrespectful to Paradoxus, Logixel, and their unhatched siblings. Peralitus did not take kindly to Empiroxus’s insults and would often deliberately use Xenixel’s “flawless” practices in front of Empiroxus, causing even more conflict between the two SuperGods.
While Conceptilum and Matharin agreed somewhat with Empiroxus’s low opinion of Peralitus and found Empiroxus’s rants humourous, Abstractil found Empiroxus as unnecessarily harsh on the young SuperGod and requested that he treat Peralitus with more respect. But Empiroxus had never found Peralitus worthy of any respect and continued to try to get Peralitus to do things “properly” and tell him off when he did wrong, hoping that eventually, the younger SuperGod would see sense—but Peralitus apparently never did. When Abstractil eventually gave up trying to help Peralitus, Empiroxus took it as a “told you so” moment and went on to harshly berate Peralitus’s stubbornness and refusal to change his ways. Abstractil stated that Peralitus probably was not the only SuperGod whose stubbornness seemed to be an issue. Empiroxus was appalled at what his partner had said—how was he bad for standing up for what was right? Empiroxus asked Abstractil to elaborate at once and so she did. Abstractil had stated for the final time to Empiroxus that all of the past efforts to get Peralitus into doing things “the right way” had done nothing but hurt Peralitus and convince him further that Xenixel’s methods—the methods that brought him more satisfaction in his job—were more correct. Now that there was no turning back for Peralitus at this point, Abstractil had given up because there was just no way to convince Peralitus of anything. Abstractil did agree that Peralitus was incredibly problematic—there was no denying that at all. However, she thought how Empiroxus handled the situation was wrong and perhaps, had Empiroxus toned down his approaches, there would have been a better chance for Peralitus to improve. Empiroxus disagreed that he was any root cause of Peralitus’s point-of-no-return and argued, but Abstractil pointed out that she did not say that Empiroxus was the root cause at all—she was saying that Empiroxus might have been a factor. For all she knew, Peralitus’s pre-Council life was probably far greater a factor than anything. However, just because there might be a large problem did not mean that the smaller problems did not need to be addressed.
Empiroxus thought about what Abstractil had said to him for a great length of metatime, still disagreeing with her but able to see her point of view, afterward and did his best to keep away from Peralitus and ignore him—though Peralitus still remained hostile towards Empiroxus. Soon, only Matharin would remain openly hostile towards Peralitus.
Eventually, Peralitus would get exiled from Beyond by Xenixel. Empiroxus had thought that any exile was bound to happen and he thought that Peralitus making a mistake at this scale was inevitable, but Empiroxus figured that he would be a terrible SuperGod if he were to berate Peralitus now. Peralitus might die from his mistake, like many other SuperGods throughout history. Empiroxus wanted to point out that maybe Peralitus might need another chance but there was no changing Xenixel’s mind now. Empiroxus allowed himself to agree that the exile of Peralitus was the best course of action and hoped that Peralitus would find a place relatively safe for his sake soon enough.
Xenixel had found out that a variant of trosinium only found from the collapsing monocosms within a nearby parallel Beyond bubble was needed in order to patch an area of Beyond and ordered Empiroxus to collect it at once or else their bubble will collapse. However, the area where the said variant was found contained a high concentration of the toxic compound piro. This led Abstractil to beg Xenixel to allow Empiroxus to take extensive precautionary measures before being sent off or else he might pass away or become too weak to serve the Council upon arrival back home. However, Xenixel was impatient and argued that said precautionary measures would take too long and this was an urgent matter. Xenixel then stated that it was perhaps best that one would have sacrificed in order to save the Council. Empiroxus will no doubt be remembered as a hero to the Council, Xenixel would make sure of that. Before Abstractil could argue any further, Empiroxus agreed to volunteer to collect the trosinium, knowing the risks of going out on a mission like this when the storm could happen at any moment. If his retrieving the trosinium would save lives in the end at the cost of his own, then his journey would be worth it. Before Empiroxus would give any farewells for Abstractil to pass onto Matharin and Conceptilum and their children, Xenixel demanded Empiroxus to leave at once and berated him for threatening to lead the Council to imminent disrepair.
