User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-25135454-20171011120908

Well, every shard from the Endless Soul is "just" a fraction, because the soul is endless in the first place, so no matter how "big", how "small" or how "many" shards it fragments, the Endless Soul remains immutable. I think containing all the infinity of the Endless Soul into a finite number of beings is impossible, but since Logic Manipulation is obviously in the arsenal of the Great Guardian, then the impossible can be made possible. However, out of preference, the Great Guardian chooses to abide by the logics of his own creation, so as logic would dictate, the Endless Soul can't and will never be contained on a finite number of beings.

True that. And correct me if I'm wrong: the Soul Haven very existence is the proof that, while Lawrence is impossibly powerful and can theoretically live on his own, in practice that's impossible. The company of the citizens of Selforge City is as fundamental to his character as his powers are (arguably more...). So, how do you think Lawrence would end up if he was completely alone? Without Selforge City and companions to his journeys?

It is the Rule of Drama at play. I see it this way: it is very, very likely that the way Doctor Manhattan destroys his targets (that blue flash of light/lightning plus blood and gore everywhere) is exactly the same way he himself was destroyed on the Intrinsic Field Chamber. It's also very, very likely that after his "ascension", he could restore people he destroyed in the same way he destroyed himself. Maybe that wouldn't make them equal to himself, but it's certainly a possibility. If those people were somehow destroyed, he could keep restoring them everytime, but if he didn't want it, he could just teach them his "watchmaker mentality" (that is fundamental to the important skill of restoring himself) to others by making them "see the world through his perspective" like he did with Laurel.

The First Soul is superior because it is the Soul of Ether and, as such, has the practice of the Ethereal Arts on it's own nature. While the practice itself doesn't become any easier (the First Soul would spend 1 year in it's first Orb like everyone else), because the Ether is in it's nature, the Ethereal Arts is different to it. To all sapient beings/all other souls, practicing the Ethereal Arts is regarded as the highest feat they can accomplish. After all, they are accessing the omnipotence of their own beloved God. It's something that transcends their very nature... Something that's completely alien to them the moment they are born, and to even practice it, they need to tread a lifelong path of training, study and faith. However, to the Soul of Ether, the practice is it's nature. It's not alien. It's not transcendent to it's nature, but intrinsic. The main objective advantage that comes from being the Soul of Ether is that practicing the Ethereal Arts is not exhausting at all, so the First Soul can practice as long as it wills it. And it always wills it. The First Soul is always practicing. And that brings us to our second point: the very first act the Great Guardian did was the union between a fragment of his Endless Soul and the Ether, or rather, the creation of the First Soul. It was born before time and space. And since then it is practicing the Ethereal Arts, amassing an unbelievable number of Orbs (akin to Ajimu from Medaka Box... Although the numbers aren't absurd like 12 quadrillion skills, having 2/3 the stars in the sky worth of Orbs, something like twenty thousand-ish is absurd as well, mainly considering that the superpower wiki itself has nine thousand pages).

The Great Guardian's main reason on creating the Soul of Ether was to give Ether itself a chance to experience the creation it made possible. While all this ease at, and endless practice of the Ethereal Arts was foreseen by him, they weren't the main reason for it's creation. Like I said in my previous comment, the First Soul remained without body, mind and spirit until the time the Great Guardian himself "took it" and united it with one of the first created humans. These were created as children (I'm uncertain of the exact age right now, but I always picture the girls being 12-13 years old and the boys being older at 14-15) so, likewise, the First Soul was "born" as a boy of 14-15 years old. It had no memories and no personality at the time, but it had all the physical and mental capabilities of a boy of such age. Since the Orb of Telepathy overcomes all language barriers, the Great Guardian instructed the boy on how to "download" Telepathy into one of it's innumerable blank orbs, so they could communicate. As the Great Guardian teached him on all possible subjects, the boy began "downloading" all the superpowers he could imagine on his Orbs, and three particularly important ones were the psychic orbs of Clairvoyance, Retrocognition and Precognition. Clairvoyance allowed him to see all of space and therefore, all of the present. Retrocognition and Precognition allowed him to see past and future, respectively, and allied with the Orb of Clairvoyance, see all space in those time periods as well. That essentially gave him Nigh-Omnipresence and, consequently, Nigh-Omniscience as well. Then he knew he was the First Soul/the Soul of Ether. He knew from where he came and where he was going. The Great Guardian, being the cool guy that he is, sometimes conceals things from the First Soul vision, to surprise him and make his existence more interesting (the only one who can do so), like the existence of a certain girl <3 If you are curious about how is his personality, being with the Great Guardian shaped most of it. Like I said before, the Orb of Causality and the Orb of Logic are, without doubt, his most powerful ones... But his favorite one is the Orb of Creation. Through the Orb of Retrocognition, he saw the creation of the Road by the hands of his "father" and, in the same moment, he wished he could create as well. And then he got the Orb of Creation.

His adventures with it are something for another comment. This one is already long again u.u

Oh, and by the way, I'm sorry. I forgot to ask (how uneducated of me!): what is the captivating game that you are playing? :D