The Presence (Reality Warping)

In the history of the DC Universe, **the Presence** is the ultimate creator, the Source of all things, often presented as a fictionalized counterpart to **the God** of the Abrahamic religions; in particular, he is often given Christian attributes. However, the religious cosmology of the omniverse is complex, with many pantheons of gods co-existing alongside each other. It includes elements from multiple religions, mythologies, and modern concepts such as the Endless. The Presence has taken numerous forms throughout history and has many aspects, including **The Voice**, **The Hand**, and **The Source**.

## History

### Origin

Not so long before the begun existence of the Presence, he was crafted by the Omniarch, Peter Pattenburg when he was trying to recreate the two biggest comic book Universes. First he created the Presence and then he created the Presence's younger brother, the One Above All. Afterward, he gave them tasks and let them free on the Omniverse.

### The Creation

Before existence, there was only a Great Darkness; a single, black infinitude. Within that darkness, however, a single, burning Light was born. As it grew, the darkness screamed, resulting in an imperceptible flaw in the once-immaculate perception of the Light. And in that moment, the cosmos was born.

As "the Voice", the Light created the word and the Omegaverse. In the process, it wrote its divine name into all creation on a sub-molecular level, making the Light present in all things.

In Abrahamic cosmology, His first living creation was the First of the Fallen, created to be his companion and the embodiment of his conscience. His next creations were the archangels Samael and Michael, the most powerful of the celestials. He gave Michael power enough to create dull matter, and Samael the power to bring it to life.

As the Source, He sent The Hands out into the greater overvoid, where they were tasked with creating new Multiversal systems using seven connective energies. After the creation of their Multiverse, each member of the Hands would pass and allow their energies to return to Source of All Things. However, one amongst their number, Perpetua, refused. She built a viscous, predatory multiverse, one locked in a never-ending cycle of crisis and rebirth. Her children, however, betrayed her, and she was imprisoned within the Source Wall. Her flawed, predatory multiverse was made to restart.

Zeus of Mount Olympus supposed that through the manifestation of the Source, He birthed Urgrund, the vast and unknowable realm of the Old Gods. When Urgrund shattered, it cast the Godwave through the cosmos, seeding the fabric of the multiverse with the potential for godhood. Firstborn of the Godwave were the beings of Apokolips and New Genesis; as the Godwave moved through the cosmos, the second-born pantheons, like the Gods of Olympus arose.

### The Rebellion

When the first of the fallen came to believe that God was crazy, God banished him from Heaven and cast him into Hell. The first became Satan, and was the first of many others who would fall. When the rogue Guardian Krona traveled back in time, he witnessed a great hand shaping and creating the multiverse; some believed this to the hand of the Presence. God also created Adam and Lilith, ostensibly the first two human beings, and made them inhabit the Garden of Eden, but when Lilith rebelled, he banished her and created Eve instead.

In the meantime, God began to speak to the Host only in the form of "the Presence", only heard and never seen, and some of his angels began to doubt his decisions, in part because of what happened to Lilith. Eventually, Samael led a rebellion against God, convincing many of his brothers to write their own destiny. God did not participate in the battle, but neither did he approve of violence among his children; so Michael gathered several faithful angels and fought against Samael and his followers, who were eventually defeated and thrown into Hell. Believing that Samael, who was now called Lucifer, would have been happier away from him, God entrusted him with the government of Hell, already foreseeing what would have happened later. As expected, Lucifer entered the Garden of Eden and tricked Adam and Eve into their exile from paradise onto Earth.

### Modern Times

But that was what God wanted, because now humans were mortal and had free will, being able to shape their own destinies, choosing virtue or sin, good or bad. With rebellion and sin, the concept of justice was also born, and some celestial beings, first Eclipso and then the Spectre, that became the personification of God's Wrath and Vengeance, respectively.

Eons later, faithful angels like Zauriel and rebels like Asmodel, redeemed demons like Etrigan and corrupted like Neron, played a role in their eternal lives, but also mortals, who contributed with each action to the great project. God also created Jesus of Nazareth, that his teachings started the religion of Christianity. The disembodied Voice of God spoke to and empowered Jim Corrigan with the Spectre. God answered Spectre's prayers and resurrected the murdered Justice Society. The Voice of God is the primary force responsible for Spectre's powers.

The Hand of God was seen by Swamp Thing, Deadman, and the Phantom Stranger when Heaven was threatened by the return of the Original Darkness. God (as the Presence) also commands the allegiance of the host of angels, including Zauriel. Lucifer continued to try to escape from God's plan, which eventually abandoned his place in Hell and entrusted him to Dream of the Endless, and began to roam Earth in his new rebellion. Dream organized an auction between gods and demons to find a new lord of Hell, but God ordered two angels, Remiel and Duma, to take possession of Hell on his behalf, an authority that overcame that of all other auctioneers.

Later, God gave his wayward son a letter of passage out of creation in exchange for a task that any of his other angels could have done, so he arranged for even faithful Michael to be expelled from Heaven, and eventually He disappeared, abandoning his tower in the Silver City, with His name beginning to disappear from all atoms of creation, a condition that could only end with its dissolution. When God appears in physical form, he presents himself as an gentleman wearing a bowler hat, dark suit, umbrella and with a gray mustache. The Presence is also the creator of the Council of Eternity.

## Attributes

### Powers

* **Transcendent Physiology**: The Presence is a Transcendent Entity. He is physically, mentally, and conceptually beyond essentially all forms of harm or other ways to influence them (outside of other beings of similar status, superior beings or some specific concepts), and gains powers that are supernatural to outside viewers. While he can enter into the material universe, becoming immanent, his true being is outside existence and thus both independent and outside of everything that happens to his manifested/avatar form. As he is able to perceive existence in a completely different and transcendent way, he can achieve things that are beyond the understanding of lesser beings. For example, a children's toy built by him could be used as a dangerous and unstoppable weapon by the lower races.
	+ **Nigh-Omnipotence**: As God, The Presence possesses infinite power. Through his own will, he defined every variable physical law of the universe, stating everything happens because he makes it happen. The only being greater than him, are the Omniarch and those created by him to be greater or the Omniarch's immediate family.
		- **Source of Creation**: The Presence birthed the very cosmic energies that all multiverses in the void spring from. Each of these energies are essential for the good working of the Multiverse with all its elements operating in harmony with one another, as one ensures motions, another feelings, another magic, and so on.
		- **Omnifarious**: The Presence is capable of instantly altering his form at will, allowing him to appear as anyone or anything.
		- **Omnificence**: The Presence can create absolutely everything/anything without limits, including concepts, existence, reality, and even the totality itself. He can also create from nothing or even to create one thing from another e.g. manifesting an image from a comic book, creating life from the dead, and duplicating anything.
		- **Dimensional Travel**: The Presence can instantly transport himself and others across dimensions, such as between Heaven and Hell, as well as outside of his creation.
		- **Immortality**: The Presence is eternal. He does not age and cannot be harmed by any normal means.
		- **Power Distribution**: The Presence used his power to create the Angels, as well as grant the Demiurgic power to Michael, and the Lightbringer power to Lucifer.
	+ **Omniscience**
		- **Cosmic** **Awareness**: As God, The Presence possesses understanding of the workings of the universe on a cosmic scale.
		- **Clairvoyance**
	+ **Omnipresence**

### Abilities

* **Charisma**
* **Deception**
* **Occultism**
* **Genius Level Intellect**