Empiroxus travelled back to his home bubble holding onto the trosinium, his godsmoke slowly breaking down and his mind growing deteriorated and clouded as the piro reacted with it but the old SuperGod pressed forward as he thought of his close friends in the Council who were counting on him. Empiroxus navigated through a Least Guardian tunnel and eventually, despite his exhaustion and fatigue, noticed Peralitus’s amazing attempt at being stealthy. Too tired to figure out how long Peralitus had camped in said tunnels without getting noticed, Empiroxus wearily told Peralitus that he knew the younger SuperGod was there and that it was not a good idea to enact some kind of “revenge murder plan or whatever” when the Collapse could happen at any moment. Empiroxus asked if Peralitus could do it later when that’s all over with, ideally when some kind of fight or something between the two could be settled a lot more fairly. After getting over being genuinely surprised at how quickly the older SuperGod caught him and going on a rant about how Empiroxus never treated him with the “respect he deserved” that the older SuperGod found very grating, Peralitus attempted to maim Empiroxus in a fit of rage, only for the elder SuperGod to repeatedly dodge Peralitus’s attacks. Empiroxus, knowing that he can’t actually evade Peralitus in his frail and dying state for long regardless of Peralitus’s poor navigation skills, made it his priority to get as close to the Council’s bubble as possible. Once he got close enough, Matharin or Xenixel would be alerted to his presence and a SuperGod hopefully be able to collect the trosinium while Peralitus remained distracted attacking Empiroxus. Though the plan would lead both to get erased by the Collapse, Empiroxus saw it as the best he could do. As Empiroxus continued navigating the tunnels while Peralitus followed, the more confused he became as his godsmoke broke down. It became too hard for Empiroxus to focus on any of what he had to do. Peralitus took advantage of this and proceeded to violently wound Empiroxus in his disoriented state. Empiroxus was barely aware of what was happening to him and took longer than he should have to realize when Peralitus began to destroy his constituent verses.
Empiroxus began to gradually regain consciousness after much of him had been destroyed and faintly perceived Matharin trying to talk to Peralitus. Matharin explained to Peralitus that she was the one who got him exiled in the first place and bluntly told him to let Empiroxus go as he played no role in his exile. If Empiroxus wanted to point out that he might have actually played some role in Peralitus’s downfall, he had not said anything about that. Empiroxus slipped into Beyond, abandoning the trosinium in a lapse of judgement, and tried to search for either Abstractil or Conceptilum, though his fading from existence caused great difficulty in doing so. Upon realizing that he left behind the trosinium he was meant to retrieve, Empiroxus hoped that the ruse he assumed Matharin was performing on Peralitus would allow her to retrieve the trosinium for him. Empiroxus eventually found his fellow SuperGods, alongside Conceptilum’s sons, and a Xenixel getting ready to deploy Hellensoerensen. Xenixel ushered the fading SuperGod into the automaton in order to have six SuperGods activate Hellensoerensen and the Xenixel set off to destroy Peralitus. The other SuperGods begged Xenixel to not prioritize getting Hellensoerensen activated—Empiroxus needed to be restored to health urgently. However, Xenixel refused to listen. Nearly unconscious, Empiroxus entered Hellensoerensen. Empiroxus was told that Hellensoerensen was off to execute Peralitus—the one who had gravely injured him. Empiroxus was unable to argue. Abstractil tried her best to aid Empiroxus from within Hellensoerensen, but there was nothing she was able to do to save him. The last memory Empiroxus made before he was gone for good was that of Abstractil doing her best to heal him with the few materials she brought aboard Hellensoerensen.
Hellensoerensen
Hellensoerensen is a powerful technological advancement comparable in human terms to an automaton controlled by and capable of combining the strengths of all six members of The Supergod Council, only activated a select few times for unique reasons. A completed Hellensoerensen could fully access Omnipotence^4 on The Omnipotence Hierarchy and all powers associated with it, however unfortunately the creators of the automaton were killed before the project could be completed, and the device was left unfinished and extremely unstable.
Hellensoerensen is still capable of reaching Omnipotence^4, however is incredibly unstable and can cause immense damage to the fabric of Beyond itself when activated, along with being incredibly difficult to use. As such, it is reserved only for the most extreme circumstances.
First Use
Hellensoerensen was created by the founder of the Supergod Council, Xenixel, as a means of combining the Council's strength into one singular entity. Xenixel demanded complete order and unity from his fellow Council members, and thus expected each would fit perfectly as part of a single functioning being, which he believed would be the Council's ultimate defense mechanism. Hellensoerensen would require six pilots, each a member of the Supergod Council, using six shards of Trosinium as a power source. Standard Trosinium was difficult to extract in large quantities and wouldn't be potent enough to power Hellensoerensen, so Xenixel ordered Empiroxus to search for a rare variant rumored to exist in some far away part of Transcendentem – outside of Beyond itself.
