DC Comics Cosmology

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This page is dedicated to outlining the distinctions between DC's different cosmologies. In essence, the DC Universe has four dominant cosmologies which are characterized primarily (but not exclusively) by their authors: Grant Morrison, J.S. DeMatteis, Neil Gaiman & Mike Carey, and Scott Snyder & James Tynion IV.

## Introduction

The above image is the "Multiversity Map" created by Grant Morrison to establish a cohesive representation of the various realms and layers of DC's complex cosmology. It brought a much-needed sense of cohesion and visualization to what was previously a very messy conglomerate of seemingly unrelated realms and cosmic beings.

Despite this valiant effort, the reality is much more complicated. DC Comics has been authored by hundreds of writers over its 80-year history, and several of the authors that have taken the helm regarding the cosmology have canonized very distinct and incompatible iterations of how these many realms and beings are described. However, the standard "composite DC" approach, fueled in part by DC Publishers asserting that all stories were canon, allowed character profiles to benefit from an amalgamation of these various cosmologies, resulting in tiers that were far-removed from their portrayals in any given storyline.

The following sections will define the main cosmologies of DC Comics, characterized primarily (but not exclusively) by their authorship. It is primarily intended to cover the most important realms and should not be taken as a completely exhaustive list of every minor realm that has ever appeared.

The division of DC's cosmology into these four categories is not exhaustive nor unbending, they are representative of "lines in the sand" based on approximations of the most prominent characterizations of the cosmology. For the purposes of tiering, these categories are the "rule of thumb," but cross-scaling into other material can occur when there is a clear evidentiary basis or narrative relevance.

#### Caveat #1: Dimensions

Within DC, the word Dimension has been used in a variety of ways to describe different things. It has been used to describe alternate universes, geometric and temporal dimensions (space and time), minor realms, and higher layers of reality. It is critical to consider the context and evidence available for each specific instance of the word, ideally within the same storyline.

Scott Snyder's "Sixth Dimension" is the highest plane of reality, not a geometric dimensionThe Sixth Dimension is the *final realm*, a "place" beyond Imagination (the Fifth Dimension)The Fifth Dimension is described as Imagination
Also, please note that even in the real world and in DC's cosmology, **geometric spatial dimensions do not include time. The concept of 4D is depends entirely on context, often a shorthand method for writing "3 spatial + 1 time"**. Temporal dimensions will be discussed separately in this article.

#### Caveat #2: "Multiverse", "Universe", "World", and "Creation"

The terms above often have a variety of meanings. Context is key here. The term "multiverse" doesn't necessarily refer to the entire Multiversity Map, and "universe" doesn't necessarily refer to a single physics-based spacetime continuum.

This section will describe universes with a lowercase "u" when talking about individual universes within the Orrery, such as Earth-1 or Earth-2. DC's official stance is that each numbered "Earth" includes the universe itself + alternate timelines of that universe + alternate dimensions. The phrase "DC Universe" will be used to refer to the entire franchise's setting.

#### Structure of a Single Universe

This section will describe the physical size and number of geometric spatial dimensions of a single universe. This information logically applies to each cosmology described below.

**Size of a Single Universe**

Universes in DC are far larger than the observable universe of our real world. While some stories from the different continuities treat a universe as infinite, this is contradicted by multiple stories about entities and items traveling "**from the edge of the universe**" or "**across the entire universe**" or "**from every corner of the universe"** not to mention the Source Wall which is the limit of the universe and as such, a universe is finite in size. The scans below are from *1991's Superman: The Man of Steel #115,* which describes a more accurate universe size and can be used for every cosmology*.*

Adam Strange teleports Superman from Earth to Maxima's consumed galaxy, **100 trillion light years** away.When Superman is brought back to Earth instantly, he calls this distance **"half the universe"**.The universe expanded **60 trillion light years** in a half second.
* It should be noted that the statements of an infinite-sized universe are, as quoted above, contradicted by the mere fact that it has an edge and probability means that **a single universe in DC Comics is immeasurably large** rather than being truly infinite as suggested in the three scans above.

**Geometric Dimensions**

As for geometric spatial dimensions, refer to the scans below regarding the upper limit of individual universes. Remember, there are higher levels of spatial dimensions in DC's cosmology, but only this one specifically refers to the upper limit of spatial dimensions for an individual universe.

Morrison's Action Comics implies that the universe has 3 geometric dimensions, i.e. length, width, depth.Even interpreted differently, Scott Snyder's Justice League implies that the universe has 3 geometric dimensions, i.e. point, line, depth.
**Temporal Dimensions**

Finally, a single universe has one temporal dimension, giving it a linear timeline.

Space and time of a single universe are intertwined.
**Tiering:** *Universal feats are between **3-A** and **High 3-A,** unless the feat specifies an entire space-time continuum, the total destruction of a universe or something else (**Low 2-C**)*

## Grant Morrison's/Scott Snyder's/James Tynion IV's Cosmology

The DC Cosmology was primarily helmed by three authors in the late 2000s and 2010s. Morrison, Snyder, and Tynion made the most significant contributions to the cosmology during this era, with the development of concepts like the Overvoid, the Monitors, Perpetua, the Dark Multiverse, the Collective Unconscious, and other cosmological concepts that currently define DC as we know it. This cosmology draws heavily from the various pillars of the DC cosmology, such as the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Monitor and Anti-Monitor, the Endless, and the various myths and gods incorporated into the canon. Despite some differences across these authors, the greater picture is consistent enough to consider them a single cosmological continuity.

**Reality - Fiction Interaction**

Many of Morrison's works examine the relationship between reality and fiction, sometimes metaphorically and other times literally. Grant Morrison's idea is that all universes are interconnected together by comic books that compile data from each reality of the local multiverse and are intimately linked to a simulation of the real world with regard to ***Earth-Prime*** aka ***Earth-33***, which dictates the reality of the other worlds of the Multiverse. Earth-33 distincts from the other universes due to the "Fictive Membrane." Unlike the other universes, Earth-33 lacks superheroes, except for a single 'superhero' who is a comic book itself, Ultra Comics. When the Monitor race died following Final Crisis, beings called the Gentry came to invade the multiverse in the vacuum left behind, and the Gentry turned out to be from Earth-33, suggesting that Earth-33 is within the standard DC Multiverse.

In ***Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #2***, Cosmic Armor Superman felt the breath of an overreaching presence beyond his comprehension, likely referring to the actual readers. The comic in question was in 3D, and one particular scene from those panels was Cosmic Armor Superman's hand reaching out towards us, which supports Morrison's claim when he said the Monitor Sphere is at the edge of the "art" and the mind of God. Such feats however are merely Breaking the Fourth Wall and do not necessarily demonstrate a transcendence of fiction.

### Creation Origins

Before creation, it was said that everything and nothing were the same, unified in the immaculate perfection known as Monitor-Mind The Overvoid or The Source. From The Source was born Anti-Crisis Energy and Crisis Energy and created a group of super celestial beings to use these energies to start new life systems in the Overvoid. Monitor-Mind/Source found within itself a microbial and infinitesimal "Flaw" created by the rogue super-celestial Perpetua, this "flaw" represents creation. Compared to Monitor-Mind/Source, the Flaw contains complexities and contradictions, and Monitor-Mind/Source makes a "concept" known as the "Orrery of Worlds" to contain it and protect itself from the "stories" within it.

### The Material Realms

**Number of Universes**

There are a number of 52 universes although there could be more with the discovery of the 53rd universe. These universes are vibrating in the same space at different frequencies. Here are Kendra Saunders' own words after studying the multiverse map: "We know of fifty-two, we believe it to be the set number." She talks about the known universes, suggesting that there might be indeed more universes unknown to anyone in the multiverse.

What had been infinite in the Pre-Crisis Multiverse was contained to 52 universes.However, there are other universes that are not part of those known like the 53rd universe.
* It should be noted that all realities outside of those known as the 53rd universe are likely part of the various timelines stored in Hypertime. (See Hypertime below)

**Antimatter Universe**

An anti-matter cosmos occupying the multiverse positioned at the outskirts of creation. Positive matter cannot exist in this reality. As shown below, the Antimatter Universe of the prior version of Creation, made by Perpetua, surrounded everything else, separating it from the Overvoid beyond. This version would have likely been of a higher-dimensional nature than the current one, but it will likely never apply to any character.

