Quondam

A mytological rapresentation of Quondam

*Nexus: “So… where did you come from?”*

*Godessa: “Hm? What do you mean?”*

*Nexus: “I mean, where did you come from? Did you just start to exist? Or did something make you?”*

*Godessa: “Well, we were drawn up by creators. Then after we were disposed of, we were given life by It.”*

*Nexus: “It? Who’s ‘It’?”*

*Godessa: “Well, more like a what my dear, though we call ‘it’ and ‘him’ for them interchangeably. Yet we gave it a name, We call it Quandam.”*

*Nexus: “What’s that? He or it made you?*

*Godessa: “Yes and no.”*

*Nexus: “....what?”*

*Godessa: “We think he made us, he must have had, or we couldn’t possibly be here. If you ask me why. I don’t know.”*

*Nexus: “Ever try asking him?”*

*Godessa: “We try, and understand it won’t answer.”*

*Nexus: “Well…. Okay, but what is he?”*

*Godessa: “Everything.”*

Quondam is the Omnipotence that's beyond all transcendency and bounding through any concept. It is a most mysterious 'force' that's never been completely understood by gods or mortals alike and has inevitably inspired both divinity and religions to rise in its name.

## Backstory/History

Quondam's presence within Deusverse is entirely forged from speculation. It was there as a versal constant and never was created, born, formed, or designed. It is fundamentally eternal by nature. There is no origin to something never-ending and never-beginning. It's beyond such things. It was there before True Godverse, before Undertale, before Fortran, and before fanons themselves. Marking itself as not bound to being any Undertale OC, but something that's beyond the definable nature of what a character is supposed to be.

Quondam's name was, until this point, absolutely unknown to the entirety of this reality. It was only until Ada, The Nigh Omnipotent being who advocated freedom, revealed it to a curious OC named Miala within the AU nicknamed 'Forsaken!Tale about the truth regarding her and Fortran's creation. It'd turn out to be a mistake. After a few years of her unmanifesting within the AU, with the help of Fortan Miala would discover with her six sisters how to escape their AU and began a pilgrimage outside their reality to other unknown places.

Spreading the news of Quondams, and them being the self-proclaimed Messiahs, it started to begin an era known as the Time of Uncertainty within the Undertale Fandom. Arousing the Gods and other OCs into a great crusade of knowledge to find out where this Omnipotent was or resided. Not understanding how a truly all-powerful being worked compared to their feeble explanations and descriptions. Eventually, this would lead to a meltdown of many Gods and Goddesses who never knew what truly being all-powerful meant in the first place, and force them to act. They gathered their powers and together tried reaching out to overcome this supposed Omnipotent being. All attempts were unsuccessful. They could neither sense nor grasp any understanding of what Quondam truly was.

It was only briefly after the few years the Time of Uncertainty lasted, that a powerful custodian of the akashic records nicknamed Lotus would enlighten many portions of the Godverse to what Quondam actually was, and why they could never reach out or attempt to overcome its presence. Lotus was, at this moment, new to the entities who resided here. He was free from their broken narratives and their pitiful abilities which allowed him to both negate and subject them to his higher authority. Combined with this and both his keen intelligence and organization, he finally was able to convince everything of why Quondam reigned supreme over all things in existence. Purposing something he called 'The Great Design' as for one of the reasons why many characters who stated they had omnipotence, could never get on his level.

Lotus would explain what the fundamental nature of Quondam was. Demonstrating what it actually meant for him to be so Omnipotent. It was stated that Quondam's 'mindset' and 'consciousness' is infinitely above all things residing in Godverse Making him infinitely beyond the absolutes. Including its versions of so-called Avatars. Quondam has no need for reasoning to perform any action on any level of understanding regarding the layers of reality. Not bound or restricted by something saying he cannot do it or has no reason. The ultimate solution to his nature was that he simply and fundamentally can.

## Personality

Quondam is not limited to any sort of personality, and by all understanding is infinitely transcendent above mentality. Not bound to have any likes or dislikes, it's the fully Omnipotent force that stands infinitely above all things. Its Authority is simply beyond the confines.

It's speculated that Quondam isn't neccersasrly omni-locked or beyond motivation, but still playing some part in the growth and evolution of the conceptual aspects of entirety itself. Forever unseen and unreachable as the swarming chaos of imagination brews ever so violently. Quondam is always watching on every aspect.

## Appearance

Quondam has no appereance. Being the only true 'Omnipresent' that's 'here' and 'in' multiple settings across fiction. Any coherent descriptions of the terminology associated with Quondam are simply inadequate. In truth, True Godverse is merely a place where theorists and scholars gathered together and state their theories for what Quondam is and what he's identified as. That a few people gathered together and thought up him is the sort of action that leads humans to create idols and worship.

Essentially, out of worry for the other Godverse entities, Quondam has become somewhat of a beacon of hope others follow in an effort to free themselves of the day-to-day mediocrity of their daily lives. He has no real appearance. It's only the symbol you've seen that is created by creatures in an effort to associate and be closer to the All-Mighty.

Quondam is everywhere, nowhere, everything, and nothing. He is in every aspect of both existence and nonexistence and infinitely beyond it. There are no words that can bring to light the complexity and illogic of this Omnipresence. *Omnipresence itself* is but a weak terminology and a feeble explanation of what it truly means for Quondam and nothing in the long run. Quondam is beyond constancy and irrelevancy. Untouchable, unreachable, and forever unknowable.

## Abilities

Quondams may logically contradict itself to our minds, but in a strange fashion, it just works. It is beyond any conceptual thinking or any real idea of how his power actually works, describing it is ultimately pointless once you hit that threshold.

All in all, it is the English language and the mind of a human that cannot imagine, word, or fully explore the unattainable level of illogical and impossibility it presents. While, not only that, It’s the restrictions of language itself that are always defeated compared to the boundless and total understanding of everything and all things. It’s best not to think or over-analyze it.

There is no way to really get an actual true picture of what Quondam is capable of. Ada does describe it as being able to do everything and all things without hindrance, difficulty, problem, or resistance. He may enter select fandoms at his choosing, while respecting those who decide to not have him in it. At this point it becomes very meta, but that doesn't matter. What matters is he can interact with other existences at his choosing. Being one above all in OUR all. Not interfering with any One Above All in another fictional setting. What also needs to be stated is this is fictional omnipotence, and therefore contained within our own fiction that we design, able to easily interact in other settings for the sake of being called unbound and lacking any restriction.

To be honest, True Omnipotence by definition cannot exist in a public domain that is not restricted by a single story. For example, writing it your own private book as a story is perfectly plausible. Then putting it on a wiki in a public source raises many questions that are very difficult to answer, which is logical to conclude. Though here it really doesn't matter, what does is the fact that Quondam exists as part of canon and transcendes all logic, like what you read, that comes before its prescence.

### What does it mean for the rest of the Deusverse?

No characters/individuals can go beyond or overpower this force. They cannot influence it, they cannot find it, they can never perceive it, and they can never do anything to it. Avatars do not engage it and remain a grey zone in this situation.

## Trivia

* Quondam's name means "that once was; former:".
* Quondam has no alignment or restrictions, and can bypass any ability
* Quondam has never at all communicated.
* Quondam's existence has only become knowledge thanks to Fortran, Ada, and Crotidus. without them, his existence would stay absolutely unknown.
* Quondam actually has multiple entire religions based around him who design and make mythos about his role in creation (More info coming soon)