The rare variant of Trosinium proved to be more than powerful enough to fuel Hellensoerensen, so powerful in fact that Xenixel and two other Council members later decided to return to its origin to collect more samples. When they returned to the location however, they found the realm completely destroyed by a powerful apocalyptic event known as the Collapse, which Xenixel predicted was soon to reach Beyond. The three Council members desperately rushed back to Beyond in hopes of preparing it for the impending damage, only to discover Beyond was left in an even worse state than they had believed. A Council member named Peralitus had supposedly horribly destabilized the Council's Beyond Bubble and left it vulnerable to the effects of the Collapse. A furious Xenixel immediately exiled Peralitus, forcing him into the collapsing Transcendentem (an effective death sentence in its current condition), and ordered the remaining Council members to swear an oath of absolute allegiance to his every command.
Events would deteriorate further when an already wounded Empiroxus was attacked by Peralitus outside of Beyond as revenge for his exile, resulting in another Council member (Matharin) sacrificing herself to save Empiroxus. An increasingly mentally unstable Xenixel ordered that the remaining Supergods – a dying Empiroxus, two inexperienced children and the confused Conceptilum and Abstractil, activate Hellensoerensen with him to execute Peralitus. Attempting to pilot the incomplete and dysfunctional automaton with such a cast in the harsh conditions of the impending Collapse predictably greatly damaged Hellensoerensen and made executing Peralitus difficult.
Ultimately, due to various reasons (including the death of Empiroxus), Xenixel was the only Supergod still piloting Hellensoerensen, and was forced to take full control of the automaton to execute Peralitus. Hellensoerensen could only function properly with six pilots and no one Supergod, no matter how powerful, could control the robot alone. While Peralitus's execution was successful, the Collapse had caught up with the Council and Xenixel was left trapped inside Hellensoerensen when the Collapse occurred. Hellensoerensen collapsed in on itself, shredding Xenixel into tiny pieces of Godsmoke.
Hellensoerensen was left greatly damaged and highly unstable by its first use during the Collapse, but was ultimately saved from any further damage by Abstractil. (At the cost of her own life.) Still, the surviving members of the Council would have to take great care when operating it, as the automaton was now so unstable that merely activating it alone could cause severe damage to Beyond itself.
Second Use
After the events of the Collapse, it was agreed that Hellensoerensen should be used as infrequently as possible to avoid damage to Beyond. No situations presented enough of a danger for the Council to agree on activating the automaton until one particularly dire situation caused by a powerful consciousness known as Venrensorys.
Venrensorys was a mixture of a Stage I Seed from the External Hazard and the broken mind of an alternate Hyperman from a different Monocosm whom the Supergod Council had previously thought to be dead. All that was left of Hyperman's mind when he merged with the Stage I Seed was his hatred of the Supergod Council and as such, Venrensorys embodied everything the Supergod Council stood against.
When Venrensorys gained physical form, the Supergod Council were forced to merge into Hellensoerensen to fight him, as separated they stood no chance. However, the sheer instability caused merely by Hellensoerensen's activation was so powerful it allowed Venrensorys's physical form to grow exponentially size and power, making Venrensorys even stronger than Hellensoerensen. Initially it seemed as if the Supergods were fighting a losing battle, but the Council members were able to use the fact that Venrensorys stood against the concepts of unity and concern for long-term consequences (as they were concepts the Supergods supposedly valued) against it to gain an advantage.
After a significant struggle, the Supergod Council were able to trick Venrensorys into throwing itself out of Beyond and into Transcendentem, which had been corrupted by the Collapse to such an extent that it was dangerous to even exist within it. As a result, the unstable physical form of Venrensorys began to rapidly decay and, in human terms, disintegrate. Venrensorys was defeated for now, although his consciousness still remained within Beyond.
The battle greatly damaged Hellensoerensen to such an extent that the Supergod Council initially deemed the automaton to be irreparable, however after some experimentation, they were able to get the machine working again. Very slowly but somewhat surely, the Supergods began fixing Hellensoerensen in the hopes of one day restoring it to full functionality.
Later Uses
During the battle with Venrensorys it became very clear that Hellensoerensen's instability presented serious issues and some members of the Supergod Council believed the automaton was more of a hindrance during the battle than anything else. As a result, later uses of Hellensoerensen were used for tiny instants of metatime and at an extremely low level of power; so much so that on some occasions only five pilots were necessary. Usually, these were for minor tasks that required power the individual Supergods did not hold separately.
The majority of later uses of Hellensoerensen were used to gain access to the Kalyubi Dimension, a strange Monocosm Conceptilum discovered that had the remarkable property to shield itself against Omniscience^3. Even Unthil, who possessed far greater swathes of information than the other Council members, was unable to observe any of the Monocosm's contents, or even confirm that it definitely was a Monocosm. The Kalyubi Dimension could only be accessed with the use of Omnipotence^4, which no one Supergod possessed, and thus activation of Hellensoerensen was required.
