Shiva

**Shiva** is a god of destruction worshiped by Hindus. He along with Brahma and Vishnu is a member of the Trimurti.

## Overview

Despite being a destroyer, Shiva is overall a benevolent deity. He is against premature destruction and will go through suffering in order to prevent it. He is often seen with four arms, a third eye, a blue throat, matted hair, carrying a trident and a drum. A serpent accompanies him and a sacred bull named Nandi carries him.

He is the consort of Parvati and the father of Ganesha and Kartikay. He was reincarnated many times that would become revered as sacred beings, most notably Shankara and Hanuman. Fusions of other gods such as Harihara fused with Vishu and Ardhanarishvara fused with parvati are also worshiped as Shiva.

## Appearance

Shiva has three eyes, the last of which he used to incinerate Kamadeva to ashes. His throat is blue, which was because he swallowed the most lethal poison in the entire world in order to prevent premature destruction.

## Personality

Shiva is known for being a responsible Primeval god. As as Destroyer Deity, he takes his duties with great dignity, honor, and responsible, while many fears him, many of his peers respect him for his benevolence, he is a firm believer and invoker of divine justice and fair enough to maintain balance. He hates evil, chaos, wars, and senseless violence, nor does he abides or tolerates it, he hates oath-breakers and sinful or any malicious intent, punish the guilty for committing sins without a second thought.

He claims that his destruction is not pure malevolent, chaotic, and evil, as he stated that his destruction only destroys what should not grow to growing (mainly evil beings or supernatural threats). He treats mortals, gods, and other supernatural beings with equal perspectives, not caring much for their social status and disposition in life. He is respectful and a gentle deity, but can be a very destructive force when provoke or angered enough, that not even Indra the King of the Hindu Gods could stop him.

Shiva can be very intelligent, cunning, and divinely wise, he has supernatural wits that cannot be outsmarted by anyone, other than beings with his equal power (though only few have manage to do so). He is one of the (if not few) gods that have an active influence in the Human world. He is highly worshiped by the humans in Hindu pantheon. He in turn is protective to them, where he will not hesitate to save them from their torment, destroy the roots of their sufferings, and give justice to the needy.

## Powers and Abilities

**Absolute Condition:** Shiva has all their capabilities, attributes and aspects at a maximum and limitless level. At the most basic level, Shiva has a supreme and absolute physical and mental condition, with absolutely nothing being able to surpass them in those attributes. For example, with their strength, they could lift multiverses or punch so hard an entire universe/multiverse or even all of reality could be blasted into pieces. With their speed, they could travel infinite distances/execute infinite actions within a finite amount of time and go everywhere and everywhen faster than instantly. With their intellect, they could outsmart the smartest cosmic beings effortlessly. With their defense, they could be hit by an explosion from 100 gas giants or 100 multiverses and not get a scratch or even feel pain.

**Absolute Force Manipulation:** Shiva can create, manipulate and shape force in all its forms, whether physical, transcendent, natural, spiritual, supernatural, mental, cosmic, etc. i.e. all the absolute forces that make up the flow and nature of existence.

**Absolute Spirituality:** Shiva possesses absolute spiritual power and status. They are the ultimate animating force of spiritual power and/or often the source of every other spirit or soul in existence. Shiva is Incorporeal and Immaterial beings possessing spiritual qualities, attributes, or properties going well beyond the normal, characterizing as formlessness, invisible, indivisible or oneness, infinite bliss, infinite power, pure infinite knowledge, infinite perception, and perfect manifestations of (countably) infinite other attributes.

**Absolute Transcendence:** Shiva transcends absolutely anything and everything. This includes all dimensions, life/death, beginning/ending, concepts/ideas/principles, creation/destruction, boundaries, context, potential, possibilities/variables, levels of reality, existence/nonexistence, perfection/levels of perfection, embodiments, their personal status, being/non-being, etc.

**Animal Companionship:** Shiva can form a sacred and powerful union between Shiva and animal companions, and they both tend to protect and care for one another and assist each other in multiple situations. Shiva can also share an empowering friendship so that they draw strength from and granting them the power to achieve anything and overcome potential obstacle in their way. The bond they have with their animals is purely sacred because of the pure love they have for one another and use it to synchronize each other and gain a variety of powers they use for themselves.

**Artistic Intuition:** Shiva, either innately or through training, is a master of all forms of art. Shiva possesses great knowledge and skill in the art, such as painting a picture without any education. Shiva can subconsciously/effortlessly create an artistic idea in their mind and work off that to create it in reality. They have vast intuitive understanding in forms of art as well (acting, animation, calligraphy, dancing, filming, music, painting, performing, photography, sculpting, singing, etc.) and are able to use their intuitive artistic expertise and skills to easily create flawless works of art.

