Reality Stone

* Tiamat
* Kingu
* Ereshkigal (Guardian)

**Reality Stone**, also known as the **Jewel of Reality**, is one of the Infinity Stones. It has the power to warp the fabric of reality on a cosmic scale.

## Summary

The Reality Stone is one of the Infinity Stones, six primordial crystals of immense power created by the Four Great Seraphs that can be considered singularities in their own right. Sometimes after the Big Bang, Gabriel caused the Stones to be scattered across the growing universe, causing the Earth-based deities to lose track of some of the most powerful artifacts in existence.

However, in contrast to everyone's belief, the Reality Stone was not one of them. Sometimes after the Milky Way galaxy's creation, about 14 billions years ago, Tiamat got a hold of it and used it in tandem with her own power to disguise her status as a Dragon God, altering others' perception of her to make herself appear as a primordial goddess. The only one to know about the Stone's true identity was her husband and mate, Abzu, who didn't tell anyone until his first death under the younger gods' hands.

After Abzu's death, Tiamat abandoned any kind of disguise entirely, revealing her true identity as a Dragon Goddess in her quest for revenge. The Stone was then passed down to Kingu, who embedded it into an enchanted tablet of lapis lazuli called the **Dup Shimati**, or the **Tablet of Destinies**.

During the war between Tiamat and her dragon offspring against her godly children and their descendants, the Tablet of Destinies began to gain the reputation as the "symbol of royal authority over the world and its gods". However, during the battle, Kingu was heavily injured and he had the Tablet taken away so that it wouldn't fall into the opposing faction. The one tasked with the duty of guarding its transportation was Anzû, though he was killed by the hero-god Ninurta and the Tablet of Destinies fell into Enlil's hands.

Using the Tablet's powers, Enlil rewrote the reality of the Mesopotamian region and quickly changed the tide of war into his faction's favors. After Tiamat was killed by the True Longinus, he used the Tablet to transform her corpse into various aspects of the Mesopotamian cosmos.

Afterward, the Tablet of Destinies was shown as possessing too much power for any god to wield without being consumed by its supposed madness, as they still believed it to be a creation of Tiamat. Therefore, through the usage of alchemy and transfiguration, they managed to liquid the Tablet into a substance called the Aether and sealed it into the Mesopotamian Underworld in Ereshkigal's care.

In 20XX, taking advantage of the destruction caused by Trihexa through the Realm of the Dead and the mythological underworlds, the Lahmu - Monstrous descendants of Tiamat - broke into Kur in an attempt to steal the Aether, attempting to use it to "cover the world with the mantle of night" as revenge for their goddess' death. However, due to the massive and sudden shift of magical power in the realm, a rift was born between Earth and the Underworld. Not wanting to see the Aether falling into the Lahmu's hands, Ereshkigal sent it through the rift where it was absorbed into the body of Jane Foster, a human scientist and lover of the Norse god Thor.

Later on, while Jane was on Asgard in an attempt to use Asgardian technology to extract the Aether out of her body, the Lahmu invaded, and due to their unorthodox origins, they were able to bypass Asgard's magical defense. Ultimately, however, the einherjar, the valkyries, and the Aesir gods were able to fend off the attack and protected the extracted Aether.

In an exchange between Odin and the gods Enlil, Enki, and Marduk, they came to the conclusion that, for the meantime, the Aether should stay somewhere as far from the Lahmu's reaches as possible. As such, it was entrusted to the Collector, a long-timed Celestial friend of Odin whose museum of cosmic artifacts possess some of the universe's most impressive wards, not knowing his true identity as the resurrected **Abzu**, and was the one who organized the Lahmu's attacks in the first place.

## Appearance

The Reality Stone appears as an unpolished crimson-colored crystal the size of an adult's fist.

## Abilities

The Reality Stone is the Infinity Stone that represents and governs over the fabric of reality, thus making it among the most powerful artifacts in the world. At its core, the Stone grants its wielder a near-absolute control over the fabric of reality itself, allowing them to create detailed illusions, and transmute any type of matter into another.

It emits an extremely dangerous aura that would drain the life-force of all sentient beings coming into contact with it, resulting in a slow and agonizing death for them. However, for immortal gods, they can enshroud their body within a thin layer of divine power to protect them from the deadly radiation, thus protecting them from an inevitable death.

When used by a skilled wielder, the Stone can alter reality to whatever the wielder wants or break the laws of reality, logic, and physics within the mortal world entirely. Minor uses allow one to resurrect the dead, distort reality around someone so it was incomprehensible, or other things that would normally be impossible, even when taking gods and magic into consideration. More powerful uses allow one to create any type of alternate reality one wishes, or to warping the reality of the mortal world on a universal scale by changing some of its principal concepts.

Some of the Stone's most impressive power also lay in its power of Transmutation, as it can transmutate virtually anything that aren't angelic or demonic in origins on a universal scale, from erasing or creating entire planets in the span of seconds, to transforming the entire universe into antimatter, thus effectively killing any non-immortal beings within it. The transmutation process is a subtle act and doesn't require any form of contact, whether physical or eye contact, and can even be performed on living beings, transmuting their body into disfigured shapes and blocks while still keeping their full sentience intact.

## Forms

### The Aether

The **Aether** (龍神の血エーテル, *Ēteru*), also known as the **Blood of the Dragon God**, was a fluid and everchanging blood-like substance that the Mesopotamian gods, unknowingly, transformed the Reality Stone into through a combination of alchemy and Mesopotamian Magic.

In this form, it acted like a parasite, absorbing the life-force of any living organism coming into contact with it to death in order to transform the surrounding area's matter into antimatter. As such, while being kept within the Mesopotamian Underworld, it was kept in a chest sealed in hieroglyphs, commonly dubbed the "Pandora's Box" due to the dangers sealed within it.

### Dup Shimati

**Dup Shimati** (天命の粘土板ダプ・シマッティー, *Dapu Shimattī*), also known as the **Tablet of Destinies**, was a mythical artifact from Mesopotamian mythology that served as the Reality Stone's original medium. It was a tablet of lapis lazuli, inscribed with cuneiform writing in pure gold, also impressed with cylinder seals made from the blood of Tiamat and Abzu.

It was the "royal authority over the world and its gods", bestowed only to the ruler of the Mesopotamian cosmos, and acted as the symbol of the ancient gods who ruled over the Mesopotamian region and its old kingdoms of ancient Mesopotamia, Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, and Babylonia.

After the war with Tiamat, the gods came to an agreement that it'd be better if a creation of Tiamat not kept in the possession of a singular god, and instead transformed it into the Aether and sealed it into the Mesopotamian Underworld, guarded by Ereshkigal and other chthonic gods.

## Trivia

* In an old mural in the Temple of Abzu in Eridu, there was once a mural depicting Tiamat and Abzu holding the Stone, though it was portrayed as a yellow-colored clay tablet instead.