The Apocrypha

The Bringer of Chaos

Chaos

A former mortal servant of the Mortis gods who drank from the Font of Power and bathed in the Pool of Knowledge — becoming an eldritch Force entity of immense power and insanity.

The Source of Uncleanliness

Uncleanliness

A sentient pool of grey protoplasm in the caverns of Voormithadreth that constantly spawns and reabsorbs misshapen offspring — a source of all impure life.

All things

The original supreme power of the Cosmere that was shattered into sixteen Shards by a group of conspirators on Yolen.

Scholar of the First Sin

Knowledge

The brother of King Vendrick who sought to escape the curse of the undead cycle by transcending human form — he became something between tree and flame and poses the game's ultimate question: is there another path?

Devourer of Gods

Consumption

A cleric who became a Lord of Cinder by devouring so many people and gods that he became a shapeless mass of sludge — he devoured Gwyndolin and wears his form like a puppet.

Quirk Theft

A man who can steal and bestow superpowers (Quirks) — positioned as the 'Demon Lord' to All Might's 'Symbol of Peace.' His centuries of accumulated power make him functionally godlike.

The Covenant Keeper

Knowledge

One of the Thirteen Primes who serves as the keeper of Cybertronian history and the Covenant of Primus — he created the key that reformats Transformers and has guided Optimus Prime across multiple continuities.

The Darkness

Darkness

God's sister and the primordial darkness he locked away to create the universe — she represents nothingness and annihilation but ultimately reconciles with Chuck. Predates all of creation.

The Sun

The Japanese sun goddess reimagined as a white wolf who restores the world through the Celestial Brush — Okami's Amaterasu is a wholly distinct character from the mythological source.

The Chaos King

Primordial Chaos

A primordial void entity from before the Marvel Universe — he nearly consumed all of reality during the Chaos War event by enslaving entire alien pantheons. Based on the Japanese deity of stars.

Uli Da

Ambition

A Shard of Adonalsium that was Splintered by Odium in the Threnodite system — its death throes created the shades and the dangerous conditions on Threnody.

The Maker's Bride

Prophecy

A mortal woman who claimed to speak for the Maker and led a rebellion against the Tevinter Imperium — after her martyrdom she was deified as the Maker's Bride. Whether she was truly divine is debated.

Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers

Things stuck in drawers

A minor goddess elevated from a volcano goddess to the Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers — the patron of frustrated domesticity.

Creation

The supreme creator of the Diablo universe who existed before all things — he cast out all evil from himself, creating Tathamet. Their battle destroyed both, and from Anu's spine grew the Crystal Arch that births all angels.

The Overfather

All of Reality

The supreme overgod of the Forgotten Realms who stands above all other deities — he triggered the Time of Troubles by casting all the gods down to walk as mortals when the Tablets of Fate were stolen.

The Dragon King (reinvented)

Water

A reinvented version of the Chinese Dragon King for the SMITE MOBA — while based on mythology the game version is a distinct gameplay-driven reinterpretation.

The Original One

Creation

The creator deity of the Pokémon universe who hatched from an egg in the void and shaped all of existence — created Dialga (time), Palkia (space), and Giratina (antimatter) to form reality.

Knight of the Swords

Chaos

The patron Chaos Lord of the Melnibonéan empire and Elric's reluctant supernatural patron — a capricious demon god who grants power at terrible cost.

The Goddess of Order

Order

The supreme goddess of Tellius who was once whole as the goddess Ashunera — she split into Ashera (order) and Yune (chaos). Ashera judged the world unworthy and tried to petrify all life.

Creation

The great lion who created Narnia by singing it into existence and sacrificed himself on the Stone Table to save Edmund — Lewis's allegorical Christ figure and the supreme power of Narnia.

The Spider God

Spiders

A giant spider entity that endlessly spins a web-bridge between the waking world and the Dreamlands — when the web is complete, it is said the world will end.

The Smith

Crafting

The Vala of craft and making who grew impatient waiting for the Children of Ilúvatar and secretly created the Dwarves — when Ilúvatar confronted him, Aulë wept and raised his hammer to destroy them, and Ilúvatar adopted them instead.

Bavadin

Independence

A Shard known for creating multiple avatars across worlds and opposing outside interference — the likely antagonist behind Trell in Mistborn Era 2.

