Omniscience

*"No one's watching Delilah now, except you. And me, of course. I see everything. I see forever."*
- The Outsider, Dishonored

*"Susan: You know who I am?*
*Death: I HAVE A UNIQUE MEMORY.*
*Susan: But I haven't even been CONCEIVED yet.*
*Death: I DID SAY UNIQUE."*
- Discworld: Soul Music

The power to know absolutely anything and everything infinitely. Sub-power of Omnipotence. Not to be confused with Infinite Experience. Omniscience is the state of having all knowledge, or in other words, knowing everything. A character that is omniscient knows everything that their opponent is going to do before they do it, and exactly what to do to win any fight. An omniscient character is still capable of being overpowered and losing, however. Also knowledge of other fictions is not a requirement for omniscience, so a character that knows everything about their own fictional franchise is considered to be omniscient. However, these beings are classed as localized omniscient's, compared to true omniscient's who have knowledge of other franchises, dimensions, and worlds outside their own.

## Capabilities

Omniscience ("all-knowing") is the capacity to know absolutely everything infinitely.

There is a distinction within this power:

* *inherent omniscience* - the ability to know anything that one chooses to know.
* *total omniscience* - actually knowing everything.
* *nigh-total omniscience* - this is the knowledge of all of creation, but no all of how Creation works, above localized omniscience, but below total omniscience.
* *localized omniscience*- this is having total knowledge in the outerverse that you are in, but have no knowledge of the outerverses outside.
* *nigh-omniscience*- this is having a knowledge of everything, but a few things, so while someone might have complete knowledge of something they might not know about other things.

The user’s mind is unblocked to the entire omniverse and beyond, there is absolutely nothing which they do not know and understand, therefore they know every answer to every question, past, present, and future. Depending on the type, this power may allow the user to have all information at all times as some knowledge may be spontaneous while some may require the action of others.

By knowing absolutely everything about something, one can understand every counter available for that certain something, thus being unable to be defeated by said subject. Omniscienceis an attribute characterized by knowing all information that can possibly be known. Following the logic that knowledge is power, omniscience is indeed a tremendous power; however, omniscience itself does not grant the means by which to influence or cause events. An omniscient being has knows when and where someone will die but does not necessarily have the ability to prevent it. They will know how to escape danger, but may not have legs with which to run. Most omniscient characters in fiction are also extremely powerful, if not all-powerful.

Furthermore, omniscience does not include within its definition of knowledge that is impossible and cannot exist. It is not possible to kill a truly omnipotent being, therefore an omniscient being will not know how to do so. However, begins who are not limited to their fictional outerverses, but are have a complete understanding over all of Creation, making them inherently or total omniscient.

### Nigh-Omniscient

There is also "Nigh Omniscience", for which a character or entity knows almost everything about their fictional continuity, with the exception of a small amount of information (usually what an even more powerful character wishes to conceal from them). Near-omniscience or nigh-omniscience is a term used to describe knowing almost everything. Beings who possess most of the knowledge in their respective universe/reality are beings who approach, but do not achieve, true omniscience. Thus, they are nigh-omniscient.

## Applications

* Absolute Intelligence
	+ Accelerated Probability
	+ Panmnesia
	+ Path to Victory
	+ Intelligence Infinitum
	+ Mental Evolution
	+ Meta-Learning
* Absolute Senses
	+ Extrasensory Perception
		- Clairvoyance
		- Dowsing
		- Locality Tracking
		- Parachronal Cognition
		- Prescience
		- Psychometry
		- Retrocognition
		- Supreme Observation
* Absolute Wisdom
	+ Enlightenment
	+ Calm State
* Encyclopedic Knowledge
	+ Cosmic Awareness
	+ Cosmic Knowledge
	+ Instilled Knowledge
	+ Omni-Intuition
* Flawless Precognition
* Knowledge Anchoring
* Knowledge Ascendancy
* Meta Memory
* Omnicompetence
	+ Hypercognition
	+ Hypercompetence
	+ Infinite Resourcefulness
* Omnifabrication
	+ Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Artisan
	+ Enhanced/Meta Crafting
	+ Enhanced/Supernatural Inventing
	+ Master Builder
	+ Rapid Fabrication
* Omnilingualism
	+ Omni-Communication
* Omni-Perception
	+ Intuitive Perception
	+ Omnichronal Perception
	+ Shapeshifting Awareness
* Telepathy/Cosmic Telepathy/Omni-Telepathy

## Associations

* 4th Wall Awareness
* Absolute Creativity
* Almighty Science
* Knowledge Ascendancy
* Necroscience
* Nigh Omniscience - A lesser version of this power.
* Omnipotence
* Omniscience Bestowal
* Science Manipulation

## Users

### Inherent Omniscience

* God (The True Creator)
* Goddess (The True Creator)

### Total Omniscience

* Lucifer Morningstar (The Next God)- Currently
* Weldrok (The New King of Hell)- Currently
* Michael Demiurgos (The First Angel)

