Eternity

## Eternity

* In Shadow
* Full

### Aliases

The Fourth Tormented
The Boss

## Physical description

### Eye color

Iridiscent

**Eternity** is a major antagonist in Reflection. As the Fourth Tormented, he is a godlike figure that has dominion over a part of the fundamental reality of the Cycle. He also serves as the overseer of the Demonic Courts as well as Exulansis.

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Eternity is an adult humanoid with pale skin and hair. He has pointed ears and glowing eyes that glow in a spectrum of color. His ears and neck have glowing white patterns on them akin to petals, and a crystalline object akin to a Reflection is embedded in the center of his throat. Two wing-like appendages cover his upper head, and a large steel cuff connected to a broken chain circles his neck. His flesh is artificial and almost porcelain-like in nature. Breaking it reveals mechanical parts beneath.

### Personality

Eternity speaks in a whispered tone. His soft voice does not betray his personality, which is single-minded and ruthless. He is ready and willing to kill those who interrupt his plans, up to and including the Pyromancers themselves. His primary motivation is the construction of "Paradise", which refers to his idea of a perfect world and humanity. He considers the Flame-based reality of the current Burning World to be a mockery of the true human form and parasitic in nature, and his current objective is to undo its creation. He treats most other people, especially Flametouched, as fundamentally lesser than him, and rarely gives any attention, positive or negative, to their actions or emotions, often simply ignoring or just killing them as one would a bug. Besides general nonchalance, he also often displays a sense of vague disgust at the world around him, only rarely becoming particularly happy or upset.

## History

### Early Life

Eternity was born at some time early in the Cycle. It is unclear when he became one of the Tormented. He was alive as far back as the world that The Pristine One's source memories came from, where sapient insects populated reality rather than humans. In this world, he was worshiped as a god of perfect "stillness", and was capable of communicating with Flame to convey messages from beyond the world and the present time. He also learned a certain martial art in this world from a sect of monks. After the destruction of this world, he remained active, playing a role in the history of Omeria as well.

### Burning World

Following the beginning of the Burning World, Eternity forced the surviving Pyromancers to swear fealty to him. During the end of World One, Gram swore fealty to Eternity as well, leading to the founding of Exulansis.

After Fio assisted OPIA against the Court of Death in World Twelve, Eternity demanded her immediate execution, but the other Archdemons were able to sate him by simply demoting Fio and removing her Muse abilities. During Compulsion's assault on Fuse City and Cialla, Eternity visited the Derelict in person alongside a masked companion, during which they spoke about their plans while walking through the Court of Compulsion. After the end of Compulsion's attacked, Eternity visited the captured OPIA agents in their cell and told them they had a week to tell him who was feeding OPIA information from the Derelict or he would kill all of them and then Fio.

About a week later, Eternity journeyed to Beleth for an unknown purpose while OPIA was also in the area confronting Stein. He attempted to fish in a pond somewhere in the swamp, but failed to catch anything until he was helped by Willow Wisp, whose immunity to his disintegration effect startled him. Some time later, he discovered Stein's plan to cooperate with OPIA and ripped out his Flame in an attempt to kill him. He then manifested in front of The Pristine One and used Flame to order him to seal central Beleth inside a pillar of warped space. After the OPIA agents escaped the trap with Stein, he attacked them in the city of Trailhead. After a long period of fighting that ended in the destruction of the city and nearby land, Eternity felt like OPIA was enough of a "threat" to unveil his ancient martial art for the first time. Soon after, through the combined efforts of Ridill Arondite, Treble, and Ace Galatine, a gunship was dropped on top of him from the Sylt Islands above and he disappeared.

## Abilities

Eternity is extremely durable, able to withstand an entire warship being dropped on top of him from several hundred feet in the air.

Eternity passively decomposes matter around him, turning it grey and decrepit. This ability also causes the Flames of Flametouched objects to leech out, killing most lifeforms from the Burning World instantly. For some reason, this ability is not active in the Derelict. Eternity also possesses the ability to stop time in a concentrated area. He can also summon gigantic entities known as "Timekeepers" that can deal massive amounts of physical damage. He can wield Pyromancy and can force people to obey commands he gives. He can also entrap people inside a pocket dimension in which they have to complete an infinite number of whimsical puzzles made with the intention of driving them insane. He also possesses the "Oblivion Style", an ancient martial art capable of crippling the Flames of others.

It is implied that Eternity used to be capable of listening to and speaking to the world akin to a Muse, but he has since lost this power. Due to unknown reasons, he is also incapable of hearing or seeing anything within the Burning World, registering information from it solely as jumbled visual and audio noise.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Parasite
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Strong Enough
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Crossing Threads
4. ↑ Under The Bus
5. ↑ Don't Break My Heart
6. ↑ Middle Management