The Antimatter Universe is the outskirts of creation according to Mar Novu.In Perpetua's original version of the DC Multiverse, the Antimatter Universe functioned as the Source Wall does, surrounding the Multiverse and separating it from the Void.
**Dimensionality of the Orrery**

In 2008s Final Crisis, Grant Morrison describes the Orrery of Worlds as having a 4-D space-time continuum. Scott Snyder later adopted the same cosmological structure, as evidenced in his Justice League run. In Mr. Mxyzptlk's own words. Seen in the scan bellow: "The multiverse, **as you live it**, puny heads, **exists in four dimensions**..." He talks to the Justice League and explains to them that they experiences the first four dimensions which, in Snyder's words, are **point**, **line**, **depth**, and **time**.

Read Mr. Mxyzptlk's words carefully.
* Despite Scott Snyder's comments about the notion that the dimensions mentioned by Mr. Mxyzptlk in his Justice League run are non-physics based, it's worth noting that when Mr. Mxyzptlk described the dimensionality of the multiverse, he did so almost verbatim in a way that represented a 4-D space-time continuum. This has been described before in better and more accurate terms in ***Grant Morrison's Action Comics #15***: "There is a place beyond **length**, beyond **width**, beyond **depth** and **time**." In this way, Snyder's comments about the non-physics based dimensions only applies to the Fifth and Sixth Dimensions.

**Bleed Space**

The Bulk Space between and around the brane universes. Four siphons have been drilled in from the Monitor Sphere to the Orrery, to permit harvest of the miracle Ultramenstruum, known also known as Bleed, from the universes of the multiverse, that the Monitors refer to as 'germ worlds.' The Bleed is described as the substance of life. Morrison's Final Crisis: Superman Beyond depicts the Bleed to exist in 4-D. These are Monitor Zillo Valla's own words: "We'll traveling through the Bleedstorm space between the universes... But you'll need to upgrade to **4-D vision** to truly comprehend what you experience."

The Bleed is the membrane between universes.Universes grow within the Bleed like crystals in solution.Then, now, and tomorrow occur together in the Bleed, indicating that the Bleed exists in 4-D.Monitor Zillo Valla had to upgrade Superman's vision to 4-D for him to truly understand what he experience in the Bleed.
* Rodney Rabbit's comment on the House of the Heroes rotating through the Fifth Dimension around a fixed point in the Orrery probably refers to imagination rather than an extra spatial dimension since the Bleed is the lifeblood of stories. As seen in the last section above, Mr. Mxyzptlk says the multiverse exists in 4-D and directly enenvisions imagination as the Fifth Dimension to be an addition to the 4-D spatiotemporal multiverse.

**Orrery of Worlds**

The construct encompassing the local multiverse, originally created during the first contact of Monitor-Mind the Overvoid with the new creation within it. It also contains the Rock of Eternity and House of Heroes which exist outside the universes. When Monitor-Mind The Overvoid found the new creation, it created a concept to contain creation, scabbing it over in divine metal. At the bottom of the Orrery of Worlds is the World Forge inhabited by Alpheus the World Forger and his Dragon, Barbatos.

The Orrery of Worlds is the local multiverse.The Orrery is the structure of divine metal that scabbed over the Flaw.The Orrery, the divine metal surrounding the Flaw, seen in the Monitor Sphere.The House of Heroes is outside of normal time space, between universes, and has a pan-dimensional room.The World Forge is beneath the Orrery.
**Speed Force Wall**

An energy field otherwise known to the inhabitants of the Orrery as the Speed of Light. It is described as the limit to matter on the main map of the multiverse by Grant Morrison. Thus, beyond this superluminal barrier, matter is converted into pure information. This is important because outside this barrier starts a pattern of increasing levels of existence corresponding to less and less "realness" with archetypal realms inhabited by living ideas and thoughts.

**Wonderworld**

An enormous primal world orbiting the perimeter of the Orrery of Worlds at incredible velocities. Despite having no appearance in Morrison's works of the 2000s and those of Scott Snyder, it was deemed important enough by Morrison to devote an entire entry to the left side of the map of the multiverse.

Wonderworld is positioned on the outermost boundary of the Orrery of Worlds.
**Hypertime**

An interconnected web of time streams from outside the multiverse. It is defined by the Fuginauts as an **abstraction** and contains infinite timelines and realities that continually diverge and converge where they overlap and reconnect. Thus, everything that could be imagined existed. It is distinct from the 'Timestream' in that, while the timelines all exist in the Timestream, they burrow through Hypertime. It has also a physical manifestation named "Branefold Interior" inhabited by the Fuginauts.

Flash defined Hypertime as a web of timestreams outside the Multiverse.The Branefold Interior is the home realm of the Fuginauts, and the physical manifestation of the Hypertime abstraction.Starman's abilities allow him to peer into the heart of Hypertime to see the future and he described Hypertime as the cosmic flow of timelimes and histories that govern reality.The creation of the New-52 Multiverse was merely the creation of new Hypertime branches.
Grant Morrison sometimes uses geometry as a metaphor for discussing Hypertime, calling it "cube time". This is shown in ***The Return of Bruce Wayne*** and expanded upon in an interview, treating it as a three-dimensional concept, its basis being the **"time point"** containing all possibilities.

By simple geometry, the time point extent to create the **"line time"** or **"line space a"** representing the linear timeline from beginning to end. Time also extends laterally, so there is the **"plane time"** or **"space b"**, an immense cosmic loom of converging and separating line times. The perpendicular of plane time is **"cube time"** which views the inhabitants of the Orrery from a higher-dimensional perspective.

* **Tiering:** *The Orrery of Worlds encompasses 52 universes and the Bleed Space between and around them and exists in four dimensions according to Mr. Mxyzptlk which, in Snyder's term, are **point**, **line**, **depth** and **time**. When Mxy described the dimensionality of the multiverse, he did so almost verbatim in a way that represented a 4-D space-time continuum, meaning the Orrery itself is **2-C**. After that, there are other universes outside of those known to the inhabitants of the Orrery and an infinite number of timelines stored in Hypertime, making a **2-A** structure.*

### The Metaphysical Realms

**Sphere of the Gods**

An archetypal realm outside the corporeal reality whose inhabitants live on a higher plane of existence than the inhabitants of the Orrery of Worlds. It is the homeworld of all gods and deities worshiped by mortals in the DCU and has been described as a spherical realm of pure magic surrounding the multiverse.

The Sphere of the Gods is not part of the "material world" (i.e. the Orrery of Worlds).The Sphere of the Gods holds platonic, archetypal realms and is inhabited by living ideas.The Sphere of the Gods is made entirely out of the light of possibility, and manifested around the still-forming Multiverse.
All realms of the Sphere of the Gods are called fictions, which author James Tynion IV explained as a reference to their connection to the Collective Unconscious, which manifests divinity through belief.

Realms of the Sphere of the Gods are called fictions, which Tynion explained was a reference to their connection to Collective Unconscious, which manifests divinity through belief.Alpheus stating "a fiction from the Sphere of the Gods"The Sphere of the Gods is the source of magic, the fundamental power of creation and belief, and destroying said energy would result in the destruction of the material reality as a consequence.

The Sphere of the Gods is the home to all spiritual and godly energy in the Multiverse.The Sphere is the source of magic's true power.Destroying magic would destroy Creation along with it.**Nature of the Inhabitants of the Sphere of the Gods**

There is significant evidence that the inhabitants of the Sphere of the Gods actually function as Platonic Ideas. Below are scans from 2008 to 2019, showing consistency regarding the nature of the inhabitants of the Sphere of the Gods.

First, the very basics: they manifest in the material world as emanations of their true forms, called godheads.

These manifestations are called emanations, with the true beings called godheads.Next, existing as forms:

Gods and New Gods are self-aware ideas, and their weapons are concept and metaphor.Myrra's life is not physical, it is idea.Earth-23 Wonder Woman talks of the Gods as Universals, who gave a gift in the time before time.
Finally, existing outside the material realm's spatiotemporal physics:

The inhabitants of the Sphere of the Gods transcend time, for them events are an atemporal state of being compared to mortals who experience events as a sequential series of events.
**Collective Unconscious**

The collective ideal form of mortal souls above the Sphere of the Gods from which all gods and divine realms have arisen through the collective beliefs and imagination of humanity. In this way, all realms of the Sphere of the Gods are "fictions". It houses Hecate's personal realm, the Witch's Moon, a metaphor for the first mystery gazed upon by man.

