YHVH (Shin Megami Tensei)

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==Summary==
:"The actual One God of monotheism. The One God praised by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is the omnipotent existence that created heaven and earth and made man in his own image, but this also means that together with the angels, his bunrei [subparts], he also gave birth to demons. By giving humans bodies of flesh and bone, their lives and fears were repeated in the endless cycle of death and rebirth, restricting their range of observation."
:— Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse Artbook Profile
YHVH, also known as "Yahweh" or "Yehowah," is the Creator Deity of the Abrahamic Religions, responsible for the creation of all in Heaven and Earth, and venerated as the one and only god by various religions throughout the globe. He acts as the main antagonistic force of the Megami Tensei franchise, being the absolute ruler of the Law Faction and governor of all angels, as well as the foremost enemy of all demonkind, with their king, Lucifer, having once been a servant of God who stood as the most powerful angel of the Heavenly Host before being cast away from Paradise and into the Earth.
In the majority of His appearances, He is portrayed as a cruel, megalomaniac tyrant who seeks the total subjugation of humanity under His rule, with his dominion extending throughout all realities and binding all worlds to the fate which he has decided for them. Only the Messiahs, individuals with extraordinary powers of Observation created by The Great Reason, as well as a select few others, are capable of opposing his influence and freeing humanity from his rule, and for that, their assistance is often sought by all who participate in the great conflict between Law and Chaos.
==Powers and Stats==
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Key: Manifestation Head | True Self (Great Will) | Demonized Form
Name: YHVH, God, Yahweh, Yehowah, Jehovah, The One True God, Sabaoth, Shaddai, Elohim, Adonai, El Elyon, Ehyeh, Eloho, Jah, Kagutsuchi, The Ancient of Days, Yaldabaoth, The Supreme Giver of Life, The God of Law, The Lord, The Holy Spirit, The Great Will, The Creator, The Absolute One, The Universal Will, The God of the Covenant, The Great Father, AGLA, The Alpha and the Omega, Hachiman, Ischiros, Atanathon, Shekinah, Microprosopus, Macroprosopus, The Three Wise Men and countless other names and titles.
Origin: Megami Tensei
Gender: Male
Age: Inapplicable. Exists beyond the concept of time
Classification: God of Monotheism, Abrahamic God, Creator of Everything, Embodiment of Law and Order, Will of the Universe
Powers and Abilities:
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Cognitive Physiology (Archetype), Absolute Zero, Abstract Existence (Type 1), Acausality (Type 5), Attack Reflection, Aura, Avatar Creation (Capable of shaping semi-independent entities from fragmentary parts of His own essence, all of which acts as extensions of His power that lie under his full control, with even His many Names manifesting as entities of their own), BFR (Repeatedly stated to have banished Lucifer and his forces to the depths of Hell, or the Expanse, in the past), Biological Manipulation, Blood Manipulation, Causality Manipulation, Clairvoyance, Cognition (Type 2), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1. Holds full dominion over the realm of Atziluth, where the archetypes of all gods and demons slumber, and controls the process through which they are summoned and instantiated within the lower worlds), Cosmic Awareness, Creation, Curse Manipulation (Cursed all of the gods of old after trampling upon their reign in the distant past, turning them into lesser, demonic mockeries of their real selves), Darkness Manipulation, Disease Manipulation, Dream Manipulation, Duplication, Durability Negation, Elemental Manipulation (Fire, Lightning, Ice and Wind Manipulation, all of which pierce right through resistances of any kind), Energy Manipulation, Existence Erasure (His power is capable of completely negating the existence of Demons, returning them to their natural state as formless clumps of information, yet to be shaped by human thought and observation), Fate Manipulation, Flight, Fusionism (Merged Ashtar and Ishtar, imprisoning them in the form of the demon Astaroth), Healing, Holy Manipulation, Immortality (Types 1, 4, 5, 8 and 9. His existence is ensured by the collective belief and Observation of humanity, as well as His true self residing in a higher plane of existence, who will continuously recreate Him), Incorporeality, Information Manipulation (Holds control over the fundamental information which comprises all of reality, down to the conceptual level, and Himself both personifies and administers the process through which the unformed mass of data at the foundation of existence is organized into the physical world), Law Manipulation (Exists as the embodiment of law, order and structure), Life and Death Manipulation (Capable of both bestowing life and ripping it away, and his very breath constantly gives birth to countless angels), Light Manipulation, Magic, Matter Manipulation, Memory Manipulation, Mind Manipulation (Acts as the source of Zelenin's song, which is capable of brainwashing a great part of the human population into becoming mindless slaves who endlessly give praise to God, as well as remove its capacity to feel certain emotions, such as spite and hostility), Nigh-Omniscience, Paralysis Inducement, Perception Manipulation, Petrification, Physics Manipulation, Portal Creation, Power Bestowal (Any power held by the angels under