Knull

> We have crept across the cosmos... dragging the shadows of our planet over the length of the omniverse, one planet at a time... like a death shroud. You... are... next.
>
> Knull

**Knull** is an eldritch god of darkness and the creator of the symbiotes. Born from the pre-existential, the Darkness that existed before everything besides God and the Shadow. Knull claims dominion over the barren realm and to be its avatar, but while he is a God of the Void, he is not the primordial darkness itself. Awakened by the Light when the Celestials invaded his kingdom of darkness, he created the first symbiote in the form of a sword and decapitated a Celestial. He used the head's divine power to refine the blade, creating a metaphysical connection between the primordial symbiote and the slain cosmic god - which would be the source of most of Knull's tremendous power. Waging war against the Light, Knull became a legendary figure of divine terror but eventually found himself stranded on a nameless planet after an inhabitant stole his blade and unwittingly followed in his footsteps. Experimenting with his powers, Knull discovered he could create amorphous parasites from the darkness he controls and merge them with "lesser creatures", so he decided to use this as a way to corrupt the Light.

## Personality

> Quit trying you fool... you can't defeat me... I am the God of the Abyss... the God of Symbiotes. I will not be challenged by a puny little God Slayer.
>
> Knull to Felix

An ancient malevolent deity, Knull despises the Celestials and their creations, attempting to carry out a genocide against them by corrupting and slaughtering all life. Reveling in bloodshed and destruction, Knull often sports a predatory grin when engaged in combat and fondly reminisced to Eddie Brock about the devastation he and All-Black wrought together. He is also arrogant and sadistic - regarding his conquest of the universe as being inevitable, mocking Felix's attempt to fight him or escape as futile and relishing the prospect of hunting the fleeing Felix down and killing or corrupting him. Knull's hubris is one of his greatest weaknesses, as he routinely underestimates opponents he sees as beneath himself - such as Felix, Xolon, and Thor - and rarely fights using the full extent of his own power, instead opting to let his symbiotes do the fighting for him.

Through his symbiote army, Knull is responsible for the destruction and corruption of entire civilizations across the universe. When not engaged in combat, Knull appeared calm and condescending, often smiling in a sadistic fashion at sights such as Xolon's berserk form, which he called beautiful. However, Knull possesses a volatile temper and is prone to reacting with extreme rage when denied what he wants, such as when a host tried to stop him from re-corrupting the Xolon symbiote or when Felix refused to serve him. Knull was begrudgingly impressed by Eddie's determination to understand the eldritch truth behind the symbiotes' origins but mocked him for being deceived by the symbiotes hive-mind. He considers the symbiotes who rebelled against and imprisoned him to be cowards, liars, and traitors; sneering at their desperate efforts to cover up their dark origins and keep themselves from relapsing. Despite his loathing respect for them - seeing them as his wayward children - he hates the Shadow Realm symbiotes for betraying him and eventually forcibly absorbed them back into his dark hive-mind.

## Attributes

### Powers

* **Divine Physiology**: To be added.
	+ **Supernatural Strength**: To be added.
	+ **Supernatural Durability**: To be added.
	+ **Supernatural Mobility**: To be added.
	+ **Amortality**: To be added.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**: To be added.
	+ **Self-Sustenance**: To be added.
	+ **Shapeshifting**: To be added.
	+ **Adaptation Immunity**: To be added.
	+ **Flight**: To be added.
* **Supreme Umbrakinesis**: To be added.
	+ **Living Abyss Manipulation**: To be added.
		- **Symbiote Creation**: To be added.
		- **Symbiote Domination**: To be added.
		- **Darkness Attacks**: To be added.
			* **Dark Beam Emission**: To be added.
			* **Dark Pillar Projection**: To be added.
* **All-Black the Necrosword Capabilities**: To be added.
	+ **Divine Slayer**: To be added.
	+ **Conjuration**: To be added.
	+ **Dimensional Travel**: To be added.
	+ **Shadow Teleportation**: To be added.
	+ **Killing/Blood Empowerment**: To be added.
	+ **Weapon Calling**: To be added.

### Abilities

* **Expert Combatant**: To be added.
* **High Intelligence**: To be added.

### Weaknesses

* **The Light/Ein Sof Ohr**: To be added.
* **Remote Piloting**: To be added.
* **Hive-Mind Infiltration**: To be added.
* **Celestial Connection**: To be added.

## Equipment

### Weapons

* **All-Black the Necrosword**: In order to slay a Celestial, Knull manifested a black-and-red sword from his shadow; later refining it using the dead Celestial's cosmic power. Using this weapon, which came to be known as All-Black, Knull attempted to carry out a genocide against his fellow gods, but it was stolen from him after he was wounded in battle.

### Armor

* **Symbiote Armor**: After forging All-Black, Knull created a suit of symbiote-armor from the Living Abyss. The armor was originally solid black, but after he founded the Symbiote Imperium he emblazoned its chest and back with a red dragon emblem. It is unknown exactly what abilities the armor possessed and conferred upon Knull, though it was capable of shapeshifting to manifest a cape, waistcloth, wing-like fins, and draconic helmet. Given that its constituent matter was used to create the lesser symbiotes, it can be presumed to possess similar abilities; and despite presumably being vulnerable to intense heat and sonics it was capable of withstanding a plunge through the atmosphere of a planet and being immersed in stellar plasma without sustaining significant damage. Knull's symbiote armor was stripped from him following his imprisonment, as his physical body at the core of the Shadow Realm has been shown armored and naked, though Knull's manifestation through the Grendel symbiote dragon also emulated this armor. After Knull reawakened, he reformed his symbiote-armor, with a white dragon emblem.

## Relationships

### Allies

* All-Black - Creation
* Shadow Monsters - Subordinates
* Symbiotes - Creation
* Gowur the God Butcher

### Enemies

* Celestials
* Gods
* Enigma Force
* Cherry Voss