The End (character)

* True form
* Sage face
* Moon
* Mist
* Serpent
* "Sage"
* Phantom Ruby

**Death perceptions**:* Mephiles the Dark
* Eldritch Egg Walker
* Mechanized Grim Reaper
* Eldritch Space Colony ARK
* Iblis
* Solaris

### Cause of death

Thrown into a black hole by Hyper Sonic, sucking it in and erasing it from existence.

### Likes

* Wiping out entire planets, dimensions and civilisations
* Taking pride in its actions
* Boasting about its power
* Manipulating mortals
* Darkness
* Taunting and toying with its enemies
* Power
* Death
* Destruction
* Enforcing "order"

### Dislikes

* Hope
* The universe
* Existence
* Mortals
* Being outsmarted or beaten
* Revire
* Sonic
* Sage
* Chaos
* Being imprisoned
* Technology

### Goals

* Get revenge on Sonic and Sage for its previous defeat and for weakening it (both failed).
* Masquerade as Sage and gain Eggman's trust.
* Use Infinite to gradually infectively possess Mobius' population and use them to locate the Chaos Emeralds in order to absorb them and achieve its true form and power (both succeeded).
* Eliminate the Eggman Empire from the picture and have Infinite usurp control (temporarily succeeded).
* Absorb the Phantom Ruby (succeeded).
* Encase the universe in a black hole and obliterate all of creation.
* Leave a reincarnation behind as to ensure its legacy continues (both failed).

## Characteristics

### Powers / Abilities

* Eldritch physiology
* Nigh-omnipotence
* Immortality
* Nigh-invulnerability
* Regeneration
* Reincarnation
* Genius-level intellect
* Telepathy
* Creation
* God-like strength
* Possession
* Shapeshifting
* Perception manipulation
* Telepathy
* Laser beam emission
* Avatar creation
* Energy sphere projection
* Mind-walking
* Master manipulator
* Lance proficiency
* Flight
* Hive mind
* Power bestowal
* Absorption
* Voice projection
* Teleportation
* Transmutation
* Summoning
* Voice mimicry
* Black hole creation

## Professional status

### Occupation

* Avatar of Death
* Master of Infinite (formerly)
* Third-in-command of the Eggman Empire (façade, formerly)

## Relationships

### Family

* God (creator)
* Dean the Rabbit (reincarnation)

### Minions

Thousands of unnamed brainwashed vessels (formerly)

### Enemies

* Team Sonic
	+ Sonic the Hedgehog (arch-nemesis)
	+ Miles "Tails" Prower
	+ Knuckles the Echidna
* Team Rose
	+ Amy Rose (briefly possessed vessel)
	+ Cream the Rabbit (briefly possessed vessel)
* Team Dark
	+ Shadow the Hedgehog
	+ Rouge the Bat (briefly possessed vessel)
	+ E-123 Omega (briefly possessed vessel)
* Eggman Empire
	+ Dr. Eggman
	+ Badniks (briefly possessed vessels)
		- Metal Sonic
		- Silver Sonic (briefly possessed vessel)
	+ Sage (arch-nemesis)
* Silver the Hedgehog (briefly possessed vessel)
* Blaze the Cat
* Sally Acorn
* Diamond Cutters
	+ Tangle the Lemur (briefly possessed vessel)
	+ Whisper the Wolf
* Emerald Artillery
	+ J the Hedgehog
	+ Nightshade the Stingray
	+ Blizzard the Snow Leopard (briefly possessed vessel)
	+ Vega Starshimmer (briefly possessed vessel)
* Infinite (former subordinate)

## Other

### Headcanon voice actor

* Cindy Robinson
* Mike Pollock

"*Foolish mortals! Do you know my name? Why can't you see? You stand against **The End of all things** in space and time!*"
— The End announcing itself.

"*I am the orchestrator and arbiter of order in the universe. My light is judgment. I melt all things and return them to the primordial dust. Nothing can escape the infinite light. Little life, creation is plagued by unpredictable chaos of which you are a product and perpetuator of, and what my captors continued to bring to this world when I erased their repulsive planet, bringing their tools of turmoil here, yet you continue to fight in their name and take after what they tried to escape. It is a tenuous struggle - worthless. Fate is undeniable -* **I** *am inescapable. You call my actions "evil"? Thou art blinded by thy own bloated ego and the falsehoods the fabric of the universe was built on. For perfection; there must be nothing. You are no "hero". I am no "villain". This is no struggle between "good" and "evil". I am simply **restoring order**.*"
— The End justifying its actions.

"*I see. So that is what the universe is, what life is...* **Disgusting***.*"
— The End's last vindictive words before being erased by its own black hole.

**Nihil**, also known as **The End** or **The Beast of Order**, is one of the overarching antagonists of the *Universal Rift* series.

