Tiering System

Welcome to the power scaling wiki tiering system page, I the founder will be introducing you to some of the terminology used in this tiering system as many people have requested me to do so as a result of it many people understand philosophy and formal logic vocabulary. This tiering system is made to provide fictional characters the chance to scale from various philosophical, formal logical, scientifical and mathematical notions, not being Based on a singular way of scaling.

Before we start with the terminology if you wish to understand how we use higher dimensions for a chance at scaling characters and what criteria's should be met before we accept dimensionality scaling for certain verses consult the "dimensional tiering standards page". If you wish to understand what criteria's need to be met for characters to gain certain tiers consult the "tiering system standards" page.

## Terminology

**Absolute beings**- Absolute beings or sometimes referred to as absolute beings are regarded as 1-A at bare minimum depending on the context they can be far higher, a pure being is an ontologically perfect being if you're familiar with Plato's theory of forms, pure beings are just like that except their not "universals/concepts" they are beings. Absolute beings are 1-A for existing beyond all extensions of the material world as immaterial beings who are regarded as necessary beings, self-sufficient beings from which all contingents' things derive from. Pure beings are also perfect and unchangeable and lack any spatial or temporal properties while existing beyond them, should a fictional posit the existence of such a being, they should be portrayed to be as such consistently before one can regard them as 1-A

Note: We treat philosophy notions stricter standard wise so should a contradiction arise without any adequate explanation as to why it occurred, we won't regard such a being as 1-A.

**Possible Worlds**- This should not be confused with other framework of possibilities, in modality there are various frameworks of possibilities and necessities and even science has its own fair share of possibilities which correspond to reality such as "many worlds interpretation" theory; a multiverse theory that posit the universe to branch infinitely into parallel worlds via possibilities as a result of continuous quantum superposition; but when we mean possible worlds or impossible worlds in 1-T and 1-T+ we refer to logical possibilities, which encompasses everything that should be possible and impossible in reality, every other possibility is a subset of a logical possibility. What is possible in science is possible in logic, what is possible in biology is possible in logic, what is possible in mathematics is possible in logic. What is possible in reality is possible in logic, reality runs under the laws of thought for the most part "our actual world" is confined by the laws of thought and possible worlds/logical possibilities alike, so for a character to scale to all possible world would be akin to logical omnipotence and for a character to scale to even impossible worlds would be akin to a character being capable of doin anything one can conceive of whether it is logically possible of logically impossible characters of this scale are extremely powerful but fall short of characters who are ineffable such as characters of negative theology or pataphysics.

## The Scale

### Tier 11: Infinitesimal

No joule value available. This tier pertains to characters or objects that can create/destroy or affect the whole structure of a lower-dimensional universe, or lower layers/levels of reality. Please note that existing as a drawing or being made of data/information is not to be ranked at this tier, as such beings are still 3-dimensional, but on an incredibly small scale.

This tier is broken into the following sub-tiers:

#### 11-C: Low Hypoverse level

Characters or objects that demonstrate power equivalent to destroying/creating a 0-D level construct of any size, or three levels of infinity/degrees of reality/fiction transcendence or similar beneath a 3-D reality. This tier also includes characters who are vastly below this level, and all characters beneath this tier’s requirements in any significant way will still be at this tier.

#### 11-B: Hypoverse level

Characters or objects that demonstrate power equivalent to destroying/creating an existentially inferior 1-D level construct of any size, or two levels of infinity/degrees of reality/fiction transcendence or similar beneath a 3-D reality.

#### 11-A: High Hypoverse level

Characters or objects that demonstrate power equivalent to destroying/creating existentially inferior 2-D level constructs of any size, or 1 level of infinity/degree of reality/fiction transcendence or similar beneath a 3-D reality.

### Tier 10: Human

#### 10-C: Below Average Human level

Characters or objects capable of exerting force comparable to humans who are below the average norm in terms of strength, such as small children or infirm people, as well as smaller animals such as cats and dogs.

#### 10-B: Human level

Characters or objects capable of exerting force comparable to that of regular humans, such as teenagers or unathletic adults.

#### 10-A: Athlete level

Characters or objects capable of exerting force comparable to that of more athletic humans, such as trained fighters or generally physically fit individuals.

