Devil May Cry Cosmology Blog

Alright, today I'll be beginning my first blog on DMC scaling and while this won't necessarily talk about every individual hax, ability, character, etc. it will be speaking on the size of the cosmology in question with a few pointers towards characters that are relevant in their scaling to the cosmology as a consequence. Also do note that due to caution I will not be appealing to Peak of Combat until the official release date to avoid any controversies. So we will start small by establishing the cosmology via the chronology of its creation and it's creator.

So in the beginning, there was only the Qliphoth tree. The DMC5 Artbook:

> 「魔界を魔界たらしめる魔界樹クリフォト」閻魔刀によって魔界に開かれた穴から現世に伸びたクリフォトは、現世の生気を得て成長し、純粋な悪の実をつける。開発初期はこの言葉にかなり悩みました。手当たり次第に資料を探り、現在の表現に落ち着いています。
> “The Demon Tree Qliphoth that makes the Demon World the Demon World The tree grows in this world through a hole opened by the Yamato, and grows with the life force of this world, bearing pure evil fruit.”.
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Furthermore, this same tree is also the origin of all life, demons and humans alike. In fact, in Devil May Cry 5: Visions of V Urizen states the tree bearing the fruit at it's apex is something that imagined reality into existence, On a side note, the fruit's ability to create illusions does not detract from the statement that “everything is an illusion created by the fruit arbitrarily” as the readers are already acknowledging that the place Dante and Urizen find themselves in is an illusion which Urizen responds to elevating the fruit’s supposed power to create illusions to having created everything given the past tense in the sentence as it pertains to this action of fruit creating everything. So the fruit scales well over the Demon World to an extent where the Demon World is essentially illusory in comparison. The Qlipoth itself was stated to be the source of everything on a different occasion as wellAnywho, thus far we have a bit of a timeline with The Qlipoth and it's fruit predating the birth of reality, so the next question is what necessarily was in this reality: and the answer can be found in DMC 3's Manga: Code Dante which states that the world was originally primordial darkness that was the original shape of the Demonworld and Human world alike (in a sense). However, eventually, an incursion in the form of the Human world was introduced to that primordial blackness as though a line of light was piercing endless/infinite darkness, and this is naturally not referring to temporal infinity, as the page visually shows a line of light being surrounded by darkness. Unfortunately, however bright this light was against the darkness it could not help, but be encompassed by the greater Demonworld which was infinite in comparison to the Human world, which is a a genuine universe . Now normally, this in itself would be enough to establish **High 3-A** Demonworld, but we can get it higher as we reckon with what is defined as the human world/universe in DMC. For this, we shall temporarily turn to the actions of one Argosax and Arius by extension through the gradual unsealing of the demon god in question. To recap on DMC2, Arius through the gathering of the Arcana hopes to unseal Argosax and with just a smidgen of his power unsealed the Demonworld and Humanworld slowly began to return to their original positions as an unseparated whole. As a result, the Demonworld’s dark power was quite literally overriding not just human world space, but also human world time in a variety of ways just from its somewhat closer proximity now challenging the dimensional seals that Sparda had previously set up in the past

In a manner of speaking this proves that the term human world in most contexts within DMC refers to a 4D space-time continuum and this is an axiomatic point. Now, as a result, we have elevated the demon world comparatively to a **2-A** space, but we don’t have to stop there. In DMC3 we see Dante at the end of the game paying a visit to a series of disjointed spaces that are in all reality sub-realms of a greater realm within the Demonworld known as the Nirvana. Now to progress Dante needs to obtain an item known as the Samsara to help unify these disjointed realms and we learn that samsara symbolizes the space-time continuum.

Thus, the once disjointed realm is restored in its proper order reflecting a more proper time-space continuum. This means that the Demonworld already has countless time-space continuums within its infinite expanse which is very important for the next statement I’m gonna reference. To help define the DW a bit better, here are a few things worth considering for housekeeping. The DW has realms like this endless ocean which should be infinite compared to the human realm (as the defining feature of the endless ocean is its endlessness and should be endless next to the human world, a genuine 4D universe which isn't given the same amount of accolades) which as I established earlier is a **Low 2-C** space-time continuum. This would also include being infinite in comparison to the mirror realm, an exact replica of the human world serving as a kind of entrance to the demon world. This mirror realm which is a subset of the Demonworld is a mirror representation of the human world, albeit one filled to the brim with evil.

> The mirror that reflects this world is the entrance to the demon world! This demon's cave, where he cannot even breathe, distorts Dante's consciousness with its powerful demonic sea air and robs him of his vision. "The Stone of the Bridge is in Dante's hand, and the demons surround him in a frenzy
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###### The quote from the scan linked in "Mirror of the human world section"

Now this mirror realm holds a super special item that allows for access to Mundus's front gate, and as such it has certain spells that allows it to ignore the watcher of time or the upgrade statue you see in the games. Now the reason why this is a significant feat is that the statue is a manifestation of an omniscient god who controls time itself and is essentially rendered illusive/illusionary in this subset of the Demonworld.

Now overall, one could rate the Demonworld at **2-A** and that'd be a fair assessment however, it is probably more accurate to rate the Demonworld at **Low 1-C.**

Now for DMC multiverse crap gets crazy:

> Dante saw visions of a very young King of the Underworld, his body raging with pulsating magical energy. He saw flashes of Mundus commanding an infinite army of demon troops to overwhelm the human world without challenge. It was a mental snapshot of a war two thousand years ago, one that Dante had heard through stories and legends.
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###### Devil May Cry Vol. 2 Page 177

Considering that parallel universes are "Worlds that have taken a different path", and there are infinite demons within each, as the parallel universes scan establishes parallel universes have their own version of demons, this would mean that there are an infinite number of variables per universe, and as such an infinite number of universes as well, making it extremely high into **Low 1-C**

I think that is that with the cosmology.