The Manus

**The Manus** are a group of omnipotent cosmic entities emanated from Anotatos that collectively manage his Beyond Bubble. Each one represents a specific concept, which they have complete control over within the Beyond. These concepts include Wisdom, Power, Courage, Creation, Destruction, Time, Life (and Death, for that matter), and finally Order. While they are essentially aspects, or rather extensions, of Anotatos' true being, they do have their own individual personalities, wants, and goals.

## Origins

In the beginning, Anotatos looked upon the vast and expansive nothingness that was his Beyond Bubble. Potentia was born from the energy that emitted from Anotatos, and Sapienta from his mind. From his willingness to create countless worlds to fill his bubble, Demiourgia formed. The moment she came into existence, she created trillions of Omniverses at an unfathomable speed. As these verses formed, the first seconds began to tick in the Beyond Bubble, so Tempus was created. Anotatos, however, knew that creation was expanding too fast to keep order over, so he created Seira and Tharros, instructing them to bring order to the many Monocosms. So Seira and Tharros placed what they called "curators" to manage each Monocosm alone. Demiourgia eventually wanted to create something that could think and feel like her and other gods, so she went to a distant planet and created the very first cell in the Beyond. Vita, the embodiment of life and death, came into existence and life flourished in every Monocosm.

But with the mortals came disorder, chaos, and destruction. One Monocosm in particular became so unstable that it went beyond the control of the local curator. Anotatos noticed this, and decided that the best thing to do was destroy it. Demiourgia and Vita, caring about their creations and mortals, opposed this strongly. But Anotatos ignored them, creating Exitium to destroy the verse,

With that, Anotatos retreated into his own Godverse, the Manus rarely see him.

## Members

The Manus are as follows:

* Potentia: (power and energy)

* Sapienta: (wisdom)

* Demiourgia: (creation and matter)

* Tempus: (time)

* Seira: (order)

* Tharros: (courage and goodwill)

* Vita: (life, death, and mortality)

* Exitium: (destruction and chaos)

### Potentia

Born from Anotatos' power, Potentia shares Anotatos' ego. She is, by definition, the most "powerful" Manus, but only by a very small margin. Of all the Manus, she is the most disliked, as she often mischievously interferes with creation. Whether it be by creating or destroying verses for no reason, revealing herself to lifeforms, or helping civilizations get more powerful, Potentia uses her power and authority get away with things that the other Manus probably could never do without repercussion. She views not only mortals, but all of creation as playthings that she can use to cure her boredom. So far, nothing she's done has been critical to the stability of the Beyond Bubble, nor caused a Total Reality Collapse of any kind, so Anotatos doesn't really mind her interference. However, Seira and Sapienta fear her antics will one day cause major consequences.

### Sapienta

Born from Anotatos' mind, Sapienta is the most calm and cool-headed of the Manus. She often advises the other Manus on what to do when issues arise. She assists Seira and Tharros in the creation of Curators by giving the Curators the power of local omniscience. Sapienta also has the power to read minds. Except for Anotatos, Seira is hyper aware of everything that every being in the Beyond is thinking, at all times. What she notices the most hearing the thoughts of all beings is that out of the many mortals in the Beyond, most of them are quite unwise. She strongly believes this is the reason they are constantly at odds with each other.

### Demiourgia

When Demiourgia came into existence from Anotatos' will to create, she created the many Omniverses so rapidly that Anotatos had to create Seira to slow down her process. Nonetheless, she continues to create new Monocosms, but not faster than order can be brought to them by Seira and Tharros. More than anything or anyone, Demiourgia cares about all of existence in the Beyond Bubble, and she would do anything to save a Monocosm. In fact, she has a habit of hiding "anomalies" so Exitium doesn't destroy them. Unlike all the other Manus except Vita, she actually cares about mortal beings.

### Tempus

When the first second ticked, Tempus formed. Since then, he's kept to himself. He really doesn't like interacting with the other Manus, or any beings for that matter. He simply stays alone, managing the flow of time across the beyond. Tempus controls all of time, having the ability to travel through time, change the speed of time, or even look into the future. He uses these abilities to help prevent Total Reality Collapse, and that's all he really does. But he enjoys it.

### Seira

Seira was emanated from Anotatos specifically to manage the Beyond. She is the Manus of order, and rightfully so, as she keeps the Beyond perfectly tidy and, well, orderly. Thanks to her, the Beyond is like a bookshelf, with each Monocosm being a book tightly packed against the others in an organized, but boring, manner. Seira likes it this way, and can overreact to even the slightest flaws in this system'. Being the embodiment of order, Seira can be quite controlling. She thinks she can tell the other Manus what to do and when to do it, despite the fact that Anotatos has never given her this authority. Not only that, but Tempus and Potentia are stronger than her, and if anything Sapienta would make a better leader. This makes the other Manus see her as a nuisance. However, she *does* have authority over the Curators, who she (with Tharros) is responsible for creating.

### Tharros

Tharros is the ruler of courage and of goodwill. Although his main purpose is to assist Seira (specifically in making Curators), he does a number of other things voluntarily throughout the Beyond. Tharros is responsible for forging the different personalities of the Curators. He therefore makes the Curators mentally strong enough to manage their respective Monocosm. Since organisms were created, Tharros saw how imperfect and capable of destruction they were. So, he created something he calls "The Blessing of Tharros." This personality trait is very rare, but it essentially gives any organism nigh-omnibenevolence.

### Vita

Vita emerged when the first sign of life emerged in the Beyond. Since then, she's been spreading life all across the different Monocosms, creating new organisms in each in every universe. She also gives curators the power to create life, to spread it as much as possible. Some of the other Manus object to the rapid growth of mortal population, being that there is a limited amount of matter in each Monocosm. Vita, however, ignores their objections. Most other Manus are indifferent towards the well-being of lifeforms, but Vita insists that each one is especially important. Despite this, she views death as necessary for life to continue, as long as it isn't at the hands of higher beings.

### Exitium

Exitium embodies destruction and chaos. He was formed when Anotatos noticed an "imperfect" Monocosm, and wanted to destroy it. Now, Exitium instantly destroys Monocosms that differ from Anotatos' divine order and other anomalies in the Beyond. It is said that he is emanated from Anotatos' wrath. Personally, Exitium doesn't really see the point in allowing Creation to exist. He believes the existence of not only mortals, but matter and energy as a whole is meaningless and obsolete. As one would expect, Exitium's interests greatly clash with that of Demiourgia and Vita.

## Additional Info

* Like in Gnosticism, all the Manus were emanated from Anotatos rather than created by him.