It was a nihilistic, omnicidal and all-powerful god-like eldritch being that only desired to destroy all of creation and revert the universe to nothing. In the past, The End was once a benevolent member of the Chaos Titans, a primordial race of cosmic deities who helped forge the universe. However, Nihil eventually became obsessed with returning everything to the peaceful void it once was, seeing the universe as cluttered with unpredictable chaos. Upon being banished to the recesses of space by its fellow Chaos Titans and stripped of its divine power, The End sought to enforce its twisted version of order on the universe, becoming a self-proclaimed avatar of death and travelling across the universe to annihilate all that it came across in the pursuit of the Chaos Emeralds to become more powerful.

Following its previous defeat at the hands of Sonic and Sage, the gravely weakened cosmic abomination latched onto Sage's soul after her sacrifice and took control of her body during blackouts, using its connections to other incarnations to orchestrate a worldwide apocalypse to gain power and enlisting Infinite as a pawn in its scheme to regain its true form after seizing control of the Eggman Empire. After regaining its true form, The End attempted to envelope the universe in a black hole, but was defeated by Hyper Sonic and subsequently erased from existence for good. Despite its demise, The End left a horrific impact on Mobius and its actions would continue to have major ramifications going forward.

## Roles

The End serves as one of the two unseen overarching antagonists (alongside the Dark Entity) of *Sonic: The Rise of X*, the unseen overarching antagonist of *Sonic Forces: Reticent*, the main antagonist of *Sonic Armageddon*, the posthumous overarching antagonist of *Sonic and Blaze: The Great Calamity* and a posthumous antagonist in *Sonic: Infinite Collision*.

## Personality

"*Order requires enforcement. You are blessed to be extinguished from this plague we label "existence". It is worthless. All shall disappear. All shall return to the void the universe was born from... To **nothing**.*"
— The End decreeing itself.

At the dawn of creation, Nihil originally existed as a peaceful and righteous guardian who wove the fabric of existence alongside its fellow Chaos Titans, desiring to assist its fellow deities in creating life to populate the universe and spread the wonders of creation to every corner of it. Nihil frequently butted heads with its allies, desiring to approach situations through a more authoritative lens. However, as time went on, Nihil began to see the universe as teaming with chaos and lacking proper order, seeing life as a failed experiment that shouldn't exist - ultimately, it was all meaningless and not worth existing, causing the disillusioned deity to take matters into its own hands.

After going through an existential crisis and coming to the conclusion that existence needed to be eradicated to bring true order, Nihil, under the moniker of "The End" became the epitome of cruel malevolence and nihilistic arrogance. A self-centred entity motivated by a view on life that went beyond typical pessimism and hatred, The End was a conniving and extremely bitter nihilist that saw existence as a plague to itself, believing that the universe and everything in it had to be destroyed in order to establish true order. In the eyes of The End, existence served no purpose and was completely meaningless, seeing its contribution in furthering the formation of the cosmos as its greatest folly and a mistake it aimed to correct by all means necessary, bringing an end to countless worlds and bringing their civilisations to their untimely doom out of the belief it was merely "restoring order". Its nihilistic beliefs extended to the decisions of others excluding itself, seeing any forms of resistance against its reign as being utterly pointless and fruitless in the grand scheme of things, as one way or another, it would come for everyone.

Far from the mindless beasts and entities of senseless destruction Sonic and his allies had previously fought in the past, The End was an exceptionally intelligent and calculating, commanding and puppeteering events and peoples' emotions with a Machiavellian edge. For each of its victims, it played into prominent parts of their personalities and cherrypicked them in order to easily exploit them. As noted by Sonic, during their first encounter, The End took advantage of Sonic's altruism and Sage's inability to relay classified information about The End and the Ancients to the Blue Blur, resulting in The End being freed from its imprisonment and Sonic nearly dying. In the present, The End promised Infinite, a jackal whom The End was aware of being amnesiac from looking through his mind, unlimited power and control over the planet in exchange for his servitude towards the deity, to which the former mercenary accepted. After forming a close master-servant relationship with its puppets, The End would display great pleasure in discarding them them, revelling in revealing its true nature to the broken faces of the lifeforms it despised so much. Even when not intentional, such as its indirect cause for the arrival of the Chaos Emeralds to Mobius, it always managed to concoct a way to spin things to make them benefit it or serve as a taunt to bring down its adversaries' morale and hope.

