Death

The Primordial Embodiment of Death (Art by Edmund J. Sullivan)

**Death** is the Pre-existential entity of death and decay as well as the antithesis to Life and associate of Time. Their existence started at the same time as God and the only beings that might defy their authority are God, Azathoth, and Khaos.

## Overview

Every single living creature has a soul, and every single soul can be removed from the creature's body. Unless done properly, this will often result in a permanent separation between the soul and its physical vessel. This process has been called many things throughout human existence, with it's English translation being Death. This isn't just a mere action or state of being as originally thought, the reason for things dying is the result of the existence of an entity formed long before the dawn of man, an entity aptly named ***Death***.

While Death has claimed the souls of many, usually this process will be done by their Reapers or by various other psychopomps. The Reapers themselves have stated that even the action of someone dying is beneath Death, though it's also been stated that Death is the only reaper that no one can escape, for everything will eventually die. The psychopomps themselves are like employees to Death while the reapers are like servants. Other entities unrelated to Death can claim a soul, however they would need to have a valid claim on the soul such as a contract.

Death is a being embedded into the code of the natural order, so creatures that actively defy this order causes Death great frustration. As one can imagine, the Outer Gods and Great Old Ones especially infuriate them, for the only thing that drives these creatures forward is the cause of madness and chaos. Death is apart of the Cycle, a metaphysical wheel that drives all of existence, and the Old Ones seek to gnaw on this wheel like rabid dogs. Death themself seem to have some degree of contempt and annoyance by their existence, specially towards their creator: Azathoth. When they discuss Azathoth and his Old Ones (Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods) to Father Time, they seem to be quite displeased by their soon to be future return upon the universe, and knowing they will wreck havoc and chaos upon all of creation, their job and the balance that their maintaining and protecting will be greatly affected, showing a strong hate for them.

They are not just a manifestation of death, they aren't a god of death, they're barely a being. Death IS death, they're a living idea, the very concept of death and decay. Every dead being falls into their domain eventually, no matter if they go through a god, angel, or demon first. When something dies, it is a mere expression of Death, proof that they truly exist, they ARE death. God IS, Ayin ISN'T, and Death is whatever's inbetween those two.

## Appearance

Death is a formless entity beyond the physical plane, so it doesn't have a true appearance. When manifesting into reality, they often vaguely appear as a dark humanoid skeleton wearing a large black cloak. They will often carry their scythe and sometimes will hold a glass pendant that shows the death date of every being in creation. They will sometimes have a pair of angel wings behind them, possibly as a sign of their comradery to God. Despite this, they've taken many forms over the centuries, mostly to reflect on the personality and history of who they're reaping. However, like God and Khaos, Death has taken multiple human appearances in both male and female forms. In most of his human forms, no matter what age or gender, Death always carries his signature scythe.

Their true visage has been revealed to some, however it is indescribable to anyone who lives to tell the tale. During the Great Flood, Noah was able to somewhat grasp this form, and to him it appeared as a dark extant hivemind of decay eating away at itself. Their may have been a pair of wings behind them, however Noah wasn't able to recall as only looking at it gave him such a deep feeling of misery that he was too preoccupied to remember every detail.

## Personality

Death is extremely cold, aloof and enigmatic, seeing themselves as completely disengaged with the physical universe and its inhabitants. They've often stated that they view humans similarly to how humans would view a fictional character, something that doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things and doesn't deserve an extra thought. Death is only concerned with their function as a reaper of souls, even when involved in the wildest of situations the mind can imagine. They rarely interfere in the mortal plane, often leaves this task to their servants and the various Death and Underworld Gods. They can't be persuaded from their goal nor can they be bargained with, as Il Separatio has described them, they're a "true conceptual agent of the law".

Despite their quiet and distant attitude, they showed a sibling bond towards their twin counterpart/sister Life, and being with her while preserving and maintaining the balance and cycle of life and death. They have also shown to respect their elder brother God's authority and power, they holdsgreat respect to Him to the point that they only reaps the souls that are time to die. They are also on good terms with Father Time and from time to time visit him to talk about important events and happenings in the Creation. When in peace and in rare times while faring and escorting deceased people, they will act as a personal comforter and adviser towards their destination afterlife, but hold great contempt towards wicked and filthy souls, where they will show their very cold, sadistic, and sinister side while escorting them in Hell/Underworld for eternal punishment. Surprisingly, Death is very wary of the Darkness despite being one of the few beings capable to rival or stopping her stronger older sister Ayin. Ironically, on the contrary, the Darkness is unaware of their existence despite them being similar in age.

