Hadou God

**Hadou Gods** (覇道神, *Hadо̄shin*), localized as **Hegemony Gods**, are one of the two types of deities in Shinza banshou, and referring to those who emanate out their Law and paint the world in their own colour.

Hadou is the disposition of the Kings, the desire to spread the Hegemony that defines them and paint everything to be in their color. It is a desire to control the world and make it follow its own whims and manners, to make it conform to its Craving. This always takes the form of some form of dominion, no matter how virtuous the Law may be, as Hadou is inherently a form of enforcing dominion upon the world, and it would not always manifest in exactly the way that a God envisioned.

They are defined by spreading outward, affecting the external world, in comparison to the Gudou Gods who effect their own internal world.

Hadou is that which sets the stage, thus, in sequence, it predates Gudou.

## Nature

They are Supreme and Emanate their Law outward through the World, expanding infinitely and subjugating all under their supreme Law. Once an emanation begins, it will extend out infinitely to paint all creation, and it cannot be stopped, even if the God wishes it to do so.  One can say a God is the origin and embodiment of their own Law.  With it, and the world it governs, being nothing more than an extension of their being, part of their body; therefore they have full awareness of what goes on within their world.

They define their own boundaries, and dedicate themselves to continuous and unlimited expansion, and no matter the size or complexity of a space, Hadou will flood it in its entirety. All things will be put under their Hegemony, and due to that two Hadou Gods cannot peacefully coexist, as their Laws will clash and damage the fabric of reality.

As they exist outside of and transcendent of reality, existing in a different phase of sorts, and control the fundamental energy from which all concepts are sprung, they are unable to be harmed by anything of the world. Much like how a depiction of raging flames, no matter how realistic, can never burn a real human being.  Therefore, to them, the world is like onto a mere fiction.

Each Hadou God is able to bore into the Singularity, and the stronger the God, the larger and deeper the universe they can create is. That meaning, the depth of the "hole" into the Singularity they can create is dependent upon the strength of their Atman, or soul.

One's Law is not necessarily set, and it can change with time due to various factors that depend upon the individual, but it all boils down to the idea of ones Craving changing, and their Law, by consequence, changing as well. One example of this is seen with Sirius, and how his Hadou Law began as the Flames of Worthlessness, but when he regained his love, it evolved into Paradise Lost, the Law of Moksha.

They are much larger than the Gudou Gods, because if you compare them in the big picture, the Gudou Gods are just cells, while the Hadou Gods are multicellular organisms.

The emanatory and hegemonic nature of Hadou Gods finds its basis in the strange nature of Naraka, but it is not wholly similar to it.

## Known Individuals

Hadou Gods are not as limited in where they can form, and were capable of forming in every Era, though the nature of the Sixth Heaven does indirectly prevent the rise of Hadou Gods through the self-centeredness imposed upon its inhabitants.

**Mithra**

**Muzan**

**Nerose Satanael**

**Mercurius**

**Reinhard Heydrich**

**Ren Fuji**

**Marie**

**Hajun**

**Amaterasu**

## References

1. ↑ If Hegemony is said to be the disposition of kings, Transcendence could be said to be the disposition of warriors and craftsmen. An attitude which cares nothing about the course of the world, but simply sets out to carry oneself's path to its ultimate end, earnestly.
*Kokubyaku no Avesta- Glossary 22*
2. ↑  There are virtuous Hegemony (Hadou) types rooted in love and devotion, but as their effects consistently manifest in the form of dominion and suppression, there are cases where even those with the best of intentions can create unintended consequences.
*Dies Irae: Interview With Kaziklu Bey - Glossary: Hegemony*
3. ↑  Therefore, in terms of sequence, Transcendence comes after Hegemony, however, this doesn't speak of their inferiority or superiority, of their strengths and weaknesses. It is simply that laying out the stage is the role of Hegemons.
*Kokubyaku no Avesta- Glossary 22*
4. ↑ 覇道の渇望から太極・流出位階に至った者を指す。 己の願った法則を永劫展開し、外界に流れ出させる存在。 流れ出した法則は最終的に全世界を塗り潰し、既存の世界法則を一掃して新たな世界法則と化す。言うなれば、全世界を支配する存在であり、まさしく神と言える存在。
5. ↑  "Can't it be stopped while it's happening?"
"No, I know it to be impossible. Once an Emanation begins, it expands to blanket all creation and reach permeance, at which point it can only be repainted by someone else.
 At this moment, we are in a singularity. Owing to this phenomenon, the flow has been forced to a halt. The brush fell into the hole; the paint on the canvas is being neglected.
 By principle, the brush cannot be stopped till the painting reaches completion, and when it does, the painter -- struggle as they may -- can never again redo the work."
*Dies Irae*
6. ↑  Not Karl Krafft. Not Cagliostro or Saint Germain. Nor Paracelsus. But he, the origin and embodiment of the world of foreknowledge.
 *Dies Irae*
7. ↑ なのに無傷。まったく無傷。 拳を受け止めたときと同様で、 したかのようだった。
薄皮一枚切り裂けない。それは紫織の 頑強さと言うより別位相の物理を目に
*Kajiri Kamui Kagura*
8. ↑ 険えるなら 、 絵の中でどれだけ猛火を描写しようと、それが現実の 人間を燃やせるわけがないのと同じ
*Kajiri Kamui Kagura*
9. ↑ 「穴」の深さはその代における座の神格の強度に応じたものとなり、水銀が座を握っていた時の深さは、せいぜい常人が呼吸を止めていられる時間で到達することが出来る深さだった。それを踏まえて、第六天波旬が座に坐している今の深さは遥かな昔から落下し続けているにも拘らず到達し得ない深度
*Kajiri Kamui Kagura*