User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-25135454-20171003190230/@comment-25135454-20171006153329

I agree... And I'm sorry for it. It was I who began with the walls of text because... Well, too much curiosity accumulated over the months. It was exhausting for me too (I think I averaged 2 hours writing these answers) but I didn't care. I still not care, and would love to answer all the points again. But for the sake of keeping it short, I'll answer only the questions you made me, so it will be shorter than the previous answers, but I'm afraid it will not be short enough. Sorry in advance >.<

First of all, I only knew Dark Souls "from afar". I never played it nor watched videos of it, but I only know it to be a ridiculously hard game that draws heavily from Berserk. While similar concerning the fragmentation and infusion on sapient beings, they are very, very different.

Before the Creation, only two "things" existed: God, called The Great Guardian on my story, and the Ether. The Great Guardian didn't create the Ether out of nothing (sorry, it was my bad. I used the wrong words), because both always existed. They were necessary to each other in the sense that The Great Guardian is capable of Omnipotence, but not without "using" Ether as an Omnipotent "fuel" (I feel so bad using the word "energy" because Ether is so different from it, despite being the most appropriate and understandable term >.<). It's a logical contradiction, but if only The Great Guardian existed, despite being Omnipotent, without Ether to use, he would never do anything. In retrospect, if only Ether existed, it would never be used for anything. Now, you may think that this whole thing is unnecessary, being way simpler saying that "GG is using his omnipotent power", but somehow I think it's necessary to the mechanics of the verse.

All existing souls are shards from the Endless Soul of the Great Guardian. Their sole function is allowing access to Ether. The Great Guardian has the only endless soul, allowing only him full access (= omnipotence) to the Ether. If his soul was everything short of endless/infinite, he would not be omnipotent, instead being only very powerful. In that way, having a shard of his Endless Soul (a standard soul) allows human beings the access to the Ether, although infinitely less than the Great Guardian. Still, it's considered "stepping into the territory of God" (I love that line...), allowing them limited omnipotence expressed through various individual superpowers. The Ethereal Arts are the practice of accessing the Ether to get those superpowers. Everyday, the practicer focuses all his body, mind and spirit (being tiring to all three) on focusing the Ether in a single point. Ether begins flowing to that point from all directions, forming a sphere aptly named an Orb. All the time, the only thing in his mind should be the superpower he is trying to get, normally expressed through a single word, like "Strength" (long I have browsed this wiki seeking superpowers that could be expressed through only one word, basic superpowers, that weren't "repeated" themselves by other powers) (and no, you can't think "Absorbing Replication" right away ¬¬ There is some coherence. Advanced powers to advanced users, basic powers to basic users). In exactly one year, the first Orb will be created. The Orb is a symbol of the power the individual has. It can look like a crystal, a ball of light... It differs from individual from individual because of their different preferences. To create the second Orb, it will take two years. To create the third, it will take three. And so on. Heavily inspired on the baangs from Tower of God. The heroes start with 0 Orbs. But the arch-villain has 45 u.u

When the time was right, the Great Guardian called all his sapient creations to his Great World, where are all their wishes would be realized. Thus they started The Great Travel (book name drop!), travelling through all the worlds of the Road (the galaxy! The universe consists of only this galaxy!). In the end, the final two worlds are Hell and Heaven. They pass through Hell for punishment for their evil deeds and through Heaven for reward for their good deeds. Then they take the last step and join GG in the Great World. If people die before completing the Great Travel, their minds, spirits and souls are sent straight to Hell to purification and Heaven to reward, but are not allowed to pass to the Great World. Some, for various reasons, arriving at Hell through either by travelling or death, are never allowed to pass, staying there for eternity. In heaven, they await ressurrection through the Orb of Life of someone who is still living (people can be ressurrected if they are in Hell too). If the Great Guardian, omniscient as he is, knows that nobody will ever ressurect that person, he reuses the mind, spirit and soul (although the mind memories are wiped), infusing them on someone else before birth, essentially reincarnating them and giving the soul a second chance.

However, the Road was a dangerous place and the Great Travel was long. It was impossible to surpass all it's dangers and even if someone went beyond the impossible and did it, no one would ever travel it all in one human lifespan. That's why GG gave all sapient beings their needed help and infused them with shards, souls, of his own Endless Soul, granting them access to Ether and, suddenly, everything became possible.

The Great Travel serves to show everyone how their wishes are, ultimately, meaningless. Be it power, glory, beauty, wealth or knowledge... They will get what they wanted and what they didn't even want. So they will settle down. They will enjoy their realized wishes... They will be happy. Unbelievably so. (There is a Lawrence-inspired guy sitting somewhere on the Road, on his planet of wives :P) But time will pass... Centuries... Millenia. And they will be unsatisfied again... Even if they have everything. And that's a crucial point. Some will start doing everything in their power, including evil, just to see if that will be enough to fill the void. Others will unsettle... Power forward and continue travelling... Because salvation lies, only, on the end of everything. That's why the only wish worth wishing for is the wish to reunite with the Great Guardian.

I said anthropomorphic personification because some universes have Father Time for time and the Sisters of Fate for fate. Ether encompasses both, so I said my character was one for Ether. But, now that you've said it, I guess it's a wrong way to put it. Well, GG is a great guy. He loves. Loves so much that he loves everything and everyone. Back then, before time, he loved the only thing he could love: Ether itself. He loved Ether because it would allow him to create a universe, and creating was his favorite thing of all. He would create a universe out of pure love for creating, and would love and be loved by it, and thought that it was sad and unfair that Ether itself couldn't also experience it. After all, it was Ether that made it all possible. GG thought it deserved it. So, the only two things in the universe, Ether and souls, were united into one unique existence, called by those who know of it the First Soul, my character. GG's cool, right? :3

At the time before time, the First Soul was just that: a soul. It had no body, no mind and no spirit. But being the Soul of Ether naturally made it do the only thing possible to it: practice the Ethereal Arts. In truth, you only need the mind to direct to the superpower you want, but it is possible to create a "blank" Orb if you have no mind (or if you manage to spend a year wishing for a "power" without specifying it). The soul alone is enough to create it and it's power can be determined whenever it's possessor ever gets a mind. . Thus, my character practiced the Ethereal Arts since before space and time... Then in the darkness before the stars... Then in the chaos at the creation of them and of all the worlds. It practiced when sky, sea and earth were created... When the first plants grew... When the first animals were born... And then, when the first sapient beings were still sleeping and dreaming, having only bodies and minds, awaiting their spirits... It was only then that GG chose to put the First Soul on one human being of all sapient beings, and like my character was the First Soul, he was also the First Awakened. When it opened his eyes, it saw the starriest sky ever, beautiful beyond compare. And then he saw GG, in physical form, who happily told him that two thirds of those lights weren't stars, but the First Soul's Orbs, just waiting to become powers. GG then walked the World of Humans with the First Soul, teaching them everything there was to know because the First Soul was, in a sense, his firstborn.

ENOUGH! >.< Again, I'm sorry for writing alot again. That was me only answering your questions... Now imagine if I answered every point! D: Sorry, sorry, sorry! It even turned out to be my longest answer ó.ò You don't need to write a answer of similar size or anything. I will not be offended. At least I know that, while writing these answers are exhausting, actually reading them takes infinetely less time. ,:D