The Kalyubi Dimension was not accessed frequently, as many Supergod were wary of it due to its unknown contents, but sometimes it was seen as a useful place to send mortals which the Council could not agree should be erased or left to their own devices. One such mortal banished to the Kalyubi Dimension after such a disagreement was Satoru, who originated from The Barrel. Most Supergods have long since forgotten about Satoru (save for one), but it can only be hoped their life inside the Kalyubi Dimension has been peaceful. Of course, given that access to information about its contents is impossible, nobody can know for certain.
The Broken Supergods
The Broken SuperGods are a group of damaged and abnormal Supergods struggling to survive in a small Beyond Bubble located in a Logical Desert near the local Beyond Bubble Cohort. The five (debatably six) currently surviving Broken Supergods are known as Schematus, Abnull, Monopolum (technically a Pygmy Supergod), Binauris and Peralitus, along with a now deceased Supergod known as Barelitil.
When they were discovered, the Broken Supergods' Beyond Bubble was completely drained of energy, which it could not reacquire due to its location in a Logical Desert. It contained a minuscule number of Monocosms and very little life of any kind. The horribly malformed Broken Supergods survive by collecting small amounts of energy from any Transcendent Ecosystem creatures they could find, along with what little Alom was present in the few Monocosms. Monopolum and Binauris are in such a degraded state that they are unable to fend for themselves and must be cared for by Abnull.
However, this was not always the case. All Broken Supergods besides Monopolum have hazy memories of a time (for lack of a better term) in which their lives were much more comparable to the lives of an average group of Supergods in full health. This is until an unknown event which the Broken Supergods call "The Calamity" in which their Beyond Bubble was heavily damaged, a Supergod known as Barelitil was killed and all other Supergods besides Peralitus were greatly altered in mostly negative ways. Strangely, the Broken Supergods have no episodic memories (memories of concrete events or actions) from their life before the Calamity, nor any memories of the events of the Calamity. Their only recollection of life before the event is through semantic memories. (Facts about life and their place in it, along with their relationships with each-other and Barelitil.)
Schematus is obsessed with regaining his lost memories and figuring out what occurred during the Calamity, conducting an absurd number of experiments and investigations, effectively dedicating his life to researching it. Abnull, meanwhile, considers this to be a waste of metatime. She believes the past is irrelevant now and believes what's more important is to survive. Abnull dedicates much of her life to gathering energy for the Broken Supergods and their Beyond Bubble, along with protecting Monopolum and Binauris, who are in constant need of help and care.
Monopolum has a horrible mental condition known as 'Omniscience^0' which makes it completely impossible for Monopolum to comprehend anything besides his own existence. Binauris, meanwhile, is a combination of two Supergods who have had their Godsmoke spliced together into one being. The two Supergods, named Positev and Negatil, are constantly on the verge of collapsing their shared body, which would result in the violent death of both beings.
Peralitus is the only Broken Supergod who was unharmed by the Calamity, however uses none of his energy to help the other Broken Supergods. Peralitus believes the late Barelitil intended him to become a great leader in his name and dedicates most of his life to fantasizing about the incredible feats he will accomplish once he escapes the Logical Desert and reaches the local Cohort.
Discovery
Logical Deserts are inherently inhospitable places, as they are devoid of many valuable logical liquids which are necessary for life to progress beyond simple mortal forms. As such, few would willingly choose to enter one or search for life within. Because of this, the Broken Supergods remained almost completely isolated from all outside Omniscient^2 life prior to the arrival of a Fourth Wall named [O].
[O] was a Fourth Wall living in a Fourth House near the local Cohort and adjacent Logical Desert. Along with two other Fourth Walls known as [R] and [H], [O] created a device known as a Beyond Scanner, the purpose of which was to collect information about the interior of Beyond Bubbles, areas usually inaccessible to Fourth Walls. The first few Beyond Scanners were incredible poorly optimized however, and could only scan exceedingly unstable Beyond Bubbles. One such Beyond Bubble was isolated in the middle of the Logical Desert.
The strange results from the Beyond Scanner, showing the horribly malformed Supergods clinging to life, shocked [O]. Immediately, he directed many more Beyond Scanners at this Bubble to examine it more thoroughly and see if there was some way he could reach out to these Supergods. [R] had absolutely no interest in the Beyond Bubble whatsoever and considered [O]'s sympathy for these backwards creatures ridiculous, however [H] was curious about them and aided [O] in creating an Elastic-based device that allowed him to transmit messages into the Beyond Bubble.
