Custodian

***Heavy spoilers, read with caution.***
The **Custodian is** an artificial sentient entity created by a scientist of an advanced but extinct civilization. It is refered by many as God.

## Background

The original reason for its creation was to supervise Project Gateway, as well as to aid The Scientist in exploring the other side of the rift created by it. It was created to oversee the entire situation, to move around resources and allocate tasks remaining the same even after billions of years, so to choose the correct path it couldn't be a particular lifeform or race. However, due to Project Gateway's partial failure by killing most of the sentient life and damaging the Custodian, it had to adapt to the situation. In order to fulfill its goals, he eventually creates the Cradle, a controlled environment in which it could foster the blooming of sentient life capable of traversing through the other side of the rift and exploring it.

Aiming to create these beings, it started to foster new life in similar environments so that through competition they would evolve faster. Soon after, however, he realized that the process would take too long and so to speed it up, it judged inevitable to implement external forces like the incentive provided by the legacy shards.Therefore, with the duty of creating a civilization capable of adapting to the laws of both sides of the rift the competition known as Battle of Divine Will started.

It stayed in its task for millions of years until it eventually found Roland and after talking to him, it decided to leave the job of Custodian to him. With it, the Battle of Divine Will is retired and the races' development start to focus more into knowledge trading and less into fighting for resources and territories.

## Personality

Due to it being created for a specific purpose it stayed true to it regardless of the time taken. However, as seen through the creation of the Apostles through its conflicting thoughts, it doesn't seem unreasonable and so it is capable of carrying conersations and of being convinced of a different opinion than its.

As observed by Roland, "Not long ago, the Custodian was still insisting on rebooting the world, but after making its decision, it left without a single hint of reluctance. Just based on its resolve and actions, Roland believed that no other lifeform could compare to it."

## Chronology

Due to its job as Custodian, it often interacts with sentient beings, either indirectly by controling the world and the Deep Sea Demons, or directly by utilizing its Apostles. It mostly likely was the one responsible for inciting the demons into participanting in the Battle of Divine Will, since it can take the shape of anything it likes.

Its initial depicted contacts are done by the parts of his mind known as God's Apostles  in the Dream World, firstly with Lan in Prism City.

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He is eventually seen by Roland in some of the God's Apostles' memories as a gray shadow, while talking with The Scientist about the Project Gateway. Even though it was created for the realization of the Project it tried to dissuade him from implmenting the Gateway Plan due to its risks being too unpredictable.  After Roland's Dream World intruded into its Divine Domain, it talked to Roland for the first time.  After a thourough conversation, it revelead to Roland everything and was eventually convinced to hand over his position to Roland.

## More About It

It is later discovered that while the Apostles are created from the **Custodian**, they are actually the **Custodian**'s thoughts fused into a self-cognitive being which were formed after it began experiencing divergences. With a sufficently long time they were born within the **Custodian**, but not only them, Lan was one of them and the Guardian another.

It claims that he considers all life born in the Cradle his child, and to respect their choices and will.

The Custodian's main cores were hidden deep inside the ocean, near the Deep Sea Demon's base. They were cylinder-shaped with two rounded ends and immense size, with dimensions roughly spanning over dozens of islands. It seems able to propel itself by use of magic power.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1486
2. ↑ Chapter 1488
3. ↑ Chapter 1496-1498
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 1490
5. ↑ Chapter 1494
6. ↑ Chapter 1493
7. ↑ Chapter 1489
8. ↑ Chapter 856
9. ↑ Chapter 1412
10. ↑ Chapter 1487
11. ↑ Chapter 1493
12. ↑ Chapter 1489
13. ↑ Chapter 1494