YHVH's command was bestowed upon them by Him, and He can easily transform humans into angels or divine beings), Power Nullification (His Song was capable of imprisoning Mem Aleph, a formless, archetypal entity of pure information, within a physical form visible to humans), Probability Manipulation, Purification, Quantum Manipulation, Reality Warping, Resistance Negation, Resurrection (The Great Will of the Universe will continuously resurrect YHVH after death, so long as humans still believe Him to be The One True God), Sealing, Shapeshifting, Size Manipulation, Sleep Manipulation (Placed Seth on a deep slumber from which he would not awaken until he was necessary once again), Soul Manipulation (Kagutsuchi, one of his lesser aspects, controls the flow of human souls throughout the entirety of creation, and YHVH Himself has full power over the spirits of both humans and demons, having imbued Zayin with the soul of Satan), Spatial Manipulation, Statistics Amplification and Reduction, Status Effect Inducement, Summoning, Subjective Reality, Technology Manipulation, Telekinesis, Telepathy, Teleportation, Transmutation, Void Manipulation, Water Manipulation, Weapon Creation, Weather Manipulation
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All previous powers and abilities on an unfathomably greater scale, as well as: Enhanced Curse Manipulation, Invulnerability, Existence Erasure and Cognition (Type 2) with The Covenant, Resurrection Negation (Broke off Kazuya's cycle of reincarnation from The Axiom)
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Attack Potency: Outerverse level (Stands in immense superiority over all mythological Gods and Demons in the setting of Shin Megami Tensei, having overthrown all of them in ancient times and established himself as the highest of all deities through the collective Observation of humanity, and with His own power being used to summon and control the numerous supernatural entities found throughout the series, as they are all ultimately subservient to Him and originate from His figure. Holds the nine-headed form of the Kuzuryu, which was capable of destroying the entirety of the Expanse, up to the realm of Atziluth, as a fragmented aspect of His spirit, and even Lucifer and Satan are likewise merely aspects of YHVH acting as "faces" that He utilizes in order to interact with the world, with the former in particular having been long discarded by his creator, and the latter being seen as a mere instrument through which He carries out punishment and retribution) | Outerverse level (Exists outside of the universe and observable reality entirely in a plane of existence described as "more vague and more infinite" than everything that stands below it, with the iterations of YHVH governing individual universes being nothing but infinitesimal manifestations of His infinite consciousness, which truly encompasses all of creation as The Great Reason's primary avatar, as his divinity is derived from the collective Observation of humanity across all universes that stand under His rule) | Outerverse level (After having the fundamental truths of his existence denied and being cast away from his position as The One True God, YHVH was vastly weakened and reduced "to the same level as a demon," though he was still far more powerful than the likes of Satan, who described himself as a mere aspect of the Creator that would cease to exist after the latter's death)
Speed: Omnipresent | Omnipresent | Immeasurable (With his Covenant broken and divinity denied, YHVH is no longer one with all of creation, though he is still an existence that lies above the concepts of space and time)
Lifting Strength: Immeasurable
Striking Strength: Outerverse level | Outerverse level | Outerverse level
Durability: Outerverse level (Capable of enduring several attacks from Aleph and Hiroko, whose power ultimately surpassed His own, only being defeated through their combined effort) | Outerverse level | Outerverse level
Stamina: Infinite. Unlike lesser Demons, YHVH does not need magnetite in order to sustain his form, and his spiritual stamina never falters (Represented in gameplay terms by infinite MP), allowing him to cast spells indefinitely.
Range: Outerversal
Standard Equipment: Countless hosts of angelic servants, all of which are created from parts of His spirit and exist under His full command
Intelligence: Nigh-Omniscient (Oversees the entirety of creation and is aware of events happening throughout all realities and across time, with his own timeless nature allowing him to perceive the flow of history from start to finish and vice-versa)
Weaknesses: YHVH's power is dependent on mankind's belief on Him, and should it start to waver, He will be vastly weakened | None notable
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
The Covenant: A state of affairs brought about by YHVH's creation of the physical multiverse and subsequent imprisoning of human souls within cages of flesh and bone, which severely restricted the range of their Observation and caused them to endlessly relive their fears within the Cycle of Reincarnation. Due to these circumstances, YHVH came to be seen by all versions of humanity throughout all realities as The One True God, which placed him above all other Gods and Demons and retroactively made it so they became mere aspects stemming from His being, with the collective perception of humanity dictating that they are part of his narrative, and thus shifting them into forms that fit a Judeo-Christian context, causing Baal to become Beelzebub, Seth to become a divided half of Satan, transforming Brigid into a Christian Saint, and so on. 
