| “ | What if I said that one's entire life had been decided by fate? That every single one of your actions, from the minute to the monumental, stemmed not from your own choices, but had already been decided upon? That life being a journey of limitless possibilities was but an illusion, and no matter how fiercely man struggled, he stood at the mercy of a long-established path? The wealthy shall know their riches. The needy shall starve on the streets. The wicked shall be wicked, the righteous just. The beautiful, the hideous, the strong, the frail, the fortunate, the miserable... and finally, the victors and the defeated. What if I said that all such things had been carved into stone eons ago, allowing for no divergence? If so, sinners have nothing to answer for, nor do saints have any true virtue to their name. What if I said that not a single action is carried out of one's own volition, but had been decided long ago? That we are merely adrift in the current of time? Tell me, would you feel content with such a world? A world in which power is merely given, not earned - would you accept knees bent to a throne build upon such falsities? A universe where the sinless have-nots are oppressed and downtrodden - would you allow such a world to exist? Never, I say. Never. | „ |
| ~ Karl's narration |
| “ | Arte of divinity, extolled genius, alien diction: mankind’s bane, the heart’s lament. A bond from fortune wrought, its core in tragedy tested, chiseled to perfection. Fortune, O mistress ever so fickle: you claim for your own all that was once given. Blind is Fortune, yet blind, too, are those that seek refuge in her light. Reason’s shackles bind you not: quench, at times, your thirst with folly’s pearls. Revel and drink and frolic in life, for Hades holds no circus for the fallen!
Atziluth: Vive Memor Mortis - Acta Est Fabula! |
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| ~ Mercurius enacting his Law |
Background
Mercurius, also known as Karl Ernst Krafft, or Mercurial King, is the Fourth Heaven and the closest friend of Reinhard Heydrich. He is the Vice Commander of the Longinus Dreizehn Orden and occupies Seat XIII of the Table. Despite the fact that he granted them their power, all of the Knights fear and despise him.
His World, Omega Ewigkeit, was that of Recurrence and Foreknowledge. Infinitely repeating untill his deepest wish is fufilled. That being to die in the arms of Marie. Along with this he created the Multiverse, recreating all things, and creating a branching tree of infinite possibilities and parallel worlds. He took on countless aliases throughout his life during the Cycle of Dies Irae, typically historical occultists and alchemists.
Powers and Stats
Key: Sensory | True Form
Tier: At least 5-A, likely High 3-B | 1-A
Dimensionality: 3-D | Inapplicable
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Immortality (Type 1; Can live "for the rest of eternity". Type 3; Apostles can exist in and regenerate from a disembodied state. Type 4; With Acta Est Fabula, Mercurius' law that turns endings into beginnings, a law of eternal recurrence that rejects any death that Mercurius doesn't deem right by resetting time again and again with the only death he finds fitting being the one that ends with him dying in the arms of Marie as she takes over as the Godhead. Type 5; He is completely empty and possess no pressure or force, a mere illusion of life akin to a reflection, essentially doesn't really exist at all and was not even affected by Ren's Ber'iah which could reject the dead. Type 9; His true form exists in the Throne), Magic & Power Bestowal (He is a sorcerer who created the Ewigkeit system, and bestowed it to the members of the LDO), Regeneration (Low-Godly. Ewigkeit users can reform their bodies from their disimbodied souls. Apostles can exist in and regenerate from a disembodied state), Self-Sustenance (Types 1, 2 and 3), Extrasensory Perception (Capable of seeing and compreheing what is normally invisible to the human eye), Enhanced Senses (His senses are beyond those of normal humans. Can sense breathing, heart rate, and even mental state even while meters away), Spiritual Aura (Multiple Ewigkeit users have demonstrated that they release a spiritual pressure that denotes the strength of their soul, and this pressure can have a wide variety of effects on others which consists of "breaking down the body", "shattering the soul", fading one's strength, inducing fear and madness, all while paralyzing the opponent in place as well as "attracting followers around them", and inducing "nausea, intoxication, and itchiness" onto others),Non-Physical Interaction & Soul Manipulation (Ewigkeit users can absorb and devour souls, as well as destroy them with mere conventional attacks), Empowerment (Ewigkeit becomes stronger as they eat souls), Law Manipulation & Reality Warping (Ber'iah is the act of an Ewigkeit user forcing their deepest desire on reality and are described as the implementation of a new law into reality that is essentially a single person's craving against the world's, which can nullify the