The crest of the Collective Unconscious lies above the Sphere of the Gods.The Collective Unconscious houses Hecate's personal realm, the Witch's Moon, a metaphor for the first mystery gazed upon by man.
**Tiering:** *As seen above, the Sphere of the Gods and the Collective Unconscious exist on a higher plane of existence than the Orrery of Worlds but are not qualitatively superior for having an infinity higher than the multiverse, which means that both realms are At least **2-C** structures. Characters that scale to the Sphere of the Gods and the Collective Unconscious like Darkseid and Hecate are also At least **2-C**.*

**Comic Book Limbo**

The last outpost of existence, Limbo exists "nowhere" without time in the normal sense, it is the home of forgotten characters that are dumped from continuity. There are no stories in Limbo, except in the Book of Infinite Pages, which contains all the stories of Creation. It goes one step further into nothingness, as such, if someone stays in Limbo for too long, they lose memories and disappear from everyone's memory. It's completely outside and disconnected from the Orrery of Worlds, floating between it and the Thought Robot.

When crashing out of the Orrery to end up in Limbo, Zillo Valla says the Ultima Thule was drifting into the Void.Limbo exists disconnected from the Orrery.Limbo is again portrayed as outside the Orrery and was described as "nowhere".The statement "Music is over: We've run out of the Multiverse" doesn't mean that Limbo is outside of the whole creation, it only refers to Orrery of Worlds, because they used the Ultima Thule for traveling between universes which is a trans-dimensional yacht powered by sound vibrations, by altering its pitch and wavelength it is possible to travel to other universes (because each universe has a different frequency), i.e. music being over means that Limbo is outside of all parallel universes and the Orrery.

There's no time in Limbo. "Time" in this context doesn't refer to the concept of time since the Monitor Sphere, above Limbo, has a time.

**The Fifth Dimension**

Now we come to the Fifth Dimension which has a long history of retcon, but its depiction as **imagination** dates back to Grant Morrison's JLA: Crisis Times Five in 1999 and the 2008s Batman R.I.P story. Scott Snyder took this concept and applied it to the cosmology as the blood of the multiverse and flow of energy between the realms. Since it transcends time, the Fifth Dimension exists everywhere at once. It was also described as an Imaginary thought-construct. It is important to note that Mr. Mxyzptlk showed the entire multiverse map when he described the Fifth Dimension to the Justice League and said that it exists everywhere at once, which means that the Fifth Dimension encompasses everything on the multiverse map, except the Source Wall.

Mr. Mxyzptlk says Imagination is the blood of the Multiverse that flows between realms.When Mr. Mxyzptlk removes Imagination, the comic art is reduced back to sketches.It is a very reasonable interpretation that the Fifth Dimension has a direct relationship to the Bleed. The House of Heroes, anchored at a fixed point in the Bleed, was said to rotate through the Fifth Dimension which, according to Mr. Mxyzptlk, exists all around the 4-dimensional spatiotemporal multiverse and was represented as imagination and the blood of the multiverse. Here are Mr. Mxyzptlk's own words when pointed out the entire map of the multiverse: "**Now add imagination**, which is outside of time, and... Poof! Ta-Da! it's everything at once, existing backward and forward simultaneously. **Imagination is the blood of the multiverse, the energy that flows between the realms.**"

In addition to the above points, the Monitors refer to Bleed as the substance of life itself, draining it out of creation and draining the life out of stories (this evidence can be found in the Monitor Sphere section further down). Given that Mxyz uses "unimagination" and reduces the story back to sketches, everything seems to line up. In this regard, the Fifth Dimension is the highest level of the Bleed.

**Tiering:** *The Fifth Dimension completely transcends the 4-dimensional axis of the multiverse and encompasses everything on the multiverse map except for the Source Wall, giving 1 degree of infinity above Low 2-C, which means the Fifth Dimension is a **Low 1-C** structure. Characters who scale to the Fifth Dimension like Mister Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite are also **Low 1-C**.*

**Monitor Sphere**

An archetypal world and home to Nil, the world of the Monitors standing at the edge of the "art" and of the mind of God. As the mystery of the Orrery and Thought Robot caused Monitor-Mind to invent narratives to go along with it, the Monitor Sphere and Nil took shape outside the Sphere of the Gods. Remember from the previous section how going from the multiverse to Comic Book Limbo required crossing the Void. This is reflected in statements that Nil is part of the Void and that Monitor nanotechnology is coming from the Void to attack Limbo. Space, time and scale are more meaningful, profound, with "time" in the Monitor Sphere referring to the clockwork pattern in the sky. Time seems to function as a temporal dimension, because when it entered the Monitor Sphere, it form "beginnings" and "ends". Monitor ships that can adjust their scale to be gigantic within the Multiverse and to the size of cities within Limbo, were regarded as infinitesimal to the Monitors World.

The Monitor Sphere is a higher dimension.Nil is a fundamental world inhabited by primal forms.Comic Book Limbo is only an infinitesimal disc ompared to the Monitor Sphere."Time" in Nil refers to the clockwork pattern in the sky.When time entered the Monitor Sphere, it formed "beginnings" and "endings".
The beings of this world are notable for being the only ones capable of bottling and consuming Bleed as a tangible substance. This is extremely significant: we know that, from the perspective of lower mortal "germs", Bleed is the Bulk Space enclosing the worlds of the Orrery. We know also that Bleed is the substance of Life, from Zillo Valla. In metafictional terms, it is what gives life to the stories of the DCU. The Monitors are capable of extracting it as a tangible substance, draining creation dry. This interpretation is confirmed by Morrison himself: what Mandrakk is doing by extracting Bleed as a consumable is sucking the life out of the story. See the scans below:

Mandrakk, by sucking all of the Bleed extracted toward his sepulchre, sucked the life out of the story.Draining the Bleed out drained the meaning and story from the DCU.
You may have noticed a pattern by now of elevating levels of existence corresponding to less and less "real-ness" as we would think of it in real life. Beings in the Orrery are made of matter and operate within physical space and time. Beings in the Sphere of the Gods are pure idea and operate within metaphysical story. Beings in Limbo lack even story. And Nil takes this pattern to the next level, as far as reasonably possible before achieving the pure absolute Nothingness/Oneness of the Overvoid.

The world of the Monitors is the Blank, the Nil, the Gone, the edge of everything where form and meaning surrender to the nothingness of the Overvoid. Its inhabitants have 5555 terms for "nothing", and presumably a similar number of types of nothing. See the scan below:

**Tiering:** *The Monitor Sphere exists on the edge of things and perceives realms like the Orrery of Worlds as a "germ world" and Comic Book Limbo appears as an infinitesimal disc in comparison. It sits slightly above the Fifth Dimension, which means the Monitor Sphere is a **Low 1-C** structure. Characters who scale to the Monitor Sphere like the Monitors, Mandrakk and Thought Robot are also **Low 1-C**.*

**Dark Multiverse and the Great Darkness**

**Dark Multiverse**

A vast subconscious realm of dark matter upon which floats the Multiverse. It's the unintended side effect of the process of creating new worlds, coupled with the treachery of Barbatos. It consists of infinite worlds of nightmare, similar to the infinite timelines of the main Multiverse has. It is directly stated that Perpetua's original Creation had nothing to do with the formation of the Dark Multiverse. Some realms such as the Dreaming and the Phantom Zone have strong connections to the Dark Multiverse.

The Dark Multiverse contains infinite worlds of nightmare.The nightmare worlds are dark timelines, not just planets.The Dark Multiverse consists of timelines where things went "bad".The Dark Multiverse is not in the main DCU.The Dark Multiverse is not part of Perpetua's design for Creation.
**Great Darkness**

In the 2018 relaunch of Justice League Dark, James Tynion integrated the Great Darkness, introduced in Alan Moore's "Swamp Thing", into the Dark Multiverse created in the Rebirth era by Scott Snyder. Tynion specifically references the original Great Darkness storyline from Swamp Thing, when Sargon and Zatara died, and Heaven was nearly destroyed.

Tynion fashioned the Great Darkness as the dark opposite to the Sphere of the Gods, connected to the Dark Multiverse, and used it as the origin location for the Otherkind.

When Hecate formed in the Sphere of the Gods, she detected a darker opposite beneath the Sphere, tied to the Dark Multiverse.The Great Darkness/The Other Place/The Abyss all reference the same thing.The Great Darkness is/resides in the Dark Sphere of the Gods that surrounds the Dark Multiverse.**Tiering:** *As seen above, the Dark Multiverse is much larger than the aforementioned realms, but no characters scale to it. The Dark Sphere of the Gods/The Great Darkness surrounds the Dark Multiverse, giving it a **2-C** tier. Characters who scale to the "Dark Sphere of the Gods" like The Upside-Down Man are also **At least 2-C**.*

### Source Wall and the Totality of Creation

**Sixth Dimension**

The final realm and the highest plane of existence of the Multiverse, as Mr. Mxyzptlk calls it, a realm of the impossible where the Multiverse was created and set in motion. As seen below, the Sixth Dimension and its inhabitants are depicted as far larger than the Multiverse. Mr. Mxyzptlk was only able to open a portal there because the Source Wall was destroyed, but the happenings of the Sixth Dimension are beyond even his perception.