It also rare for Death to have interest in something or someone, and very few he has ever shown a level of interest in, and one of it is towards the mortals who successfully cheated death itself whether it is many times or not. Additionally, they care very little for major events of the world like the Apocalypse, and despite their coerced involvement by Lucifer, they only pay the events vague interest. Yet despite their seemingly indifferent, amoral, and passively enigmatic composure, Death holds great detestment, contempt, and frustration towards those who mock and belittles the concept of death; despite rarely showing themself, they take great pride and reverence in what they do, and claimed that they (who is among the living concepts and elements of the universal force itself) cannot be taken very lightly by anyone, specially mortals.

In one of rare instances, they were also shown to be a capable teacher and mentor towards their students and servants, showing great pride and joy when they successfully learn their teachings, one of them is the Archangel of Death Azrael, whom they called a good apprentice and protégé. Death shares a strong bond with him and is surprisingly protective of him as they saved him from Nyarlathotep.

According to the Grim Reaper, Death doesn't like to be tricked. When a person manages to escape Death, it goes after the person until it manages to take them, with the only way for the person to escape Death being if someone else is killed in their place. Nonetheless, although many consider Death to be evil, it is actually just doing its job of ensuring the balance between life and death, taking lives for new lives to be born.

## Powers and Abilities

Being the personification of all forms of Death, physical, spiritual, and metaphysical, Death stands as one of the most powerful beings in existence, possibly equaling even that of the God, Azathoth and Khaos. He exists on a scale beyond comprehension, viewing the entirety of Creation and its denizens as mere bacteria.