laws of another to the point of non-existence, and which temporarily overwrites even the laws of Mercurius' world due to the Ber'iah user bending "the laws of the world with your own will", causing the "laws of the old world to hold no water" within their own. Hegemony Ber'iahs create a "parallel world" in the space around the user that is constantly in discourse with the law of the "pre-existing world"), Subjective Reality (Ewigkeit users forces their deepest desires into reality through their Briah), Durability Negation (His attacks affects the body and soul), Regeneration Negation (Low-Godly. Ahnenerbe carries a poison that negates the regeneration of the soul), Nonexistent Physiology (Type 1. Mercurius' existence is like a reflection on a lake's surface that can't be harmed, with his body not existing in reality, being described as "emptiness"), Reality Warping & Spatial Manipulation (Able to create abnormalities that expands the halls of Gladsheimr beyond mortal comprehension. Created and destroyed a miniature city which affected the original one), Transmutation (Transmuted parts of Gladsheimr to create a sword), Mind Manipulation, Fear Manipulation & Madness Manipulation (Mercurius' Sensory's nature is completely incomprehensible to even the L.D.O., his presence imbues anxiety, his words - bloodcurdling rage, and if he would give himself over to his own insanity, he harms and eventually will kill those around him as he shows the pressure of his "true self", destroying their minds and bodies), Existence Erasure (Can erase people, making so as they never existed), Telepathy (Telepathically spoke to Shirou), Dimensional Travel & Teleportation (Can freely travel into and out of the Twilight Beach and Gladsheimr), Time Manipulation (Can stretch a moment into eternity), Time Stop (Shown here)
Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, Madness Manipulation (LDO members can fight and endure Methuselah's presence. Every user of Die Ewigkeit can fight against the pressure of other Ewigkeit users and the presence of Reinhard's spear, which does this to the mind), Biological Manipulation, Poison Manipulation (Apostles are naturally resistant to drugs and poison), Power Nullification (Ahnenerbe users can't be nullified), Disease Manipulation (Resists natural diseases), Law Manipulation (Briah possess the ability to negate and ignore the laws of another Ewigkeit user's Briah to the point where it has no effect on them, as well as ignore and override the law of Mercurius, in which "the laws of the old world hold no water"), Magic, Soul Manipulation (Lacks a soul)
Spiritual Aura (Overwhelming; The density of their soul is powerful enough to make a weaker Hadō God die, and destroy all of creation from their mere presence, which why the Throne is needed to contain it), Soul Manipulation (Any God can affect the soul, be it destroying or outright absorbing it, even from another god), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3; With Taiji, Gods become the origin from which all phenomenon and concepts come from, and there are infinite concepts), Regeneration (At least Low-Godly, likely High-Godly; Gods possess regenerative capabilities that are significantly superior with that of the L.D.O. at the very least, considering Mercurius is the one who gave them said regeneration in the first place; And although it is never stated, it is likely that Gods possess regenerative capabilities that match the restoration powers of Gladsheimr, which can bring people back even from Machina's erasure, it is also likely that Machina was able to land one of his punches on Mercurius or Reinhard, and they didn't die, in the Three Colors Fight before being taken down himself - since much of that fight is done off-screen), Non-Corporeal and Abstract Existence (A God embodies their own Law), Cosmic Awareness (A user of Taikyoku knows everything that has or will happen inside their own Law, as it is no different than being part of their being), Large Size (Type 11; A God embodies their own Law, which for Gudō Gods exists outside of the world's laws and concepts and outside the boundaries of providence, while for Hadō, they paint over the cosmos in their law possessing a similar, yet different nature to a Gudō, but they all still share the same level of existence), Beyond-Dimensional Existence (A God with Taikyoku is the source of and beyond all concepts and phenomenon which includes dimensions, physics, space-time, etc; As a God with colored Taikyoku, they are incomprehensibly transcendent to those who do not reach the same level as them, akin to an artist drawing a picture upon a canvas. Even such things like the Singularity (which only as Gods are they capable of painting it, and the rest of creation, in their color), which is an infinite expanse of colorless Taikyoku, or hole in the canvas of creation, that exists as a tunnel to the Throne and comprises every layer of creation from the lowest floor being the multiverse, to the highest being right before the Throne itself. The Singularity is under the possession of the Supreme Law/Throne