**Absolute Restoration:** Shiva can restore literally anything/everything back to its natural/original state with absolutely no flaws or mistakes in the process, regardless of how badly destroyed the target is.

**Burning Vision:** Shiva is able to set objects aflame just by looking at them. Unlike Fire Vision, the fire isn't emitted from the eye; rather, it simply appears on what Shiva is looking at.

**Compassion Embodiment:** Shiva becomes the living embodiment of compassion and gain the ability to feed off of the compassion of everyone and everything including themselves. Shiva can convert compassion into energy and use it as a full source to extend their own life span or as a weapon. They may never age and may be immune to death unless certain conditions are met.

**Cosmic Fire Manipulation:** Shiva can create, shape and manipulate cosmic fire from the depths of deep space, from celestial objects such as from meteors, stars, constellations, planets/planetoids, etc. These flames can burn in space, and thus, have no need of the consumption of oxygen.

**Primordial Fire Manipulation:** Shiva can create, shape and manipulate fire of an ancient primordial nature. As opposed to regular Fire Manipulation, these flames are inextinguishable and absolute. As such, they can cause natural and supernatural fire effects such as Crown Wildfires, Firestorms, Solar Flares, Hypernovas and Heatwaves to manifest, also can manipulate flames that possess heat that go beyond Planck Level and defy the very laws of Hyper-Thermodynamics. It allows Shiva to burn or alter anything, even non-flammable, incorporeal, or conceptual things like time and nonexistence. They also have the ability to manipulate the underlying foundation of the concept of fire and concepts associated with it. Fire Immunity and/or Heat Immunity provides no protection from these flames as they will be completely bypassed due to its sheer potency and primeval nature. In many cases Shiva with this power will be able to override any other forms of Fire Manipulation as fire is the domain of Shiva.

**Destroyer Deity:** Shiva either is or can transform into a destroyer deity, a god/goddess of immense power that can destroy anything and everything, even other divine beings. They can destroy planets, star systems and even universes in an instant. As a Deity of Destruction, Shiva also has the task of keeping balance in the universe. Working together with creation deities, destroyer deities discuss which planets and/or galaxies need to be destroyed and/or rebuilt. However, they aren't necessarily anti-gods, because their nature is not only evil at all aspects.

**Darkness Manipulation:** Shiva can create, shape and manipulate darkness and shadows. Darkness is mostly used to cloud everything into total darkness, but can also be channeled to a variety of effects, both as an absence of light and a solid substance: one can also control and manipulate the beings that exist there, create and dispel shields and areas of total darkness, create constructs and weapons, teleport one's self through massive distances via shadows, etc.

**Divine Combat:** Shiva when possessing Divine Force Manipulation or its sub-powers have learned to infuse their preexisting combat styles with the divine powers they control.

**Divine Object:** Shiva has access to an object that grants them divine/holy powers. They can range from source materials to apparel to fully-designed weapons; whatever the form, they can impart divine powers to those who lack them entirely or augment the already existing holy capabilities.

**Divine Weaponry:** Shiva is able to create and wield any kind of weapon of divine powers. The weapon can also grant Shiva special powers of any kind, make them invincible and even reach the same level of power of a deity making it possible for Shiva to hurt a god.

**Eternal Existence:** Shiva with this power is eternal in two aspects: possessing no end as well as no beginning. They were never created by anything and will never be concluded, existing in all points of time. No matter how deep one goes into past or future, they will never find a point where Shiva starts or ends, as these beings are truly eternal.

**Fearlessness:** Shiva is immune to fear of any kind, the user has no fear, and is unable to feel any sort of fear, terror, or even any intense anxiety. Shiva can think clearly, continue to move, and generally function in situations where the fear would disable a normal person. Shiva can act in perfect clarity and calmness even under the most extreme kinds of horrors or traumatic experiences.

**Fertility Embodiment:** Shiva embodies and personifies fertility, which allows them limitless control over the natural capability to produce offspring.

**Genesis Creation:** Shiva creates other lesser or equal beings from themselves and make as many beings as they want without losing any energy.

**Lunar Empowerment:** Shiva becomes stronger, faster, more durable, etc. when they come into contact with a moon, moonlight, or lunar energy/substance, possibly unlocking abilities related to the affinity and enhancing their existing powers. Shiva may be able to draw sustenance from the moon or even slow or stop aging.