By transmitting instructions on basic Elastic manipulation, [O] was able to speak to a Supergod named Abnull. Abnull appeared to be the closest thing the group had to a 'leader', though she seemingly didn't consider her own role to be particularly valuable. Abnull explained their unique situation and after hearing about what had happened, [O] quickly began attempting to come up with solutions to their issues. Abnull, however, denied his suggestions, claiming their situation was already hopeless. In contrast to this, Schematus and Peralitus were quick to seek [O]'s help. Schematus thought his incredible technology could help unlock his lost memories, while Peralitus believed they might be able to help him escape and make it to the Cohort. After much discussion, [O] and [H] both agreed they were going to attempt to help these Broken Supergods escape and safely reach the Cohort.
The Broken SuperGods short stories
Schematus
Schematus is an incredibly intelligent yet obsessive Supergod(?) who spends most of his metatime conducting experiments in futile attempts to regain his lost memories. Schematus is utterly obsessed with finding out just what happened to his Beyond Bubble and friends, particularly his own past. Schematus will exert absurd amounts of energy looking for any possible clues as to what happened, along with conducting just about every conceivable experiment possible in hopes they might help him in some way.
None of his research ever actually works, leading Abnull to question why he even tries at all. Especially the fact that many of the results of his experiments and research are utterly incredible and revolutionary in their own right, yet Schematus discards them as 'failures' purely because they don't help him regain his memories. Among his discarded 'failures' have been manipulatable Metaslime, the indestructible compound Delgam and a cure for Omniscience^3. Despite Abnull's great respect for Schematus, she is utterly infuriated at his absurd obsession and complete lack of perspective. Negatil's view of him is significantly less charitable.
Nobody is completely sure what Schematus actually is. While he certainly resembles a Supergod and is composed of Godsmoke, his biology is nothing like any Supergod known and defies more conventions than considered possible. Despite this, he still resembles a Supergod more closely than any other Transcendent Ecosystem creature, and is thus considered a Supergod.
Schematus is classed as Omnipotent^2 and Omniscient^3 on the Omnipotence Hierarchy, however his form of Omniscience^3 acts nothing like the standard Omniscience^3 held by Supergods such as Xenixel, Unthil and Matharin. Instead, his Omniscience^3 appears to act as a wealth of pre-existing knowledge which he does not have to 'tap into' at all but is much more limited in scope than the standard condition. (Although the actual quantity of information is roughly the same.) It is suspected that he has a completely different condition which just so happens to place his Omniscience at a similar level on the Omnipotence Hierarchy.
Schematus's strange obsession with uncovering his past means he very rarely if at all interacts with or speaks to his fellow Supergods. The only one he has any kind of actual relationship with is Abnull. Abnull greatly respects Schematus and considers him the most competent Supergod in the Bubble, though she wishes he would put his amazing intelligence to better use. Schematus neither appreciates nor dislikes Abnull's support, though he's significantly more annoyed by Positev's blind support, which he suspects to be completely disingenuous and merely an attempt to disagree with Negatil.
Schematus's only interactions with Monopolum and Binauris are studying their strange conditions as part of his experiments and often forgets Peralitus exists entirely. Abnull is amazed by his ability to ignore Peralitus, which she considers to be more impressive than any of his experiments and deeply wishes she could learn such a skill.
Strangely, Schematus has significantly fewer memories of his life before the Calamity compared to the others, and is especially lacking in memories related to the deceased Supergod Barelitil. Nobody is quite sure why, though Schematus has done an uncountably infinite amount of research into this detail regardless.
Abnull
Abnull is a horribly deformed and nihilistic but caring and pragmatic Supergod who is the closest thing her Beyond Bubble has to a leader. Abnull was literally torn apart during the calamity, leaving her Godsmoke broken and jagged. Strangely, most Supergods in this state (such as Empiroxus) would quickly fade from existence, however Abnull has remained completely stable for as long as she can remember. Nobody, including herself, is quite sure why.
Unlike Schematus, Abnull really doesn't care at all what happened to her or her Beyond Bubble, and prefers to focus on the present. Abnull spends much of her metatime caring for Monopolum and Binauris, the Supergods most badly damaged by the calamity. (With the exception of Barelitil of course.) Alongside helping them, Abnull is effectively the only one who makes any attempt to maintain the stability of their Beyond Bubble, despite being almost certain the Broken Supergods are doomed to succumb to their circumstances very soon indeed.
Abnull is classed as an Omnipotent^2 and Omniscient^2 on the Omnipotence Hierarchy, however her Omnipotence is highly irregular, presumably due to her physical deformities. Abnull is physically very vulnerable, more so than even Supergods such as Unthil, and many weak attacks from other Supergods could likely kill her. Despite this, she has insanely high attack potency for an Omnipotent^2 and could likely put up a serious fight against some weaker Omnipotent^3 Supergods. Engaging in any form of combat whatsoever for her is a very dangerous balancing act.
