Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4623374-20130321190806/@comment-24729606-20171130125922

I don't disagree that truth manipulation Could lead to one obtaining great power but I'm pretty sure (like 80%) that Causality Manipulation came first (albeit not necessarily in comics or other literary versions of reality) if only because most seem to believe reality was guided and/or shaped by divine hands (whether it was a single pair of hands and many underlings or many different sets of hands and consequently even more underlings is relatively unimportant for our purposes). Plus everything happens for a reason (whether we humans, or any other sentient race, can find, grasp, and understand that reason is a very nearly mut point). Not to mention truth is a matter of perspective and what one choses to believe (about oneself, about others, and especially about the external world). Cause and effect (which is basically what causality is) is the result of an effectively infinite number of interdependent factors (some of which have an almost infinitesmall role but have a role to play nevertheless).