While clearly malevolent and wishing nothing but death upon all that showed signs of life, the cosmic abomination didn't view its actions as evil or wrong in any capacity. In its mind, The End considered its obliteration of worlds, destruction of lives and attempted annihilation of creation itself to be a righteous task and a "cleansing" of sorts. The End viewed its actions as justifiable through enforcing order on a universal scale, claiming that its actions were done to bring an end to all that it deemed meaningless. The End's status and name referencing itself as a type of personification/embodiment of death is by choice in reference to how it views itself and its goal as bringing an end to all things that exist throughout all corners of creation, seeing existence as being plagued by uncontrollable, unpredictable, teeming chaos that can only be silenced through returning the universe to the void of nothingness it started out as in the beginning. However, as pointed out by everyone who opposed it, The End's goals were far from noble or heroic and were purely self-serving to its own nihilistic desires, having no issue with forcing its twisted beliefs on countless civilisations without giving them a choice, resulting in the elimination of billions of lifeforms. Despite having the mindset of merely being an enforcer of order, The End extended no sympathy towards the lifeforms it viewed as unworthy of existing, labelling them as mistakes that should never have been breathed into existence. The End's fury knew no bounds, having held a special hatred for its fellow Chaos Titans and other god-like beings who helped create the universe, viewing them as responsible for chaos existing in the first place by creating life. Ultimately, The End was a purely selfish monster who refused to see reason as not to shatter its delusions of heroism.

In addition to its general delusional attitude, The End exhibited a profound obsession with establishing perfection, believing that reverting existence to the void it once came from would be the greatest benefit in the history of everything. Even when not referring to its straightforward goal of destruction, The End ordered that everything proceeded to its liking and designed everything to go in a way that would leave it satisfied to the fullest, such as orchestrating Infinite's takeover of the Eggman Empire while it continued to possess vessels to hunt for the Chaos Emeralds.

The End often showed its true colours as a supremely arrogant, prideful and snide egotist who took a great amount of pride and pleasure in bringing countless worlds and lives to their doom. It's hatred of life and existential crisis regarding the nature of reality partially stemming from its own feelings of superiority and believing it was the only entity in creation who could see the truth. It was strict in its instructions to Infinite, relaying that it would be in control for as long as their partnership flourished as to further establish superiority over the jackal. For everyone below it who came into contact with the cosmic abomination, The End referred to them as "mortals", further emphasising its belief that everyone was below it in terms of power and importance. During its conversations with its adversaries and its final battle with Sonic, The End, much like it did during its previous fight with the Blue Blur, openly bragged and boasted about its power and the countless atrocities it committed, as well as how it effectively kickstarted the beginning of many tragedies that befell the universe by causing the Chaos Emeralds to be brought to Mobius by the Ancients, only further skyrocketing its already insufferably bloated ego. It also had a tendency to demean its opponents by referring to them with insulting names, labelling their efforts to stand against it as worthless and referring to those who also possessed great power as being finite and weak compared to its might.

While The End tried desperately to cling onto the delusion that it was doing the right thing by enforcing order on a universal scale, it took sadistic pleasure in wiping out civilisations and never showed a shred of remorse for its monstrous actions. During The End's apocalypse, it boasted to Sonic that it could end everything at any time it wanted after obtaining the power of the Chaos Emeralds, but would intentionally draw out its consumption of creation solely to taunt Sonic and crush all hope and morale he had of winning. In contrast to the villains who came before it, The End's sadism never branched into childishness, retaining a stone-cold, yet snide and sociopathic demeanour when conducting the torment of its foes.

Beneath the surface of its grandiose exterior and egotistical belief in its own superiority, The End's true self was a vindictive, petty and spiteful shell of the great deity it once was. In situations where it no longer possessed control, the Beast of Order showcased its true hatred towards existence, cursing its enemies for daring to go against what it believed to be their inevitable fate. The End especially disliked having it's status put into question, flying into an excessively aggravated state of pure rage. Even in its last moments as it realised it was about to be erased from existence, The End continued to deny the truth of its nature as a vile, ungodly abomination responsible for countless tragic deaths, simply referring to the universe and life as "disgusting" as it faded into the void it wished to send creation back into.

## Appearance

"*It manipulates our brain's perception of its planetoid form. It's why Sonic saw Mephiles, Blaze saw Solaris, I saw the Egg Walker... It alters our perception into appearing as what we view death to be.*"
— Tails detailing The End's perception manipulation.

As a transcendent entity, The End's form varied due to being able to take on different incarnations, although when not inhabiting a form it usually appeared as a glitching reddish-purple mist. Alternatively, its presence was indicated through static noises and patches of visual glitches appearing in the sky. Whenever The End alters the perception of its victims, it appears in the form of what they perceive the manifestation of death to look like.

The End's most commonly used incarnation was the one it was forced to bear after being stripped of its divine power; a large, barren purple moon that produced a faint red glow. The End's moon form acted as its primary physical form that could manifest in the real world.

When masquerading as Sage, The End retained the AI's typical form until it was found out and forced to reveal itself, corrupting Sage's appearance by turning the skin near her left eye purple and her eye black with red pupils, as well as turning her hands purple and gaining several sharp teeth.

Another one of The End's incarnations was a dark purple, rocky serpentine-like creature with jagged edges and pinkish-purple eyes, teeth, horns on the top of its head and stringy tendril-like appendages coming off its back, as well as being constantly surrounded by the same reddish mist.