The Sixth Dimension is the highest plane of existence.The Sixth Dimension is depicted as far, far "larger" than Creation.The Sixth Dimension is again shown to completely dwarf Creation.In an Hero's Initiative interview with Scott Snyder, he describes it a spherical layer that envelops the entire Multiverse, being an emergency room where quintessential beings come to monitor all of creation and set the rules of things. He also said that the Source Wall is above this realm.

**Tiering:** *The Sixth Dimension is the final realm and highest plane of existence and is far larger than the 4-dimensional spatiotemporal multiverse. It sits above all the aforementioned realms like the Fifth Dimension and the Monitor Sphere, giving 2 degrees of infinity above Low 2-C, which means that the Sixth Dimension is a **Low 1-C** structure. Characters who scale to the Sixth Dimension like The Monitor, the Anti-Monitor and the World Forger are **Low 1-C**.*

**Promethean Galaxy and the Source Wall**

While not a literal galaxy, the Promethean Galaxy is a realm as old as creation and farthest finite frontier of reality where the Source Wall is located. The Source Wall is the limit to thought and the protective shell around the Multiverse, closing it off from the Greater Omniverse. In all directions from any universe within the Multiverse, the wall is the final point, separating all of creation from the Overvoid. In Countdown, which contradicted Final Crisis in many ways it was said that the Source Wall separates universes. However, this does not fit with the rest of Morrison's works.

The Promethean Galaxy is not truly a galaxy, but the finite border of reality, as old as Creation itself.The Source Wall is the protective shell around the Multiverse.The Source Wall is the boundary of the Multiverse, closing it off from the Greater Omniverse. In all directions from any universe within the Multiverse, the wall is the final point.
Nil did not have the Source Wall around it during Final Crisis, this is because the Source Wall was destroyed in Death of the New Gods, which was a lead-in comic to Final Crisis. Grant Morrison affirmed that elements of Final Crisis were intentionally written to match the events of DotNG in this interview:

Darkseid is falling through the universe after the event we experienced as Death of the New Gods.Jim Starlin created Orion's death scene in Death of the New Gods #6 to lead into war god's appearance in Final Crisis #1, so Jim's scene was referred back in Final Crisis #3.
**Tiering:** *Characters existing in, or affecting, the Source Wall shouldn't be **1-C** or **Tier 1** as the wall exists on every level of reality. A **Tier 4** being that portals themselves to the outer edge of their reality to the Promethean Galaxy is still a **Tier 4** being, and they are only experiencing the Promethean Galaxy on a lower-dimensional level.*

### Greater Omniverse and Unseen Council

**Greater Omniverse**

There are an infinite number of creations that rise and fall in the Overvoid, made by super-celestials like Perpetua. One of the other creations is likely, though not comfirmed, Multiverse-2, which was destroyed by the Empty Hand.

There are infinite Creations other than the main DCU that together make up the Greater Omniverse.
**Unseen Council**

This name has been used by Scott Snyder to describes a hierarchy, which eventually reaches the Source, like the Hands, Perpetua and the Cosmic Raptor who inhabit the Overvoid. According to Snyder's Perpetua, the void has an end. This is where her siblings, the other Supercelestials, reside. It was also said that the original multiverse was flying through the void to an unknown destination, awaiting the final judgement. This is echoed by Alpheus who stated that when a Multiverse breaks apart before its final evolution, it's sent back to the banks of creation which it was created by super celestial beings like Perpetua.

According to Alpheus when a Multiverse breaks apart before its final evolution, it's sent back to the banks of creation which it was created by super celestial beings like Perpetua.According to Perpetua, the void has an end and it is where her siblings resides.Chronicler, a functionary of the Greater Omniverse, comes from the Overvoid.
**Tiering:** *Although this "hierarchy" has only been vaguely touched upon in Scott Snyder's stories, all of the characters in this hierarchy, including The Hands, Perpetua, Dr. Manhattan, The Darkest Knight, Anti-Crisis Wonder Woman, are beyond the Source Wall and, by definition, well beyond Mr. Mxyzptlk and the Monitors (Sixth Dimension), making them At least **Low 1-C**.*

### Monitor-Mind The Overvoid/The Source/The Presence

Although usually associated with different parts of DC Cosmology, these different entities are actually one entity. According to the Book of Infinity, the Overvoid is an immense awareness without limits or definition. It has described as an unimaginably vast and abstract intelligence. God is in truth an unbound and eternal Void, where all things become one and, simultaneously, none. One non-dual God that Morrison metaphorically refers to as the blank page of the comic, each of the three being viewpoints or aspects, all existing as beyond comprehension. Both authors Grant Morrison and Scott Snyder alluded to the idea that they are one supreme entity. Grant Morrison directly stated that Monitor-Mind The Overvoid and The Source were the same entity, just as Snyder did with The Source and The Presence, coupled with the map of the Multiverse which labels Monitor-Mind and The Source as the white Void beyond the Source Wall.

Beyond the Monitor World, dual concepts do not exist and all is non-dual Monitor-Mind, in which all contradictions are dissolved in unity.Monitor-Mind is described as an infinite abstract intelligence, a conscious living void in which the multiverse has grown.The Source is described as integrating all dual concepts and cannot be contained or halved.There is a comma between "presence" and "of the Source" which suggests that they are the same thing.
**Tiering:** *Monitor-Mind The Overvoid, The Source, The Presence are manifestations or aspects of the same vast white void outside and beyond all Multiverses of the Greater Omniverse, where thoughts cease to be and all dual concepts dissolve into unity, making them **1-C**.*

## J.M. DeMatteis' Cosmology

DeMatteis' approach on the DC cosmology was heavily influenced by his spiritual beliefs and world view based on Hinduism and other religious concepts. He has stated that this belief influences almost all of his work.

### Creation Origins

The Divine Presence dreamed all of Creation, and was formed in nothingness and will eventually return to it again. In the act of creation, duality was born, then Chaos and Order created an explosion not of power but of love that created a sea of love from which emerged whole worlds and universes.

The Divine Presence dreamed all of Creation.In the act of creation, duality was born then Chaos and Order exploded in an explosion not of power but of love that created a sea of love from which emerged whole worlds and universes.
### God, Soul, Creation as Dream

DeMatteis' cosmology incorporates ideas from the philosophy of an Indian spiritualist named Meher Baba, who proposed the idea that God dreamed our Universe, He described the observable world as illusory, and presented the idea that the Universe is imagination. He taught that God alone exists, and each soul is God passing through imagination in order to realize its own divinity. He likens these individual souls to bubbles in an ocean of infinite size.

In DeMatteis' works, he uses the same concept for his cosmology, God dreamed the entire Universe and all stars, planets and souls are part of its imagination. The Universe exists on many different levels with the Material level being the most obvious. There are limitless planes of existence deeper and truer levels of the Universe. "Planes" or "Levels" of the Universe is referring to the fact that in DeMatteis's cosmology, reality is just a dream/illusion. Everything is just an illusion that separates souls to the oneness of God. For example it was stated that Heaven is a deeper and truer realm than the normal universe but there are more realms beyond it and each deep realm is more close to the Divine Presence.

Everything, planets, stars is part of the Divine Presence imagination.The defunct souls begins a journey of discovery from lifetime to lifetime, dream to dream, in the limited selves they imagines to be, to the infinity selves that they had always been.The Universe exists on many different levels, with the Material Universe being the most obvious and the stars being the connective tissue between the Material Universe and the deeper spiritual universes.There are limitless planes of the existence.
### Cycle of Creation and the World Ages

DeMatteis consistently depicts Creation with cycles based on the Hindu concept of Yugas representing in Hinduism four ages of the life of the world. These cycles are the **Satya Yuga**, the Golden Age from which everything existed in perfect harmony in spiritual purity, it's the purest state of the dream before it was layered over with nightmares. **Treta Yuga** and **Dvapara Yuga** came after the Golden Age and were the ages of the Atlanteans and the Lemurians. **Kali Yuga** is the last and the worst of the four ages representing the modern era. It's sometimes called a delusion. If the Golden Age is the dream in its purest form, then the world during Kali Yuga strays further away from God and is buried under layers of nightmares.