### Nigh-Total Omniscience

* Maltresia (Lord of Limbo)
* Madrasa (Creator of Consciousness)
* Clown (Master of Madness)
* Leech (Duke of Diseases)
* Felhir (Sultan of Sin)

### Localized Omniscience

* Avatars of God
* The One Above All
* The Presence
* Man of Miracles
* The Creator
* The One
* The All-Mighty
* The Over-mind
* Azathoth
* Gan
* Anu
* SCP-343
* Amaranth

### Nigh-Omniscience

* The Writers
* Gabriel Hornblower

## Characters in the TV show Supernatural who possess Omniscience

**Omniscience** is the ability to have unlimited knowledge, understanding and awareness of absolutely everything.

## Characters with this ability

### Omniscience

No character in the Supernatural Universe is truly and absolutely omniscient.

### Nigh-Absolute Omniscience

Entities who are the closest to being truly and absolutely omniscient, they are nearly fully omniscient and all-knowing, all-seeing and all-hearing. They have near-infinite knowledge, understanding and awareness of whats going on all over the entire universe. They can instantly detect events transpiring throughout everywhere in existence, and know virtually everything. Their knowledge of the universe is unsurpassable and unrivaled.

* Archangels - All Archangels possess near-infinite awareness, knowledge and understanding of what's going on all over the entire universe, they can instantly detect events transpiring throughout almost everywhere in existence. They possess nearly unlimited and unrivaled knowledge, intelligence and awareness almost everything in all of existence, and they know almost absolutely everything. Their knowledge, intelligence and awareness infinitely surpasses nearly every being in existence, except God. God is the only being that surpasses them. Death being almost as old as God, nearly rivals the archangels in terms of knowledge and awareness. Michael and Lucifer instantly recognized the immediate release of The Darkness, although they were in the cage. Archangels are infinitely older than the universe making them present at the time it was created.
	+ Gabriel - Gabriel, although the youngest Archangel, possesses nearly unlimited knowledge of the universe. He also possessed absolute knowledge of the four Horseman rings and that they can open Lucifer's Cage. He knew that Castiel was searching for God, despite never being told. Gabriel is also infinitely intelligent, having succeeded on faking his death more than once. On one occasion, he tricked a large group of Pagan gods into thinking he had been murdered by Kali, only to appear again in time to save the latter from Lucifer's wrath. He was able to fool even God himself into thinking he had been dead for awhile. Gabriel also brilliantly portrayed himself as the Trickster Pagan God, Loki for thousands of years without any being noticing any different. Noting it was his own "private witness protection" and noting he got a "face transplant and skipped out of heaven."
	+ Lucifer - Lucifer, being the second Archangel, possesses near-infinite knowledge, awareness and understanding of everything that goes on in the entire universe, instantly detected events transpiring throughout the entirety of existence, and knows almost everything. As Sam once said to Dean "*I'm sure he knows a buttload we don't*", however, He claimed to also know how to restore the wings of all remaining fallen angels and build new ones, but later he admitted that he lied about it. He knew that angels go to the Empty upon death, and even knew a way to resurrect them from there.
	+ Raphael - Raphael's knowledge, being an Archangel, was incredible. He knew of a way to open Lucifer's Cage, seemingly without the Horsemen's rings.
	+ Michael - Michael, being the first Archangel in creation, possesses a phenomenal understanding of the universe. His knowledge surpasses even Lucifer's. He was even aware of Anna Milton's plan, and picked just the right moment to throw it off the rails. He even knows the spell God used on the Darkness, the first spell ever used.
* God - God is nearly completely omniscient, and knows practically everything. Joshua once said to the Winchesters that he already knew everything they wanted to tell him. However, Metatron claims God did not know the name of multiple people who worshiped him, but later he said that God hears and sees all. However, as noted by Billie, he isn't automatically aware of everything that happens everywhere in existence. But later says that he is all-seeing, all-knowing, and all-hearing. God has noted that he knows and understands everything.
* Death - Having existed almost as long as God, Death possesses a near unrivaled understanding and knowledge of the Universe, rivaled only by God and the archangels.

### Nigh-Omniscience

Entities who are close to being fully omniscient. They are next to all-knowing, they have near-unlimited knowledge, understanding and awareness of everything that goes on all over the entire universe. They can instantly detect events transpiring throughout almost everywhere in existence, and know almost everything.

* + Billie - After her promotion as the new Death, she gained a much higher elevation of cosmic awareness and could see the actual necessity of the Winchesters to the universe. This is notable considering her disdain for the Winchesters and her original firm belief that everything that dies should stay dead. However, she was unaware that a Nephilim was the cause of the rift or that Castiel was resurrected in her talk with Dean.
* Jack Kline - Jack Kline was already almost omniscient, and knew almost everything. After becoming the new God, Jack not only gained God's power, but he also gained his infinite knowledge.
* The Darkness - Being older than God himself and the very first entity to come into existence, the Darkness knows countless things, but is still learning about the universe God made while she was locked away for untold eons. However, she was immediately able to speak the English language and knew everything that happened on Earth since the beginning of its history. She was very quickly able to speak and understand every language on Earth. She can instantly detect major events transpiring across the whole universe, and knows almost everything. Because she was locked away for centillions of years she is not as intelligent as the archangels, Death or God, despite being older than them all.

