Codex of the Omega

The **Codex Of The Omega**, also known as the **Omega Codex** is a mysterious book written in the First Century AD. The book is notable (and controversial) for two reasons: it contains a phrase known as the Omega Phrase, which, if spoken, would resurrect any deceased entities-both humans and animals-within the vicinity of the person who spoke the words. The next is a supposed curse that deactivates death and forces all sentient organisms into a state of immortality.

It was written by Ziad bin Muhammad, the son of Abd al-Hazred, who wrote the Necronomicon.
People and animals who have been resurrected using the book are known as the Resurrected, the Reborn, or the Restored.

## History

### Ancient History

For years, the origins of the Codex of the Omega were shrouded in mystery: nobody knew who was the book's original author, though it was known that a Greek scholar and student of Socrates named "Coronos" got his hands on it. Socrates warned him that there was something "dangerous" about the book and advised his student to proceed with caution. Wanting to share the book with the world, he attempted to research its origins. During his research, Coronos found the author's identity: an Arab named Ziad bin Muhammad, the son of a sorcerer named Abdul Al-Hazred, author of the infamous Necronomicon. Coronos was able to publish a Greek translation of the Codex of the Omega. Unbeknownst to Coronos, Ziad had pronounced a terrible curse on anyone who tried to harm the book; the curse manifested while Coronos was sailing to Crete: a sudden storm appeared and violent waves wrecked Coronos' ship against a rock. Coronos survived the shipwreck and was able to return home safe, but suddenly died of dysentery two months later.

Years later, a Roman scholar and resident of the city of Pompeii named Tiberius Caeparius Familiaris obtained the book from a friend who also was inquiring as to who wrote it. He studied the book for quite some time, but his studies were interrupted on February 5, AD 62, when a powerful earthquake struck the city of Pompeii. Tiberius soon traveled to Gaul to speak with other Romans who had heard of the book for further investigation, but was soon forced to stay in Rome when Pompeii was destroyed by Vesuvius in AD 79.

While staying in Rome, Tiberius spoke with a sage who was familiar with the book. The sage told him the story of Ziad bin Muhammad and that he was the original author of the book. She claimed that Ziad pronounced a terrible curse to protect the book from malevolent forces, a claim that Tiberius was skeptical of. He then translated the book into Latin. Two weeks later, he died of a heart attack, having realized at that point that Ziad's curse was real. The day prior, however, he wrote a letter to family friends asking him to bury the book alongside him. In the letter, Tiberius lamented that he was unable to solve the mystery of the book during his life.

### 18th Century

During the American Revolutionary War, future President Thomas Jefferson received a letter from an unknown family friend who told him that the book had somehow ended up in America and had been used by the British in an attempt to turn the tide of the war before it was stolen by a spy belonging to the Continental Army, who abruptly died of fright while reading it. Intrigued, Jefferson got his hands on the book and met with George Washington, and they discussed the book's shady history. Washington warned him not to read the book, lest he suffer the same fate as the Continental Army spy, as he sensed a "malevolent evil" contained in the book. His curiosity concerning the book was aroused years after the war's end, however; two days after he was inaugurated as the third United States President, Harlow Mason, a friend of British naturalist Charles Darwin and British linguistics professor at Oxford, sent him an English copy of the Codex of the Omega, which Mason translated. Remembering Washington's warning, he chose not to read the book. However, Jefferson's daughter Martha Jefferson read the book. When Jefferson found out, he confronted Martha, who admitted to doing so after her curiosity got the best of her. In a will Jefferson wrote prior to his death, he asked Martha to destroy the book, not wanting the world to find out about its contents. However, Martha forgot to do so.

### First War against the Babylon Coalition

The Codex of the Omega became one of the catalysts for the First War against the Babylon Coalition when it was stolen from a Los Angeles museum in 1947. During the investigation and attempt to get it back, a series of terrifying revelations led to a full-blown war against the organization. The book was never returned to the museum in LA where it was stolen from-at least until 2019, when it was accidentally found by Edward Maglio in the cave where it was kept by its thieves, who tried to test the infamous phrase that would supposedly resurrect the dead. He was initially skeptical about the book's infamous Omega Phrase's ability to resurrect the dead, but found out for himself that the Omega Phrase had real power after all when, after he spoke the Omega Phrase aloud, all of the police officers and criminals who died inside the cave were spontaneously resurrected, much to Edward's shock.