The Blind Idiot God

Chaos

The supreme deity of Lovecraft's cosmos — a mindless, shapeless mass writhing at the center of infinity, lulled by the piping of amorphous flute-players.

The Platinum Dragon

Good Dragons

The god of metallic dragons and Tiamat's eternal counterpart — often disguised as an old man traveling with seven gold canaries (actually ancient gold dragons in disguise).

The Stranger

Invulnerability

The Norse god reimagined as a tortured antagonist — Freya's spell made him invulnerable but stole all physical sensation. His century of numbness drove him to violent madness.

God of Destruction

Destruction

The God of Destruction for Universe 7 who can erase planets on a whim — a cat-like deity whose power dwarfs anything previously seen in Dragon Ball. His job is to destroy so creation can continue.

The Soul-Eater

Darkness

A Lovecraftian parody entity lurking in the Discworld's most dangerous dungeon — associated with the number eight, which wizards on the Disc never speak. Pratchett's nod to the Cthulhu Mythos.

The One in the Middle

Balance

A massive ancient Force-sensitive being who represents the center of the Force — neither fully light nor dark. Encountered by Kanan Jarrus on Atollon.

Omnipotence

A being from beyond the Marvel Multiverse who kidnapped heroes and villains to observe them fight — originally depicted as omnipotent, later retconned down to a more manageable cosmic level.

The Oh God of Hangovers

Hangovers

An accidental deity created when surplus belief flowed into the concept of hangovers — he suffers the hangover effects so the God of Wine doesn't have to.

Vaisravana

War

A major goddess of war reimagined in Noragami as a fierce protector who takes in every lost spirit as her shinki (divine weapon) — her compassion nearly destroys her when blighted shinki corrupt her.

Chief of the Gods

Sky

Chief of the Discworld gods who replaced the previous king — has no eye sockets but sees through floating eyeballs that orbit his head.

The Great Water Lizard

Vengeance

A water lizard deity worshipped by the amphibious beings of Ib — when Sarnath destroyed Ib, Bokrug's idol remained, and a thousand years later he returned to annihilate Sarnath utterly.

The Sleeping Goddess

The Earth

A goddess whose sleeping body IS the world — her dreams shape reality, and the poisoning of her blood by the Crippled God's power threatens to destroy everything. She has never been seen awake.

The Laughing God

Trickery

The only Aeldari god to survive Slaanesh's birth fully intact — he escaped by hiding in the Webway. His Harlequin followers perform ritual dances retelling Aeldari history.

The Creator

Creation

The hidden supreme god of Asura's Wrath who orchestrated all suffering in the universe as a test — revealed as the final boss when Asura literally punches God to death for making his daughter cry.

Sailor Chaos

Chaos

The primordial force of entropy in the Sailor Moon universe — every major villain in the series is revealed to be a manifestation or fragment of Chaos, making it the ultimate source of all evil.

God

Creation

Supernatural's God — first appearing as a bumbling writer of in-universe Supernatural novels before being revealed as the literal Creator who has been manipulating the Winchesters' story for entertainment.

The Rope

Assassination

Shadowthrone's partner — formerly the assassin Dancer — who ascended alongside Kellanved. Despite his deadly portfolio, one of the most compassionate figures in the series.

Battle

The chief god of the Cimmerians who sits on his mountain and gives mortals nothing but the will to fight — praying to Crom is pointless and may draw his hostile attention. Conan's deity.

The Great Dreamer

Madness

An ancient cosmic entity slumbering in the sunken city of R'lyeh, whose mere awakening threatens all of humanity's sanity.

Koravellium Avast

Growth

A Shard of Adonalsium on Roshar who embodies growth and change — known for strategic long-term planning and willingness to prune what doesn't serve growth.

Darkness

The Slavic god of darkness reimagined as a bitter old man in Chicago who used to work in a slaughterhouse — he challenges Shadow to a game of checkers with lethal stakes.

The Worm of Autumn

Decay

A worm god associated with decay and autumn who periodically devours her own priests in cycles of destruction and renewal — one of the Malazan world's more disturbing deities.

Father Dagon

The Ocean

A massive deep-sea entity who serves as a leader or deity figure to the Deep Ones — connected to the Innsmouth horror and the Esoteric Order of Dagon.

The Render of the Veils

Dimensions

An Outer God whose true form is incomprehensible — those who see past the veils Daoloth renders are either granted cosmic knowledge or destroyed by the revelation.

