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Rather late to this, but oh well.
The Alpha Reality is a difficult one for me. I've made a couple of posts in the past debating what it actually is. Two particularly relevant ones are:
Questions and Thoughts about Alpha Reality
How would you describe the Alpha Reality, and how powerful do you think it is?
The Alpha Reality is described in the following ways:
The origin of all realities.
The Reality of Principles.
A "supreme, prime, and fundamental power".
The highest principle in the totality
An absolutely infinite, eternal, and blissful plane
The very genesis of thought and the nexus of all realities
The birthplace that first originated the omniverse
Infinitely far more real and indefinitely superior then any reality that would ever be.
Several parts of this seem to be heavily inspired by Brahman. From Wikipedia: "In Hinduism, Brahman connotes the highest universal principle, the ultimate reality in the universe...the material, efficient, formal and final cause of all that exists...the pervasive, genderless, infinite, eternal truth and bliss which does not change, yet is the cause of all changes...Brahman as a metaphysical concept is the single binding unity behind diversity in all that exists in the universe." Which supports the notion of the Alpha Reality as an effectively omnipotent actor within Totality.
I've also made an attempt to consider its properties from the definitions of Totality and Alpha Reality.
We start with the definition of Totality, as has been stated in other replies here. Totality is "absolutely everything".
For example, let's consider an entity who actively wants to erase absolutely everything, possesses the capacity to do so trivially, and possesses no obstacles between it and this goal. This, by definition, is a part of Totality.
We can observe that, despite this entity being a part of Totality, 'absolutely everything' has not been erased.
From this, it can be concluded that, despite Totality containing absolutely everything by definition, not everything in Totality has a meaningful presence or capacity to act within it.
For the purposes of this, we define this property of possessing a meaningful presence within Totality as 'reality'. If a thing possesses or occupies a reality, then it has a meaningful presence and capacity to act within Totality.
The Alpha Reality, then, as the origin of all realities, would be the determining factor as to what does and does not possess 'reality' within Totality. This is what makes it the 'highest principle' in the Totality, as it is the ultimate cause, the 'why', behind any and all forms of reality.
This is what makes Alpha Reality Manipulation the absolute version of Reality Warping - the user, via the Alpha Reality, has final say over what possesses reality, and so can bring about, alter or erase any desired state of affairs trivially.
We can also consider that the Alpha Reality has a meaningful capacity to act within Totality.
This means that it possesses 'reality', while itself being the arbiter of what does and does not possess 'reality'.
Therefore, the Alpha Reality is essentially its own 'why'. The Alpha Reality is because the Alpha Reality says so, making it an entirely complete, self-contained existence, relying on nothing except itself to be.
Additionally, the Alpha Reality must be eternal, as any notion of a 'beginning' or 'end' to it only possess meaningful presence in Totality if the Alpha Reality itself says so. In other words, the Alpha Reality is not contingent upon a beginning. If it appears to have a beginning in some way, it must be because the Alpha Reality gave reality to that beginning, thus requiring the Alpha Reality to be prior to it.
This does raise issues regarding how even things considered 'unreality' conventionally would be considered to have 'reality' under this definition, especially in verses where things like fiction/fantasies/dreams/etc can cross over into the outside world. Additionally, things like Reality Separation have a similar issue, in that their users still have a meaningful presence within Totality, and thus are considered in this to have 'reality'.
However, I would suggest that this kind of 'reality/unreality/beyond (or outside) reality' distinction is one born of limited perspective. To illustrate this, consider how a fictional character would perceive a difference between what is real and unreal, or an entity 'beyond reality', within their verse, but the author and readers perceive all things in the verse as equally fictional. In other words, the fictional characters perceive a distinction between reality and unreality in their verse only because of their limited perspective, while we have a higher perspective by which all things in their verse are unified as fiction under our own reality. In this sense, a Reality Warper within the verse may have their power fail upon encountering unreality, the 'outside' of reality, or something 'beyond' reality, but if they were able to gain a similar perspective to us, they might perceive all things in their verse as a single unified 'reality' that they can manipulate. The only reason any case of something from 'unreality' impacting a reality can occur is because of those distinctions arising from a limited perspective; at these lower levels, reality and unreality are defined relative to the observer. However, from the very highest perspective, that of the Alpha Reality, reality and unreality are defined in their most absolute sense.
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