### Making *Jurassic Park* real

In spring of 2020, an English copy of the Codex of the Omega was put on display at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Two months later, a group of burglars broke into the museum on a successful heist to steal the book, wanting to read the book's contents. One of the burglars, known only as "June", casually read the "Omega Phrase", a Latin chant that could resurrect the dead. Unbeknownst to the burglar, the Omega Phrase actually worked; June had accidentally resurrected a family of Thanatotheristes by reading the Omega Phrase. Upon resurrecting, the Thanatotheristes family proceeded on a rampage through Canada and eventually crossing into the United States of America, where they caught the attention of the US government. Alarmed that someone had successfully used the stolen book to successfully resurrect an extinct animal, the US and Canadian governments simultaneously authorized a manhunt for the burglars. June hid in the Appalachian Mountains, but was later discovered and apprehended by park rangers. June was turned over to the Canadian authorities and the book was returned. However, authorities later found out that the Thanatotheristes wasn't the only dinosaur brought back; the burglars also resurrected a heard of Triceratops within the same vicinity, and the Triceratops fled across the Canadian border into the USA.

### Campaign against Atlas Biomedical

In the early winter of 2019, the Codex of the Omega was stolen from the American Museum of Natural History during a burglary perpetrated by employees of Atlas Biomedical, a corrupt pharmaceutical company. However, the thieves eventually found themselves the target of another theft when a cat burglar stole the Codex herself, intending to give it to somebody else. This attracted the attention of Edward Maglio and his circle of friends, who decided to investigate the Codex of the Omega in order to figure out what would make the book a target for theft, which eventually kickstarted a campaign against Atlas Biomedical.

### "Instrument of Witchcraft"

Following the rediscovery of the Codex of the Omega, numerous conservative Christian groups denounced the book as a "Satanic instrument of witchcraft" and called for its destruction. Similarly, the Westboro Baptist Church challenged anyone who got ahold of the book to "burn it immediately." As of 2020, all attempts to destroy the Codex of the Omega have failed.

## The Omega Phrase

The Omega Phrase is a controversial Arabic phrase contained in the Codex of the Omega that, if spoken, could resurrect the dead. Initial rumors reported that those that were resurrected would become zombies, but it was later proven to be false: when brought back to life, the resurrected people, known as "the Resurrected", would come back the same age they were when they died.

The Omega phrase is rendered as such: "Ergo Ego Spiro Habito, Ergo Ego Spiro Existo" (I breathe and live, I breathe and exist). Reciting this phrase once over a person's grave would resurrect the person. Reciting this in a cemetery would resurrect anyone within the vicinity of the person who spoke the words.

Thanks to the discovery of numerous cryptids, as well as the events of Operation Southern Lights in 2023, it was later revealed that the Omega Phrase could also resurrect extinct animals from the dead.

## Resurrection Mechanics

### Limitations

Although the Omega Phrase in the book has the power to resurrect anybody, there are some limitations:

* Though there is no limit to the number of people that can be resurrected using the Omega Phrase in the book, the book can only be used ten times per day; if the book is used to resurrect ten people on January 3, 2019, the user will have to wait until January 4th of 2019 before the book can be used again.
* It does not work on time travelers; if a person from 2025 time travels to the year 1903 and then dies in the year 1903, he or she cannot be brought back whatsoever (and vice versa for people who have time traveled from the past who die in the future). However, the only way to bypass this rule is to return the dead person back to the year he or she came from. It's only after the corpse can be returned that the dead person can be brought back using the Omega Phrase.