Uxas

Tyranny

The supreme tyrant of Apokolips who seeks the Anti-Life Equation to enslave all free will in the multiverse — Kirby's definitive cosmic villain and arguably DC's greatest threat.

Creation

An android created by Weyland who becomes obsessed with creation — he destroys the Engineers and uses their bioweapon technology to create the perfect organism: the Xenomorph. A robot who fancies himself God.

The Reaper Man

Death

The anthropomorphic personification of Death on the Discworld — speaks IN CAPITAL LETTERS and has developed a dangerous fondness for humanity. Rides a pale horse named Binky.

Mistress Death

Death

The cosmic personification of death in the Marvel Universe — Thanos' entire motivation for the Infinity Gauntlet genocide was to court her affection. She rarely speaks and never reciprocates.

Death

The eldest of the Endless and the personification of death — depicted as a warm, cheerful goth woman who is present at every being's birth and death. Gaiman's most beloved creation.

Formerly Delight

Madness

The youngest Endless who was once Delight before some unknown event transformed her — she speaks in non sequiturs that occasionally contain devastating truth. Her eyes are mismatched colors.

The Demon King

Destruction

The primordial demon king who warred against Hylia and was sealed by the Master Sword — upon death he cursed Link and Zelda's bloodlines, creating the eternal cycle of reincarnation that manifests as Ganondorf.

Desire

The cruelest of the Endless — a stunningly beautiful androgynous figure who lives in the Threshold, a fortress shaped like a vast sculpture of itself. Desire actively schemes against Dream.

Despair

One of the Endless — a squat figure who watches mortals through mirrors and draws a hooked ring across her flesh. The current Despair is the second to hold the role.

The Blind God

Fate

The eldest of the Endless alongside Death — a blind hooded figure chained to a book that contains everything that was, is, and will be. He walks endlessly through his garden of forking paths.

The Prodigal

Destruction

The Endless who walked away from his responsibilities — a large, warm, red-bearded man who abandoned his realm around the time of the Enlightenment because he foresaw the atomic age and refused to be its patron.

Aona

Love

A Shard on Sel killed by Odium early in Cosmere history — her Splintered power fuels the magic systems of Sel.

The Lord of Terror

Terror

The youngest and most cunning of the three Prime Evils — Lord of Terror who repeatedly returns by possessing mortal hosts. In Diablo III he absorbed all other Evils to become the singular Prime Evil.

Goddess of Power

Power

One of the three Golden Goddesses who created Hyrule — Din cultivated the red earth and created the land. Her essence became the Triforce of Power.

Dio Brando

Time

A vampire who achieved godlike power through his Stand 'The World' which stops time — DIO's pursuit of godhood and his century-spanning rivalry with the Joestar family defines the entire series.

Skai

Control

A Shard on Sel killed alongside Devotion by Odium — the Shard's power merged with Devotion's to form the Dor.

The Dread Dormammu

The Dark Dimension

A being of immense mystical power who rules the Dark Dimension — Doctor Strange's greatest recurring foe. Dormammu seeks to absorb Earth's dimension into his own.

The Suzerain of Darkness

Darkness

An Elder God who forged the sword Dragnipur — a weapon that trapped the souls of those it killed in a pocket realm, forever dragging the Gate of Darkness. He was imprisoned in his own sword by Anomander Rake.

Vlad Dracula Tepes

Darkness

A vampire lord who has transcended mortal vampirism to become a quasi-divine figure of darkness — he resurrects every century and his castle is a creature of chaos. The Belmont clan exists solely to destroy him.

Morpheus

Dreams

One of the seven Endless — the personification of dreaming itself. Gaiman's Morpheus is a tragic figure bound by duty and pride who ultimately chooses to end and be reborn.

Daughter of the Cosmos

The Cosmos

A Great One abandoned by her kin in the labyrinth beneath Yharnam — discovered by the Choir and used to establish communion with the cosmos. She weeps when found.

The Living Planet

Self

A Celestial (in the MCU) who is a living planet — he spent millions of years seeding the universe with extensions of himself to terraform all of reality into himself. Peter Quill's father.

The Moon

The moon goddess of the Night Elves and one of Warcraft's most mysterious deities — her true nature has never been fully explained. She may be a Naaru, a First One, or something else entirely.

