Death

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

* Death
* Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come

### Known Aliases

The Grim Reaper, The Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come, The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Former) (Titles)
Teleute, Sister, Ala, Anput, Belet-Seri, Chicomecōātl, Dea Tacita, Eingana, Erecura, Ereshkigal, Gefjon, Hine-nui-te-pō, Ixtab, Izanami, Jabme-Akka, Kalma, Laima, Libitina, Maman Brigitte, Marzanna, Meng Po, Merau, Morta, Nirṛtī, Persipnei, Pinga, Rohe, Santa Muerte, Setesuyara, Spandaramet, Tayt, Tia, Yamuna (Aliases)

### Status

True Identity Believed to be Fictional by Most Adults

### Relatives

Pralaya (Mother)
Alpheus (Father)
Morpheus, Destiny, and Destruction (Brothers)
Despair and Delirium (Sisters)
Desire (Sibling)
Mixcoatl, Namtar, and Ninazu (Sons)
Ghede Nibo (Adopted Son)
Astghik, Manungal, Kebechet, and Rosacarnis (Daughters)
Rose Walker (Niece)
Orpheus, Drury Walker and Xingtian (Nephews)
Sook Lee (Possible Daughter or Niece)
Adam Constantine, Saul Constantine and Wally Johnson (Grandsons)
Maria Constantine and Namaah (Granddaughters)

### Affiliation

Endless (Member)
Christmas Spirits (Member)

## Biographical Information

### Date of Birth

~5 Billion BCE (When Sentient Life Began)

### Marital Status

Separated (Multiple Marriages: Samael, Nergal, Anubis, Baron Samedi, & more, Multiple Consorts)

## Physical Description

### Teleute: The Beginning - 1347

Death of the Endless came into existence shortly after the first lifeforms appeared in the universe. According to the Book of Souls, she is destined to function as the embodiment of both life and death until the very last living thing is dead. As she likes to put it: *"When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave."*

As per her role, as outlined in the Axiom, Death will meet every form of sentient life at least twice: Once right before they draw their first breath and again after they draw their last. Being so tied to life and its end, Death became associated with nearly every pantheon of divine beings, often times becoming a subject of such culture's worship.

Death became quite affectionate with the mortals of Earth. This love for mortals was also cemented through the Axiom, which required Death to live the last day of a random mortal's life every year.

### Death: 1347 - 1916

While visiting the mortal plane for a Conclave of the Endless in Europe at her newly resurrected sister Despair's request for her family to view the Black Death that was raging across the continent, Death and her brothers Dream and Destruction were caught off-guard by the drunken rants of a man named Robert "Hob" Gadling. In his inebriated state, Gadling declared that the only reason people were dying was because they were just doing what everyone else did. Hob declared he wanted no part in it. Dream thought this would be an interesting experiment and Death was convinced to give Gadling eternal life on the condition that once a year he would meet her, Dream, or Destruction for a drink to tell them when he was ready for death.

Death met with Hob throughout the centuries, usually accompanied by one of her brothers, but occasionally joined by a curious sister. Death was always interested to hear Hob's accounting of all tragedy that followed him, but he always ended the conversation saying he still had so much to live for, and so he was left to live.

### Death: 1916 - 1987

When the day came for Death to claim Edwin Paine and guide him on to the afterlife, she was surprised to find his corpse in possession of a red book. Death told the boy she could not give him back his life, but said she would not take him to the Underworld.

### Death: 1987 - Present Day

One day, a powerful ritual nearly made Death the prisoner of the Order of Ancient Mysteries, but a cataclysmic event that caused so much death gave her the power to resist the pull of the ritual, which caused the ritual to capture her younger brother Dream instead.

Death searched more than the other Endless for her brother and when he did escape she was the first one to discover his return when they crossed paths after he took the life of Unity Kinkaid.

Recently, Death left Charles Rowland's spirit on Earth, tasking Edwin and him to become her chosen champions: The Dead Boy Detectives.

### Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come

The Third Visitor, often portrayed as the most mysterious and foreboding figure in the Christmas Carol ritual, has a history as rich and varied as the ritual itself. Through all of its changes, this role has been pivotal in impairing the ritual's most profound and transformative lessons at the conclusion of the rite.

### Hades: The Solemn Inception

The original Third Visitor was Hades the Greek God of the Dead. In the Saturnalia festival's early rituals, Hades's portrayal was somber and intimidating, representing the inevitable end all mortals must face. This initial interpretation emphasized the ritual's purpose: to confront the subject with the grim reality of the consequences of their actions and the reaping of what their actions sowed.

### Persephone: A Glimpse of Redemption

As the ritual evolved, Persephone, the queen of the Underworld and Hades' consort, took over the role. Her involvement brought a nuanced perspective to the character. Known for her time in both the underworld and the world of the living, Persephone's duality introduced a more empathetic approach to the foreboding revelations. She represented not just death but also the possibility of rebirth and renewal, adding a layer of hope to the otherwise grim forecasts.

### Loki and Hel: The Norse Influence

The mantle was then passed about among other entities, changing on a nearly yearly basis before the ritual was absorbed by the Norse pantheon, with Loki and subsequently his daughter Hel, the ruler of the Norse underworld, assuming the role. Loki, a trickster god, brought an element of trickery to the role, emphasizing the chaotic nature of fate. His portrayal was less about the certainty of death and more about the unforeseen consequences of one's actions. Hel's later tenure as the Third Visitor restored the focus on death.

### Death of the Endless: The Contemporary Custodian

In the modern iteration of the ritual, Death of the Endless embodies the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come. This character, known for her compassionate demeanor marks a significant shift from the role's original incarnation, a return to the more redemptive focus introduced to the role by Persephone. Death emphasized the natural cycle of life and death, encouraging the subject to accept their mortality, prompting them to change now and reap the rewards their changed might offer.

### The Trappings of the Role: Reaping the Grim Realism

The consistent trapping of the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come, regardless of its custodian, include foreboding presence and a focus on the stark reality of death and the consequences of one's life choices. These elements are crucial in jolting the subject out of complacency, forcing them to confront the potential outcomes of their current path. This confrontation is essential for the ritual's transformative power, as it compels the subject to consider the legacy they wish to leave and the kind of person they truly want to be.

The foreboding presence often comes with dark clothing, often a hooded robe. For Death and Persephone, the focus on death and consequences is symbolized by carrying tools that work the land — such as a shovel, a sickle, or scythe. These tools are often seen as grim weapons, but unlike other weapons they can also be used to care for a garden — thus pairing the concepts of life and death.

The evolution of the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come mirrors humanity's evolving relationship with the concepts of fate, death, and the afterlife. Each figure who has assumed the role brought their unique perspectives to the character, reflecting the cultural and spiritual understandings of their era. Yet, the core purpose of the role remains unchanged: to provide a profound, often unsettling, reality check that prompts introspection and change. This aspect of the ritual is vital to its continued effectiveness in inspiring transformation and redemption.