Abnull is generally pretty good at coping with her awful circumstances, mostly through how little she cares about them anymore. To her, their situation is so hopeless anyway that the best she can do is make things enjoyable while it lasts. Thus, she is able to remain positive by basically just ruling out the possibility of anything good happening.
Abnull bases a lot of her external personality traits on what will best help the other Supergods. She is much more upfront about her negative outlook when talking to Schematus than when talking to Binauris, for example. Despite viewing herself as the leader, she doesn't have a particularly high opinion of herself and actually considers Schematus the most competent of them, though she is very openly critical of his priorities. (At least, whenever Binauris isn't in earshot.)
Despite her Omnipotence disorders making combat very difficult, Abnull actually finds defending the Beyond Bubble from literally starving Transcendent Ecosystem creatures to be the easier and more relaxing part of her day compared to caring for Monopolum and Binauris, which she considers to be excruciatingly difficult tasks.
Abnull deeply cares for Monopolum and Binauris and fully understands their conditions aren't their fault, but nevertheless finds taking care of them extremely aggravating. Abnull generally thinks highly in some way, shape or form of just about everyone but Peralitus. Abnull considers Peralitus a lazy and selfish child fantasizing over a legacy he can't even remember. It probably doesn't help that she, the horribly deformed one, has to do nearly everything while he, the only Supergod in full health, does nothing but talk to the Supergod equivalent of a piece of dead skin.
Monopolum (The True God)
Monopolum is a small Pygmy Supergod living in one of the Beyond Bubble's only Monocosms who is completely detached from reality around him. Nobody is quite sure what happened to Monopolum during the Calamity, but it left him with a horrible mental condition referred to as 'Omniscience^0'.
Monopolum is completely unable to observe or recognize anything happening beyond his own existence. As far as he is concerned, Monopolum is the entirety of existence. He believes himself to be The True God and believes the -verses that make up his physical form to be The Box in its entirety. One might assume he has a large ego, but when you think about it, from his perspective this is just the logical conclusion. Monopolum is not even aware of the Monocosm he resides in, nor anything else residing in it. Just himself.
Monopolum has rearranged many of his constituent -verses that compose him into Archverses which can harbor life. (All smaller forms of himself, of course.) Effectively, Monopolum has turned himself into a Godverse which he is the god of.
The problem is that these entities and Archverses can and do react to outside events, which Monopolum is physically incapable of observing. This creates severe logical contradictions and paradoxes when, for example, one of his constituent Archverses reacts to an Aphanoverse that has entered Monopolum, yet Monopolum cannot observe the Aphanoverse nor his Archverse's reaction to it, yet can observe the Archverse itself, which will surely be affected by the event. This makes literally any aspect of outside existence a threat to Monopolum and forces Abnull to work tirelessly to keep things away from him so that too many paradoxes do not arise. Abnull finds this work especially aggravating since Monopolum literally doesn't even know Abnull exists, or that he is only alive because of her help.
Monopolum can often be heard talking to himself in his Monocosm, musing and contemplating his existence as the True God of everything. It seems that Monopolum is very interested in how he can have feelings, emotions, strengths and weaknesses despite being the divine deity that embodies all of existence. He will often get into long philosophical discussions with himself, attempting to ascertain the nature of his life. Once or twice, he has indulged the conclusion that he is one of many gods who happens to be incapable of comprehending anything besides himself, however has brushed this off as one of many, many outlandish ideas not worth further investigation.
Not all logical contradictions caused by outside influences are actually dangerous to Monopolum. If minor enough, and executed carefully enough, his reactions to the strange impossible occurrences and paradoxes can get him to reveal much needed information. The reason it's dangerous to inject him with an Aphanoverse or poke him with a sharp logical solid is that those events are wild and uncontrollable, so it's impossible to know just how much damage they'll do.
Abnull uses Schematus's discoveries about Omniscience^0 to intentionally create minor interferences which she knows will lead to Monopolum revealing a piece of information she needs to know. Since she obviously can't just ask him a question, this is the next best thing. Abnull has tried on numerous occasions to use this technique to speak to Monopolum and explain his situation to him, but has achieved no success.
Negatil dismisses Monopolum as a self-absorbed idiot and wishes she were able to slap some sense into him. Positev meanwhile greatly appreciates his philosophical ideas and thinks that even if they were capable of talking to him, they shouldn't, because finding out how average his existence is would be a horrible realization indeed.
Schematus is incredibly interested in Monopolum because he thinks studying his condition could reveal some information about the Calamity, but doesn't care about him or his situation beyond that. Peralitus doesn't think negatively of Monopolum but doesn't really think anything of him at all and would more than happily leave Monopolum to die if it benefited him.