* **Nigh-Omnipotence**: As the Primordial Personification of Absolute Death, Death possesses the power to do absolutely anything he desires, possessing infinite and unending power, far surpassing that of the Cosmic Entities and the Elder Gods themselves while being superior most of his siblings. Death is stated to be the final Horseman to appear within the Book of Revelations, being able to kill all living things that aren't to be saved. The only beings that are able to harm or surpassed him are God, Khaos, Azathoth and Life (his counterpart). He is also one of the few beings capable of rivalling or stopping Ayin, the Primordial Antimatter, along with Vitriol the Great Filter, and Life the Primordial Deity of Life.
	+ **Transcendent Grim Reaper Physiology**: As the Primordial Embodiment of Death, Death is a Grim Reaper, which is another form for the personification of Death. These types of beings are a variation of psycho pomp, which gives them all of the powers and responsibilities that come with the position which may range from simply guiding the dead to the next world to actively causing the death, possibly somewhat both. Grim Reapers are mostly seen as cloaked skeletal winged figures with scythes or sickles that claim the souls of the deceased and take them to their respected afterlife's, however this is not always the case and they have been seen in varies forms throughout history, even appearing as angels, demons and spirits. Death is also the father of all the Reapers which exists, making Death the strongest Grim Reaper in existence being equal and only surpassed by God, Khaos, Azathoth and Life.
	+ **Death Embodiment**: He is Death itself at the most primal and base concept. He is considered the most powerful of the Four Horseman. It is mortality, being able to bypass and make even the Gods mortal, killing them regardless of their level of power. Even his siblings are no exeption as he boosted that he would rip the God himself one day. As the Primordial Embodiment of Death, Death is considered to be the strongest Grim Reaper in the Creation, being able to take on beings such as God, Khaos and Azathoth single handily, however, he can only take on one at a time.
	+ **Absolute Death Manipulation/Omnicide**: Death is capable of manipulating all forms of Death, be it natural or unnatural. Due to this, he has control over Fate itself. The fate of all beings that are about to die fall into his hands. He can also kill beings that style themselves as immortal as all beings born following the advent of the Multiverse possess a concept of Death, even Cosmic Entities or his siblings. As the force of Death, he is also capable of manipulating its afterlife destination.
	+ **Death Lordship**: Being the Pre-existential embodiment of Death, Maveth has absolute control over death and all things that are related to the dead, allowing him to have limitless control over everyone and everything that is dead, and manipulate all things related to death.
		- **Afterlife Transport**: Death has the power to transport beings to the afterlife. He has stated that he has performed this only a few times in his existence.
		- **Absolute Soul Manipulation**: Due to his duties as a death itself, he has the power to manipulate and control the essence possessed by all living things known as the Soul. Similarly to that of God and Life Death is one of the only three beings able to manipulate soul's on an absolute level, as such Death is able to manipulate the souls, spirits and ghosts of all aspects, of all places, realities, dimensions/realms, times, universes, etc., regardless of his location such as those in a higher dimension/plane, heaven, hell, or a metaphysical/conceptual one (i.e., a dream/dream world, an illustration, a complete void, in-between or outside fantasy and reality, an illogical/paradoxical world), Death will be able to create, shape and manipulate any and all forms of soul forces at an absolute level, gaining unimaginable power and great abilities involving all the forces of souls in the multiverse and everything connected to them.
	+ **Omnificence**: As a Primordial Entity who has existed prior to when Time began, Death has the power to convert nothing and create something from nothing. Like his siblings, he can create entire universe on a scale that encompasses the Lower Unity.
		- **Afterlife Creation**: As the original and primordial Death, he is capable of creating a spirit realm in which those who die go to after their lives end, originally that is.
	+ **Omnilock**: Death is an entity that exists outside of time, space, and all concepts that restrain and bind beings within the Lower Worlds. He is free of concepts such as life, death, time, space, fate, finite, infinite, good, evil, etc.
	+ **Omnineutrality**: Death is the also the living embodiment of pure neutrality, making him one of the most frighteningly peaceful, powerful, yet ambiguous and enigmatic being in all the cosmos. He is the perfect embodiment of neutrality, transcending any and all concept of neutrality. He has incomprehensible yet perfectly neutral compared to other beings of good and evil, and acts passive and neutral, much like his servants. He can peacefully end absolutely settle any conflict that possibly exists, and he knows the true values of neutrality. However, he usually and frequently prefer to not taking any side in any of the conflicts, just only peacefully end them, otherwise the conflict between good and evil will cause harm around him and by extension the world in various ways, and to just bring a better end to said conflicts and get evil to be redeemed, and good to be pacified. He can be infinitely patient, almost or totally apathetic, reserved, fair, forgiving (in some rare cases), courageous, gentle, and even all polite in nature, though he is still amoral at best and can outright punish others regardless if they are evil, neutral, or even benevolent, at least he tend to do so temporarily, if the balance of the universe is tip or bothered (similar to God and Father Time). The most destructive trait is that while he is in charge of balancing all of the realities in their wake, he is totally in charge of the very morality that they stem from. Another unique case is that he have all neutrality-based powers. What he risk doing however, is keeping all of creation and among anything else in existence in balance, especially whenever it comes to evil and good like lesser forms of neutrality does. Even though he is on top of the grey zone, the common standard he have is to view the opposites as being two sides of the same coin, and quite essentially, he cannot have one without the other, which also stems to the fact that benevolence cannot exist without malevolence, and also tend to view all the opposites being the same. He considered by many beings across the Multiverse as the true agent of the law.
	+ **Absolute Immortality**: Death is an ancient entity that has existed since before the beginning of the Multiverse itself. It is timeless, ageless, and eternal, with him going so far as to state that he is one of the only things that will last forever. Though he is the concept of Death, he does not possess such a concept, being incapable of dying naturally. That does not mean that he cannot be killed, though it would require a being of equal power to even harm, much less kill him. However, due to being the very concept of death in her most primeval state, his destruction is only temporal. As long as there is anything which can be killed, Death will never truly die.
		- **Absolute Regeneration**: Death is capable of reforming and resurrecting himself from absolute conceptual destruction, finding it to be an annoyance to have to resurrect himself afterward.
		- **Nigh-Invulnerability**: As the Primordial Embodiment of Death, Death is nigh-invincible with very few things in existence capable of harming him or even wounding him. As a Pre-existential primordial being, Death cannot be destroyed by any physical means as not even the combined might of the entire Top 10 would ruffle him. He can only be harmed and destroyed by beings equal to him in power.
	+ **Nigh-Omniscience**: As an ancient entity who existed before time began, Death knows a great deal about Creation itself, bordering on near-absolute awareness of all things that go on within the Multiverse. He is nearly all-knowing with very few gaps within his knowledge. Said gaps in his knowledge is knowing where his siblings are and what their actions will be. Maveth knows things that only few individuals know, and it is hard to determine his way of thinking, but according to Sephira it is only because he is someone that doesn't interfere with the lives of others, preferring his own privacy. He is a aware and knows many things and secrets even about his siblings including the true purpose and relationship between the God an The Darkness.
		- **Necroscience**: Death knows who will die, when they will die, where they will die, and how they will die.
	+ **Omnipresence**: Death exists wherever there is life and death. Whenever someone dies, he (or his servants) is there to collect it by instructing the Sisters of Fate on who will die.

## History

In the beginning, there was nothing, and nothing was divided into three faces; eventually Being came to be present in the endless void, and with Existence came Life, and with Life came **Death**. One day, the human race will disappear, planet Earth will rot and all the stars will extinguish and die. Death will reap everything, and when he has nothing left to reap, Death will reap it itself.

## Myths and Legends

Death as a personified being is a figure from various forms of folklore, mythology, and religion. The most popular version of the character is known as the Grim Reaper, a skeleton with a cloak and scythe, from 1800s English literature. This version of Death is heavily based on the fourth horseman from the *Book of Revelation*, though the version is considered a separate character on the *Gods and Demons wiki*. Some beliefs hold that Death is the reason for the soul leaving the body, while others believe that the soul leaves the body naturally and that Death merely guides it to the afterlife.

## Trivia

* Death's number is 180, which is half of 360, which could mean that Death is half of a cycle, in this case, the other half of the cycle of life, death.