The presence

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## Summary

**The Presence** is the representation of the Judeo-Christian God in the DC Multiverse and the father of both Lucifer Morningstar and Michael Demiurgos. Although his power is virtually unparalleled, he rarely interferes in the affairs of mortals directly, instead acting through agents and aspects of himself, such as The Spectre.

## Statistics

**Tier:** **Ultimate**

**Name:** Yahweh, Jehovah, The Presence, God of the Covenant

**Origin:** DCMU (DC, Marvel and unwritten)

**Gender:** Inapplicable. Portrayed as Male

**Age:** Inapplicable. Older than Creation

**Classification:** Deity, Supreme God

**Abilities:** Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Reality Warping, Holy Manipulation, Immortality, Beyond-Dimensional Existence, Large Size, Acausality, Omniscient, Omnipresent, Law Manipulation and Fate Manipulation, Void Manipulation, Shapeshifting, Transmutation, Abstract Existence, Void Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement, Mind Manipulation, Power Bestowal, Probability Manipulation and Possession

**Attack Potency:** **Ultimate** (Equal in importance and complexity to The Monitor-Mind The Overvoid, being the supreme creative force from which absolutely everything, existent or nonexistent, sprung from, and that which is known by millions of names and aspects but ultimately translates to one singular entity, The Creator)

**Speed:** **Omnipresent**

**Lifting Strength:** **Irrelevant**

**Durability: Ultimate**

Stamina: Irrelevant

Range: Ultimate

**Intelligence:** Omniscient

**Weaknesses:** None notable

**Keys:** **Yahweh** | **The Divine Presence**

**Note 1:** The Presence is considered one of the three major manifestations of God. Its "Divine Presence" key refers to its true and purely abstract form, which is mostly unrelated to its avatar of Yahweh as the Judaico-Christian God. Please do not confuse the two.

The Presence's avatar has stated that he was shaped by external forces, apparently intended to be the beliefs and imaginations of humanity, rather than a 4th Wall reference to the writers or real-world humans. This concept was introduced in *The Sandman: A Dream of a Thousand Cats*, which depicts that originally cats were the dominant species on Earth, being giant beasts which hunted humans. However, the collected dream of a world where humans ruled over cats altered reality from its very beginning, making it so that humans were always larger than cats.

The avatar form of The Presence is incapable of killing The Great Darkness, with both being equal halves of the same whole. The Presence is also not fully Omniscient. There are certain things he doesn't know, and which occur outside of his plan, and he cannot know the thoughts of comparable beings.

Finally, multiple comics have either suggested or outright stated that the avatar of the Presence was born out of the primordial Void from which all things originate, thus making him just another character is drawn from the canvas that is The Overmonitor. However, the true form of the Presence, that being The Creator/The Divine Presence, exists on a similar level and is strongly related to the Overvoid itself. For more information on the matter, see God.