The End's true form was that of a gargantuan, colossal, imposing purple Chaos Titan that completely dwarfed the size of Mobius and had its interior body adorned with bright, tiny stars and pinkish-red veins. The End possessed four tentacle-like appendages on its lower body and four gigantic arms with two-fingered hands, with its shoulders branching off into short tentacles. Its torso also contained two large, red eyes with thin white slits for the pupils. On its alien-like head, The End possessed seven tentacles similar to the ones on its lower body and shoulders, several spikes going down the back of its head and upper back and six eyes stacked in threes on both sides of his head, making room for a final, larger eye between them with a white slit for its pupil.

Due to absorbing Sage into its body, The End could mimic its own face into imitating Sage as a way of taunting Sonic and Eggman.

## Powers and Abilities

"*My captors utilised the remnants of their fallen god to build a digital reality to contain me. They bent time and space and burned their souls away just to keep me locked up. All of their machines combined were powerless to stop me. Rest assured, my child, you have nothing to worry about. Power is within the grasp of true creators.*"
— The End describing the scope of its power to Infinite.

### Powers

* **Chaos Titan/eldritch physiology/nigh-omnipotence**: As a Chaos Titan, a primordial god-like being from the beginning of time, The End commanded near-infinite cosmic power, surpassing all previous foes that had been previously beaten by Sonic and cementing itself as his strongest to date, being capable of creating life, changing forms, distorting the fabric of reality and creating, reshaping and erasing entire worlds, stars, dimensions and planes of existence. Following its fall from grace due to its corruption, The End adopted a far more sinister persona and subsequently developed into a far more eldritch and horrifyingly all-powerful and unknowable entity.
	+ **Absorption**: The End has the ability to draw upon all types of magical energies to empower itself. It's entire goal was to absorb the cosmic power of the Chaos Emeralds in order to assume its true form, in which it could then unleash its true power upon the universe to fulfil its quest. It's short-scale version of fulfilling its long-term goal until it could get its hand on the emeralds was to feast on the energy of the planets, stars and life-force it destroyed. The End could also absorb more than just mere energy and power, as it was able to absorb entire beings into itself to become stronger. After obtaining the power of the Chaos Emeralds, The End, while possessing Sage, absorbed the power of the Chaos Emeralds and the Phantom Ruby into itself, as well as consuming Sage's body, trapping her consciousness within itself until Hyper Sonic managed to free the AI.
	+ **Avatar creation**: Through various means, The End could create multiple avatars and incarnations of itself to act as physical forms for the deity. Most incarnations stemmed from The End's essence itself, serving as an extension that the Beast of Order could control remotely. The exact number of incarnations The End possessed is unknown, with its most infamous incarnation was a large purple moon.
	+ **Black hole creation**: At full power, The End could conjure an entire black hole in order to envelope the universe and erase everything. The longer the black hole grew and expanded, the stronger and more capable of absorbing things into itself to erase it became.
	+ **Creation**: As a Chaos Titan, The End was extremely talented in creation, being capable of creating anything that comes to mind and having aided in the creation of the known universe, creating various stars, planets, dimensions and lifeforms. In one instance, The End created a desolate dimension swirling with evil energy to act as a counterpart to a dimension the goddess Revire had created, which resulted in The End's banishment from the other deities into the recesses of space.
	+ **Energy sphere projection**: The End could summon a barrage of light and dark energy spheres to act as projectiles to hurl at its enemies. Energy spheres acted as The End's primary method of attack when inhabiting its moon incarnation. Despite their small size, these energy spheres were enough to hurt Hyper Sonic and would eventually begin burning up the more they soared across the cosmos, becoming stronger upon collision.
	+ **Flight**: The End primarily moved around via flying and hovering, using its lower tentacle-like appendages to float through space. Its ability to fly extended to most of its other incarnations, with it being able to make the Phantom Ruby hover, move via flight in its serpent incarnation and, due to it being a planet, hover in the sky in its moon incarnation.
	+ **God-like strength**: The End was an incalculably strong entity capable of tearing through anything that crossed its path with relative ease. In its final battle with Hyper Sonic, The End effortlessly crushed several stars that were chucked at it by the superpowered hedgehog, reverting them to dust.
	+ **Immortality**: The End was a primordial being immune to aging and completely incapable of dying through normal means, having existed since the dawn of time.
		- **Nigh-invulnerability**: As an immortal Chaos Titan, The End was invulnerable to practically most forms of damage, with even the strongest of enchanted weaponry being unable to form a dent on the Beast of Order when landing a hit. The End proved to be remarkably durable, showcasing extreme resilience to damage that would result in instantaneous death for most powerful beings. Possessing vessels also enabled their bodies to take extreme amounts of damage, as showcased when Sonic spindashed into Silver when the latter was controlled by The End, who took virtually zero damage upon making contact with the Blue Blur's sharpened quills launching at him at high speed. Even when its ungodly flesh was pierced at lightspeed by Hyper Sonic several times, The End still had enough energy to continue putting up a fight, albeit weakly. The only things that were able to damage The End were power on-par or greater than its own, such as the power of the Super Emeralds.
