Ousia

Basic Information

Anatomy

Ousia may take only one "form," or they may take as many forms as they desire. What is considered their true form is what is known as their abstract one, where they essentially embody a particular attribute. In the case of the Creator, since they embody order, that is their true form. Wherever "order" is present, one can say the Creator is present there as well. As for physicality, an ousia does not need to be physical at all to exist, existing beyond the constraints of matter and the lack. They may manifest as consciousnesses or nothing at all, silent forces to be reckoned with. However, if one does decide to take on a physical form, then it can look like anything one desires it to be. Again, in the case of the Creator, their physical form would be Neegavia itself. At the same time, they are considered to exist beyond Neegavia and be considered a perfect entity.
The consciousness is not required to be inside the body, not needing one to exist in the first place. Therefore, at some point, if a physical body has been created, then it may separate from it. Regarding the Creator, their mind and body are split from one another. Their mind may wander beyond the constraints of their body and go beyond what is considered real and unreal. However, their reasoning for the division in the first place stemmed from an inability to interact with Neegavia on an intricate level. After the split, they created another body to exist within their other body, thus taking the form of a Demiurge of sorts. Although not like one like Yaldabaoth, because this is the actual Creator, since they now take presence in an imperfect world, they will then become imperfect themself. This would apply to any other ousia besides Gnosis, as they too would similarly start gaining attributes that would make them more similar to a mortal or deity.
They manifest physically in the form of waves, deemed pneuma by mortals and deities. Such pneuma can change into either energy or matter through the process called magic, and in their deity form, the Creator performs it on a super-human level called "Creation Magic." If regarding an individual not entirely an ousia, such as Vega for instance, she still generates pneuma but is bound to a physical form. Pneuma cannot exactly be sensed by anyone without a form of pneumatic emanation, and it passes through everything with ease.
With a separation like this, an ousia may return to their actual body most of the time. However, the situation becomes much more complicated if they split their consciousness itself. Exemplifying this is when the Creator placed fragments of themself into the circlets for the Crusaders' usage, and due to this, they cannot become one with their body again. If the consciousness and the body were to become one again, then the consciousness itself may gain information otherwise lost to it. In the case of the eternal recurrence, the Creator would suddenly remember everything that had happened to Neegavia up until the current point.

Genetics and Reproduction

An ousia in a state incomprehensible to those below it may emanate, which occurred in the case of the Creator emanating both the Cycler and Destroyer. In this case, these entities are not considered to be children but the Creator's siblings.
Taking on a form comparable to that of a deity or mortal, an ousia may reproduce either asexually or sexually. In asexual terms, they may utilize any of the five forms, and a being resulting from this will look identical to the ousia but be limited to the powers of the form the ousia is currently taking. For instance, one asexually reproduced from an ousia taking a deity's form will have essence and an enhanced ability to perform magic. However, they will not generate pneuma by themself. When reproducing sexually, they can reproduce with anything and everything considering their ability to take numerous forms. When this is done, the resulting offspring will be able to generate pneuma but be beholden by limitations set onto it by the other parent.

Additional Information

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Within one's actual body, the possibilities are limitless. However, such limitless possibilities introduces one hard limit: The inability to interact with things on a scrupulous level. To counteract this, one can split from their all-powerful form and take one allowing them to act in ways impossible prior. It varies for the type of form taken, and the following will discuss Extol in particular, considering they are the one true, full ousia who still exists in some capacity.
In such a form, they are not omniscient or omnipotent. However, technically, they also embody these aspects at the same time as it does prove they are capable of anything. It could be considered paradoxical in a way, as one could say they are both omniscient and not omniscient simultaneously. Regardless, despite not embodying the two prior traits, in their deity form, they are still immensely powerful and knowing compared to the average individual. Pantheism proves true in this case as they are Neegavia itself but are also separate from it, odd as it is.
As previously stated, the Creator has the ability to perform Creation Magic, or the ability to take pneuma and turn it into any form that they so desire. If their consciousness is entirely pieced together, then they can create to their heart's content. However, once they split themself up into the circlets, they introduced a new limit to themself: magic overperformance. Suddenly, if Extol created something exceptionally detailed or large, then they would exhaust the deity body they placed themself into and risk falling into a magic overperformance coma. This has happened three times: After splitting the continents of the planet Neegavia apart, after forming both the successors to the deities of light and darkness, and after forming long-lasting portal leading to a random, walkable location on Mamtir. What all of these have in common are the strenuous, mortally impossible aspects, so causing a faint glow will not result in a sudden coma.
Beyond this, Extol has enhanced sensing abilities. They can see all spectrums of light and focus their gaze on some of the most microscopic particles to exist. As a generator of pneuma both as a consciousness and body, they cannot suffer from pneuma overexposure nausea as that would defeat the entire point. For the breadth of their hearing ability, they can hear the footsteps of an ant several miles away at base. Extol is exceptionally sensitive to smell as well, preferring much less pronounced colognes and perfumes. Likewise, they can taste even the most dullest of flavors and cringe at the slightest of bad aftertastes. They are much more aware of what textures they feel at every given moment as well. Taking all this information into account, as it would prove overstimulating to most and annoying to Extol themself, they often dull down their sensory abilities to much more reasonable levels. For example, they lowered their smelling ability to account for the horrible space smell radiating from them after an cosmic flight around planetary bodies.
Some extra powers they have are telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation, mind reading, and dreamwalking. The reason for telepathy is so that Extol may communicate with their Acolytes no matter their location. It also proved handy when they needed to interact with Vedrfol in the past. Regarding teleportation, when suddenly appearing in a location, no abrupt sound will be made to indicate their appearance. As for particle and wind displacement, they will not exactly move, more-so teleport alongside Extol as if they were always like that. Due to all of this, teleportation from them proves sudden and unexpected, knocking the wind out of anyone not familiar with such an ability. Discussing mind reading, they can hear others' thoughts to an alarming degree and thus need to tune it out. They actually like others' thoughts being unknown to them and prior to fragmenting themself, disabled this functionality of theirs entirely. Now, they do not have the option to re-enable it, so everything becomes a surprise whether they like it or not. Finally, they gave their ability to "dreamwalk" to both deities and mortals. What this means is that when Extol sleeps or enters into a magic overperformance coma, they have the chance to essentially project their consciousness into another area. Unlike mortals, they do not need to pick a specific individual to visit as they can instead roam unnoticed by anyone. However, they have the choice of picking someone else to see them, in case they need to interact with them in someway. They cannot physically interact with the world in this state, as they are entirely incorporeal. If they have a chosen other, this individual will be the only one to see and hear them, being unable to touch, smell, or taste them. Notwithstanding these limitations, the individual will be able to perform magic on them and cause their dream to prematurely end, either leading to them waking up or going back into an unconscious state if in the context of a magic overperformance coma.

Origin/Ancestry

Order, Chaos, Cycles, Gnosis