### Supplemental Reports

* (*Submitted by Four-Eyes*) Death's restriction through the Axiom requires her to live the last day of one random mortal's life every year. In the course of this day, Death has no memory of her true nature until the very end of the day, at which time she realizes that the Axiom requires this mortal soul to die soon. When this life ends, Death then collects the mortal's soul.
* (*Submitted by Four-Eyes*) Death is a bit of a collector. She loves humans and the many cultures of Earth. Death enjoys taking souvenirs whenever something catches her eye. What exactly she collects tends to go through phases. She used to collect farming tools and cloaks, but now she tends to wear goth-rocker fashion and collects parasols, umbrellas, and hats.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Endless Physiology:** The Endless are powerful, cosmic-level intrinsic beings born from the union of two progenitors — Alpheus and Pralaya. Serving as the Parliament of the Mind, these potent beings govern critical concepts of fate, choice, life, death, thought, creation, ruin, passion, hatred, doubt, hope, madness, and insight.
	+ ***Cosmic Awareness:*** The Endless know of the Tapestry and can see its influence.
	+ ***Gift of Tongues:*** The Endless are able to read, speak, and understand all languages.
	+ ***Immortality:*** The Endless are immune to the rigors of aging and most diseases.
	+ ***Metamorphosis:*** The Endless can change their physical form at will, changing their form to appear as another person, a child, an animal, or even an abstract concept. They can also choose to appear to reinforce their natural appearance or cause different mortals to see them as different interpretations of the Endless' nature. For instance, Death of the Endless often appears as a kind woman that subject knows from their personal life that they associate with comfort or love.
	+ ***Mythical Physicality:*** The Endless are far faster, stronger, and more enduring than their form might suggest. Their exact levels of such fluctuate based on the intrinsic integrity of their environment and their body's current overall health.
	+ ***Nigh-Invulnerability:*** The Endless are highly resistant to most forms of damage. Even when they are hurt, they are able to usually recover quite quickly.
	+ ***Odic Omnipotence:*** The Endless have few limits to their power within the Dreaming. Where the Odic Field is strong, the Endless are powerful.
	+ ***Odic Omnipresence:*** The Endless have the ability to exist in multiple places at the same time. Their true 'self' or central sentience will always be located in a singular manifestation, but they can project a portion of their consciousness into another manifestation in a different location. This can cause the Endless to become rather disoriented as more projections are created, especially if the projections are near each other and thus exposed to the same events from different perspectives.
	+ ***Odic Omniscience:*** The Endless have a vast awareness over any and all matters pertaining to their purview. It may seem contrary, but the Endless might not even be aware of just how much they are aware — such is the way of enigmatic beings like the Endless. As Death of the Endless oversees life and death, her omniscience allows her to instinctively know the names of all sentient mortals who have ever lived or died. If she focuses her awareness on a particular subject, she will discover just how much she actually knows about them — which is a lot.
	+ ***Supernatural Senses:*** The Endless are able to see, hear, and interact with intrinsic and ephemeral beings, regardless of their state of manifestation.
	+ ***Teleportation:*** The Endless can freely dissolve their corporeal form into the Odic Field and reform their bodies anywhere else the Odic Fields has enough energy to allow them to reconstitute, this allows them to teleport instantly from one place to another in the blink of an eye.
* **Sorcery:** Though a being of intrinsic power, Death of the Endless has the ability to interact with essence using arcane knowledge. Through the study of sorcery, Death has become a grandmaster necromancer, biomancer, and essomancer.
* **Personified of Death and Life**
	+ ***Grandmaster Psionic Ability***

### Weaknesses

* **Axiom** The Endless must adhere to the Axiom or face dire consequences. As they are children of two progenitors, each of the Endless has a particular additional rule within the Axiom they must abide by.
* **Necromancy:** Death can be compelled to act against her wishes with necromancy.
* **Hoarding:** Death likes to collect parasols, umbrellas and farming tools.
* **Soft Heart:** Death has a soft spot for humans. Sometimes this can be exploited.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 7 — Legendary
* **Occult:** 8 — Paragon
* **Weaponry:** 8 — Paragon
* **Expertise:** 8 — Paragon
* **Range:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Strategy:** 7 — Legendary
	+ **TOTAL:** 425
	+ **RANKING:** Cataclysmic Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

#### General

* She loves the *Mary Poppins* movie.
* She appears to people as that which brings them most comfort.
* When she met fourteen-year-old Albert Davis after his suicide she allowed him to return to life to gain respect. She appeared to him in various moments in his life, offering him various choices and opportunities, and Albert chose only when she appeared as a teen goth (the same look during their meeting). After Albert's death during the Hell on Earth she appeared to him again and tried to take him to the afterlife, but Albert used magic and returned to Earth.
* She's friends with the Hex Girls.
* Asa made a deal with her. The deal resulted in Asa now having a pocket dimension called Trauma Ward located near Death's door in the Dreaming.
* She briefly stopped taking souls of the dead after she was sent to the Bleed in 2016.
* Jophiel worked with her for billions of years delivering souls before birth and taking custody of souls at the moment of death.