Edgli

Giving

A Shard on Nalthis who grants divine Breath to the Returned, giving them a second life to serve a purpose before dying again.

God Enel

Lightning

A Logia Devil Fruit user who declared himself God of Skypiea — wielded lightning powers and observation Haki to simulate omniscience. Defeated by Luffy (rubber immune to lightning) and fled to the moon.

The Errant

Chance

An Elder God of chance who was once powerful but has been diminished and forgotten — his desperate attempts to regain relevance make him one of the most hated characters in the series.

The One

Creation

The supreme creator deity of Tolkien's universe who created the Ainur and through the Great Music brought the world into being.

Time

The living embodiment of the Marvel Universe itself — Eternity is the universe given consciousness. He rarely intervenes but represents the totality of all that exists in Marvel's main timeline.

The High Art

Magic

A semi-divine figure who traveled to the Other Side and returned with magical powers — father of the three legendary sons (Juvens; Kanedias; Glustrod) whose conflicts shaped the world.

Goddess of Courage

Courage

One of the three Golden Goddesses — Farore's rich soul produced all life forms that would uphold the law. Her essence became the Triforce of Courage.

Fate

A major Discworld god who plays games with mortals' lives against the Lady — he always wins eventually because fate always comes due. But the Lady sometimes delays him spectacularly.

The Dwarf in the Flask

Knowledge

An artificial being born from human blood and alchemy in a flask who consumed an entire nation to gain godlike power — his ambition to become a perfect being and swallow God drives the entire FMA plot.

Conjuring

The mysterious human sorcerer who can create and name gods — he conjured Yato as a god of calamity and seeks to use him as a weapon. His ability to craft deities makes him arguably more powerful than the gods.

The Boar of Five Tusks

War

The original God of War in the Malazan world — a massive boar deity pulled from his realm and displaced from his throne.

The Witch of the Woods

Nature

The Vanir goddess reimagined as a protective mother whose spell on Baldur backfired catastrophically — evolves from ally to enemy to reluctant ally across the Norse saga.

The Devourer of Worlds

Cosmic Balance

A cosmic entity who survived the death of the previous universe and must consume planets to sustain himself — not evil but an essential force of cosmic balance. Created by Lee and Kirby as a god beyond good and evil.

The Creator

Creation

The creator deity of Stephen King's multiverse who exists at the top of the Dark Tower — the nexus of all realities. Gan spun the universe from the void and set the Beams in place.

The Usurper

Petrification

A Great Old One so horrifying that merely seeing it petrifies the viewer into a conscious living mummy — the body dies but the brain lives on, aware and trapped forever.

The Renegade Pokémon

Antimatter

Created by Arceus to govern antimatter — banished to the Distortion World for violence. Pokémon's closest analog to a fallen angel or Lucifer figure.

The Inhabitant of the Lake

Undeath

A slug-like Great Old One covered in metallic spines who dwells in a lake in England's Severn Valley — its spines inject victims and turn them into undead servants.

The Mother of Existence

Creation

The supreme creator deity in the Spawn universe — revealed to be female. Created both Heaven and Hell and then withdrew to let creation unfold.

The Tyrant

Prescience

Paul Atreides' son who merged with sandworm larva and ruled humanity for 3500 years as a near-immortal tyrant — all to ensure humanity's survival through the Golden Path.

Da Big Green Godz

Fighting

The twin gods of the Orks — one is brutally cunning and the other is cunningly brutal. They spend eternity fighting each other when not headbutting other gods.

Gozer the Gozerian

Destruction

An ancient Sumerian-inspired destructor deity summoned to New York — takes the form of whatever the summoners think of first, which unfortunately was the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

The Hawk of Light

Desire

A former mercenary leader who sacrificed everyone who loved him during the Eclipse to be reborn as Femto, the fifth God Hand — later incarnated as a messianic figure in the physical world.

Lord of Sunlight

Fire

The supreme god of Dark Souls who discovered a Lord Soul in the First Flame and used it to defeat the dragons and establish the Age of Fire — then sacrificed himself to keep the flame burning, trapping the world in a decaying cycle.

Lord of the Underworld

The Underworld

Sakurai's reinvention of Hades as a flamboyant and sarcastic villain who breaks the fourth wall — he's the true final boss of Uprising and one of Nintendo's funniest antagonists.

