Overgods

The **Overgods** are Immortals that reign supreme over all.

## Status

The Overgods are the highest-ranking and most powerful Immortals. They are only constrained by the Singularities, especially the Will of the Balance. They are bound by the Current Order, which they created.

## History

### The most revolutionary Dream

30 Years before the day known as "Day Zero", the mortal Aurelius was born in the constellation Perseus as the youngest of three brothers, with the other two being Philipe and Bernardius. Aurelius was born in the Ancient Era and experienced--like the other inhabitants of the Mortal Plains--the tyranny of the Primordials and the torment of the Infinite Dark. At the time of Aurelius' birth, the Cosmological Scales had been severely tilted, a fact that long angered the Will of the Balance. During his later childhood, Aurelius was effectively raised by his second oldest brother, Philipe and his love Claudia. Aurelius, discontent with the current state of the Great Cosmos and one of the few folk persistently unwilling to accept it, escaped the care of Philipe and Claudia, to embark on a decades long journey, with the objective to find a solution for mortalkind's misery and despair. His journey was continuously marked by hardship and the further from home he wandered, the stronger the strain of reality and the influence of the Infinite Dark would become. Aurelius was plagued by crippling fear and at the near-end of his journey he seemingly began experiencing hallucinations. Unable to find an answer to issues of mortalkind, Aurelius returned home, with a simultaneous feeling of defeat and relief. He began earning a living by working as a street artist.

Though his anxiety progressively declined, his hallucinations aggravated to an unbearable point. Practically paralyzed, Aurelius spent his days in bed, yearning for salvation. After months of struggle, Aurelius began noticing a pattern in his hallucinations and over years he came to a revelation: his hallucinations were not psychotic but the voice of the Will of the Balance speaking to the mortal. Stunned by this fact, Aurelius was initially unsure what to do with this newfound power. Over time, Aurelius developed the means to communicate with the Will of the Balance and started conceiving a master plan, which would later come to be known as "the Greatest Enterprise of all time", "the most revolutionary Dream" or simply "the Cosmic Plan". Aurelius' plan was realised when he struck a deal with the Will of the Balance: he and his brothers would attain divine supremacy and be created Overgods. However, as a price, the brothers would revert to their mortal self every second day--known as "during mortality"--and they were never to interfere with their mortal lives during their days as Overgods--known as "during divinity".

### Heralds of the Old Kingdom

   The day the three brothers ascended to overgodhood, would become known as the "Day Zero" throughout cosmology. The Overgods then swiftly defeated the oppressive Primordials in the War of the Eons. As Overgods, the brothers assumed new identities: Aurelius would come to be known as "the Cosmic Shaper", Philipe as "the Deified Elder" and Bernardius as "the Immemorial One". Under the leadership of the Immemorial One, the Overgods established the Current Order, which dictates the powers and responsibilities of all the deities up to this day. As their final joint act, the Overgod brothers substantially constrained the power and influence of the Infinite Dark and banished it to the edges of cosmology.

Enraged, the Infinite Dark focused all of its power to severely endarken the Overgods and plant an incurable disease on the mortal Claudia (which had become the consort of the Deified Elder). As Claudia had served as a mother figure for her own younger brother and later for Aurelius, she was the perfect target of the Infinite Dark to exert revenge. During her final years, she became known as "the Sovereign Grace". As Overgod, Philipe harnessed all of his power to purge the disease, without fruition however. Having broken the sacred rule of non-interference imposed by the Will of the Balance, the Deified Elder lost his overgodhood. However, Aurelius used his own powers as Overgod, to--at least--let Philipe accompany his love to the Gates of Paradise.

The three brothers, as the first generation of Overgods, became known as the "Heralds of the Old Kingdom" and their rule simply as "the Old Kingdom".

### Conquest of the Seven Hells

Two decades before her passing, the Sovereign Grace had a son with the Overgod Philipe. The son's name and very existence were left hidden from the general public. As the only child of three Overgods, he was endarkened since birth. However, evidently he did not possess the same experience with the Infinite Dark as his mother or the Overgod brothers and was thus born into a life of intense struggle and hardship. The passing of his mother devastated the son, who had by then become an adult. Fighting against the Infinite Dark since more than two decades, this traumatic event seemingly induced the son to yield; to inhibit the pain, he offered himself as Minister of the Infinite Dark. The Infinite Dark, seeing this as a prime chance to diminish the spirits of the Overgods, was swift to dismiss its current Minister and accept the offer.

However, after having received the Ministry, the son committed suicide on the same day and naturally, as Minister of the Infinite Dark, ended up in Nether's End, the lowest of the Seven Hells. The son thereafter began wandering to the centre of Nether's End and touched the Hell's raging flames, severely burning his hands in the process. However, refusing to retract his hands, the son harnessed all of his dark powers as Minister and--over a period of almost three million years--turned every atom of the raging flames black. As the Raging Flames serve as the hearts of their Hell, transforming the flame caused him to become the new ruler of Nether's End.

As his first act, the new ruler killed the old, oppressive Lord Infernal of the Hell, the Primordial Melodius, and crowned himself "the Dark Prince". With the powers of Darkness and the most vicious of the Hells on his side, the Dark Prince set out to conquer the remaining six Hells. Having succeeded after several rather swift skirmishes, the Prince loudly proclaimed his betrayal of the Infinite Dark. Surprised but unmoved, the Infinite Dark simply rescinded the Ministry. However, this act was without success, as the Prince had--at this point--amassed inconceivable amounts of power, the Infinite Dark was no longer able to control the Prince or withdraw the Ministry. With his true motives revealed, the Dark Prince made sure, as practically eternal Minister, that the Infinite Dark permanently lost its voice throughout all of cosmology. Taking pride in the Prince's actions and true objective, Aurelius bestowed on his nephew overgodhood.

## Abitilies

* **Overgod physiology**
	+ **Artificial omnipotence**: the power of the Overgods is nearly limitless. It is only constrained by other Overgods and the singularities.
	+ **Immortality**: Like the deities, Overgods are immortal. However, they do age extremely slowly during their mortality.
	+ **Immeasurable strength**: The physical strength of the Overgods knows no boundaries.
	+ **Nigh-invulnerability** : Overgods are almost entirely invulnerable. Only another Overgod or a singularity can hurt or even kill an Overgod; deities cannot.

### Weaknesses

During their mortality, Overgods are no different than any other mortal, they can be hurt and even killed by other beings, objects or disease. However, the only significant difference between them and other mortals is that Overgods age unbelievably slowly.