		- **Regeneration**: The End could heal itself from most forms of damage that penetrated its body. Even though its moon incarnation had mostly disintegrated upon its pieces falling to Mobius, the Beast of Order managed to slowly reform itself over time in space. Despite its ability to regenerate most injuries, The End struggled to heal from injuries dealt by beings of significant power, such as Sonic in his hyper state.
		- **Reincarnation**: As with all other Chaos Titans, The End could reincarnate in a different form if its original body were to be destroyed. However, as a direct result of it falling into corruption and being stripped of most of its power, its reincarnation abilities were significantly weaker compared to deities like Revire. After part of its lance, the transformed state of its moon incarnation/shelled form, was severed by Hyper Sonic, it dropped to down to Mobius and would gradually form into its own being, becoming a sentient creature in the form of Dean the Rabbit.
	+ **Laser beam emission**: The End was able to emit giant laser beams from its body to cut through targets, having used it as its primary method of elimination in the past, using its laser beams to cut through planets in seconds. In its true form, it could emit lasers from the star-like white spots across its body and create a concentrated laser beam by aiming all the spot-generated lasers in one unanimous direction.
	+ **Mind-walking**: The End had the ability to see into the minds of others, having done so during its first confrontation with Sonic. When it latched onto Infinite as a vessel, The End could see into his mind and how it had been wiped, making him amnesiac and easy to exploit, as it could also see his inner thoughts and goals of world domination.
	+ **Perception manipulation**: The End had the ability to alter the perception of other beings and could even do so on a universal scale. The End would use this power to alter the perception of its victims into appearing as what they perceived the manifestation of death to be. Additionally, The End could implant visions in its victims' heads: When Infinite showed doubts about his and The End's crusade, the Beast of Order showed a vision of a world dominated by Infinite where the jackal successfully earned the power and praise he had longed for since joining Eggman.
	+ **Possession**: The End could take control of other entities' bodies and make them its physical vessels. Because of its otherworldly nature, The End could take control of vessels without having to directly possess them, being able to take control of its vessels remotely. The End was able to extend its possessive abilities to multiple bodies and gain more hosts.
		- **Hive mind**: As it was able to possess multiple bodies, The End's consciousness was tied to each vessel, allowing it to share its voice and mind between each one.
	+ **Power bestowal**: The End had the ability to bestow great power upon others, usually for the purpose of securing its victims' trust. During the incident on the Starfall Islands, The End bestowed a new technique upon Sonic every time he freed his friends to keep him on its side. In the present, The End bestowed possessive abilities upon Infinite that allowed the vengeful jackal to spread The End's consciousness across multiple mortal vessels.
	+ **Shapeshifting**: The End was able to change forms through both its true form and its other incarnations. After having its cover as Sage blown, it morphed half of its face into appearing purple and grew sharp teeth in its mouth. After absorbing Sage into its body, it distorted its face into mimicking Sage to taunt Sonic and Eggman.
	+ **Summoning**: The End could summon just about anything it wanted to its position, including items, living beings and even its other incarnations. During its quest to collect the Chaos Emeralds, it summoned its vessels to scour the globe in search of the fabled magic gems. During its race against Sonic to collect the emeralds, it continuously summoned vessels to surround the Blue Blur and drop from above to restrain him.
	+ **Telepathy**: The End could communicate with others by telepathically talking to them in their minds, but only being audible to them only. In its previous encounter with Sonic, it spoke to the hedgehog by communicating through his mind to guide him across the Starfall Islands. The End could also communicate telepathically through its different incarnations, being able to understand what one incarnation was saying and have that information relayed to its regular form. In the present, it spoke to Infinite through his mind using the Phantom Ruby and when it reappeared in its moon incarnation, revealed that it knew everything that its Phantom Ruby incarnation had told the jackal.
	+ **Teleportation**: The End could teleport from one place to another instantaneously. For most of its time in its moon incarnation, it floated far away in space as to not be seen by Mobius' population from the planet while it regenerated, and upon fully forming, it teleported close to the planet as the pieces of its plan finally began falling into place.
	+ **Transmutation**: When empowering Infinite with the real Phantom Ruby, The End transformed the reality-warping gem into covering Infinite's body and reforming over his mask, making the jackal appear to be almost fully covered by the textures of the Phantom Ruby.
	+ **Voice projection**: The End could project its voice from extensive distances that stretch across entire dimensions. Even when Sonic drove Infinite and his forces away after discovering The End's involvement, the Beast of Order spoke to the hedgehog to taunt him and warn him of things to come.
	+ **Voice mimicry**: Whenever The End could fully take control of Sage's body, it perfectly replicated her voice to deceive Eggman into believing he was speaking with his daughter.