### Tier 9: Superhuman

#### 9-C: Street level

Characters or objects that stand at the threshold of human strength and capabilities, represented by Olympic level athletes or rigorously trained martial artists, as well as larger animals.

It is important to note that, despite being named "Street level", this tier has nothing to do with actually affecting an entire street, with the name being more of a reference to street fighters as portrayed in martial arts movies and the like.

#### 9-B: Wall level

Characters or objects that can destroy or significantly damage extremely resistant materials such as stone, metal or steel, as well as similarly resistant parts of constructions such as structural boulders and walls.

#### 9-A: Small Building level

Characters or objects capable of destroying rooms or entire small constructions such as houses or more modest buildings.

### Tier 8: Urban

#### 8-C: Building level

Characters or objects that can destroy medium-sized buildings and constructions, such as large factories or large complexes such as supermarkets.

#### High 8-C: Large Building level

Characters or objects that can destroy large buildings such as skyscrapers.

#### 8-B: City Block level

Characters or objects that can destroy urban city blocks or equivalent areas of space.

#### 8-A: Multi-City Block level

Characters or objects that can destroy multiple urban city blocks or equivalent areas of space.

### Tier 7: Nuclear

#### Low 7-C: Small Town level

Characters or objects that can destroy a small town or settlement, or those who can easily harm characters with small town level durability.

#### 7-C: Town level

Characters or objects that can destroy a town, or those who can easily harm characters with town level durability.

#### High 7-C: Large Town level

Characters or objects that can destroy a large town, or those who can easily harm characters with large town level durability.

#### Low 7-B: Small City level

Characters or objects that can destroy a small city, or those who can easily harm characters with small city level durability.

#### 7-B: City level

Characters or objects that can destroy a city, or those who can easily harm characters with city level durability.

#### 7-A: Mountain level

Characters or objects that can destroy a mountain, or those who can easily harm characters with mountain level durability.

#### High 7-A: Large Mountain level

Characters or objects that can destroy a large mountain, or those who can easily harm characters with large mountain level durability.

### Tier 6: Tectonic

#### 6-C: Island level

Characters or objects that can destroy an island, or those who can easily harm characters with island level durability.

#### High 6-C: Large Island level

Characters or objects that can destroy a large island, or those who can easily harm characters with large island level durability.

#### Low 6-B: Small Country level

Characters or objects that can destroy a small country, or those who can easily harm characters with small country level durability.

#### 6-B: Country level

Characters or objects that can destroy a country, or those who can easily harm characters with country level durability.

#### High 6-B: Large Country level

Characters or objects that can destroy a large country, or those who can easily harm characters with large country level durability.

#### 6-A: Continent level

Characters or objects that can destroy a continent or those who can easily harm characters with continent level durability.

#### High 6-A: Multi-Continent level

Characters or objects that can destroy multiple continents or those who can easily harm characters with multi-continent level durability.

### Tier 5: Planetary

#### 5-C: Moon level

Characters or objects that can destroy a moon, or an astrological object of similar proportion.

#### Low 5-B: Small Planet level

Characters or objects that can destroy a small planet or those who can easily harm characters with small planet level durability.

#### 5-B: Planet level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy a planet.

#### 5-A: Large Planet level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy large gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn.

#### High 5-A: Dwarf Star level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy very small stars.

### Tier 4: Stellar

#### Low 4-C: Small Star level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy small stars.

#### 4-C: Star level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy a star.

#### High 4-C: Large Star level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy a large star.

#### 4-B: Solar System level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy a solar system.

#### 4-A: Multi-Solar System level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy multiple solar systems.

### Tier 3: Cosmic

This tier is broken into the following sub-tiers:

#### 3-C: Galaxy level

Characters or objects capable of creating and/or destroying a galaxy, when the space between celestial bodies is taken into account, as opposed to merely the matter encompassed by them.

#### 3-B: Multi-Galaxy level

Characters or objects capable of creating and/or destroy multiple galaxies when the space between celestial objects is taken into account as well.

#### 3-A: Universe level

Characters or objects that can create or destroy all celestial bodies within a finite 3-D space at least equivalent in size to the observable universe via an omnidirectional explosion that covers the entire space, alternately create or significantly affect a 3-D universe or a pocket dimension of comparable size, which does not involve the destruction and/or creation of space-time.

