Jeb

Art by Aster!

(Je-bh)

> *“And there I saw it. After decades of searching, years of theorizing, an entire century of living, I found him. He showed himself as a large snapping turtle, and when he called to me I heard billions of voice sing in resonance. He asked me my name, even though I knew he already knew it. And when I asked his, he had one word as an answer. ‘Jeb’. “*
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*~Excerpt from Vanreak’s Journal*

## **Summary**

Jeb, the center of the entire universe and everything inside of it. Jeb is known by no title, as only 3 sentient and sapient creatures are aware of his existence. Those creatures include Da, Great Uthugil, and The Master Pathfinder Vanreak. Jeb is the complete and utter personification of all of everything that exists. Like Uthugil, being a complete and utter personification of the very fabric of reality, Jeb is able to control and manifest anything and everything to his pleasure. However, just because Jeb is the personification of everything that exists, he is not a “good” god. Jeb enjoys things that move, stories, and how to tell them, and he treats everything that exists as if it was one large story that he has complete control over. He wants to know what will happen, and thus he throws random improbable and sometimes impossible situations together to watch them unfold. Jeb is the personification of pure randomness as well as storytelling. He is so much more utterly powerful than Uthugil because of his domain being everything that exists; there is no possible way to gain more followers than something that is the followers.

## **Description**

Jeb choses to represent himself as a giant alligator snapping turtle. His shell sometimes changes to different designs or patterns depending on how Jeb is feeling; sometimes it is a large alligator snapping turtle’s shell, sometimes it’s a scaled down version of the material realm, sometimes a large orb that peers into a specific situation, and sometimes he creates large magnificent designs on his shell, such as mountains with clouds around it with bright lights from multi-colored stars. Jeb is not only represented by a Snapping Turtle, though, in face Jeb is the entirety of his own domain. He is everything and anything completely mashed together to be the ultimate creature of all. There is no possible way to describe Jeb without describing the entire world. However, he is the lord of all existence, not the lord of everything. If you can think of anything that is a noun, that is Jeb, however Jeb does not personify concepts or descriptions or actions, only nouns. Jeb does not have a symbol, as he is not worshipped by any creature as a god.

## **Personality**

Jeb enjoys stories. So much so that he choses to narrate everything in the entire world as it happens, sometimes he writes them down into books to create stories to read later, sometimes he captures the moment and watches it over and over again with his shell, and other times he manifests himself as an innocuous living or non-living thing to watch the situations he creates unfolds; like a squirrel in a tree, or the tree itself, or the roots of the tree; even the dirt that the situation unfolds on.

Jeb normally stayed in solitude, however, one day during a long travel Vanreak was able to reach Jeb in his domain. Vanreak was going to leave and tell the entire world of the gods existence, which he had theorized for years and years about, but was coaxed by Jeb to stay with him. Now, they drink tea, live in luxury, and talk for the rest of all of eternity. Jeb gifts Vanreak with different lives whenever he requests, putting him into custom made situations as they both play roles together for all of eternity.

## **Powers**

Jeb is everything, therefore he has all powers and all of everything that could ever be considered a power. Jeb has never fought anything himself, only lets other creatures that he manifests into existence fight other creatures. Jeb has the power of a noun; if it is a person, place, or thing, he can immediately do it. This means everything from volcanoes, to hurricanes, to tornadoes, to all of those combined and more. Jeb has the power of existence, and thus can make anything exist.

In addition to all of this, Jeb is also able to influence Souls. Souls are the only thing that Jeb cannot make more or less of, there is a finite amount of living things that can exist in the world at any point in time. However, each soul only counts as 1 soul, therefore Jeb can make all of a God and a worm, as they both take up the same space. Soul magic, the main personification of Jeb, Uthugil and their powers, does not destroy souls despite common belief. Instead, Soul magic makes it’s way up to Jeb in parts until there is enough to form another whole soul, which then gets transformed into another new living creature.

## **Realm**

Jeb exists at the very topmost point of The Positive Energy Plane. This place is sometimes referred to as “The Constant” by Vanreak in his journals. It is normally a realm of pure white nothingness, absolutely everything exists in The Constant. Jeb lives here with Vanreak, sometimes pieces of Da make their way into The Constant, however besides that absolutely nothing else is in The Constant. The constant simply “is”.

## **Relationships**

Jeb has a platonic relationship with Vanreak, a half-elf from the material plane. The two of them spend their entire existences doing different scenarios and play roles together. Jeb has made several realms to play games with Vanreak, all at his request. In many situations, Vanreak believes they are a totally different person in a different body, with entirely different lives; living as everything from a lucky sorcerer to a lowly peasant. Vanreak also exercises his creative mind and writes stories for Jeb to read in his free time; trying his hardest to make a story Jeb hasn’t thought about yet.

Uthugil and Jeb are two sides of the same coin. While they are completely different creatures, both Jeb and Uthugil exist as constant concepts that will always be. On one hand there is Great Uthugil, a being that represents nothing but the absolute void. His very being simply “isn’t”, Uthugil does not exist, yet his law and his constant still is personified. On the other hand is Jeb, one who is all. A oxymoron as one being is very obviously incapable of being many beings, yet he simply “is”. These two constant laws are what shape and mold the universe, with everything existing and not existing at the same time. Jeb Is, Uthugil Isn’t.

Da is the only God who is aware of Jeb. When a creature finds itself in the maw of Uthugil, they find that they are able to exist as everything. With every second passing by, Da attempts to reform himself annew, which creates time. This constant law of time is pushed everywhere except for The Constant. Because Time is simply a concept that is theorized by Da’s reformation, The Constant has no place for him. So while Da does not know Jeb, or anything about Jeb, he is fully aware that there is something that is able to escape his constant law, which disproves his thought that he is the most powerful creature to have ever existed.

## **History**

At the start of everything there was absolutely nothing yet also everything. Jeb and Uthugil became into existence, and both did what they know how to do. Jeb created, Uthugil didn’t. The two of them have always been in constant disagreement as to what is the “nautral way”, to Uthugil, not existing is what is natural, eternal silence with an infinite slumber. Yet to Jeb, that silence is boring, no need to think and no need to listen, so he creates. And when you create in the uncreatable, Uthugil becomes angry. The War of the Gods, The Primordial Wars, The Rise of Uthugil, many different conflicts became of this infinite disagreement.

Some time during the 1st age, a half-elf by the name of Vanreak had a goal to travel to every single dimension he could. He created walls of magic, leagues of ships, entire flocks of airships, and with his Pathfinders he traveled to every major plane of existence known to them at the time. In this time, Vanreak told all other of his guildmates that there was one more plane, one more place that needed to be found. Nobody believed him, telling him he is spouting nonsense, that were only a finite amount of major planes and that they had traveled to every single one already. Vanreak took it upon himself to find this plane, and after traveling for 21 years, the Half-Elf was able to find Jeb. A possibility that was never thought of by Jeb, he never knew his own creations could find him in his home. So, the two drank tea together, and began to talk about what they enjoyed. Both enjoyed stories, writings, journals, everything of the sort. And so, for all of existence, the two of them play out separate worlds and realms together as a form of enjoyment, infinite bliss.