The Bird

**The Bird** is a powerful reality-bending entity as old as The Barrel itself, currently trapped in a Deadzone somewhere within the Omniverse. The Bird is capable of altering reality in many ways, but its most powerful ability (and its most dangerous) is an uncontrollable one – whatever The Bird believes to be fact will instantly become fact due to The Bird believing in it. Anything which The Bird thinks is true for whatever reason will become true. The extent of this reality alteration is so extreme that the entire Barrel could completely change simply because The Bird becomes convinced it is a certain way, and suddenly The Barrel would perfectly simulate The Bird's vision.

The Bird is currently trapped within a Deadzone, preventing it from having any effects on reality as it is not currently capable of thinking or believing anything. However, should it be released, The Barrel may suddenly restructure itself into however The Bird last saw it.

## **Abilities**

The Bird's reality-bending is abnormally powerful. It is capable of bending reality on even an Omniversal level with intended precision, being far more powerful than even the strongest Omniversal entities such as Terminus and the Supreme Mevalkagna. However, these abilities pale in comparison to the subconscious ones which The Bird has absolutely no control over. Its strongest ability, to completely rewrite history to fit what it already believes to be true, can affect the entirety of The Barrel.

This ability could be easily weaponized by cunning and manipulative tricksters. All it would take is to deceive The Bird into believing you are the wealthiest man in the Omniverse and suddenly, you would find that you in fact are. However, this is a double-edged sword. If The Bird is not present to witness a historical event, it may simply believe this event did not happen unless told otherwise, and suddenly the event never happened at all.

This makes the Bird extremely dangerous and as such almost all organizations throughout the Omniverse agree that the Bird should be kept contained. The Mevalkagna have even (reluctantly) broken protocol to ensure this.

## **History**

The Bird was initially discovered trapped within a Deadzone which was itself trapped within an ontokinetic bubble by a group of Eternal Imperium scouts. The scouts took an interest in the object, as they found the Deadzone to be remarkably similar to those created by the Eternal Imperium themselves. Yet, there had been no records of The Bird's existence throughout their entire history, and the deadzone was clearly much older than the Imperium itself.

Along with The Bird and its prison, inside the bubble, they found numerous documents detailing The Bird's nature and abilities. The documents detail the Bird being first found within a causal anomaly of unknown origin. The Bird was captured and researched and was deemed dangerous enough to contained permanently, due to its powerful ontokinetic powers. Due to the complete lack of energy or existence present within deadzones, the Bird's mind would not be capable of forming the energy to think thoughts, and thus would be completely unable to believe anything, and as such its powers would be nullified. This form of containment failed to work. The thoughts of the Bird are embedded directly onto reality, so the Deadzone had no effect. The failed containment ended in several casualties. The second attempt at containment fared much better. The Bird was tricked into believing the deadzone would work and then was put into the deadzone. The Bird has been unable to think or believe anything ever since. However, if the Bird started believing that it was capable of thinking, say, from someone telling it can think, it would begin to think again, and massively alter reality.

The Eternal Imperium didn't know what exact state the Omniverse was in when the Bird was first imprisoned and as such weren't willing to risk waking it up, so they decided to simply keep it in stasis. When The Mevalkagna destroyed all of The Eternal Imperium's advanced technology, they chose to spare the Bird and its deadzone as even they were cautious of what might happen if the Bird were reawakened. The Bird and its prison then fell into the hands of The Great Cosmic Republic, who have kept it contained ever since.

### **Origin**

The Bird's origin is completely unknown, though there has been no shortage of theories. Many believe The Bird to be a natural phenomenon; a god so old it predates even Creator and Destroyer. But many Omniversal historians believe this to be unlikely. Creator and Destroyer are considered to be the oldest beings in existence, predating existence itself. And while there have been rumors of a "Super God" who is older and more powerful than both, no conclusive evidence has yet arisen. As such it is skeptical that The Bird could truly be the oldest and most powerful being in existence. Many proponents of the "Super God" theory believe The Bird may have been a 'pet' of some kind that was accidentally left behind within the Omniverse, but due to a lack of proof for the "Super God" in general, most Omniversal historians discount this idea.

Many others believe that The Bird may be an artifact from an ancient Omniversal war. A leftover weapon, perhaps. But many others question how a war could be fought on such a grand scale that a leftover weapon would be able to alter the entire Barrel. No weapons have been produced thus far capable of even fully altering the Omniverse, let alone the Barrel. Those who believe in the mythical Great Occult War cite The Bird as damning evidence of its existence, however, almost all Omniversal historians concur that the Great Occult War never happened at all and as such cannot possibly account for the Bird's origin or its containment.