#### Endless

* Death (or "Teleute" in arcane texts) appears as a spunky, attractive, level-headed young Goth woman. She wears an ankh necklace and usually has an Eye of Horus painted under one of her eyes. She prefers to dress and act casually, much to the surprise of many who encounter what they assume would be an ominous personage. Death is the embodiment of both life and death.
* Death's realm is *"The Light at the End*." Despite what some people would think, her realm is not actually the place where the dead end up when they die, rather it is more of a pit-stop. Another interesting thing about Death's home is she appears capable of changing it at will, but will always include her gallery, a scrying pool, a bin full of umbrellas, and her personal quarters... and maybe a rather cluttered closet or two.
* Death's sigil is the symbol of life, an ankh, which she often wears as a necklace. While the ankh is said to have immense power, it seems able to be easily replaced as the texts describe an instance where the Order of Ancient Mysteries conspired to steal her necklace to uncover its powers but found it worthless and when Death was next encountered, she had simply replaced it with an ankh bought from a novelty shop.
* Like her brother Destiny, Death has no specific followers, for everyone is hers sooner or later, everyone sees her at their beginning and their end. That said, Death does on occasion choose the rare individual to earn a second chance, be gifted with immortality, or leave on Earth as a revenant spirit. An example of those who have been given special treatment by Death are the Dead Boy Detectives Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland.
* Each of the Endless also has a personal fifth restriction defined in the Axiom. Death shall live one day as a mortal every year. She does not know when this is to occur or which mortal life she will experience. Death simply wakes up in body of a mortal, unaware of her prior existence as Death until the day has passed and then is either doomed to meet an untimely end or compelled to end herself to preserve the Axiom, at which time she steps out of the mortal's body along with their soul and takes them to wherever it is their soul is expected.

#### Warders

* She can create beings called Warders. A Warder is a revenant supernatural being endowed with power and new life by Death of the Endless. Usually, they were once mortals whose life was so consumed by death, or their death was so tragic, that their spirit would likely not pass on to the afterlife peacefully. Sensing this, Death chooses to make these departed souls into her chosen sentinels. Death gives the Warder their power, but while most have some common abilities, other abilities seem to derive from the individuals' personality, life experience, age, mortal occupation, and the esoteric properties of their soul. As such, no two Warders have identical abilities. The Warders' purpose is to help Death balance the cosmic order of things. They are often left to pursue their own second chance at life, enjoying immortality until they get their fill, but are also expected to aid Death at her request or intervene when they see cruelty that disturbs the natural balance - but they are left to their own interpreters of this code. Jeanette Halmi is one of her Warders.
* She brought back Ghost Wolf as a Warder and turned him into a five-year-old with an intellect to match that development, though he did not instantly gain any emotional maturity to go with it. Those would have to be hard-earned, as she said, as "that's what life is all about." Ghost is spending time away from Danny the Street doing work for her.
* She chose Jacob Marley to serve as her Ankou, Death's debt collector and coachman. As the new Ankou, Marley often represents his employer in contractual negotiations. As part of the duties with this position, Marley has special authority given to him by Death of the Endless, allowing him to perform certain spells of an essomantic or necromantic nature in Death's name. Jacob Marley's employment allows him the use of Death's coach, The Dead Wagon. In ancient legends, the Ankou drove a black wagon pulled by four black horses. As time has progressed, the Ankou's wagon has evolved to reflect the times. Marley's coach now takes the form of black hearse that allows him to travel between dimensions without expending his own power.