The idea of the fall of Creation back into nothingness at the end of a Yuga cycle is often referred to as the **Mahapralaya** or the **Sea of Brahma**. Like the concept of the Yugas, there are four types of Mahapralaya/Pralaya. The Void from which all things emerged was revealed to be Pralaya who predates all things in existence, even the Creator himself, an aspect of God, and is referred as God's Unconscious.

Creation began in the beginningless beginning.All Creation returns to the nothingness.In the timeless time, Creation will begin again.
### The Material Realms

**Number of Universes**

There are an infinite number of universes, each decision forms new universes all the time. There is a Crown of Chakra, the energy doorway that links individuals to everything and beyond it, there's the Quantum Web, the universe's true form that connects everyone.

There are infinite universes.There are infinite parallel dimensions.Every decision creates a new universe.
**Tiering:** There are infinite universes and parallel dimensions, each decision forms new universes all the time. All multiversal feats are **2-A**.

### The Metaphysical Realms

The higher planes of existence are truer and deeper levels of God's dream than the Material Universe. Each plane are closer to God's oneness. Heaven, for instance, exists far beyond the level of the Material Universe, but there are more realms beyond it and each deep realm is more close to the Divine Presence.

**Collective Unconscious**

In DeMatteis' storylines, the Collective Unconscious is the universal consciousness, basically the collective form of mortal souls, split into individual souls upon emanating down to the Material Universe. It's a cosmic sea of symbols and archetypes, dreams and ideas, made manifest. It's a realm of energy and imagination where emotions are colors and thoughts have textures.

The Trans, beings of pure thought, exist within the Collective Unconscious on a level beyond space and time.There is no time or space, only that which the mind imagines for itself.Thoughts in the Collective Unconscious can create entire universes that are more "real" than the real universe.
**Heaven**

In DeMatteis' storylines, Heaven is a higher plane of existence. It's more deep, more true and closer to the Presence than the Material Universe. For example, Indra's Fourth Heaven is a place that is not a place, but transcends place, referring to a higher dimensional realm. Heaven contains an infinite number of universes tailored to the beliefs of its inhabitants. These various heavens are said to be a state of mind rather than true places, with different planes beyond the conventional Heavens meant to give comfort to the souls of the defuncts.

Indra's Fourth Heaven is a place that a not place, that transcend place.Indra's Fourth Heaven have days that are not days, that transcend day.There are as many realms in Heaven as there are souls in Creation.There are different planes of Heaven.
**Tiering:** *The higher planes of existence have "days" which transcend day and "places" which transcend place, each of them being truer and deeper than the Material World, making Heaven and the Collective Unconscious **Low 1-C**. Creation in DeMatteis' Cosmology is infinite-layered and each planes are higher dimensions as seen with Indra's Fourth Heaven, making the totality of creation a **High 1-B** structure.*

### Mahapralaya/Pralaya/Sea of Brahma

*See: Cycle of Creation and the World Ages*

Mahapralaya or the Sea of Brahma is the great dissolution of Creation at the end of a Yuga cycle. The Void from which everything emerged was Pralaya who predates all things in existence, even the Creator whom DeMatteis regards as an aspect of God. Pralaya is referred as God's unconscious and the sleep into which everything, even God, must inevitably fall. Age after age, all of Creation is born from Pralaya and age after age it returns to nothingness.

"Before Creation, before the Creator, was the infinite ocean of nothing... It is the source from which all things emerged and which all things will, Must, return."Pralaya is the sleep into which all beings and things, even God, must inevitably fall.
**Tiering:** *Mahapralaya/Pralaya is the Void of infinite nothingness that predate Creation and is the source from which all things emerged and will return, making her **Low 1-C, possibly 1-C**.*

### The Divine Presence/The Smile/God

To understand the true nature of the Divine Presence or the Smile, we need to examine the concept of Brahman. In Hinduism, Brahman refers to the ultimate reality underlying all phenomena. Brahman is formless but is the birthplace of all forms in visible reality. In DeMatteis' storylines such a concept was referred multiple times.

The Divine Presence shares a similar nature with the concept of Brahman. Its the Smile behind Creation and beyond Mahapralaya featured in the *1988's Doctor Fate #6* story which, from its oneness, birthed duality and Chaos and Order exploded in an explosion of love that created a sea of love from which emerged whole worlds and universes. When the defunct souls' journey of discovery ends, they return to the Smile where they originate.

The Divine Presence is the oneness beyond Mahapralaya.Everything returns to the Divine Presence.
Like the concept of Brahman, the Divine Presence is the ultimate reality beyond everything from which all of existence originates. In DeMatteis' work, it's the Void Beyond All Voids, an infinite nothingness, the cosmic emptiness beyond space and time, form and thought and beyond the threshold of conscious limitations. It contains and surpasses everything and everyone in Creation. All gods are thoughts that exist in the mind of God.

The Void beyond all Voids is an infinite nothingness, the cosmic emptiness that exists beyond space and time, form and thought.By becoming one with the Void, Spectre transcended his limited view of himself and broke the constraints of individual identity. By doing that he realized that he's a spirit that connected to the Logoz, to the Oversoul and to the Divine Presence itself that contains and suprasses everything and everyone in the Creation.
**Tiering:** *The Divine Presence is **1-C, possibly High 1-C** as it transcends all of Creation and Pralaya completely and are merely part of its dream.*

## Vertigo's Cosmology

Neil Gaiman and Mike Carey focus on folklore and the mystical aspects of the cosmology. Although Vertigo tends to be more consistent than DC, there are still some inconsistencies across storylines, such as the events of Lucifer's Rebellion. The cosmology of Vertigo is primarily based on the dreams and beliefs of humanity. Even the Presence was shaped by dreams, but Dream of the Endless remains inferior to the Presence and the Archangels, whose creation was only possible through other Night and Father Time, as they predate all versions of Creation that have been changed by dreams, and are the source of the reality-altering powers of dreams and beliefs.

### Creation Origins

The Presence created the world. Then he created Michael and Lucifer. Michael's Demiurgic power gave birth to the first matter and Lucifer's will shaped it into the cosmos. Prior to the beginning was the night, without boundaries or end. Then came the beginning of time, which made the the Universe possible.

Lucifer stated that he's co-author of the universe.According to Meleos, when the Presence created the universe the first thing he created was the Host of Heaven (beginning with Michael and Lucifer). Michael's Demiurgic power gave birth to the first matter and Lucifer's will shaped it into suns.According to Death of the Endless Lucifer and Michael were the Presence's first big ideas and they created the universe.The Presence created Archangels (Michael, Lucifer and Gabriel) and gave them roles: Michael will release the power from within his heart, Lucifer will weave it into suns and Gabriel will impose form and pattern on the worlds as they cool.
### Dreams, Beliefs, and Stories Defining Creation

> Because it is the nature of Dreams, and ONLY of Dreams, to define Reality. Destiny is bound to existence. Death is limited by what she will or will not accept.
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Now, the above sentence illustrates the nature of Vertigo's cosmology. Creation is malleable, and humankind's dreams, beliefs, and stories can change reality from beginning to end and create the deities they worship.

This concept was first introduced in ***The Sandman: A Dream of a Thousand Cats***, where it is said that cats were originally the dominant species on Earth, giant beasts that hunted humans. However, mankind's collective dream of a world where humans ruled over cats altered reality from its very beginning, making it so that humans were always larger than cats. This explains the statement made by the Presence that he was shaped by external forces, apparently intended to be the beliefs and imaginations of humanity, rather than a 4th Wall reference to the writers or real-world humans.

These beliefs and dreams altered the world atemporally -- all of time history forwards and back was altered. From that perspective, the Presence has always been God, superior to the Endless.

"He is not a god; he is older than all the gods, and is their cause. He is the human capacity to imagine meaning, to tell stories: an anthropomorphic projection of our thirst for mythology. And as such, he is both greater and less than the humans whose dreams he shapes, but whose thirst, after all, shapes him"."I mean all of it. Humans make up bullshit stories about where they came from and where they're going. And then they live in them. They turn the whole of eternity into a fucking soap opera. Reality is messy and scary. Stories give a kind of shape of it".
### The Presence's Creation

The Presence's creation is often referred to as a universe. In this context, Universe "the totality of Creation". This is shown by Desire's statement and the location of the City of the Stars. It comprises infinite timelines.

Mister E takes Tim Hunter through time to a possible future, telling him there are infinite.

