Author Authority

The state of being the author of existence. Narrative version of Omnipotence. Opposite to Reader Embodiment.
==Also Called==
*Author/Narrator/Storyteller/Writer Avatar/Embodiment
*Narrative Omnipotence
*The Author/Narrator/Storyteller/Writer
==Capabilities==
Users are the authors of their verses, possessing "abilities" that authors would have over their own works, such as being able to change and alter any aspect of their work, know everything about it, and be completely unreachable to anything in it. They view their verse's characters, powers, and events, as nothing more than words on a page, as they usually are. 
Authors can alter the reality and fundamental rules of their works at a whim, introducing new laws, new entities, new locations, new concepts, etc. to fit the narrative they wish to tell. As a result, they can completely manipulate the totality of their works without limit.
Some users are manifestations of authors or are themselves characters with author-like authority and power, being able to interact with the setting and characters within the boundaries of their verses.
===Types of Author Authority===
====Type I====
The weakest tier of Author Authority. These are god-like entities in-verse, usually even the strongest character, period. They possess a plethora of plot-based abilities, such as being able to induce tropes and story-based clichés to mess with the other characters. Most of them usually have 4th Wall Awareness, and can perceive the entirety of their narrative from start to finish. Sometimes, these characters may appear human, while in other cases, they may manifest as intangible beings or abstracts.
Author avatars are also considered to be under this category, as while they are literal self-inserts of the real-world author, they are still acting on the will of said real-world author. They are also not always equal in 'power', as that depends on the cosmology of their verse and how much it encompasses. For example, the author avatar of a series about alternate dimensions and the multiverse would be more 'powerful' than the author avatar of a comic strip teaching a lesson about driving.
====Type II====
Us! All of us are essentially authors, using our imaginations to create and manipulate worlds. We are completely unreachable to all forms of fiction and are capable of changing them by imagining them or recounting them differently. We can make our characters think and do whatever we want them to, and they are unable to do anything to retaliate.
While it seems that our control over our verses are absolute, this is not entirely true. Despite concepts such as Word of God, we do not know everything and anything that happens in our particular verse all of time. Some parts of the story may not be thought off yet, some aspects of the timeline or the cosmology left incomplete, and not every sub-atomic particle accounted for in our minds. Moreover, we are not absolute in the real-world either, in action or in thought. As we are all humans, we have human limitations. Our thoughts, beliefs, and perspectives can be influenced by events or other people in the real world, and that may affect how we imagine a story, making the story not totally ours in a sense, and hence not making us totally absolute.
====Type III====
The only ones that qualify for this category are those that are trans-fictional and truly omnipotent, being absolute, perfect, and undefinable. From a story standpoint, they are the end-all be-all of narratives, the creators and the destroyers. They know absolutely anything and everything about absolutely anything and everything, from the totality to the infinitely and impossibly minute. They are every narrative in every narrative plane, and have undisputed dominion of them. From the most powerful to the most insignificant, their authority is completely absolute. These are the true authors.
==Applications==
===Type I===
*4th Wall Manipulation
**4th Wall Awareness
***Narrative Perception
**4th Wall Breaching
*Character Manipulation
**Absolute Life/Death Manipulation
**Absolute Character Creation/Erasure
*Plot Control (Absolute Level)
**Fairytale Warping
***Plot Device Techniques
****Plot Armor
****Plot Convenience
**Life Story Manipulation
***Story Manipulation
****Story Creation
**Absolute Stage Manipulation 
*Solipsistic Manipulation
===Type II===
*Absolute Transcendence
**Absolute Superpower Manipulation
*Meta Manipulation
**Fictional Lordship
***Fiction Manipulation
**Narration
***Absolute Destiny Manipulation
*Potentiality Lordship
**Absolute Probability Manipulation 
*Reader Embodiment
**Absolute Setting Creation
**Absolute Summoning
**Fun Lord (Varies)
*** Cartoon Physics
**Absolute Art Manipulation
===Type III===
*All Plot Powers
*Existential Perfection
*Omnipotence
**Indeterminacy -irrational
**Omni-Manifestation
**Omniarch
*Omnipresence
*Omniscience
===Applications (Story-Focused)===
*Ass Pull - The user can pull something out of thin air without any prerequisites or prior explanation.
*Beyond The Impossible - Even the most ridiculously impossible feat/situations are achievable, if not easy.
*Depending on the Writer - Depending on the user anything could change.
*Deus Ex Machina - If the author writes his/her self into a corner. This can be used to solve any problem and wrap things up with a pretty bow on top.
*Karma Houdini - No matter the extend of the user's misdeeds, they will always escape retribution.
*Narrative Causality - The essence of AA, as the user is the omnipotent storyteller.
*Narrative Perception - The author has an overview of their story.
*New Power As The Plot Demands - Literally granting new powers whenever the user desires appears.
*No Sell - Others' powers don't work on the user, without even the need for a reason.
*Plot Armor - For as long as the user decides to focus on you, you are safe, no matter what the situation.
*Plot Device - Orchestrate the story in the desired way through various plot-relevant means.
*Story-Breaker Power - The user can give overpowered powers that break the story like it's a piece of cake.
*Word of God - Whatever the user says is the absolute truth.
==Techniques==
*Absolute Disaster Manipulation
*Absolute Miracle Manipulation
==Associations== 
*Authority Embodiment 
*Omnipotence
*Plot Control
*Reader Embodiment
==Known Users==
See Also: Author Power
==Known Locations==
* House of Ideas (Marvel Comics)
==Known Objects==
* Metatext (Forgotten Realms)
* The Protolith (Marvel Comics)
* Transport Cards (Sora No Otoshimono)
* Magic Notebook (The Amazing World of Gumball)
== Gallery==
Pdr. slump v004-192.jpg|Akira Toriyama (Dr. Slump) can rewrite parts of the manga.
Tori Bot.JPG|Tori-Bot (Dr. Slump/Dragon Ball) can warp, create, and even erase his stories just by writing it.
TOAA Jack Kirby.jpg|By using the Protolith, the One-Above-All (Marvel Comics) is the author, artist, and supreme creator of the Grand Design that is the Marvel Omniverse.
File:Loki Agent of Asgard Vol 1 17 Textless.jpg|Loki Laufeyson (Marvel Comics) after being displaced in time and visiting the House of Ideas became the God of Stories.
SCP-001 (S Andrew Swann's Proposal).jpg|SCP-001 (S Andrew Swann's Proposal) - The Database (SCP Foundation) are a race of horror writers able to retroactively create, affect, control, rewrite, and erase the entire lower Foundation narrative and their plot, structure, reality, events, memories, and objects at their whims.
Throne of Mercury.webp|Mercurius (Shinza Bansho) views the entirety of the world as a script that he can write and alter.
File:The Lord of the Rings Eru Iluvatar.jpg|Eru Ilúvatar (Tolkien Mythos) is repeatedly described as the author of the story, and the 'ultimate authority' over the entire narrative of the Legendarium
==Videos==
Umineko no Naku Koro Ni Chiru - Featherine vs Lamdadelta|Action starts at 14.20
A Crap Guide to D&D -5th Edition- - Dungeon Master-2
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