Antipathy Antipathy was the first timeship child of Compassion . Biography . Before his birth , Antipathy lived within the internal architecture of his mother — an infinite womb . He was Compassion ' s first child , an imperfect prototype never meant to live . He was psychologically damaged and defiantly hated being forced to leave her . The Great Houses tried to get rid of him by sending him on a suicide mission , but he escaped . He screamed across the universe , consumed with hate for his mother for giving birth to him . Quite by chance , Antipathy stumbled across Shokendorot , a Citizen of the City of the Saved on a sojourn in the universe . He unravelled Shokendorot ' s biodata and got his first glimpse of the City . He sought out other Citizens in the universe , devouring them until he could pinpoint where they had come from : Ascension . As a timeship , he was barred from entry to the City . However much he tried , he could not get through the Uptime Gate . He tried and failed to remove the timeship parts of his biodata , and eventually resorted to joining Faction Paradox in the hope that that its technology could help him gain entry to the City . Antipathy was accorded a higher - than - normal level of respect and leeway by the elders of the Faction because of his heritage : he was inducted as Cousin rather than a Little Brother , and when he tortured and killed a chupacabra obtained from the Stacks , it was overlooked . That ended when Little Brother Porsena discovered that Cousin Antipathy was selling the Faction out to the enemy . A group of five Faction elders including Father Self , Mother Melby , and Godmother Quelch tried to ritually bind Antipathy , but he managed to dematerialise when they were interrupted by Porsena . With techniques learned from the enemy , Antipathy packaged himself inside a nearly imperceptible shift in the perceptions of Czn Ans genTang , but again he was repelled by the Uptime Gate . Antipathy biologically engineered the Manfolk to be a fifth column within the City , then lodged between Compassion and the Next Universe the same way she had done to create the City . When the Universal Machine created the Downtime Gate to help a group of dissatisfied Citizens set up a colony in the Next Universe , it was actually sending them into Antipathy . Antipathy smuggled a part of himself back into the City in the mind of the colonist Lon Shel , steered her to Manfold , and built himself a body . From the Epicentre in Manfold , Antipathy ' s influence spread like a wavefront . Wherever it went , the City ' s invulnerability protocols ceased to function , making objects he had tainted into potent weapon s . When someone was killed , Antipathy recreated them from his own matter in the Epicentre . This backfired when Godfather Avatar / Little Brother Porsena was resurrected there . Godfather Avatar was able to use a Manfolk annihilation bomb at the Epicentre , eliminating Antipathy ' s body in the City and rendering his entire structure brain dead . ( PROSE : " Of the City of the Saved . . . " ) Appearance . Antipathy was eight feet tall on the outside , with huge hands and a big black beard . His shadow held a six - foot sword . ( PROSE : " Of the City of the Saved . . . " )