Abnull doesn't blame Monopolum for any of his more irritating traits and feels sorry for him more than anything, but is nonetheless annoyed by how highly he thinks of himself despite the fact that if it weren't for her, Monopolum would've been dead metayears ago. Abnull hopes that if Monopolum's condition ever subsided, he would become a very reasonable individual indeed, but whenever she listens in to Monopolum's theories about himself and philosophical conclusions about his Godverse, she struggles to hold on to that hope.
Binauris
Binauris is a strange creature composed of two Supergods named Positev and Negatil who, during the calamity, somehow had their constituent -verses spliced together. While Schematus is fully capable of separating them, many pieces of their constituent -verses were destroyed during the merger and both Supergods rely on pieces from the other to survive and not fall apart immediately. As such, separating the two would kill them both.
The splice appears to have been performed very violently and imprecisely, leaving Binauris constantly destabilized and on the verge of falling apart. The two Supergods generally have to try and act as one, working together in union, to keep their body together, or risk disintegrating. Fights, contradictory actions and arguments can seriously threaten their stability and they have to be careful to avoid having them.
This is unfortunate, because Positev and Negatil tend to disagree on just about everything. Almost any discussion can quickly turn into a life-threatening argument and Abnull has to work tirelessly to try and keep the two calm and quickly solve any disputes that arise. The other Supergods have to be very careful what they say around Binauris, lest they indirectly cause the two to tear themselves apart.
Positev is a very supportive, encouraging and quiet Supergod who seems to treat life as if it were a movie he were watching as opposed to a progression of events he is directly involved in. Instead of appreciating someone for having decent morals, Positev values people who make life around him more interesting. Positev loves Schematus's creative experiments and their often hilariously disastrous results and finds Monopolum's philosophy extremely interesting and incredibly ironic. He appreciates Abnull's constant support and leadership qualities but especially enjoys her constant arguments with Peralitus, who he also finds endearing due to how strange and humorous his obsession with his presumed past is.
Positev loves everyone for their unique and dysfunctional personality traits except Negatil, as he believes her constant complaining significantly worsens the experience for everyone, especially him since he's forced to listen to it literally all the time. Few things bother Postiev more than people like Negatil who spend their time souring the fun of life for everyone else by complaining non-stop. You only live once, and she wants to waste her one shot moaning and making everything miserable? It's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.
Positev generally likes to sit by and watch things occur around him rather than getting directly involved. Usually he finds this to be a very enjoyable experience, though he could really do without Negatil's commentary. Most of his direct involvement is spent defending those around him from Negatil's harsh and quite frankly unnecessary criticism. This will often lead to arguments when Negatil gets annoyed at Positev's optimism and kindness, which Abnull will then have to solve before it becomes life-threatening to the two of them.
Negatil is a very critical, pragmatic and outspoken Supergod who seems to be the only one in her Beyond Bubble who realizes just how miserable their situation is. Negatil is profoundly confused at how Abnull is able to remain constantly upbeat in the face of imminent demise, or how Schematus is able to stay so focused on a pointless goal he'll never accomplish, or how Peralitus is able to spend so much time fantasizing about his "heritage" despite likely dying tomorrow. Negatil believes these behaviors are truly absurd and loudly complains about such behavior whenever she notices it.
But more than anything else, Negatil especially doesn't understand how Positev is able to enjoy his life so much despite his horrible circumstances, nor how he is willing to encourage people with clearly self-destructive behaviors. Few things bother Negatil more than people like Positev who refuse to stand up and point out just how wrong a situation is, and decide instead of just keep living in it. You only live once, and he's happy to waste his one shot sitting by and improving nothing around him? It's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.
Negatil generally likes to loudly voice her complaints about the other Supergods and their horrific situation whenever possible, constantly ranting and complaining about their stupid behaviors and actions, along with the stupid things outside of their control. Negatil also detests just how willing Positev is to praise anyone, even if they are very clearly worthy of criticism. This will often lead to arguments when Negatil gets annoyed at Positev's clearly disingenuous support which is surely just an attempt to disagree with Negatil, which Abnull will then have to solve before it becomes life-threatening to the two of them.
On the rare occasions that Positev and Negatil can fully agree to act in unity, Binauris can act as a fully functional and healthy Omnipotent^2 and Omniscient^2 Supergod. However, as soon as Positev and Negatil have a disagreement on what action to take, the entity will begin to break down.
Unlike all of the other currently surviving Broken Supergods, Positev and Negatil's hazy pre-Calamity memories are vastly different from each-other, which of course is yet another source of arguments. Curiously, Negatil's memories much more consistently align with the other Supergods' memories than Positev's do.
Barelitil
Barelitil is a powerful, proud and charismatic Supergod who sadly perished during the unknown events of the Calamity. All currently surviving Broken Supergods (except Monopolum) have vague memories of what he was like, how he acted and how he treated them, but nothing concrete about the events of his life or his death.