#### High 3-A: High Universe level

Characters or objects that demonstrate an infinite amount of energy on a 3-D scale, such as creating or destroying infinite mass, or those who can affect an infinite 3-D space. This extends to an infinite number of finite or infinite-sized 3-D universes or pocket dimensions when not accounting for when not accounting for any higher dimensions or time. Large numbers of infinite 3-D universes, unless causally closed from one another by a separate spacetime or existence, only count for a higher level of this tier. Being “infinitely” stronger than this level, unless uncountably so, does not qualify for any higher tier.

Do note that statements such as the plane being called "endless" wouldn't be enough to reach this tier, as such statements typically represent potential infinity rather than actual infinity.

### Tier 2: Macrocosmic

#### Low 2-C: Universe level+

Characters that can significantly affect, create or destroy entire space time continuum where the spatial dimension or either infinite or the temporal dimension is proven to record snapshots of the universe in which the 3-dimensional space can be any size finite or infinity.

#### 2-C: Low Multiverse level

Characters that can significantly affect, create or destroy structures containing any number between 2 to 1000 separate space time continuums.

#### 2-B: Multiverse level

Characters that can significantly affect, create or destroy structures containing any number from 1001 amount of separate space time continuums all the way up to any higher finite amount of separate space time continuums.

#### 2-A: Multiverse level+

Characters that can significantly affect, create or destroy structures containing countably infinitely many separate space time continuums.

### Tier 1: Extradimensional

#### Low 1-C: Low Complex Multiverse level

Characters that can significantly affect, create or destroy structures containing 5 or 6 dimensions this tier can alternatively reached by characters who exist in the same scale as those dimensions being mathematically represented as R^5 - R^6.

#### 1-C: Complex Multiverse level

Characters that can significantly affect, create or destroy structures containing 7 or any dimension up to the 9th, this tier can alternatively be reached by characters who exist in the same scale as those dimensions being mathematically represented as R^7 - R^9.

#### High 1-C: High Complex Multiverse level

Characters that can significantly affect, create or destroy structures containing 10 or 11 dimensions, this tier can alternatively be reached by characters who exist in the same scale as those dimensions themselves being mathematically represented as R^10 - R^11.

#### 1-B: Hyperverse level

Characters that can significantly affect, create or destroy structures containing 12 or any higher finite amount of dimensions, this tier can alternatively be reached by characters who exist in the same scale as those dimensions themselves being mathematically represented as {R^12, R^13.........} N.

#### High 1-B: High Hyperverse level

Characters that can significantly affect, create or destroy structures containing countably infinitely many dimensions, this tier can be alternatively reached if the characters exist as infinite dimensional beings themselves being mathematically represented as R^N.

#### Low 1-A: Low Outerverse level

Characters that significantly affect, create or destroy structures containing uncountably infinitely many dimensions, this tier can alternatively reached when characters qualitatively transcend countably infinitely many dimensions with the most practical example being characters who'd exist beyond the infinite dimensional Hilbert space that describes quantum states of systems in quantum mechanics being mathematically represented as R^R.

#### 1-A: Outerverse level

Characters that can significantly affect, create or destroy planes of existence equivalent to aleph 2 and deeper layers are represented by higher alephs all the way up to aleph omega in scale typically such characters exist beyond conventional dimensional theories qualitatively with their ontological magnitude being equivalent to aleph 2 in regards to infinity, this tier can be reached by characters representing pure abstraction thought of as pure beings, being perfect, immaterial and absolute being mathematically represented as P(R^R).

This tier can be alternatively reached if the character in question exists beyond Plato's theory of forms or the universals from platonic realism consistently as such theories posit the existence of ontological properties existing beyond the material world and being responsible for all parts of any structure or being in the material world as they exemplify properties of those parts from the universals or forms themselves.

Such practical examples would be the universal for dimensions as it would be anything that falls under "dimension-ness" which is everything below being limited only to unusual dimensions akin to large cardinals but rather usual dimensions from dimensional theory extending only up to R^R.

This tier continues indefinitely with each higher level being represented by higher levels of infinity (E. G Aleph-3, Aleph-4, Aleph-5.....)

