User blog comment:Holokami/Character Sheet: Ya/@comment-26993961-20160428012020/@comment-26993961-20160428084142

Thank you both for commenting! ^^

It's true that they do seem similar to other pantheons in the notion of the their domains, and that how I wanted them. ^^

You're exactly right as well, omnipotence is the collective of all the things the Ythyali are, but with one difference, the Ythyali decide the "scale of All Power". If an Ythyali decided to close one of its concepts, say, destruction, from everything, this would cause the concept of destruction to disappear completely outside of the Ytyali, thus omnipotence would too lose the concept of destruction.

However, since that concept is gone from everywhere, omnipotence is still omnipotence, in the eyes of those below it.

I will be writing a whole page of the history and nature of the Ythyali, but I'll explain a little here why they're a little different to other embodiments, and why they're in a higher place than omnipotence.

I was dicussing it with by friend, and they said that the Ythyali aren't needed because Omnipotence is the "be all and end all", the "alpha and the omega". I agreed that omnipotence is all power, but I disagreed with it being the "alpha"- there can be a be-all and end-all, but there can't be a "start-all". I asked him this, "Yes, omnipotence is all power, but, where does omnipotence start?"

"Where does Omnipotence start?" - It was a question which I sort of just blurted out that confused me and my friend, but on deeper thought, it lead to something I call the "Apple Pie Problem", and it goes something like this:

~One day, a child, after seeing a picture of an apple pie in a cook book, asks her mother to make her an apple pie, saying it looked nice. She said she will in a bit, and they can both enjoy some.

Her mother however, was getting ready to go out, and seemed to have forgotten about the apple pie. The child ran up to her mother and confronted her about it, to which the mother responds, she can't make an apple pie before she has the apples.~

"She can't make an apple pie before she has the apples."

This might seem irrelevant, or you might see where this is going, but to expand on this point, in the moments before anything, expecially omnipotence, "How do you make the omnipotent pie, before you have the apples of everything to begin with?": This is where I developed an idea, which will also hopefully explain why the Ythyali exist outside of even omnipotence itself. This is the idea of "Ythya". Ythya isn't an essence or presence, it isn't a force or energy, it isn't matter or waves, it isn't conceptual or real- Ythya is simply Ythya- "that which was before anything else."
 * How do you create before creating?
 * How do you think before thinking?
 * How do you do before doing?
 * How do you know before knowledge and knowing?
 * How do you have "all power" before power itself exists?
 * How do you work with concepts that are yet to exist, when the ability to create those concepts doesn't exist either?
 * And so on, and so forth.
 * In a time before there's anything at all, how do you have "all power" to make "all things" from?

It was from Ythya which the Ythyali came, in the form of "the ten pillars of all things", from which everything, all concepts, and all things come. Yes, omnipotence is the collective power of all the Ythyali, but as I said before, the Ythyali are the scale of "all power", and that "all power" doesn't include the Ythyali or Ythya, thus making them exist outside the power of Omnipotence.

Honestly, it's a little hard to describe, but hopefully I've managed it to any degree here.

Hope that helps! ^^