Todd Howard

Todd Howard creator of the Tod-verse

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Todd Howard is the Immortal god who created the Tod-verse with his bare feet.

## **History**

Todd first materialized along with Reanu Keeves in The Chess Club exactly 7.2 seconds after the universe was created.

Todd and Reanu quickly became friends after showing each over their chins but eventually they parted ways to explore the universe, after long Todd became bored of the universe and lonely so he returned to the Chess Club to create his own universe where no one could make fun of his chad chin. He would name this universe the Tod-verse out of hubris.

For unknown reasons Reanu eventually returned to Todd years later, and Todd told him he would save Reanu a place in the Tod-verse once it was completed.

Unfortunately after years of developing the Tod-verse, Todd became impatient and released it into reality without finishing it, because of this the Tod-verse became infected with the dark power of The Cheesy Exploits.

It is believed that since his first trip to the Tod-verse, Todd's mind has been corrupted by the dark powers, forcing him to create a breeding ground for The Cheesy Exploits which he named "Fallout 76".

After living on Earth for a few years with his cousin Keanu Reeves, Reanu decided to take Todd's offer and escape to the Todd-verse. Unfortunately for mankind, the Tod-verse and The Cheesy Exploits that had contaminated it would eventually become the fuel to the ever-growing fire that was the insatiable hunger of Reanu Keeves.

### **The Tod-verse**

Todd Howard had secretly modified the Tod-verse to serve as the most elaborate containment system in all reality so that Reanu's lust for power would not consume humanity. The Tod-verse's new purpose was to be split across millions of smaller copies of itself that would be spread as far apart as possible, dividing Reanu's power millions of times and preventing him from escaping. Reanu discovered this shortly after being imprisoned there by his former best friend.

However, Reanu managed to gain great power in the Tod-verse plane of Skyrim - so much power in fact that one copy of The Elder Scrolls V contains 1/20th of the power necessary for Reanu to escape into the real world. This means that, if 20 copies of Skyrim were to be rubbed together, Reanu would have enough power concentrated in that spot to escape the Tod-verse and obliterate 90% of all life.

So far, Todd has delayed this by porting Skyrim to the Samsung smart fridge, dividing Reanu's power even further for the time being. In current times it is said that you would need to rub about 32 copies of Skyrim together to unleash Armageddon.

#### **Reanu's Escape from Skyrim**

After years of developing his Cheesy Exploit farm, Fallout 76, Todd finally remembered that he was supposed to be using his unparalleled programming skills to prevent Reanu's escape from the Tod-verse so he took a short trip to Skyrim to spy on Reanu. When he got there, though, he discovered that Reanu had been able to jump to the much more broken Spiffed Skyrim and was no longer in the Tod-verse. Todd hastily jumped through Reanu's rift and entered the universe some claim to have been his true vision.

While disguised as his persona 'Howard Todds', Todd discovered that Reanu was rapidly gaining power - so much in fact that if he didn't act in a matter of days Reanu would escape. So, he teamed with The Spiffing Brit, creator and overseer of the Spiffed Skyrim, to push Reanu Back into Skyrim and deprive him of his new powers. Spiff then surrounded his realm with a psychic bubble made of Yorkshire Tea to prevent anyone entering or exiting it again.

Todd followed Reanu's progress in his own Skyrim closely, and soon discovered that his adversary was planning to escape and invade the newest 'functioning' plane of the Tod-verse, Fallout 4. To prevent this Todd used his game developing powers to create a psychic bubble (unfortunately not made of Yorkshire Tea) around the entirety of Skyrim.

The only way to pass through the bubble was a Todd shaped hole that Todd built out of hubris, but this hubris would once again be his downfall. When Reanu discovered the hole, Todd rushed there to stop him, leading to a battle that shook the Tod-verse to its core and ended with Todd slamming the entirety of Skyrim into Reanu's face leaving him with a single scar across his left eye. This battle was known as The Battle of the Todd-shaped Hole.

Not much else is known about the battle, except that it ended with Reanu reaching Fallout 4 while also once again being sealed there by one of Todd's Psychic bubbles. Reanu had lost all the power he had gained in Skyrim using The Cheesy Exploits, meaning that he had to start over in Fallout 4. The blood shed by the two Immortals during the battle is known to have congealed and created Jay Shagsby.

#### **The Bone Wars**

After the destruction of Skyrim during The Battle of The Todd-shaped Hole, Todd Howard decided to reconstruct his favorite plane, but he found that it was full of dead people that had been obliterated during the battle and Reanu's previous "adventures".