**1-A+**: **Outerversal+**

Characters that can significantly affect, create or destroy structures containing an inaccessible cardinals or realms that bearing the same ontological nature or magnitude of the inaccessible cardinal that allows for it to exist beyond any framework of 1-A structures such as any amount of arithmetic operations done within those 1-A to achieve a higher level of infinity or structure such as powersetting.

With any higher large cardinals that are well founded and formalized by ZFC such as Mahlo representing greater layers into high 1-A this carries on to any Large Cardinal including "Large" Large cardinals like measurable cardinals and beyond

High 1-A: **High Outerversal**

This level is reserved for beings that scale to large cardinals beyond choice such as Reinhardt cardinals, alternatively this can be reached if character scale to the Universes of sets(V) greater than the known one that formalizes ZF+Choice cardinals, characters that scale in the "absolute infinity"(or in infinities greater than the conventional universe of sets) are at this level.

An analogy similar to the generalized reflection principle to understand this would be: "*fiction can operate with any describable set, including the Von Neuman Universe; to take the example of unified field theory, however, no infinity can reach the real world, and the real world cannot be accurately described with the infinities of fiction; for it will always be larger*".

**Primary Examples**: The downstreamers (Manifold Verse), Metanormalacy (Scp Foundation)

#### 1-T: **Transcendental**

Characters that can affect all of intelligible, whether it's limited to intelligibility logically or extending even beyond logical intelligibility; characters of this scale are capable of influencing all possible worlds and even be one step beyond that by influencing logically or metaphysically impossible worlds.

This tier is split up into the following sub-tiers:

**Transcendent:** Transcendent: Characters that can significantly affect, create or destroy any logical possible world such, characters would exist as necessary beings or absolute beings capable of affecting all possible worlds within the framework of logic.

**Primary Examples:** The downstreamers, Self-Reference Engine

**Transcendent+:** Characters that can significantly affect, create or destroy not only any and all logical possible worlds but can stretch into affecting even logically impossible worlds such characters typically having feats to what is presented within extended modal realism, alternatively characters that exist beyond logic and all that which it is instantiates

**Primary Examples**: Makoto Yuki (Megami Tensei), The Weaver (World of darkness), Arcueid Brunestud (Nasuverse)

**High Transcendent**: Characters that exist beyond every tier below as a result of being beyond self-determination, where determination is achieved through otherness. The difference can be captured by distinguishing them as bad infinity to true infinity.

Where bad infinity is codependent on finitude and is an infinite linear progression of finite things ending and beginning, where the previous one has ended as their limits and determination. When taken as a whole, it consists of an infinite number of finite particulars. Despite finitude being an essential property of infinity, infinity is defined through limits of finitude. It is determinate, filled with an unending process of something and other vanishing into each other to create the whole that is infinity. Because bad infinite self-determines itself by its finite particulars its limited by its own transcendence

***"Can [an omnipotent being] create a stone so heavy that it cannot lift it?"*** - **Omnipotence Paradox**.

True infinity transcends itself to sustain itself as true infinity, it is neither opposed nor twinned to finitude like bad infinity. If we supposed true infinity to be a description of the character of material finite things. This description by nature posits its own "transcendence", which falls into the paradox of bad infinity. True infinity sustains its transcendence by continuously transcending its transcendence not by transcending finitude, which causes it to be self-determinate by achieving its transcendence (self-determinateness) as a result of transcending otherness making it determinate.

Is obliterates the central paradox of being unbounded is being confined by unboundedness and likewise being unknowable being already given to be known as unknowability (paradox of ineffability) - doing it so by defining itself as a continuous movement of altering determination of finite and infinite over against itself - of transcendence coming back to immanence, and immanence rising to transcendence.

*God can lift a stone, that he creates so heavy that he couldn't lift it. Because God not only transcends limits, but the limits of his transcendence over limits.*

**Primary Examples:** The Mathiverse (FlatterLand), The White Light (Rucker Verse)

### Pure Thought

Characters that exist outside and beyond all of intelligibility.

**High Transcendent+:** Beings existing ontologically as what Hegel posits as "Pure Being", his ontology that unifies thought and being in the dialectical stages. According to Hegelian philosophy "pure thought" can think "pure being". A being in absolute indeterminateness.