At the same time, due to having never revealed Himself to humanity, except through aspects and manifestations, and choosing to stay outside of the universe entirely, YHVH is not affected by language, thought and belief in the same way that lesser Gods and Demons are, and his divinity can only be denied should a human with strong powers of Observation directly face him and deny the tenets that sustain his position. Otherwise, he is unable to be harmed by conventional means, and is able to control and influence Observation to suit his own needs, having the ability to create illusions and "recordings" of anything that Humans have ever perceived in the past, controlling all Demons like pawns.
Tree of Life: An all-encompassing diagram formulated in order to represent the inner structure of the unmanifest God, as revealed to the world through its various attributes and virtues, as well as the path through which the physical universe as a whole is manifested out of the divine nothingness that forms the Godhead's essential nature, graphing the entirety of creation in both physical and metaphysical levels, each of which are assigned to separate spheres of existence collectively known as the Ten Sefirot (The lowest of which, Malkuth, being the physical world).
As humanity perceives YHVH to be the One True God, and the definitive creator of the universe, His existence is itself identified with that of the Tree of Life as a whole, with the letters forming the Tettragramaton each being representative of the four stages in which it is divided, and all of His different names being individually linked to one of the Sefirot, therefore holding sway over the fundamental processes through which reality and individual existence emerge from the depths of infinity. Some of the Sefirot that lie under YHVH's command and whose functions have been explicitly defined within the series are:
*Kether: The highest of the Sefirot and the crown of all creation, whose name means "Godliness," representing the first and most basic state of the universe, in which all things are overshadowed by the light of the One God and unified into a perfect, passive singularity of pure Being, existing thus as the primordial "I AM" from which everything else follows. Among all of the names of God, it is aptly associated with "Ehyeh" (The "I Am" of "I Am that I Am"), and the Archangel ruling over it is Metatron.
*Chokmah: The sphere of existence that directly follows from the Crown, whose name means "Wisdom," and which represents the stage where infinite possibilities for creation are born from within the seed of Kether, still unformed and empty in essence, more akin to a raw flux of information and creative energy that lacks any kind of concrete existence. The name of God associated with it is Elohim, YHVH's aspect as a Sun Deity.
*Binah: Chokmah's pair, representing the "Understanding" that complements its pure "Wisdom," and being the stage of creation in which the infinite possibilities born from Kether are interpreted, weeded out and given concrete shapes and forms, with its function being akin to that of a womb or an engine where the unformed creative essence undergoes its transition into a material state of existence. It is closely associated to the figure of a Mother Goddess and linked to God's more feminine attributes, and Shin Megami Tensei II in particular depicts it as a vast sea from which Demons are born into the Expanse from the more abstract regions of the Collective Unconscious. The name of God associated with this sphere is Jehovah.
*Yesod: The ninth Sefirah of the Tree of Life and the level of existence that immediately precedes the physical world, whose name means "Foundation" and which represents the mystery of the union between spirit and flesh, being the link between the physical universe and the higher worlds that lie above it, as well as the level where the spiritual energies of God are finally converted into matter. It is closely associated with the moon and its power over the Earth's electromagnetic field, and the name of God presiding over it is Shaddai El Qayim, the Supreme Giver of Life.
Buffs and Debuffs: A set of skills that, as the name implies, allows the caster to greatly amplify their own physical attributes and reduce that of their foes, thus allowing one to stand up to much stronger opponents by closing or even reversing the gap in power between them. Outside of gameplay limitations, they can be stacked indefinitely, and sufficient usages of buffs allow the caster to survive attacks that would otherwise obliterate them with only minor injuries and amplify their speed to the point of completely outspeeding opponents that could previously predict all of their movements, while debuffs have a directly proportional effect on the enemy's statistics.
*Infinite Power: Increases all of His statistics (Strength, speed and durability) by three ranks.
*Unending Curse: Decreases all statistics of an opposing party by three ranks, with a chance of inflicting Mute.
*Divine Harmony: YHVH "blesses" His foes, wiping away all statistics modifications and effects, both positive and negative, inflicted upon them.
Almighty Attacks: The highest class of spells in the Megami Tensei franchise, consisting largely of powerful non-elemental attacks that have the special property of completely bypassing any resistances or immunities that a target may possess, be them innate or magically enforced, with the latter of which including anything from reflective barriers to items that distort the very laws of the universe in order to protect the user from all forms of damage, and they are likewise unable to blocked, dodged, drained or generally avoided.
*Megidolaon: YHVH taps into the pale light of divinity, which reigns absolute over the concept of destruction, and unleashes a wave of energy that deals immense damage to all foes, engulfing those without appropriate resistance into the "complete annihilation beyond death."
*Mouth of God: YHVH's strongest attack. Through his absolute word, YHVH speaks that which is His desire and unquestionable command, sending an immensely powerful wave of energy towards His opponent that will instantly bring death on contact, returning them to the dust whence they came.
*Miracle: YHVH shouts "Repent," sending out a wave of energy that rips away vast amounts of His foes' magical energy, but also leaves them at the brink of death (With 1 HP, in gameplay terms).
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