The Overgod
The Overgod is the name deities use for the one who created them.
Despite what the deities say or think The Overgod is not an actual being. It is a set of natural laws that creates things out of the shapeless creative potential that comes from the Principle plane. The deities coming into existence was merely a coincidence. It was a single instance in which the natural laws could give shape to the creative chaos and create beings that were capable of creation.
Though deities say The Overgod instructed them to create, this never actually happened. What happened was that when deities became self aware they began to search for purpose. Since there was literally nothing else their only conclusion was that they existed to create things as they too were once created. They then interpreted their origin and their purpose as coming from someone else. Through lack of reference frame they attributed it to someone like them but greater, beyond their comprehension.
One could see The Overgod as the model for a universe. The chaos from the Principle plane determine the parameters of the model and its initial state. It just so happened that this combination of model and parameters allowed for things to exist that would allow other things to exist. The Overgod is essentially what we call the Theory of Everything or the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis.
Despite what the deities say or think The Overgod is not an actual being. It is a set of natural laws that creates things out of the shapeless creative potential that comes from the Principle plane. The deities coming into existence was merely a coincidence. It was a single instance in which the natural laws could give shape to the creative chaos and create beings that were capable of creation.
Though deities say The Overgod instructed them to create, this never actually happened. What happened was that when deities became self aware they began to search for purpose. Since there was literally nothing else their only conclusion was that they existed to create things as they too were once created. They then interpreted their origin and their purpose as coming from someone else. Through lack of reference frame they attributed it to someone like them but greater, beyond their comprehension.
One could see The Overgod as the model for a universe. The chaos from the Principle plane determine the parameters of the model and its initial state. It just so happened that this combination of model and parameters allowed for things to exist that would allow other things to exist. The Overgod is essentially what we call the Theory of Everything or the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis.
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