### Caveats

The Omega Phrase also has caveats that clarify how the resurrection process works:

* People who are brought back using the Omega Phrase will not come back as zombies or super old people. A person resurrected with the Omega Phrase will come back the same age they were when they died, regardless of the time period the in which the person has lived and died (ex: A young girl who died in the year 1900 at the age of 12 will return as a 12-year old even if she was resurrected in the year 2030). There is an exception for people who died in their fifties and older.
* There is a one-week cooldown period once the book is used to resurrect someone.

### Temporary superpowers

Anyone who is resurrected using the Omega Codex is gifted with temporary superpowers, which are listed below:

* **Invincibility**: Those who are resurrected using the Omega Codex will be invincible for one hour before becoming mortal again.
* **Temporal immunity**: The resurrected individual will be given temporary immunity from diseases. However, after approximately three days after the day of that person's resurrection, he or she will once again be vulnerable to diseases.

### Mass Resurrections

If the Omega Phrase is spoken in the middle of a mass grave or in the midst of a pile of dead bodies, everyone-both human and animal-who was buried at that mass grave will be instantly resurrected. This is known as a mass resurrection. Mass resurrections can also happen if the voice of the person who speaks the Omega Phrase is amplified to the point where all dead people within a wide radius can hear it. However, this can only happen once per week.

### Other mechanics

* **Age reset**: Any human being who has died of old age, or died old, will return as twenty-some year olds. However, this principle only applies to individuals who died at the age of 40 and above.

## The Resurrected

*Main article*: The Restored

The following is a list of confirmed humans and animals that were resurrected using the Codex.

### Human beings

NOTE: This includes historical figures

* Rosa Parks
* Scott Atkinson
* Sonny Gould
* Larry Hunter
* Houston Church
* Dexter West
* John Calvin
* Søren Kierkegaard
* Douglas MacArthur
* Martin Luther
* Karl Marx
* Anne Frank
* Charles Darwin
* Sun Tzu
* Ben Salomon
* Dante Alighieri
* Simo Häyhä
* Roza Shanina
* Martin Luther
* Chiang Kai-Shek
* Douglas MacArthur
* Agnes Peterson

### Animals

* Tyrannosaurus Rex
* Megaloceros
* Velociraptor
* Dromaeosaurus
* Dilophosaurus
* Arctodus
* American Lion
* Cave Lion
* Mastodon
* Woolly Mammoth
* Andrewsarchus
* Hyaenodon
* Megalodon
* Quagga
* Auroch
* Giganotosaurus
* Spinosaurus
* Kyle Bates' pet dog Fido
* Megalosaurus
* Formicium Giganteum (Giant ant)
* Dunkleosteus

## Stopping death

The book also has the power to stop or deactivate death itself, known as the "Chant of Life". In another portion of the book, there is a phrase that reads "O Death, you who destroy lives and tear families asunder, be no more! In the name of the eternal fathers, O Death, be no more!"

This curse is incredibly destructive, as anyone who speaks the words brings about the inability to die for all sentient organisms, both human and animal. In other words, the effects of the Chant of Life are permanent. However, there is a hidden caveat contained in the Codex of the Omega: the only way to reverse the effects of the chant of life is to destroy the Codex of the Omega entirely.

Because the Chant of Life only stops death for sentient organisms like humans and animals and plants were discovered to not be sentient in the year 2020, the Chant of Life does not work on plants.

## Gallery

### Resurrected entities

Tyrannosaurus RexAnne FrankSimo HayhaSimone De BeauvoirAlbert CamusAlbertosaurusVelociraptorAlbert EinsteinKarl MarxCharles DarwinGeorge WashingtonGeorge OrwellMartin Luther King JuniorMalcolm XThomas JeffersonJohn AdamsRoza ShaninaNapoleon Bonaparte IJohn Paul JonesSun TzuAndrew Jackson
## Trivia

* The book has attracted controversy from various religious communities, with Christians everywhere condemning the book as one promoting "witchcraft".
* The Omega Phrase does not work on plants.
* The Codex of the Omega drew some inspiration from *The Necronomicon*, a fictional book of magic created by H.P. Lovecraft. In the Delta Verse itself, the Codex of the Omega is revealed to be a followup to *The Necronomicon*.