User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-25135454-20171003190230/@comment-4867780-20171006095905

From what I understand, Causality/Logic/Definition/etc. Manipulation follow the same pattern as any other ability, meaning their workings, possibilities and limits are relative the context they belong to. In other words, just because a power has a fancy name/concept doesn’t mean it necessary win/work, for the same reason even the mightiest white shark is the easiest of preys when it is out of the water. In my opinion, every power and ability is reliant on and ultimately restricted to the system it belongs to, that’s why just like with the shark example even towering abilities can prove surprisingly useless once taken out of the "reality corner" it originates from – because things work differently elsewhere.

In short, superpowers are relative and only really work in the reality they belong to, and could go haywire in various ways or completely stop working altogether just by landing in a different one. I honestly don’t believe in Omnipotence due to the contextual relativeness I just explained (a God on his home turf may become an average Joe out of it, because his powers are irrelevant here), that’s why Lawrence doesn’t so much "beats" Omnipotents as he simply denies the claim. From my perspective, The Prime Undefineness itself isn’t some kind of divine force or anything, it just happens to be the featureless common origin of reality in its various forms, that could be loosely compared to the Big Bang of our real-life universe. It’s not a God, it’s not a force, it’s no more than a starting point.

The God of your story and his Endless Soul reminds me of the Dark Soul of the titular series, a single divided into countless fragments and seeded into humanity as a whole, that doesn’t get weaker from the division and instead grows during the life of the human it belong to, the Soul as a whole having the potential to expanding indefinitely in power. One of the inspirations, perhaps?

Thanks again ^ ^ Immersively wrapping these two powers into a single origin/nature was actually the spark that my sheet was born from, since they are so essential to his entire lifestyle and utopia.

Why did he create the Ether, since human beings draws their powers from his Endless Soul instead ? What purpose does it serve in the story ? How do the Ether and Endless Soul relate ? What are Ethereal Arts ? And why is their practice a requirement for humans to unlock the latent potential of their Endless Soul ? So your character is essentially an Ether-infused alpha soul ? It seems to differ from an anthropomorphic personification, which is an abstract concept given human form.

I’m afraid my take on such versus scenarios is disappointingly simple, and essentially the same as the Eldritch multiverse one we discussed earlier. Lawrence’s unique Absorbing Replication being completely perfect and limitless due to the featureless primordiality of his nature/origin, he would simply tank head on anything thrown at him without any effect while growing stronger and more advanced with each attempt (assimilating the phenomena and learning everything about it), and after losing interest he would end the "battle" by instantly absorbing all the powers and knowledge of his opponent, thus bringing them down to average mortal status (or go all the way and wipe them out completely).

At which point the other person says their character is immune to absorption, to which I answer that Lawrence can absorb anything, and the discussion then reaches the most inconclusive dead-end XD

Safety first, as they say ^ ^ Good point, I should clarify this part. Well, Lawrence travels and adventures a lot outside of Selforge, so he’s bound to make male friends as well. They aren’t citizen material though, so he eventually leaves them behind when moving on to the next plane, hence why they are not mentioned (male friendships are contextual/temporary).

You sparked the idea ;) Not sure it will to fruition though, I like the "no strings attached" temporary version described above, which is extra convenient when you have an eternity of time and an infinity of opportunities at your disposal. While the love and family bonds with citizens makes permanence a matter of course, the same cannot be said for male friends, as he shares significantly less bonds and common interest with them, so the relation is very likely to fade once the novelty of it has worn off.

No numbers at all, honest ^ ^ I only know that the original human was a grown man in his prime, as for Selforge City it actually started very small (estate/homestead), and slowly expanded alongside his number of companions, only reaching city-size much later on, a city that could be any size now, from country to planet or beyond. Any scale will inevitably be reached sooner or later, so it really doesn’t matter XD