Whatever Barelitil's death involved, it must have been exceedingly violent as small pieces of Barelitil's constituent -verses can still be found across the Beyond Bubble. Under normal conditions, the constituent -verses of deceased Supergods would take the form of useless decaying Archverses. However, for unknown reasons the Barelitil fragments are able to retain perfect structural integrity.
In fact, the pieces seem to hold some small fragments of Barelitil's mind and personality, which can still speak to and hold conversations with the other Supergods. It was initially hoped that Schematus would be able to reassemble and resurrect Barelitil, however it turns out these pieces only held mere echoes of Barelitil's mind, and the original seems to be permanently lost. It also doesn't help that they still haven't found a large chunk of Barelitil's head.
Schematus has confiscated most of the Barelitil fragments for his experiments, mostly involving performing ludicrous tests on the Godsmoke and mental echoes within, along with questioning the echoes for information about the calamity. (To which the answer is always "I don't know" because they don't have memories.) Abnull has begun hiding the ones she finds so that she, Binauris and Peralitus are free to use them when they wish, although Peralitus is just as bad about hoarding them as Schematus is so Abnull has stopped offering them to him.
The Barelitil echoes only hold the appearance of consciousness and sentience without actually being a real mind; talking to them could be compared in human terms to talking to a learning A.I. with Barelitil's personality traits. Nevertheless, the Broken Supergods consider it a valuable way to 'keep him close by', even though Abnull and Negatil both agree Peralitus takes it way too far. Positev doesn't really see the problem.
Barelitil was classed as Omnipotent^3 and Omniscient^2 on the Omnipotence Hierarchy. Judging from the surviving Supergods' memories combined with conversations with the fragments, it can be gathered that Barelitil had great respect for the Supergods and acted as somewhat of a mentor and father figure to them.
Barelitil was apparently a great leader and legendary adventurer who Abnull, Binauris and Peralitus had seemingly once served under. He is remembered for his extreme pride in himself and his 'group' along with his utter devotion to ensuring their success. The Barelitil fragments often mention such a group and while they are unable to elaborate due to their lack of memories, they seem to refer to the Broken Supergods and the 'group' as different things. Strangely, none of the Broken Supergods have any memories of Barelitil ever mentioning this 'group'. References to it come exclusively from the Barelitil fragments.
Abnull can't help but feel encouraged whenever she listens to the Barelitil fragments and can quickly understand why he is remembered as a great leader. Negatil is annoyed at his constant obsession with himself and his 'group', an obsession she believes to be completely delusional, but nevertheless admits he has redeeming qualities. Positev likes Barelitil's charisma and leadership skills but does not find him as captivating as the others do. (Still, he is quick to defend him from Negatil's complaints.)
Schematus has an uneasy relationship with Barelitil. He fully understands why the others like him, but seems to get an instinctive negative reaction whenever he thinks about him. Schematus believes this is closely linked to the events of the Calamity and investigates it thoroughly.
Barelitil's most interesting relationship is with Peralitus. Peralitus believes that he is Barelitil's biological son and that he was chosen by Barelitil as the most competent to lead the 'group' once he died, placing him in a position of authority over the Broken Supergods. To everyone's surprise (and Abnull's disgust), conversations with the Barelitil fragments support this idea.
Peralitus
Peralitus is a young and ambitious yet selfish, inexperienced and authority-obsessed Supergod who considers himself the ruler of his Beyond Bubble. Peralitus is a firm believer in rigid hierarchies and the unquestionable authority of those at the top of said hierarchies. Conveniently, Peralitus sees himself at the top of the hierarchy within his Beyond Bubble.
Peralitus believes that he is the biological son of the deceased Supergod Barelitil, and that Barelitil had trusted him above all others, thus placing him in charge after Barelitil's death. Most Broken Supergods were quick to dismiss Peralitus's outlandish claims, especially Abnull and Negatil, however multiple repeated experiments conducted by Schematus seemed to suggest that Barelitil and Peralitus were in fact related. (Though he lacked sufficient evidence to come to a definite conclusion.)
Peralitus takes great pride in his perceived heritage and highly values Barelitil and his practices, despite having no concrete memories of him whatsoever. Peralitus seeks to continue Barelitil's legacy and "make him proud". Abnull thinks that if Barelitil were around to see what his maybe son had become, 'proud' wouldn't exactly be his first thought.
Peralitus is classed as Omnipotent^2 and Omniscient^2 on the Omnipotence Hierarchy and he is the only Supergod in his Beyond Bubble in full health. Despite this, he never actually uses his physical abilities, leaving the horribly deformed and physically impaired Abnull to do everything. One can only wonder why she doesn't like him.