**Tiering**

*As the Presence's Creation has infinite timelines, all feats involving all the timelines are **2-A**.*

### Heaven, Silver City and Hell

The Silver City predates and transcends Creation and looks down upon it, holding the Tower of Unendingly High which contains the Logos, and is the birthplace of Will and Contemplation. It has been explicitly said that the Silver City is not part of the created order of things.

Most of Gaiman's works use Heaven and the Silver City interchangeably. However, it has been said that the Silver City is not paradise or Heaven which may have been figurative.

**Hell** is the opposite of Heaven, and is its reflection.

The Silver City existed before the First Dawn, in the darkness before time.The Silver City is separated from Creation by Void.It is meaningless to ask the size of the Silver City.At the edge of Heaven is an abyss of nothingness.Hell is Heaven's dark reflection, and asking its size is meaningless.
**Tiering**

*The Silver City/Heaven and Hell are **Low 1-C**. The Silver City predates and transcends Creation, which has infinite timelines, and Hell is its dark reflection.*

### The Endless

The Endless are the anthropomorphic embodiments of powerful natural forces. They see each other as family, referring to each other as siblings, and they are the children of Mother Night and Father Time. The Endless are humanoid manifestations of the primal truths that constitute every aspect of the Presence's creation.

From oldest to youngest they are: Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium (previously known as Delight).

"The Endless are merely patterns. The Endless are ideas. The Endless are wave functions. The Endless are repeating motifs"The Endless are ideas encompassing everything within their sphere - what we see are simple points of view.The Endless are humanoid manifestations of the primal truths of the universe, oversee every aspect of the reality created by the Presence.“Because it is the nature of Dreams, and ONLY of Dreams, to define Reality. Destiny is bound to existence. Death is limited by what she will or will not accept”.
**The Ancient Rules**

The Endless are limited by certain rules for their lives, which they must follow for the good order of the universe. One such rule is that if you spill family blood harm will happen to you as well, seen after Morpheus kills his son (Orpheus) which ultimately leads to Morpheus' own death, which is also why Dream said he wouldn't hurt Desire even if he really wanted to. Another rule is not to fall in love with mortals, because nothing good can come out of such a union, the most famous case being that of Kai'ckul and Nada. Morpheus has fallen in love with mortals on several occasions, but all ended in misfortune.

#### Dream of the Endless and the Dreaming

Dream is the third oldest of the Endless and is the anthropomorphic embodiment of the concept of dreams, stories and all that is not reality. He is both the lord and the incarnation of the Dreaming, the place where all dreams reside and where all dreamers go when they are asleep. Dream has multiple incarnations of himself with the first being Dream of the Lovecraftian Horrors.

The Dreaming is composed of tales and nightmares.Faerie is referred to as a "timeless realm".Scale and distance is completely meaningless in Faerie.A ship which is a fragment of the Dreaming exists outside of the Destiny's book.The Dreaming is infinite.
There are places in the Dreaming where the most important stories are stored: Creation stories, changing these stories not only change the Dreaming, but all of Creation.

When Tempto changed the story of the "Garden of the Eden" all of the reality was changed.It was stated that changing the oldest stories like Gilgamesh, The Lotus of Vishnu, Coyote and the Old Man and the Garden of Eden will change everything.
Dream himself is the primal manifestation of this concept, but he has never demonstrated an ability to willfully alter the beliefs of mankind, thus he does not scale to the full power of belief and dreams.

#### Death of the Endless

Death is the second oldest of the Endless, and embodies the concept of death. Since life and death are counterparts, Death also has powers over life. She visits everyone twice, first when they are born and then when they die. Death does not only claim the life of living beings, she's also the death of ideas and concepts. Unlike other Endless, Death isn't bounded by rules and she doesn't need permission to travel to realms of other Endless. She is regarded as the most powerful of the Endless.

Only Death will outlast this version of the Creation.At the end of the universe Death will claim Destiny of the Endless (the last living being) and will survive the end of the universe.When Death refused to do her job even ideas stopped dying.Death of the Endless is literally the death of all things.
#### Destiny of the Endless

Destiny is the oldest of the Endless. He was born even before creation began. In fact, he was tracking the Word in his book before it was spoken aloud. His book does not have a separate existence, it is tied to Destiny and can never be stolen. Even Michael Demiurgos couldn't take the Book of Destiny from him. The Book of Destiny was given to him by Father Time. Destiny's realm is the Garden of Forking Ways, the maze-like paths of which he walks continually.

Destiny is the oldest Endless and it was stated that he was tracking the Word in his book before it was spoken aloud.Destiny's realm is the loom on which the fabric of existence is woven.Destiny is the side effect of the Presence's deterministic approach to the act of Creation.
**The Script/Book of Destiny**

Destiny carries the Book of Destiny which contains a record of all that was, all that is, and all that will be.

The Book of Destiny is based on the script of reality. Destiny is the side-effect of the Presence predetermining Creation. He's not a side-effect of Creation itself, but a side effect of the act of the Presence creating a plan for Creation to follow. The Book of Destiny only contains the Presence's creation. Lucifer's Creation, which is a totally separate cosmos, is beyond Destiny's influence. This was shown when the Basanos, who draw their power from the Book of Destiny said that they're losing their power in Lucifer's creation.

There is nothing that exists that is not in Destiny's book.Destiny's book has no separate existence from him and not even Michael can forcefully take it away from him.
**Tiering**

* *All Endless: Delirium, Despair, Desire, Destruction, Dream are **Low 1-C, possibly 1-C**. The Endless are the primal truths of the Presence's creation and oversees every aspect of it. Dream's oldest incarnation exists outside of space and time and is a part of the eldritch abominations that exists in space beneath space and space beyond space.*

* *For the stronger ones: Death and Destiny, see Mother Night, Father Time, and the True Extent of the Endless.*

### The Basanos

The Basanos was a living deck of tarot cards created by the angel Meleos after Destiny allowed him to examine his book. The Basanos was meant to mimic Destiny's book. They are the lenses through which all infinite possibilities of Creation are focused. They are considered potential threats even for Archangels. They foresaw their encounter with Lucifer and with the help of Izanami, weaved a great magic that caused Lucifer's own flames to consume him.

The Basanos was meant to mimic Destiny's Book.The Basanos has the same workmanship and affinities as the Book of Destiny.They are the lenses through which all infinite possibilities of Creation are focused.
**Tiering**

*The Basanos to **Low 1-C**, possibly **1-C**. As seen above, the Basanos are meant to mimic Destiny's book and the lenses through which all infinite possibilities of Creation are focused. They are a considerable threat to the likes of the Archangels and can harm Lucifer.*

### Council of the First Circle

When all was void, when no Creation had yet been made, the Council of the First Circle set down the rules for what would be allowed. One of the members of the Council, Glory, is referred to as Shekinah, which is the "Glory of the Divine Presence". This makes it extremely likely that the Council of the First Circle are aspects of God.

When all was void, the Council of the First Circle set the rules.Glory is called Shekinah by Dream.Glory was unaffected when reality, Endless and Destiny's Book was rewritten by the dreams and imaginations of a thousand dreamers.
**Tiering**

*The Council of the First Circle are **Low 1-C**, possibly **1-C**. They predate the Presence's creation and made the its laws and the rules which the Endless follow* *and Glory and was unaffected when reality, The Endless and Destiny's Book was rewritten by the dreams and imaginations of a thousand dreamers.*

### Mother Night, Father Time, and the True Extent of the Endless

**Mother Night and Father Time**

Night and Time are the parents of Endless, and it is their interplay that made all versions of the Universe possible. Remember that in Vertigo, Universe means all of Creation. Therefore, "all versions of the Universe" did not refer to alternate realities, but to other versions of Creation that were changed by dreams as they predate this concept.

Before the beginning there was endless and boundless Night. In the beginning there was Time. When they came together all versions of the universe were possible.Event horizon of a dark star doesn't have dreaming minds, life, thoughts, pictures, emotions etc. and it was stated that time dissolves here. Mother Night is the true Darkness which is beyond that dark star.Father Time gave the "Book of Destiny" to Destiny of the Endless.Mother Night exists in the vast stretches of unspace and untime beyond every event horizon.
**The True Extent of the Endless**

> Given that there is after all, only one of us, and our multiplicity of identity is merely a function of space, and thus illusory.
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It was displayed more than once that the Endless are explicitly *not bound to one Creation*. When we see Dream, or Destiny, or Death, we are only looking at one point of view. So, any Creations we have seen in the Void share a similar nature to the Endless, which is basically seen when all of Dream aspects were brought together. The Endless likely exists in all of these versions of Creation. Death was the only Endless supposed to last longer than the current version of Creation.