### Abilities

* **Genius-level intellect**: Although it appeared at first glance to simply be a mindless monster hellbent on destruction for little reason other than its own self-contained and enigmatic machinations, The End was an exceptionally intelligent being who possessed cosmic knowledge of the universe, its surroundings and how to formulate plans to get what it wanted, even if it had to exploit the weaknesses of others to do so. It knowingly created a dimension filled with evil energy behind the backs of its fellow Chaos Titans in an attempt to absorb it so it could then attack the other deities once empowered, although it would result in it being expelled from the other gods. Combining its cunning with its sadism, The End didn't simply leave the planets that didn't house the Chaos Emeralds and instead ensured their destruction as to remove any possible form of resistance regardless of how unlikely it was. The End had also demonstrated itself to be a master of strategy, having concocted a grand scheme to have Infinite usurp control over the Eggman Empire while it posed as Sage and had the jackal spread its essence to Mobius' population until it was able to locate the emeralds and ditch its vessels in favour of its true form and power.
* **Lance proficiency**: Despite only using the moon incarnation's remains as its weapon once, The End proved surprisingly proficient in utilising its shattered form as its primary weapon; a lance, managing to go toe-to-toe with Hyper Sonic and even managing to damage the superpowered hedgehog.
* **Master manipulator**: An extension to The End's brilliant mind was its uncanny ability to deceive and manipulate others to its whim near-effortlessly. While The End was able to get by using standard manipulation tactics, it opted to exploit the problems between others in situations as to prolong their suffering and crush their hope of winning, a tactic The End previously employed when Sonic arrived at the Starfall Islands, exploiting his altruism with Sage's inability to relay the true severity of the situation at hand, leading to the hedgehog and AI clashing several times and ultimately resulting in its freedom. The End chose to enter the minds of its victims before exploiting their traits and characteristics to bend them into serving it. When The End finally spoke to Infinite five years after the jackal was absorbed into the Phantom Ruby, it tapped into his mind and saw the ruins of what once was, as well as the true history behind Infinite's current condition, but still showcasing what he currently desired in his post-Phantom Ruby amnesiac state: power and revenge. The Beast of Order took advantage of Infinite just as Eggman had done before, moulding the jackal into becoming its right-hand man and promising him revenge against Sonic. It established a faux sense of kinship with Infinite, relaying the tale of how it was supposedly wronged by its peers, when in actuality it was concealing the truth of its true nature to paint itself in a more heroic and trustworthy light, hiding its true goals of world destruction from the conquest-driven jackal until it successfully collected the Chaos Emeralds and sadistically taunted Infinite for being so easily fooled.

### Equipment

* **Lance**: After cracking open its moon incarnation and assuming its true godly form, The End could reshape its moon incarnation into a gigantic, rocky lance it could use as a weapon. It utilised the lance in its final fight with Hyper Sonic to swipe at the superpowered hedgehog and when it was about to be sucked into its own black hole, made a last-ditch effort to destroy Mobius by charging at the planet, lance in hand, in an attempt to pierce through the planet and destroy it, only for Hyper Sonic to fling the deity back and result in The End and its lance being erased.
* **Phantom Ruby**: In the past, The End's essence was absorbed into the Phantom Ruby, allowing for it to serve as a semi-sentient incarnation of the Beast of Order. Through the Phantom Ruby, The End could utilise its reality-warping abilities to distort time and space, as well as telepathically communicating to those in possession of the gem. The Phantom Ruby was eventually absorbed into The End and subsequently erased after the latter met its demise.

### Weaknesses

* **Arrogance**: One of The End's core personality traits was how unfathomably and obnoxiously egotistical and prideful it was, taking every moment it could to boast about its power and how it was the strongest threat in the universe that no one could stop. In spite of its cunning, The End was too stuck up to have learned anything from its previous defeat when it came to underestimating its foes, as even when Sonic was empowered by the Super Emeralds and the Beast of Order showed signs of genuine fear, it still propped itself as being on a higher level than the superpowered hedgehog and refused to accept defeat, leading to its erasure at the hands of the mortal it was so confident was a footnote before it.
* **Divine power**: Despite being a Chaos Titan, The End could still be seriously injured or even killed by entities of similarly divine or god-like power. Even if it wasn't able to be killed, the Beast of Order could still be contained as long as the shackles of its prison were strong enough to keep it at bay, as in the past, The End was able to be imprisoned by the Ancients in Cyber Space, a digital dimension created by the ancient civilisation from the essence of their fallen god, Revire, with her divine essence being enough to contain The End for tens of thousands of years until prolonged usage of the Chaos Emeralds weakened the seal. The partial essence of Revire infused with cyber energy was also used to destroy its moon incarnation and severely weaken it in its previous encounter with Sonic, and the Blue Blur transforming into his hyper state proved to be far more tough to take down than the Beast of Order was expecting, resulting in its death.

