The First Firmament

==Summary==
The First Firmament is the earliest of all iterations of reality, having come to be at the very first stages of existence as a vast, conscious totality, existing as an infinite ocean of existence. Unlike its descendants to come, the First Firmament was not a multiverse, but a single, unbroken universe, though one that was completely empty of anything whatsoever, and plagued by unendurable loneliness, it then created (In an act that it would later consider a grave error) the first lifeforms–celestial entities that would serve as its servants and toys for the remainder of eternity, existing only to give praise and worship to their creator.
However, among its creations, there emerged multicolored rebels who desired to break the stagnancy of the cosmos, wishing for life to evolve and know change, growth and morality, things that they knew to be impossible in the infinite nothingness of the First Cosmos. As such, they warred with their brethren, who desired to maintain the status quo, in an immense conflict that ultimately shattered the First Firmament into pieces, thus originating the Second Cosmos, which was also the First Multiverse, and the beginning of the omniversal cycle of creation.
Although greatly weakened, the First Firmament was not truly dead, having instead shunted the last remnants of his consciousness (His remaining Celestials within it) into the furthest edges of being, where it would patiently wait and bade its time, watching in anger as the omniverse repeatedly died and was once again reborn, for the right moment to act and retake its place as the totality of existence.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: | 
Key: Pre-Celestial War | Post-Celestial War
Name: The First Firmament, The First Cosmos, The One Who Is One, The Eldest One, The Lonely One, "Alpha"
Origin: Marvel Comics
Gender: Inapplicable (Referred to as male)
Age: Inapplicable
Classification: First Iteration of the Omniverse, Primordial Universe
Powers and Abilities: Abstract Existence (Type 1; Much like its descendant, Eternity, the First Firmament is a a conceptual entity,Al Ewing Interview being an older iteration of the concept of realityUltimates 2 Back Cover as a wholeUltimates 2 #6), Information Manipulation and Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1; Created the Celestials and the Aspirants, who are living concepts,New Avengers Vol. 4 #12 existing as sentient information in conceptual spaceUltimates 2 #9), Absorption (Leeched energy, life and hope from the omniverse, leading to a slow corrosion of reality's structure.Ultimates 2 #1 Begun to digest Eternity itself, gradually stagnating the very particles making up existenceUltimates 2 #100 in a process that would've led to the very concept of reality being rewrittenUltimates 2 #100), Reality Warping, Existence Erasure (His absorption and eventual destruction of Eternity would have erased existence so thoroughly that not even its very concept would have remained,Ultimates #11 retuning the omniverse to Oblivion), Space-Time Manipulation, Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 2), Life and Death Manipulation, Corruption (Type 2; Gave Eternity an infection that corrupted his conceptual systems), Plot Manipulation, Cosmic Awareness, Immortality (Types 1, 2, and 5), Sealing (Shackled Eternity in chains of his own forging, consequently also causing the development of his inner processes to come to a haltUltimates #4), Transduality (Type 3; As he is beyond the omniverse, he also transcends the In-Betweener, an inner function of Eternity that personifies the barrier and division between dichotomies,Doctor Strange Vol. 2 #26Secret Wars II #06 being "a concept of concepts"Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #17 and "walking the path between all worlds, all concepts,"Doctor Strange Vol. 2 #27 simultaneously the union of all polarities and something that stands exempt from them), Nonexistent Physiology (Nature 2, Aspect 1, 3 and 5; The First Firmament is the most primordial iteration of the cosmos, being a "dark sea of infinite nothingness"Avengers Assemble: Alpha that came prior even to the formless chaos of the Second Cosmos, which itself antedated the concepts of being and non-being introduced in the Third CosmosDefenders: Beyond #2Defenders Vol. 6 #5), Acid Manipulation (The First Cosmos' remnants burn and corrode all they touch, simultaneously burning and drowning everything within "a sea of infinite suffering."Avengers Assemble: Omega), Acausality (Type 4)
Attack Potency: High Outerverse level (The dead remnants of the First Firmament act as the bedrock of all iterations of the multiverse,Avengers: Forever Vol. 2 #12 being "the fertile soil from which the omniversal orchard first grew and flowered" and threatening to erase all of existence in an omniversal flood should they ever be let loose. Doom Supreme states that a small dose of the First Firmament's remains would allow him to completely remake the multiverse, and a portion of its substance gave birth to the Second Cosmos after being shattered in the Celestial War) | High Outerverse level (After being shattered to pieces during the Celestial War, the First Firmament was reduced to a small fragment of his former self and became greatly weakened as a result. However, he steadily grew in size and power during his exile to the Far Shore, eventually amassing enough strength to easily imprison a weakened Eternity, as well as destroy him entirely if necessary)
Speed: Omnipresent within himself, Immeasurable outside himself
Lifting Strength: Immeasurable
Striking Strength: High Outerverse level | High Outerverse level
Durability: High Outerverse level | High Outerverse level
Stamina: Infinite
Range: High Outerversal
Standard Equipment: Aspirants
Intelligence: Likely Nigh-Omniscient
Weaknesses: None notable
==Gallery==
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==Notable Matchups==
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==References==
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