Lucifer stated that Death is the inevitable and escaping to the Void or other Creations is only postponing the inevitable.Death exists even in Lucifer's new Creation because she has a job to do in all places which have concepts of life and death.To Destiny, all stories are simply illusions.Dream was there when the Council of the First Circle met.

The Endless are the primal truths of the universe, so the universe and the Endless having basically the same nature is not really that farfetched. What we were shown in the Void when there were many Lucifer is basically this.

Now, if the Council of the First Circle set down the rules for everything when all was still Void, and Dream (presumably his siblings as well) was present, that means that the true extent of the Endless goes far beyond one single Creation, it is inherent to all versions of Creation. And that is supported by Death appearing in Lucifer's completely separate Creation.

**Tiering**

* *Night and Time are **Low 1-C**, possibly **1-C**. They predate all versions of Creation that were changed by dreams, their interplay is what made all version of Creation possible, and they are the source of the reality changing power of dreams which can retroactively change Creation and creates gods, including Presence.*

* *Death and Destiny are **Low 1-C**, possibly **1-C**. Death scales to Destiny who scales to the Basanos.*

### Mansions of Silence

Little is known about the realm called the Mansions of Silence other than that it is supposedly beyond Death's reach, houses all the rejected Creations, is not "real", is far beyond Heaven, and is where Lucifer consigned Tsuki-yomi after killing him, preventing him from passing into non-existence like other dead Gods. The Mansions and the rejected Creations within were destroyed by Lucifer.

The mirrors are thought to contain rejected Creations.The mirrors in the Mansions of Silence are confirmed to be other Creations due to the other version of Cal, an angel made by Sandalphon.The Mansions of Silence are not real.The Mansions of Silence are far beyond Heaven.
**Tiering**

*The Mansions of Silence are **Low 1-C**. It's far beyond Heaven which transcends the Presence's creation, although there are fragile structures.*

### The Presence and the Archangels

**The Presence**

The Presence, sometimes referred as Yahweh, is the God of the Covenant and father to all Angels, with the main two beings Michael and Lucifer. He's vastly superior to the Archangels and can unmake them as easily he created them. He has defined every variable, every physical law. Everything happens because he made them happen.

The Presence created the Universe then he created Michael and Lucifer who represents an aspect of their father. Michael inherited God's power from which he created the first matter and Lucifer, inheriting God's will, shaped it into everything. Destiny has been implied to be the personification and the side-effect of Yahweh's deterministic approach on Creation with his book being based on the script written by the Presence. The Presence has aspects like The Word, created when the Presence first spoke, whose existence was traced by Destiny in his book even before it was spoken aloud.

**At first glance, the Presence appears as the supreme being of Vertigo. The reality is more nuanced.**

It was strongly implied that The Presence only created one version of Creation and he isn't the only maker, there will be other makers, like Silk Man who wasn't created by Yahweh and comes from a much earlier Creation than the current one. Furthermore, The Presence isn't a constant of Creation like the Endless are because the Jin En Moks, beings who were stated to exist even before the Presence himself, said that there were other Creators before and after the Presence.

Yahwed stated that he was shaped by external forces.Yahweh admitted that having Omnipotence eternally is a great burden.Yahweh's creation is only one version of Creation and he is not the only maker, there will be other creations and other makers.
**Archangels**

There are six Archangels: Uriel, who rules the worlds. Raphael, who oversees humanity. Michael, who is set over chaos. Saraquael, who is set over spirits. Gabriel, who is lord of the Cherubim and Seraphim. And Raguel, to whom has been entrusted the vengeance of the Lord.

Each Archangel represents an aspect of their father.The Angels are again stated to have existed in the time before time.According to Uriel, The Presence chose Michael as his second and because of this Michael can write The Presence/Yahweh's name on every atom of the Creation.Time and Space are extensions of the mind and will, which Lucifer embodies.
**Tiering**

* *The Presence/Yahweh is **Low 1-C**, possibly **1-C**. He is the creator of Creation and all higher realms such as Heaven and Hell. He created all the Archangels and can easily destroy them and he defined every variable, the physical rules with his own will. Everything happens because he makes it happen.*

* *The Archangels such as Michael and Lucifer are **Low 1-C**, possibly **1-C**. They scale to Heaven which transcends the 2-A Creation. Lucifer is far more powerful than Dream of the Endless. Space-time is an extension of the mind of Will which Lucifer embodies, and he destroyed Logos with a touch which is the first word which sung all of existence into being.* *It was stated that Elaine should push the "absence of space" of the Void in order create a new cosmos which should mean that she can affect the Void. Elaine with Demiurgic powers scales to Michael and Michael scales to Lucifer.*

### The Void

The Void is the endless, beginningless expanse of nothingness from which Creations rise and fall. Only the demiurgic powers bestowed by God could create new cosmos in the Void and in order to create her own cosmos, Elaine first have to push the "absence of space" of the Void in order to fill it.

"It is a matter of perception. There is no time here. And no space. So all things are layered on themselves endlessly and perception twists around its own axis until its blinded by fullness, crippled by infinite repetition,""One and one are not two, if one and one cannot meet." The Void is infinite and eternal and no matter how large Creations you fill it with, they will never take up any room.Creations rise and fall in the Void.The Void is outside of the Presence's plan.
It's important to note that are **three** Creations in the Void, those of the Presence, Lucifer and Elaine Belloc, which were later combined by Elaine when she replaced the Presence. There is only one Creation present and after it ends, a new "version" will rise therefore any other Creations seen in the Void are basically just versions of the same Creation as time has no real meaning in the Void, they all exist simultaneously, as seen when Lucifer flew into the Void with different versions of himself. This is why Lucifer said that in the Void it does not matter whether the Silk Man comes from a Creation before or after that of the Presence.

There are beings from past versions of reality who survived the destruction of their universe such as the Jin En Moks who come from a reality older than the current Creation. One of them was Cestis who is much older than the Presence.

**Tiering**

*The Void is **1-C** as it's beyond space-time and the hierarchy of dimensions and transcends it completely.*

## Williamson's Cosmology

Even since the project began, the reins have been passed from Scott Snyder to Joshua Williamson, who himself has drastically altered cosmology in a way that can't be reconciled with earlier works, which serves as a compelling example of the greater concept of dividing the cosmologies. Williamson's stories revolve around the "**Great Darkness**" originally introduced in Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, and the eternal struggle between it and the "Light" which is described in a way that overtly encompasses both the Overvoid and the Presence.

All of the crisis events which Snyder described as being manipulated and manufactured by Perpetua have now been shifted to the Great Darkness. The villains involved are explicitly described as puppets and avatars of the Great Darkness, including Darkseid, Empty Hand, and Mandrakk. All of these changes are sweeping, and have big implications on scaling.

It also retcons earlier changes made to the Great Darkness, such as Tynion who wrote that the Great Darkness was the "dark multiverse" version of the Sphere of the Gods, and the "Upside Down Man" was the full embodiment of that power. However, now the UDM is just an avatar of this being. Williamson's cosmology is not fully fleshed out yet, and is temporarily beyond the scope of this revision project, but even early indications are a demonstration of how irreconcilable this information is in terms of scaling. Is the "Upside Down Man" the full Great Darkness? Or just an avatar? Does Hecate scale to the Great Darkness because she scales to UDM? Do they scale to the Overvoid because the Great Darkness does?

From a "composite DC" perspective the former status of UDM as the full Great Darkness creates an exploitable loophole in the cosmology that makes anyone who fought UDM scalable to the Overvoid. The goal of this project is to delineate these iterations of the Great Darkness -- and other characters -- in a way which creates ratings that are faithful to the narrative events of a story, not an inflated amalgamation of every storyline that the character was ever used in.

The current cosmology just started a few months ago. As such, that part of the cosmology is not taken into consideration in this revision. Due to how little we know about the cosmology, how similar or different it might be, and the intent of the author, we will implement that cosmology properly once the current stories arcs wrap up. This could take up to at least two years, if not more. The current arc, Dark Crisis, seems like a beginning for this new era of DC. As such, we are waiting for it to develop further before making any changes to current cosmology, or to implement it into the wider verse.