To resurrect the millions of dead, Todd would have to stay in the Tod-verse for hundreds of years, and he knew being exposed to pure Cheesy Exploits for this long would corrupt his mind even further, leaving him unable to prevent Reanu Keeves's escape from the Tod-verse.

So Todd created seven beings to resurrect the people of Skyrim. These powerful necromancers were known as the Bonelords and the most powerful of these Bonelords was known as Barry. Unfortunately Todd's hubris once again had gotten the better of him and Barry became corrupted by his power shortly after discovering he could use Cheesy Exploits to increase the power he had over those he resurrected and make them his mindless thralls.

Barry (now known as Barry Boneraiser after his ability to raise anyone's bone who saw him) used his undead army to hunt down the other Six Bonelords, who had now joined forces and created their own undead army. Unfortunately their refusal to exploit The Cheesy Exploits to enhance their power meant their army only lasted 200 seconds and could only be summoned once a day, so they lost.

After defeating the undead legions Barry traveled to the outskirts of Whiterun were he believed the other Bonelords where hiding, after searching for hours Barry's legion began to decompose and weaken, once they had completely lost the ability to stand the Bonelords ambushed Barry and began blasting him with fire.

Barry's magic tolerance training allowed him to withstand the fire long enough to dig his axe into one's head before resurrecting him as a distraction and escaping into the woods. However, Barry was severely wounded and was nearly incapable of defending himself. A highway robber (who had been resurrected by the other Bonelords but had deserted their army) took advantage of Barry's weakness and stabbed to the gut. The Boneraiser collapsed into a nearby river, and a few days later his corpse was found floating through the Riverwood river, now only raising the bones of necrophiliacs.

The surviving Bonelords resurrected Barry and used his power to successfully resurrect the population of Skyrim. Having completed their mission, the Bonelords met with Todd Howard where they confessed that they had secretly used Cheesy Exploits to enhance their magic and overpower Barry.

Being a majestic and merciful god Todd forgave them but he also told them that they would now never be able to leave the Tod-verse or the Cheese that corrupted them could spread to humanity, so he sealed Skyrim and the Bonelords once more in a bubble and left the Tod-verse.

## Memoirs

Todd Howard's autobiography, *Memoirs of a God-Genius: It Just Works*, supposedly grants mortals who read its pages either Cheesy, exploit-ridden powers or a dreadful curse to never be interesting again. Whether that is because Todd cannot create anything that is not Cheesy, or because any who encounter his genius become doomed to create as he did, is not known.

## Controversy Over Todd's Status

Some consider Todd Howard to be a mere Immortal, while others claim he is a god, and still others claim he is both at once. Todd Howard himself has offered no comment about his status, making the answer up in the air.

### Todd Howard as an Immortal

Proponents of the Immortal Todd Theory claim that, since Todd and Reanu Keeves were created at the same time and in the same way (materialized in The Chess Club), then they should both be the same thing. Reanu is an Immortal, thus Todd Howard is an Immortal.

Critics of this theory claim that Reanu Keeves is a god (he is frequently called *the mad god*), making Todd a god.

### Todd Howard as a god

Proponents of the god Todd Theory claim that, since Todd Howard was capable of creating his own universe, he is a god. Only gods, they claim, can make their own universes.

Critics of this theory claim that The Spiffing Brit, undeniably an Immortal and not a god, made his own universe (The Spiffed Skyrim), meaning that Todd doing the same thing does not automatically elevate him to god-status. However, they overlook two important details:

1. Spiff used Yorkshire Tea to create The Spiffed Skyrim, while Tod made the Tod-verse using his only own ingenuity and some mortals to do the monotonous work. Also, Spiff is the Emissary of Erihskroy, the Tea God, and has some of that god's power vested in him.
2. Spiff himself calls Todd Howard a "god-genius".

### Todd Howard as both an Immortal and a god

Proponents of the Immortal god Todd Theory say that Todd is an Immortal, but he is god to the Tod-verse. He did create the Tod-verse and is known to get involved within it, meaning that (according to these people) he checks all the boxes for being a god in its truest definition. However, he carries that status only in relation to the Tod-verse and not in the real world, where he remains only an Immortal.

Critics of this theory on the god Todd side claim that, if Todd is a god somewhere, then he is a god everywhere regardless of what he is god of. Critics on the Immortal Todd side say that making a universe hardly qualifies a being as a god.