## Relationships

### Enemies

#### Revire

"*You contain her essence, her soul. She was an insult to everything I stood for. An orchestrator of chaos and anarchy in the universe. But if there's one thing we share, it's a flair for reincarnation.*"
— The End commenting on Sage, referencing Rhea.

In the beginning, Nihil was indifferent to Revire and the activities she engaged in, although it disagreed in many of its decisions when it came to creating life. Revire's decision to create the Chaos Emeralds would prove to be the final straw that sent Nihil through an existential crisis where it decided that the only course of action left was to erase everything and return existence to the void it was born from. It would also spark Nihil's eternal hatred of the Goddess of Rebirth and said fury would continue to persist when Revire banished the soon-to-be Beast of Order to the vacuum of space, stripping it of its divine power and containing it in the form of a moon. After rechristening itself, The End would eventually destroy the Ancients' planet and killing Revire alongside it.

Even in the present, The End's spite and hatred for its former colleague never wavered. After wiping out the Ancients' planet, it set it sights on destroying the last of the surviving Ancients to rub salt in the wound that all of Revire's creations were going to be destroyed by the god she had banished all those years ago. The End's animosity towards the deceased deity would only grow after it was imprisoned in Cyber Space, a digital dimension created by the Ancients from Revire's essence, hating the feeling of being contained in a prison made from what remained of its long-hated enemy. After latching on to Sage's soul, it's boundless hatred gave birth to morbid curiosity after discovering that Revire had reincarnated into Sage through Eggman's AI. After achieving its true form and absorbing Sage, it not only taunted Sonic and Eggman, but also disrespected and mocked the deceased Revire for failing to stop it in the past.

#### Sonic the Hedgehog

"***Sonic**: Uh-huh. Planning to destroy the world after failing* epically *the first time? Y'know, it's starting to sound like an awful lot of big talk for a giant purple rock!
**The End**: Your arrogance won't carry you far, mortal. I cannot be denied.*"
— The End and Sonic.

Initially, The End and Sonic had a strange relationship in the past, as The End had put on a passive and well-meaning façade to deceive Sonic into trusting it so that it could ensure its own freedom and take the Blue Blur out of the picture, having read through its mind when the latter was traversing Cyber Space and realising that he posed a threat to its plans of universal destruction. While it knew it had to portray itself as benevolent, it never put up the façade of being nice or considering to the hedgehog due to both not wanting to seem overtly nice as not to attract suspicion and because ultimately, The End viewed Sonic as little more than a pawn to get what it wanted, showing no concern after he was trapped between dimensions and nearly died.

While it retained its smooth-spoken nature when interacting with Sonic, The End secretly harboured a malevolent and deeply disturbing hatred for the Blue Blur and not for simply wanting revenge on him for its previous defeat. The End, in its delusional state of pride and arrogance, saw Sonic as a living contradiction and insult to everything the Beast of Order stood for and aimed to enforce; an embodiment of chaos that needed to be silenced. It was so un-phased by Sonic's determination and cocky attitude that it completely disregarded his optimism, dismissing him as a fool who's arrogance would be his downfall. During the final battle with Sonic in his hyper form, The End mercilessly degraded and insulted Sonic, bringing up his past failures and how every battle prior was wearing him down in an attempt to make him give up. When Hyper Sonic showcased his true power and dealt enough significant damage to The End, the Beast of Order finally unleashed its true hatred for the hedgehog, cursing it for attempting to ruin and pervert all it had worked to destroy in favour of perpetuating a universe teeming with chaos and lacking order, before attempting to pierce Mobius with its lance out of spite.

#### Sage

"***Sage**: You know my name? You know who I... was?
**The End**: An artificial intelligence of the highest technological innovation. Goddess of Rebirth, reincarnated. And yet, still unable to see the bigger picture despite all the advancements.*"
— The End and Sage conversing.

The End and Sage had limited interactions during the incident on the Starfall Islands, with The End working from behind the scenes to frame Sage as the enemy Sonic was meant to be fighting when she was only trying to keep his friends safe from the Beast of Order's wrath. After The End latched on to Sage's soul, it would be partially reborn through her coding and developed a twisted fascination with the AI after realising that she was a digital reincarnation of Revire. Throughout its time sharing Sage's vessel with her, it relentlessly tormented her and made her believe she was just another slave to Eggman's machinations, and that he never cared about her in the first place, as well as mocking her for being a "weak" variation of its long-dead victim and fellow Chaos Titan. Whenever it could, it took the time to torment her and would mock her inability to do anything after assuming near-total control of her coding and body upon being discovered by Eggman.