The DC Book: A Vast and Vibrant Multiverse Simply Explained

* For this new cosmology, we know so far that:
* The DC Multiverse is now infinite and its own "small" Omniverse, with infinite Multiverses within.
* Earth-0 is no longer the center of the Multiverse. Earth Omega and Elseworld are now the centers.
	+ Earth Omega, as it was defined by the Flash, was born as an obscure reality in the new configuration of the Multiverse and it had also become one of its new centers, along with the so-called Elseworld. It is actually a fragment of the Great Darkness, dormant since the first crisis.
	+ Earth Omega appears to be located on the edge of the Multiverse as Barry Allen pointed out, it's the furthest world from the new realities.
	+ Flash, to reach Earth Omega, had to travel through the 52 universes to gather enough multiversal energy to access Earth Omega and when he did, he noticed there was no vibrational frequency.

* The Great Darkness predates the Overvoid, now called The Light, and predates Creation as well.
	+ This contradicts Grant's original description of the Overvoid being above duality.
	+ "...in the beginning nothing and everything were the same thing. A single black infinitude. Cold and dark for so very long that even the birth of the burning light was imperceptible. But the light grew and soon everything was no longer nothing. And the darkness... screamed." — Doctor Multiverse
	+ The DC Omniverse was born from the clash between the Light and the Dark.
		- On Earth Omega, Doctor Multiverse tells Justice League Incarnate the history of the Multiverse. In the beginning there was only darkness. Then the light appeared, and grew until it had consumed the dark. The darkness tried to destroy the light, and created a tiny crack in the infinite brightness from which the Multiverse was born. Since then, the light and dark warred as the light tried to maintain the Multiverse and the Great Darkness tried to destroy it, culminating in the Crisis on Infinite Earths, with the Monitor and Anti-Monitor serving as the champions of each side.
		- Thanks to the valiant efforts of the Multiverse's immune system, superheroes, the Darkness was vanquished, but the infinite Multiverse contracted to a single universe, weakening the light. The Great Darkness attacked and almost destroyed the new universe, but the Swamp Thing brokered a truce between the Great Darkness and the Presence. However, even as the Darkness retreated into slumber, it continued to influence others to undermine the new universe, unaware that they were serving a larger plan.
		- When the Multiverse of 52 Earths was created, the truce between the Great Darkness and the Light was broken and the Darkness began to rise again. The prior incarnation of Darkseid was aware of this and, since the Darkness was an enemy of all things both good and evil, triggered the Final Crisis to try to stop it, but was defeated himself. Mandrakk, under the influence of the Darkness, tried to destroy the Multiverse but was also foiled by the superheroes, who the Darkness realised were its true enemy.
		- The Darkness tried to weaken the heroes of Earth-0 by manipulating Doctor Manhattan into removing years of their history, meanwhile it created the Empty Hand as an extension of itself to attack the surrounding universes. Once again the heroes of the Multiverse foiled the Great Darkness' plans, so the Darkness again turned its attention to Earth-0 by unleashing the forces of the Dark Multiverse on it. Although Barbatos was also defeated, the Darkest Knight's actions fundamentally changed the Multiverse and created Earth Omega, a fragment of the Darkness where Darkseid drew Barry Allen to him and planned to crack open the Multiverse and take control of the Darkness.
* There's a Divine Continuum with the acronym "DC" which divides into two groups, "space" and "time". Space, otherwise known as the Omniverse, is split into the Multiverse, which itself splits into the Metaverse aka Prime Earth, the Dark Multiverse and the Sphere of the Gods. Meanwhile, Time, otherwise known as Hypertime, is split into Limbo and the Vanishing Point.

## Why Divide the Different Cosmologies?

Over the years, there has been a great deal of controversy regarding the statistics and power scaling of DC's cosmic entities. This is due to the various changes, continuity errors, and different interpretations of them that have been written by various authors over the years. This problem was compounded by statements from Jim Lee and Dan Didio that everything is canon. The problem we have been running into is that different writers often write independently of each other, adding new concepts to the older ones while ignoring or only somewhat acknowledging the works of the other writers. This is not always the case, as some writers pay considerable attention to the works of certain other authors, but even then there are some degrees of independence.

Regardless, the above circumstances cause the following problems:

* **Chain-scaling issues:** Several characters have derived their statistics from complicated chains of power scaling based on various distinct iterations of the cosmology that do not fit with each other, leading to ratings that do not fit with many of their storylines.

* **Incongruent Ratings:** For example, many of DC's cosmic entities are rated tier 1, even 1-A, even though these characters have never demonstrated a power level that high in any of their stories. Through scaling across different versions of the cosmology, they end up with a rating that is incongruent with their true power level as written.

* **Incompatibilities:** Different authors have written incompatible versions of the cosmology regarding different dimensions and higher realms, in terms of how they are defined and fundamentally function. For example, in Grant Morrison's cosmology, the Fifth Dimension is clearly portrayed as a 5-D realm while in Scott Snyder's cosmology, the Fifth Dimension is a governing plane of existence/imagination that doesn't correlate with the physics-based dimensions.

* **J.M. DeMatteis and Grant Morrison's cosmologies** aren't compatible because...
	+ In DeMatteis' stories the entirety of existence is part of a dream made by the Divine Presence while in Morrison's stories someone has drawn existence onto Monitor-Mind against its will.
	+ Despite the similarities between the Overvoid and the Void Beyond All Voids, DeMatteis had no idea what the Overvoid was when he was writing his Spectre stories.

* **Scott Snyder/James Tynion IV and Neil Gaiman/Mike Carey's cosmologies** are incompatible because...
	+ In Gaiman/Carey's stories, the Presence created the DC Universe and Michael Demiurgos' demiurgic power made the first matter and Lucifer Morningstar's will shaped it into all suns while in Snyder's stories, Perpetua made the DC Multiverse from the energies provided by the Source and Alpheus created every universe within it.
	+ In the Gaiman/Carey stories all gods were created from Dream of the Endless through the power of dreams and beliefs, while in the Snyder stories they were created from Hecate's Collective Unconscious.
	+ Although quite similar, God's demiurgic power used to create the Cosmos in Gaiman/Carey stories seems to be replaced by Anti-Crisis Energy and Crisis Energy in Scott Snyder stories as the creative forces of the Cosmos and relates to memory and history.
	+ In Scott Snyder stories, there are infinite Multiverses in the Void beyond the main one, while in Gaiman/Carey's stories there were three Creations, those of the Presence, Lucifer and Elaine Belloc, which were later combined into one when Elaine replaced the Presence.

* **Grant Morrison and Joshua Williamson cosmologies** are incompatible because...
	+ In Morrison's stories the Overvoid is the non-dual abstract consciousness that underlies everything and nothing is outside of it except "us" while in Joshua's stories the Great Darkness predates and encompasses the Overvoid, now called the Light, and both are opposite forces.
	+ In Morrison's stories, Empty Hand and the Gentry are Earth-33 pulp fictions, thus being fifth-dimensional, and are the destroyers of Multiverse-2 while in Joshua's stories, Empty Hand is an avatar of the Great Darkness and the Gentry come from the remnants of the Pre-Crisis Multiverse and are not the destroyers of Multiverse-2.
	+ In Morrison's stories the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor were created by Monitor-Mind while in Joshua's stories Mar Novu was created by the Light and the Anti-Monitor was created by the Great Darkness.
* **Scott Snyder/James Tynion IV and Joshua Williamson cosmologies** aren't compatible because...
	+ In Snyder's stories, Perpetua created the Multiverse using the energies provided by the Source and Alpheus created all universes within it while in Joshua's stories, the Multiverse was created as a result of the clash between the Light and the Great Darkness.
	+ In Snyder's stories, Perpetua was the cause of all Crisis events, while in Joshua's stories, they were caused by the Great Darkness.
	+ In Snyder's stories Mar Novu and Mobius were created by Perpetua while in Joshua's stories Mar Novu was created by the Light and the Anti-Monitor was created by the Great Darkness.
	+ In Snyder's stories, Dr. Manhattan attempted to undo the damage made in the Multiverse due to the Crisis events, but did not have the desired effects, while in Joshua's stories, Dr. Manhattan was acting under the influence of the Great Darkness.
	+ In Snyder's stories, the Great Darkness is/resides in the Dark Sphere of the Gods that surrounds the Dark Multiverse and is a sliver of the Upside Down Man's power while in Joshua's stories, it is the dark Void that predates God and all Creation, with the Upside Down Man being one of its Avatars.

Moreover, some characters and concepts with crucial roles in the DC Universe's cosmology such as Pralaya (DeMatteis), Mother Night, Father Time (Gaiman/Carey), Plane Time and Cube Time (Morrison) are seemingly non-existent outside of their own continuity, and certain characters and the origin story of creation are handled differently from one continuity to another.

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