Power

Power is Flicker the Overseer's creation for the Legends contest.
There are legends, and there are legends among legends. This is the tale of Power itself.
Power is tied up so closely to its abilities, what it does, and what it allows to happen, that those have adopted its name.
== Introduction ==
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
You do not know how true that is.
<Of course I don't. I was programmed to do the right thing.>
I wasn't talking to you.
All right, hello, readers. We are going to tell you about Power. Anything in <> is said by Alex, this sentient supercomputer. You can call me the Author.
Ahem. First thing - and probably the hardest thing to get your head around - Power is an entity.
Well, was an entity.
<Power: Missing, presumed deceased, though still affecting the world.>
== Appearance ==
"Even mysterious entities have favorites."
Power does not have a set appearance. Its favorite form, though, is a vaguely dragon-shaped mass of black darkness (ha ha, I'm so funny) that looks like smoke with purple at the edges.
== Personality ==
"Those who live their lives knowing nothing are often the most dangerous."
Well, at first, Power was a benevolent ruler, and everyone was happy. But then, as we all do, some dragons got unhappy.
Power responded by killing them.
<Harsh.>
Of course it was harsh. There were no standards of punishment. Remember, no one had thought of punishment methods before, and no one had been unhappy before, and death was the one thing that every dragon feared.
Dragons began to question the sanity of Power, and some turned away from Power. Power killed them.
And so evil was born.
After this, all dragons ran away, and Power decided that if no dragons were going to follow it, then Power would simply leave them alone.
After this, Power thought about ways to punish dragons. And so, Voila! We've got our standard forms of punishment.
But then, the dragons decided to destroy Power.
<I can imagine.>
The dragons won (power and strength are different), but Power was not destroyed. A universe without power simply does not function.
<If there is no power, then nothing can influence anything else, and that, of course, would break the laws of physics.>
True.
And so Power started plotting its revenge.
To sum it up, Power was once good, but is now thoroughly evil.
== Abilities ==
"Even absolute power is not absolute power."
Originally, Power had the powers of an animus dragon, though Power did not need to enchant anything. Power simply can say, "Make a dagger and kill them with it." and his power will do that.
There is a bit of controversy about bringing back the dead. An animus once used her magic to see why animi couldn't bring back the dead. Turns out, it's literally impossible.
<A consciousness is created during development. It is destroyed at death.>
Thank you.
So, Power once had ultimate power. When dragons turned away from Power, though, it no longer had power over them.
<"An entity only has power because the commoners agree that it does.">
Hey, that's MY quote!
<I thought it would be useful in this situation.>
I was about to say that!
<Sorry.>
And when those dragons turned against Power, well, that kinda sucked for Power.
Power's power was greatly diminished. The most it can do now is make an animus dragon a decade, hoping that the magic will turn them evil.
Power almost returned to the world near Darkstalker's transformation, since Darkstalker was this close to achieving victory, but he lost, so Power couldn't.
Which leads us to Power's story.
== History ==
"So many things make the universe what it is that you can't take away even one of them."
Hey, Alex, I'll let you tell them this one.
<It's my pleasure.>
<Our story starts at the creation of the universe, some billions of years ago...>
<The Grand Creation. So many things were brought into being then. Gravity. Electricity. Magnetism. The weak force. The strong force. Space. Time. The universal speed limit. Light. Atoms. Antimatter. Relativity. And a whole bunch of other things as well.>
<One of these things was Power. Power started knowing nothing. When intelligent beings came into existence, Power, naturally, seeing things like itself, wanted to help them. And so Power helped them. Power helped them so much, in fact, that Power became their ruler.>
But then...
<Ahem, I'm getting there.>
<Anyway, two friends became unhappy in a world where everything was handed to them. Power, not knowing what to do, killed them.>
<No one had been unhappy before, and no one had thought of any forms of punishment because of that. Death was the only thing all dragons feared.>
I should make a page on Death later...BWAH HA HA!
<AHEM!>
<Everyone was shocked that their seemingly benevolent ruler would do such a thing. They began to turn away from Power. Power started killing the first ones, but as more and more dragons turned away from him, his power was more and more diminished. And then the dragons fought Power in a battle lost to history. The dragons won, and rebuilt from the ashes.>
Those first two rebels would have been proud.
<I think they would.>
<Power was cast to the far reaches of the universe. It still tries to get its revenge through animus dragons, and once Power almost came back.>
Abstract beings require abstract triggers.
<True.>
== Last Notes ==
Now, since we've just told you about Power, it's probably winding up to attack us...
<Can anyone guess how many times the word "power" is used on this page?>
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