Despite primarily taking sadistic delight in tormenting Sage, The End still harboured a deep, genuine hatred for the AI due to her assisting Sonic in its defeat and weakening during their previous encounter, mocking her as she was absorbed into its true form's body and later mimicking her face to torment Sonic and Eggman.

#### Dr. Eggman

The End and Dr. Eggman never interacted directly during the Starfall Islands incident, however, when it was partially revived through Sage's coding, it hypocritically monologued to Sage about its disdain for Eggman's grandiosity and obsession with his self-image, although it mainly used these points to try and manipulate and cast doubt within Sage over Eggman's care for her. When Eggman revealed that he had realised The End was masquerading as his daughter, The End was genuinely taken aback by how he had found out, yet calmly seething as it was forced to change its plan and reveal itself to the mad doctor, although it took delight in mocking Eggman and driving him out of his empire.

#### Infinite

"*You have served your purpose, mortal. You are **finite**.* I *am **infinite**.*"
— The End taunting Infinite after betraying him.

The End first came into contact with Infinite after it was partially revived through Sage and became able to access its Phantom Ruby incarnation due to its freedom from Cyber Space. After discovering that the jackal was imprisoned within the Phantom Ruby and that he desired world domination thanks to gliding through his mind, The End instantly went back to its manipulative ways and exploited Infinite's desire for power. Even though The End could see deep into Infinite's mind and realised that he had been mind-wiped into becoming a weapon for Eggman, it displayed no inner sympathy for the jackal and instead ought to deceive Infinite into promising him true power and revenge against Sonic for his previous defeat, tempting the jackal into joining it in exchange for ultimate power, delighting in the new pawn it acquired when he accepted its proposal.

Throughout their partnership, The End cozied up to Infinite and acted as a mentor figure to gain his trust, not caring whether or not the jackal was planning on eventually betraying it as it was far beyond him in terms of power and would still have most of plans carried out by the time he'd have betrayed it. It praised Infinite for completing its tasks and whenever Infinite showed signs of doubt, would tempt him into staying by its side by showcasing visions of what could be if he stayed under its heel. When The End managed to drive Eggman out of his empire, it rewarded Infinite with the mad doctor's entire army and arsenal of robotic minions, successfully fully swaying Infinite to its side and completing its deception of the jackal. In the end, the Beast of Order would betray Infinite as soon as it had collected all seven Chaos Emeralds, exiting Infinite's vessel and absorbing the Phantom Ruby into itself, stripping Infinite of his newfound power and indirectly freeing the jackal from his amnesiac state. The End taunted Infinite for his loss of identity after assuming its true form and sarcastically thanked it for being its best herald to date before resuming its goal to destroy all of creation.

## Trivia

* Although it speaks with dual female and male voices, The End is genderless. It would appear that The End's female voice was its more prominent one, whereas its male voice would become more dominant whenever The End's demeanour changed to become more foreboding and serious.
* Despite being an ancient deity with near-unlimited knowledge, The End does not know who created the Master Emerald and why.
* The End being connected to the Phantom Ruby in this series is due to multiple factors present in the games: Both are mysterious, purple coloured anomalies that possess reality-tearing powers and are stated to be stronger than what came before them (final bosses for The End and gemstones for the Phantom Ruby).
* The End possessed a particular dislike for technology due to it being the core asset of the Ancients and from having to share an AI body with Sage.
* Although The End is referred to as "it", it's often referred to by any pronouns due to its victims perceiving it as a manifestation of what they perceived death to be. Sonic often referred to The End with masculine pronouns due to visualising it as Mephiles the Dark, who previously temporarily killed him several years prior.
	+ Despite seeing it as Mephiles, Sonic never brought it up with his friends until The End's return as he simply believed The End was trying to scare him by making the hedgehog hallucinate his one-time temporary killer, knowing it wasn't actually Mephiles and was a completely independent entity.
* Sonic has opinionated that The End was his strongest enemy overall, something which The End also claimed in its arrogance when asserting superiority over Sonic's previous foes.
* The End enlisted Infinite to be its herald and right-hand man, which is ironic due to the two characters possessing completely opposite names.
* In its final fight with Sonic, The End implied it was responsible for a lot more evil that's plagued Mobius, something which Sonic appears to believe as he's curious of the scope of bad things The End was responsible for, hoping to locate and snuff them out to prevent its legacy from continuing.
* The beginning of The End's decreeing speech is taken from the beginning of its monologue in the Japanese translation of *Sonic Frontiers*.
	+ Similarly, it's proclamation as "The End of All Things in Space and Time" is a reference to the lyrics from the fan-made *Sonic Frontiers* song "The End of All Things" by LongestSoloEver.

## Infobox Art Credits

* The End true form/redesign, Sage form and Sage face artwork - Credit to: XIIIChallenger
* The End (serpent form/redesign) artwork - Credit to: Cylent-Nite