A being not differentiated from "pure not-being" or absolute nothingness such an indeterminate confusion of something and nothing, of being and not being, of positive and negative, of affirmation and denial, can only hope to be conceived by pure finite minds as the objective correlative of and similarly absolutely identical with its subjective correlative that is "pure Thought".

***Theosophical Background***

It is said that In Chabad systemisation of Hasidic thought, the term Ein Sof ("Unlimited" Infinite) itself does not capture the very essence of God. Instead, it uses the term Atzmus (the Divine "Essence"). The Ein Sof, while beyond all differentiation or limitation, is restricted to Infinite expression. The true Divine essence is above even Infinite-Finite relationship. The ein sof represents a lower essence of what ought to be God, it represents indeterminateness. Reference to Atzmus is usually restricted in Kabbalistic theory to discussion whether “Ein Sof” represents the ultimate Divine Being in Itself (Reference to Atzmus is usually restricted in Kabbalistic theory to discussion whether “Ein Sof” represents the ultimate Divine Being in Itself, or to God as first cause of Creation.), or to God as first cause of Creation.

In Taoism Wuji is the limitless and infinite undifferentiated timelessness which, in the Taijitu Shuo (a traditional Taoist diagram) is represented by an empty circle. Everything begins from one source, and the one source, the Supreme ultimate (Taiji) as Ultimate void (Wuji), is itself unlimited, undifferentiated (Indeterminate), uncaused, and beyond the ontological dynamics of movement (yang) and rest (yin) apparent in the myriad things and human beings.

Such beings are transcendent of all dualities of subject and object, all determinateness of knowing and "being", all distinction of thought and thing; such beings mods of thought and existence transcends all human comprehension.

**Primary Examples:** The Axiom (Megami Tensei), Anu "The Amaranth" (The Elder Scrolls) , Ein Sof (Unsong)

#### Tier 0: Apeiron

Beings that exist far beyond indeterminateness and language as a whole, conforming to the ineffability thesis. Which affirms that in the room of divinity, one ought to not utter anything but silence.

***Theosophical background***

The Tao is more commonly expressed in the relationship between **wu** (void or emptiness, in the sense of *wuji*) and *yinyang* (the natural, dynamic balance between opposites), leading to its central principle of wu wei (inaction or inexertion). Tao (The Way) that can be spoken of is not the Constant Tao' The name that can be named is not a Constant Name. Nameless, is the origin of Heaven and Earth; The named is the Mother of all things. The Tao is "eternally nameless" and should be distinguished from the countless named things that are considered to be its manifestations.

the ultimate context and totality of Reality. Essence is no-thing and every-thing, and yet it is neither nothing nor everything. Descriptive names do not apply to Atzmus, which the latter is likened to Ayin because even the concept of “Infinity” is, by definition, a limitation; no thought can grasp You at all.” He is neither “something” nor is He “nothing,” for He is the “Absolute Something” as well as the “Absolute Nothing” as one. "No thought” in the above statement implies that even the primordial thought of Adam Kadmon–that thought which conceives all of Creation at once–cannot know the essence of God, the Creator.

Atzmus came into being, Atzmus was the Essence of God that could not be explained, it was beyond the nature of cause and effect, transcending anything that had been discussed until that point. Atzmus was to be the Absolute, beyond the limitations of higher and lower, of potential and actual, it was God recaptured, saved from the overworking minds of Hassidic Lurianic Kabbalists. It would be the key word, the unknowable that would not be discussed, the line beyond which one dared not venture.

The problem of attempting to define Atzmus therefore is almost ironic in nature because it by definition is not meant to be understood or described, the term intentionally avoids categorisations, limitations and definitions of any sort; in this sense, it is not only a problem with words but to some extent with the very use of logic as well. It is said that even the ‘logic’ of paradox may not be fully adequate either.

**Primary Examples:** Atzmus (Unsong), 「　」(Nasuverse)

#### Note

Being simply said to be ineffable or indescribable is not nearly enough to reach this tier, without the ineffable thesis conceptualized in the standard for tiering section, such characters are defaulted to a tier beyond their cosmos or at rare cases 1-T+.

1. ↑ "Significantly affect" is here used as an umbrella term for feats that don't involve direct creation or destruction but are comparable to them in power, such as warping and distorting the entirety of the structure in question, sustaining its existence with energy, merging the structure with another one, etc.