Nigh-Omniscience

Nigh-Omniscience
Uatu, The Watcher (Marvel Comics)
Power/Ability to:	Know almost everything.

"I have approximate knowledge of many things..."

― Demon Cat (Adventure Time)

"The master knows all... except combination to safe."

― Kwik'E Mart CEO (The Simpsons)

"My role as Time Guardian affords me a certain level of Omniscience, Raziel."

― Moebius (Soul Reaver 2)

The power to know almost completely everything. Lesser version of Omniscience. Sub-power of Nigh Omnipotence.

Also Called

• Flawed/Limited/Near/Semi/Virtual Omniscience

Capabilities

The user knows almost everything while being blocked from certain details or being limited in other ways, possibly only being able to see one timeline or universe, or have just small patches of information that are missing or blocked out. Thus allowing one to keep their sense of free will and uncertainty.

Applications

• Answer Intuition
• Claircognizance
• Cosmic Awareness
• Cosmic Knowledge
  • Extrasensory Perception
• Encyclopedic Knowledge
  • Instilled Knowledge
  • Living Database
• Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Intelligence
• Enhanced Memory/Panmnesia
• Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Wisdom
• Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Wits
• Hyper Experience
• Intuitive Perception
• Parachronal Cognition
  • Xeno-Accelerated Probability

Variations

• Illusory Omniscience
• Selective Omniscience

Associations

• Data Manipulation
• Nigh Omnipotence
• Science Manipulation

Limitations

• Not True Omniscience, the user still doesn't know everything in the totality and can still be outsmarted by one
• User's knowledge is limited in certain ways/areas: they may be limited to certain areas or subjects of knowledge or lack knowledge about certain areas.
• May have the knowledge but no intuitive understanding of it, i.e., they have to find the knowledge among a nearly infinite number of others.

Known Users

• Sarda the Sage (8-bit Theater)
• Elizabeth/Anna DeWitt (Bioshock Infinite)
• The Endless (Breath of Fire IV)
• Beldam (Coraline)
• Lucifer (Dante's Inferno)
• Samael (Darksiders series)
• The Spectre (DC Comics)
• Doctor Manhattan (DC Comics)
• The Phantom Stranger (DC Comics)
• Chorona (Dragon Ball); Chronology
• The Six-Fold God (Doctor Who)
• Hina Sato/Odin (The Day I Became a God)
• Leto Atreides II (DUNE)
• Xiaomei (Edens Zero)
• God (Family Guy)
• Valokas (Fran Bow)
• Father (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
• Doc Scratch (Homestuck)
• Joshua (Kingdom Hearts)
• Elder God (Legacy of Kain)
• Time Guardian (Legacy of Kain)
  • Moebius (Legacy of Kain)
• God (Lucifer)
• The Spirits (Kou 1 Desu ga Isekai de Joushu Hajimemashita)
• Jakob/Cult Leader (New Blood Interactive's DUSK)
• Crowfather (Darksiders)
• Hermaeus Mora (The Elder Scrolls)
• Terra (Hiniiru)
• Lucifer Morningstar (Vertigo/DC Comics)
• Michael Demiurgos (Vertigo/DC Comics)
• Beyonder (Marvel Comics)
• Living Tribunal (Marvel Comics)
• Eternity and Infinity (Marvel Comics)
• The Watchers (Marvel Comics)
  • Uatu
• The Vishanti (Marvel Comics)
  • Agamotto (Marvel Comics)
• David Haller/Legion/Delphic (Marvel Comics); persona of Legion
• The Fragmented One/WAN/he Eternal Network/Fuxi/The Maker of Machines/Hakhama/The Great Voice/Sophia/Mekhane/SCP-001 - TwistedGears/Kaktus Proposal - The Broken God (SCP Foundation)
• Mary Nakayama (SCP Foundation); via The Record
• SCP-343 - God (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-990 - Dream Man (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-3120 - Help Desk (SCP Foundation)
• The Overvoid Lurk (SCP Foundation)
• Mortimer J. Denning Von Kronecker/Blackbird/The Black King/The Fifth Overseer/O5-5 (SCP Foundation)
• Solaris (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Octavius Cloptimus (Skylanders)
• Brain (Skylanders)
• God (Supernatural)
• Death (Supernatural)
• The Choushin (Tenchi Muyo)
• The Oracle (Matrix franchise)
• Posea Reef (Monster High)
• Discord (My Little Pony series)
• Angelic Spawn (Spawn Comics)
• Jinn (RWBY)
• John Doe (John Doe)
• Altair (Re:Creators)
• Watchers/Grigori (Religion)
• Echidna (Re:Zero)
• Natsuki Subaru (Re:Zero)
• Bartleby (Dogma)
• Rimuru Tempest (That time I got reincarnated as a slime); via Manas: Ciel
• Ariton (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Satan (The Adventures of Mark Twain)
• The Master (The Venture Brothers)
• Zuno (Dragon Ball Super)
• Harry the Badger (Stinkbmob and Ketchupface); temporarily

Gallery

The Living Tribunal (Marvel Comics)

Death (Supernatural) knows almost anything, but lacked the knowledge whether he is older than God or if God was older than him. He also did not know the real reason the Winchesters bound him until Dean told him so.

Ariton (Valkyrie Crusade) knows everyone's secrets.

As the last of the Ancients, Brain (Skylanders) possesses enormous knowledge, up to the point where he locate evil doers from afar.

Dantalion (Valkyrie Crusade) knowing the past and the future, is nigh omniscient, because while she herself says:I know all, so ask me anything you want. the answers she gives are not always accurate.

Zuno (Dragon Ball) knows everything about the Seventh Universe, including the pattern on the underwear of someone he never met.

As he was being granted powerful abilities by Nyarlathotep, Jakob/Cult Leader (New Blood Interactive's DUSK) had also obtained near-limitless knowledge in the simultaneous outcome of obtaining Cosmic Telepathy alongside it.

Delphic (Marvel Comics) is granted with the gift of omniscience. It was stated that there was nothing she does not know.

Natsuki Subaru (Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World)

Jinn (RWBY) is a being that knows everything, except the future.

The Elder God (Legacy of Kain), can see the Time-Stream, which allows him, to see at will any event of Nosgoth, whether in the past, present or future in infinite timelines. Also, being timeless, he sees everything at the same time, being Omniscient on a temporal level.