### Notes

* Death buying an ankh in a novelty shop is a nod to *Death: The High Cost of Living*.
* Her aliases are various figures from mythology:
	+ Ala is a goddess of the Ibo, African people of eastern Nigeria.
	+ Anput is the female counterpart of the god Anubis.
	+ Belet-Seri is a Babylonian and Akkadian underworld goddess.
	+ Chicomecōātl is the Aztec goddess of agriculture.
	+ Dea Tacita is a Roman goddess of the dead.
	+ Eingana is a creator goddess in Australian Aboriginal mythology.
	+ Erecura is a chthonic goddess worshiped in ancient times, often thought to be Celtic in origin.
	+ Ereshkigal is the goddess of Kur, the land of the dead or underworld in Sumerian mythology.
	+ Gefjon is a goddess associated with ploughing, foreknowledge, and virginity in Norse mythology.
	+ Hine-nui-te-pō is a Maori goddess of night who she receives the spirits of humans when they die.
	+ Ixtab is the indigenous Maya goddess of suicide by hanging.
	+ Izanami is a goddess of both creation and death in Japanese mythology.
	+ Jabme-Akka is a female spirit of the underworld in Sami shamanism, and Finnish and Estonian mythology.
	+ Kalma is the Finnish goddess of death and decay.
	+ Laima is a Baltic goddess of fate.
	+ Libitina is an ancient Roman goddess of funerals and burial.
	+ Maman Brigitte is a death loa and the consort of Baron Samedi in Haitian Vodou.
	+ Marzanna is a pagan Slavic goddess associated with seasonal rites based on the idea of death and rebirth of nature.
	+ Meng Po is the goddess of forgetfulness in Chinese mythology.
	+ Merau is a Polynesian goddess of death and the underworld.
	+ Morta is the Roman goddess of death.
	+ Nirṛti is a Hindu goddess of deathly hidden realms and sorrows.
	+ Persipnei is the Etruscan queen of the underworld.
	+ Pinga is the Inuit goddess of the hunt, fertility and medicine. She was also a psychopomp.
	+ Rohe is a wife of a demigod Māui in Moriori tradition. She introduced black magic and death to the world after she was killed.
	+ Santa Muerte is a personification of death in Mexican neo-paganism and folk Catholicism.
	+ Setesuyara is the Balinese goddess of the underworld.
	+ Spandaramet is the Armenian goddess of death, underworld and hell.
	+ Tayt is the ancient Egyptian goddess of weaving, textiles, and to a lesser extent mummification.
	+ Tia is the Haida goddess of peaceful death.
	+ Yamuna is a sacred river in Hinduism.
* Her children are nods to various figures from mythology:
	+ Kebechet is an Egyptian goddess, a deification of embalming liquid.
	+ Mixcoatl is a god of the hunt identified with the Milky Way, the stars, and the heavens in several Mesoamerican cultures.
	+ Manungal is the Mesopotamian goddess of prisons, sometimes also associated with the underworld.
	+ Astghik is an Armenian deity of fertility and love and later personification of skylight.
	+ Ninazu is a Mesopotamian god of the underworld of Sumerian origin, also associated with vegetation and snakes.
	+ Namtar is a figure in ancient Mesopotamian religion who, depending on the context, could be regarded both as a minor god and as a demon of disease.
	+ Guede Nibo is a leader of the spirits of the dead in Haitian Vodou.

## Gallery

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## Network Files

Network Files: Death of the EndlessNetwork Files: Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come
## Appears In

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## Links and References

* Appearances of Death

1. ↑ Network Files: Death of the Endless
2. ↑ Network Files: Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come
3. ↑ VOX Box: D is for Day Gone By
4. ↑ VOX Box: Hell on Earth 7
5. ↑ Network Files: Hex Girls
6. ↑ Network Files: Nightmare Nurse
7. ↑ VOX Box: Weird World 21
8. ↑ VOX Box: Jophiel
9. ↑ Dinkley Files: The Endless
10. ↑ Network Files: Jeanette Halmi 2
11. ↑ Wolf Cub Pack: Biographical Timeline
12. ↑ Network Files: Ghost Wolf
13. ↑ Network Files: Jacob Marley