God and is both that infinite and endless, and one reaches the "bottom" of it, it merely opens another greater hole that is deeper than the last ad infinitum, and beyond it all exists the Throne, and Gods exist beyond even that as shown by the meaninglessness of its destruction and by it being affected by numerous' Gods' laws), Immortality (Type 1 - All gods are eternal, Type 3 - All gods can regenerate as shown when Ren created a moment frozen in time, Mercurius went from missing half his body to having his whole body restored and has the potential to emanate in Marie's law, Types 5 - Gudō Gods like Marie have shown to exist outside of the world's laws and concepts, described as unchanging and everlasting, existing and yet not existing, outside the boundaries of providence. Hadō Gods possess a similar, yet different nature in which one's law turns outward instead of inward affecting all of creation instead of just their person, although they are stated to exist on the same level of existence), Transduality (At least Type 2; Gudō Gods like Marie are shown to exist outside of the world's laws and concepts and do not obey them. They are described as both dead and alive, but yet also described as life beyond death, they exist within and embody a world that is described as unchanging and everlasting, existing and yet not existing, outside the boundaries of providence, they are walking contradictions, they represent a dichotomy, yet they don't as well. Hadō Gods possess a similar, yet different nature in which one's law turns outward instead of inward affecting all of creation instead of just their person, although they are stated to exist on the same level of existence), Acausality (Type 5; Gudō Gods like Marie have shown to exist outside of the world's laws and concepts, exists and embodies a world that is perpetually frozen in space and time, described as unchanging and everlasting, existing and yet not existing, outside the boundaries of providence. Hadō Gods possess a similar, yet different nature in which one's law turns outward instead of inward affecting all of creation instead of just their person, although they are stated to exist on the same level of existence), Information Manipulation (Hadō Gods paint over the infinite colorless information of the Singularity with their Law), Omniscience, Nigh-Omniscient in Amantes Amentes (As a Hadō God, they expand to consume all of Creation, and as a user of Taikyoku, they knows everything that has or will happen inside their own Law, as it is no different than being part of their being; When apart of Marie's Law (Amantes Amentes), multiple Hadō God's exist simultaneously, and thus, only embody and know that which is in their domain), Law Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation, and Reality Warping (A Hadō God that emanates will impose their own Law on the world and also passively warp existing laws; the flood of their Law will cause reality to warp and be shaped according to their desires, affecting all of the cosmos, including things like space and time), Omnipresence (A Hadō God is the origin and embodies their law, which emanates over all of creation, and paints the blank slate of the cosmos in their color), Summoning (Hadō Gods can summon the Physical Manifestation of their Law), Power Bestowal (A Hadō God can grant any soul under their Law pseudo Godhood status and protection through Legion Reincarnation), Avatar Creation (Hadō Gods can create avatars called a Sensory, as shown with Mercurius, whose true self lives at the center of the Throne, while his shade is referred to as only a "reflection of the moon on a lake's surface")
All Sensory abilities except Immortality (Type 9), plus Abstract Existence (He is the very embodiment of Foreknowledge), Fear Manipulation, Mind Manipulation (His presence passively causes anxiety and mental effects that the mind and body cannot resist), Soul Manipulation (The reveal of his true form is enough to stick and burden the very soul as well as vaporize those), Fate Manipulation (Has complete control over the cosmos and its movements, as well being able to perform absolute and unbending futures, with the universe as a whole obeying his script), Matter Manipulation & Dark Matter Manipulation (Can make all the stars in the universe condense and fuse dark matter), Paradox Manipulation (Can annihilate the contradiction of multiple cosmos occupying a single space, a supressor of contradictory phenomena), Supernova Inducement (Can create supernovae that transcend into infinity), Time Manipulation (Ignores the rules of time and turns endings into beginnings with his law, allowing all of creation to be reset when given a death that he does not accept - everything that isn't dying in the arms of his beloved Marie), Black Hole Creation