### Cosmic Awareness

Cosmic awareness is the ability to know and understand what's transpiring across the universe, and know countless things. But still nowhere near as intelligent as those with nigh-omniscience.

* Eve - A very old and ancient entity, Eve possesses a vast understanding of the universe. She bears some knowledge and insight on the Natural Order, and the role she and her children play in it. She has considerable knowledge of the inner workings of heaven and hell, and tremendous knowledge of purgatory and all the monsters within it. She has a strong understanding of souls and how powerful they are. She also has a high amount of knowledge of the history of Earth.
* Metatron - As the scribe of God, Metatron wrote several words of God about various beings, and has considerable knowledge of the universe. He has vast knowledge and understanding of many creatures including demons, angels, monsters, and leviathans. He also possessed a keen sense of spiritual realms, although he had no knowledge of who the Winchesters were, that Michael and Lucifer were trapped in the Cage or that Gabriel and Raphael were dead, due to him purposely separating himself from Heaven, however he caught up quickly. He also said to know how to remove the Mark of Cain, but it's revealed to be a lie of his. He also had some knowledge and awareness of The Darkness and knew that the four Archangels severely weakened and defeated her so God could lock her away so he could create the Universe. Making him the only being except God, Death and the archangels who were completely aware of her existence. The Darkness was so ancient that angels and demons thought of her as a myth. Crowley stated that she was a "scary bedtime story". Matatron had vast knowledge of the history of Earth, the Milky Way Galaxy, and humanity.
* The Shadow - Despite apparently never leaving his domain, the Empty, he possesses knowledge of the primordial forces that shaped reality.

### Limited Cosmic Awareness

A milder, limited form of a type of cosmic awareness. While not as intelligent as those with full cosmic awareness, these beings are far more intelligent that those with bare superhuman intellect.

* Angels (Collectively all branches of angels besides the archangels) - All angels understand and know many things, such as all potential Prophets and the powers of other beings. However, there are limits to their knowledge as no angel knew that they go to the empty in death until Castiel was awakened in The Empty by the Nephilim, Jack and the Cosmic Entity explained to him what it was. The Angels also did not know the Darkness was a true story until the Winchesters released her into the world.
* Famine, Pestilence, and War - Horsemen have incredible knowledge and understand many things.
* Pagan deities - The pagan deities have a higher awareness of the world and the natural order. During the events of season 5, many pagan deities gathered to discuss the Judeo-Christian apocalypse and knew details demons didn't know before it began, like Sam and Dean being Lucifer and Michael's true vessels. Also, Atropos, a goddess employed by Heaven, uses her powers to determine the fate of humans.

### Superhuman intelligence

This is the ability to know or understand more than is humanly possible, but not to the point of total awareness.

* Alpha Vampire - The Alpha Vampire due to his advanced age and being the first and oldest monster who ever existed, is incredibly intelligent. He possesses much greater knowledge and intelligence than humans, other monsters, and most demons. He possesses considerable knowledge and understanding of the history of Earth, other supernatural beings, and many other things. He knew that when he dies and when any other monster dies they all go to Purgatory, he knew of the exact location of where Purgatory is and knew what The Colt was, and knew that there are only five beings in all of existence that the Colt cannot kill.
* Crowley - Crowley has greater intelligence than that of humans, and possessed a sizable amount of knowledge and awareness of certain supernatural weapons, artifacts, antiques, spells, voodoo, witchcraft, hoodoo, curses, hexes, and certain supernatural beings.
* Leviathan - As the very first beasts, Leviathans are highly intelligent. They are shown to possess immensely greater intelligence, knowledge and understanding than humans, monsters, and demons. Leviathans are very adaptable as they were able to grasp full understanding of modern technology and systems despite being in Purgatory since the dawn of time. Leviathans were able to make a food additive that cured cancer, AIDS, and other human diseases that would make humans less desirable "cattle." They also produced other additives that would kill all other non-leviathan beasts, and that made humans compliant as well as one that killed people with undesirable traits (low body mass, haemophilia, high IQ). In addition, they were able to track the Winchesters' location with complex computer algorithms, something vampires, demons, and even angels failed to do or be aware of, resulting in Bobby calling them a Mensa monster. Dick Roman was capable of accurately assessing an individual's skills and noted that his kind was not always capable of replicating a human's abilities to the full extent of their potential. Dick Roman was also well-versed in constructing terms and conditions to avoid any loopholes in making a deal with Crowley.

## See also

* Omnipotence
* Omnipresence
* Reality Warping

## References

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1. ↑ *Omniscience* - Wikipedia