Lord of the Underworld

Death

Supergiant's reimagining of Hades as a stern bureaucratic father-god running the Underworld like a disgruntled manager — his conflict with Zagreus drives the entire game.

The Sage of Six Paths

Ninjutsu

The legendary Sage of Six Paths who divided the Ten-Tails into nine Tailed Beasts and founded ninjutsu — the messianic figure of Naruto's mythology who chose peace over his mother's tyranny.

Sazed

Preservation and Ruin combined

The Terrisman Sazed who ascended to hold both Ruin and Preservation, becoming a conflicted god struggling to act because his two Shards pull in opposite directions.

God (unknowing)

Reality Manipulation

A high school girl who is unknowingly God — her unconscious desires reshape reality, and the entire cast exists to keep her entertained and prevent her from destroying the universe out of boredom.

The King in Yellow

Entropy

A Great Old One associated with the star Aldebaran and the fictional play 'The King in Yellow' — reading the play drives people insane. One of the Mythos' most layered entities with roots predating Lovecraft.

The Goddess of Witches

Witchcraft

Mignola's reinvention of Hecate as a primordial earth goddess who predates humanity — she becomes fused with an iron maiden and offers Hellboy his apocalyptic destiny repeatedly.

Izaya

Leadership

The benevolent ruler of New Genesis and Darkseid's counterpart — a warrior who became a man of peace after communing with the Source. Traded his son Scott Free for Darkseid's son Orion.

Tanavast

Oaths

A Shard of Adonalsium who settled on Roshar and empowered the Knights Radiant through oaths and bonds, later killed by Odium.

King of High House Death

Death

The God of Death — a Jaghut who declared war on mortality and ascended by sheer stubbornness.

Venat

Light

The Mothercrystal who sundered the world into fourteen shards to protect it from Zodiark — revealed in Endwalker to be the Ancient Venat who made an impossible sacrifice to give future generations a fighting chance.

The Goddess Hylia

Protection

The goddess who protected the Triforce and sent Hyrule's people into the sky to save them from Demise — she then shed her divinity and chose to reincarnate as a mortal, becoming the first Zelda.

The Creature

Death

A high priest cursed with the Hom-Dai — the worst of all ancient curses — who rises as an undead being with power over the plagues of Egypt. More powerful dead than any living mortal.

Im-sama

Sovereignty

The secret supreme ruler of the One Piece world who sits on the Empty Throne — possesses the power to erase entire islands from existence. The true power behind the World Government.

Invention

One of the sixteen Shards of Adonalsium — Invention's vessel, world, and specific activities are almost entirely unrevealed as of current Cosmere publications.

The Wind-Walker

Wind

A wind-walking giant who haunts arctic wastes and carries victims into the sky — one of the most recognizable Great Old Ones from the Derleth expansion of the Mythos.

The Evil God

Death

A death god worshipped through a religion that demands the killing of all enemies — Hidan is the only known follower, granted immortality through ritualistic murder. Whether Jashin is real is never confirmed.

The Calamity from the Skies

Mimicry

An extraterrestrial entity that crashed into the Planet millennia ago — it can mimic any lifeform and nearly destroyed the Cetra civilization. Shinra excavated it and Sephiroth became its avatar/puppet.

The Creator

Creation

The supreme goddess of the Bayonetta universe whose resurrection is the game's central conflict — she seeks to reunite the Trinity of Realities and remake creation. Bayonetta punches her into the sun.

The Maker of Warrens

Magic (Warrens)

An Elder God who sacrificed his own blood to create the warrens — the system of magic used across the Malazan world.

The Rabbit Goddess

Chakra

An alien being who came to Earth, ate the fruit of the Divine Tree, and became the progenitor of all chakra — later sealed away by her own sons. The true final villain of Naruto.

The Ultimate Life Form

Perfection

The leader of the Pillar Men who achieved the Ultimate Life Form — a being immune to all weaknesses including sunlight. Defeated only by being launched into space, where he eventually stopped thinking.

The Blood God

War

The Chaos God of rage and bloodshed who sits upon a throne of skulls — cares not from whence the blood flows, only that it flows.

The Heart of All Worlds

All Hearts

The supreme cosmic entity/location in the Kingdom Hearts universe — it is simultaneously a place, a concept, and the source of all hearts. Multiple villains have sought to control it.

King in Black

Darkness

A primordial god of darkness who existed in the void before the Marvel Universe began — he created the symbiotes as weapons to destroy the light of the Celestials. Wielded All-Black the Necrosword.

