First Firmament (First Cosmos)

> Nothing can help you now. Your own systems have been corrupted. Turned against you. They will devour you from the inside out. And I will absorb what scraps are left of you, Eternity. And all will be as it was, long ago. Before your foul kind. Before the Multiverses. Eighth and seventh... and sixth... and fifth... and back and back... dying and being born, over and over. Like filthy little organisms. We will return to a saner time. When there was but one cosmos. One universe. One reality. One totality. When there was only I. I am the First Firmament. And soon... I will be the last.
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> First Firmament

The **First Firmament** is the embodiment of the very first universe to ever exist. He is the creator of the Aspirants and the Celestials, powerful cosmic beings whose conflict almost destroyed him. Barely surviving the ordeal, the First Firmament grew resentful over time as he watched the Multiverse that replaced him pass through multiple renewal cycles, leading him to eventually attack the personification of its eighth iteration.

## History

### Celestial War

In the beginning, there was only one universe: the First Firmament. Loneliness led it into making life, resulting in the birth of several celestial beings. The dark ones, who the Firmament named "Aspirants," were industrious in their worship of it, seeking its approval whenever they created life on their own. But the multicolored ones, who later became known as "Celestials," wanted their creations to evolve and for the universe to evolve with them, and thus know growth, change, and mortality. This divergence of ideas ushered in a war that ended with the First Firmament being shattered into pieces by the weapons of the multicolored rebels, forcing it to flee in terror to the farthest edges of being with the remaining Aspirants. Hundreds of new universes were born from the First Firmament's pure substance, forming a new, collective being who was the Second Cosmos and first Multiverse.

### Eternity War

The First Firmament watched from the void as the Celestials colonized the Second Cosmos, evolving their own servitors and calling them "Omegas" in opposition to the Alpha their creator was. As time passed by, the Multiverse died time and time again only to be reborn evolved soon afterwards, filling the Firmament with hatred as it wanted to reclaim its position as the embodiment of everything. This feeling gave it patience to choose the right moment to attack, which came following the restoration of the Multiverse as the Eighth Cosmos. Taking advantage of the weakened state in which Eternity (the current personification of the Multiverse) was left in the wake of his death and resurrection, the First Firmament bound him in chains and started to feed on him.

Meanwhile, the Aspirants entered Eternity to damage him whenever and however they could. After two of the cosmic aspects (Lord Chaos and Master Order) were corrupted by the Aspirants, the First Firmament influenced them into murdering the Living Judicature, the personification of multiversal law, and merging together to replace him as Logos. Logos then went on to execute the Celestials and force Titanus to change from Lifebringer back to Devourer of Worlds; however, that change was reversed by the Anti-Man, herald of Titanus, at the cost of his own life.

In order to stop the First Firmament and aid Eternity, Titanus gathered Ego-Prime, Psi-Hawk, the Infinaut, and the ghost of the Shaper of Worlds to form the Eternity Watch. The Eternity Watch confronted Logos and the Aspirants in the Superflow. At the same time, the Maker foolishly used the High Evolutionary's technology to bring down the Superflow in an attempt to unify the Multiverse into a single reality and strengthen Eternity. When this process proved to be counterproductive as it made it easier for the First Firmament to consume Eternity, Titanus had Shaper's ghost teleport the Ultimates (a team of superheroes from Earth that Titanus had reformed to help in his quest against the First Firmament) to the High Evolutionary's Counter-Earth.

With the help of the resurrected Ultimates, Titanus' Ultimates managed to reverse the damage caused to the Superflow and restored the Multiverse to its normal state. Titanus and the Eternity Watch subsequently resumed their confrontation against the agents of the First Firmament. With the help of someone's ascended astral form and the rebirthed Celestials, the Eternity Watch defeated the Aspirants and Logos. The First Firmament was also defeated when Eternity summoned the past incarnations of the Multiverse to his aid, the Ultimate Ultimates. After being chained, the First Firmament was taken by the Ultimate Ultimates to the Next Place, where they hoped to heal their kin.

## Powers and Abilities

Much like any of the embodiments of the Multiverse, the First Firmament is virtually omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent.

### Powers

* **Omnipotent:** The First Firmament is supremely almighty and invincible, unless wiped out by Yahweh or killed by an overpowered being.
* **Omniscient:** The First Firmament has the power to possess absolute and infinite knowledge of everything, unless blocked by Yahweh.
* **Omnipresent:** The First Firmament has the power to be absolutely anywhere and everywhere, besides Heaven.

## Notes

* In an alternate account, the Celestials shattered the singular universe into the Multiverse to trap the Exterminators.

## Trivia

* The history of the First Firmament mirrors that of its first inhabitant, Nemesis, another cosmic being who also created beings out of loneliness, but eventually killed them due to their being evil.