**Meta Time Manipulation:** Shiva can manipulate time of any/all realities, dimensions and universes, whether they are physical locations, such as entire universes, or metaphysical locations such as heaven, hell, or even the dream world.

**Mind's Eye:** Shiva has or develops the mind's eye (also known as the inner eye or third eye), a mystical, esoteric, and mental concept referring to a speculative invisible eye that provides perception beyond ordinary sight. In certain dharmic spiritual traditions such as Hinduism, the third eye refers to the ajna or sixth chakra. Theosophy, it is affiliated to the pineal gland. The third eye refers to the gate that leads to inner realms and spaces of higher consciousness.

**Mountain Deity:** Shiva with this ability either is, or can transform into a Mountain Deity. Mountain deities are gods/goddesses who represent or are associated with mountains, volcanoes and the environment, limited to areas surrounding mountains and volcanoes. They can either cause natural disasters or house precious minerals, gemstones and rocks that that are used for various purposes.

**Mystical Dancing:** Shiva is able to perform a variety of mystical or supernatural effects by dancing in specific ways.

**Omniversal Lordship:** Shiva rules and reigns over the entire omniverse, the infinite collection of realities, universes and multiverses.

**Omnipresence:** Omnipresence is the property of being present everywhere and anywhere.

**Power Negation:** Shiva can cancel out the powers of others and/or their effects, making them unable to utilize their powers as long as they are under Shiva's focus/area. This is useful in a supportive role as it can protects the user from harmful attacks, and even possible undo the simulating-passive alternation powers of an opponent, in turn making them powerless. This can be in a form a nullification zone, a wave, continuous or one-time effect.

**Purification:** Shiva can remove the darkness or evil from a person or objects, often including demons possessing it or mind control affecting it. It can turn evil to good or merely make someone pure.

**River Deity:** Shiva with this ability either is or can transform into a River Deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with water, rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, water falls and floods, and even droughts. River Deities are common in mythology and were usually important among civilizations.

**Spiritual Meditation:** Shiva can enter or have achieved oneness with their spiritual essence and mind, making them able to develop a high-level consciousness over bodily processes and reduce stress and pain on the body. Shiva can manifest and create new abilities as well as enhance their current ones. One can also detach oneself from worldly concerns, achieve spiritual enlightenment, and gain control of all of their abilities.

**Primordial Storm Manipulation:** Shiva can create, shape and manipulate storms of a primeval nature. As opposed to regular Storm Manipulation, Shiva with this power is a deity, avatar, or living embodiment of the storms themselves. As such, they can cause natural storm-related phenomena to manifest, such as disasterous rain, lightning, wind and snow/ice storms. In many cases Shiva with this power will be able to override other forms of Storm Manipulation as storms represents the domain of Shiva.

**Tranquil State:** Shiva can remain calm in virtually any situation, allowing them to think with perfect clarity even when under extreme emotional or physical distress. Shiva can endure mental stress and can be essentially highly resistant to emotion manipulation and torture.

**Wrath Embodiment:** Shiva can become a physical manifestation or personification of wrath in their reality and gains power from the anger in others or oneself. Shiva can use anger and endless rage as a power source to extend their life span or as a weapon. They can become immune to death unless certain conditions are met. They can also embodiment the hatred, the violence, the vengeance and the war, concepts related to wrath.

**Yogic Arts:** Shiva can utilize yoga, an ancient Indian set of physical, mental and spiritual practices that aim to unite the three aspects together in order to achieve enlightenment, inner tranquility and communion with the universal consciousness. Traditionally, the various body and mind exercises enable for physical enhancement and cognitive insight, which conceptually, allows the soul to attain a cosmic connection. Fictionally, one’s usage and/or mastery of the practices can lead to the manifestation of supernatural powers.

## Myths and Legends

Shiva is a figure from the Vedas and one of the principal deities of Hinduism. Shiva comes from pre-Vedic sources, and the figure of Shiva evolved from various Vedic and non-Vedic deities as a sort of amalgamation of gods. One of these gods was the Rigvedic god Rudra, who may have come from a non-Vedic source. Shiva is revered within most denominations of Hinduism.

## Quotes

*Tell me, Kamadeva. How could you give up everything, even yourself, and still smile? How is it that you, who have lost most of your 'authority,' were able to sway me so much? I'd like to know what you were thinking when you gave me that lust. Why are you laughing when you let of the 'self,' when you didn't care about the 'self?'" - Shiva.*