Attack Potency: At least Large Planet level, likely High Cosmos level (Always considered as Reinhard's equal, with their strength matching one another. Effortlessly brushed off an attack from Reinhard) | Ascendent level (As a Hadou God, Mercurius transcends all of creation and perceives everything as a mandala/canvas, whereas he is freely able to paint it over anew with his law and overrule and manipulate all of the universe's infinite concepts, including its 10 higher dimensions and the concept of dimensions. A Taikyoku user exists completely disconnected from Creation and their laws control all things. To even the weakest God with 1 Taikyoku, an object that governs all of Creation such as the Throne is nothing more than a tool, and exists beyond the Singularity. Additionally, Mercurius at his strongest has a Taikyoku value of 90, making him one of the strongest Hadou Gods possible. Destroyed the Throne on his fight against Reinhard. Easily obliterated Nerose Satanael when the latter was a Hadou God)
Speed: FTL+ (Comparable to Reinhard Heydrich) | Irrelevant (Embodies the very World of Foreknowledge, his law that has emanated throughout all of creation)
Lifting Strength: At least Class 10 (Superior to Wilhelm Ehrenburg) | Irrelevant
Durability: At least Large Planet level, likely High Cosmos level | Ascendent level
Stamina: Limitless
Range: At least Several Kilometers (Created a replica of the Shamballa that he destroyed and, in turn, all seven of the eight swastikas that were laid out and created during Kei's Route). Ascendental via Dimensional Travel & Teleportation (Can freely travel into and out of the Twilight Beach and Gladsheimr)
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: Nigh-Omniscient (A user of Taikyoku knows everything that has or will happen inside their own Law, as it is no different than being part of their being)
Weaknesses: Obsessed with Marie, and is willing to do anything to be with her.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Vive Memor Mortis - Acta Est Fabula: The manifestation of Mercurius’ Law, derived from his desire “To experience the unknown, to die in the arms of Marie" and "I want to start all over, for any other end than that is unacceptable". A desire born to experience the unknown, to embrace death through the arms of the Goddess of the Twilight who escaped even the binding of his Law and keep on living no matter what until his desired ending is met. This manifests in the form of complete renewal, a Law that ignores the rules of time and causality to completely reset All of Creation, including all of its infinite universes and timelines, back to the very instant Mercurius took hold of the Throne.
- Kamunagara: The physical manifestation of a Hadō God's Law, existing as a universe within them. Mercurius' takes the form of a massive Caduceus coiling around all of creation.
- Law of Foreknowledge (Wave of Mercury/Mercurial Curse): Mercurius' Law, the Law of Foreknowledge, has the added effect of "devouring the mind". And Mercurius' Sensory, who embodies this law, is able to "invoke anxiety upon all who laid eyes upon him", and through his "endless babbling" is able to turn that anxiety into irritation, and that irritation into a mindless rage, while simultaneously making those around him feel like it "isn't right" to try and kill him. Mercurius' can also incidentally "reveal his true self" and release a pressure that is "heavy enough to stick and burden the very soul". Even stating that the members of the L.D.O.s' minds and bodies wouldn't be able to take much more of him doing that.
- Astrology Manipulation: As a result of his Law encompassing All of Creation, Mercurius has complete control over the very World itself. From manipulating the movement and rotations of celestial bodies and the alignment of stars, creating meteor showers and a Great Attractor, even using the very galaxy itself to make anything or anyone to never exist in the first place, the whole of creation is nothing but a script for him to manipulate.
- Meteor Shower: Mercurius converts hundreds of millions of souls in the multiverse into meteors and launches all of them at his target, with each and every one of them having the power to match the entirety of Reinhard's Legion.
- Sequere Naturam: Mercurius unleashes a Supernovae that consists of thousands upon thousands of stars condensed into a single blast that can atomize Gods from the inside. This move was also powerful enough to have been able to instantly kill Nerose Satanel, a Hadō God equal in power to the likes of Ren and Reinhard during Marie's Route, in one hit.
- Dura Lex Sed Lex: Mercurius creates a Great Attractor which draws everything towards it into a singularity.
- Aurea Mediocritas: Mercurius aligns the stars into a Grand Cross, causing an astrological energy surge that can incinerate Atziluth Gods from inside-out.
- Omnia Fert Aetas: Mercurius makes all of existence into an elementary particle and sends it into the past of the opponent, thus causing a paradox and erasing them from existence.
- Disce Libens: Mercurius condenses all the stars in the multiverse into a black hole that destroys everything. This is his strongest attack as it completely erases everything in existence, including the Singularity he and Reinhard fought in and even the Throne itself.
Others
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