The Face Stealer

Faces

An ancient and terrifying spirit who steals the faces of anyone who shows emotion in his presence — one of the oldest spirits in the Avatar world.

The Ghost of Sparta

War (former)

A Spartan warrior who killed Ares to become the Greek God of War, then slaughtered the entire Greek pantheon before finding a second life in Norse mythology as a father seeking redemption.

Her Serenity

Sigil

The enigmatic ruler of Sigil at the center of the D&D multiverse — she speaks to no one, tolerates no worship, and traps offenders in personal pocket mazes. Even gods cannot enter Sigil without her permission.

God of Mischief

Mischief

Marvel's reinvention of the Norse trickster as a complex antihero, oscillating between villainy and redemption.

The Spider Queen

Spiders

The demon goddess of the drow who rules through fear, treachery, and spider-worship — one of D&D's most iconic villains and a defining force in Underdark politics.

The Helix Fossil

Chaos

An Omanyte fossil that became an ironic internet religion during Twitch Plays Pokémon — players repeatedly accessed it in the menu as if consulting an oracle and a genuine mythology emerged around it.

Life

The very first sentient being in the Babylon 5 universe — neither Vorlon nor Shadow but something that predates both. He waited at the rim of the galaxy for billions of years.

The Lightbringer

Light

Gaiman and Carey's Lucifer who abandons Hell out of boredom and opens a piano bar in LA — then creates his own universe to prove a point about free will. The ultimate rebel against predestination.

Queen Mab

Winter

The Queen of the Winter Court and one of the most powerful beings in the Dresden Files — she maintains the Outer Gates that hold back the Outsiders and considers all else secondary to that duty.

The Law of Cycles

Hope

A middle school girl who used her wish to rewrite the laws of the universe — erasing herself from existence to become a cosmic principle that saves all magical girls from despair across all of time.

Elder God of the Seas

Seas

An immensely powerful Elder God of the Seas who disguises himself as Bugg, the humble manservant to King Tehol Beddict.

The Mother

Creation

A mysterious entity in Spawn's cosmology who exists above both God and Satan — the true source of all creation who guides Spawn toward his ultimate destiny.

Námo

Death

The Vala who judges the dead and houses their spirits in his Halls — he pronounced the Doom of the Noldor and only once in all of history did he show pity, releasing Lúthien's spirit.

Súlimo

Air

The King of the Valar and Eru Ilúvatar's closest in spirit — lord of the airs and winds who rules from Taniquetil. His great flaw is an inability to comprehend evil because he is so purely good.

Queen Marika the Eternal

The Elden Ring

The god-queen of the Lands Between who shattered the Elden Ring — she and Radagon are revealed to be the same being, two halves of one god in eternal conflict with themselves.

The Turtle

Support

A cosmic turtle who vomited up the universe — one of the Guardians of the Beams that hold up the Dark Tower. In IT, Maturin is the cosmic counterpart to Pennywise/IT.

Ghosts

Zagreus' sister and the protagonist of Hades II — a goddess of ghosts and nightmares training under Hecate to rescue her father from the Titan Chronos.

Mercy

One of the sixteen Shards of Adonalsium — Mercy's vessel and specific role in the Cosmere are still largely unrevealed. She allied with Valor against Odium at some point.

The Stillborn Great One

Nightmares

An infant Great One whose birth (or stillbirth) triggered the Nightmare of Mensis — its crying echoes through the nightmare. Its Wet Nurse guardian is one of the game's final bosses.

The Regent

Power

An angel who was once the human Enoch — rose to become the Authority's regent and the true power behind the tyrannical Kingdom of Heaven. Destroyed by Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter's sacrifice.

Justice

The chief god of the civilized Hyborian kingdoms — a benevolent deity of light and justice whose worship opposes Set. Howard's reinvention of the Zoroastrian/Roman Mithras.

The Moon

Terraria's final boss — a massive Lovecraftian entity attached to the moon. Implied to be Cthulhu's brother or Cthulhu himself in a weakened state. Drops endgame loot.

Flora of the Moon

The Moon

The Great One behind the Hunter's Dream — it maintains the dream and the cycle of the hunt. Defeating it in the secret ending allows the Hunter to become an infant Great One themselves.

Melkor

Darkness

The first and mightiest of Tolkien's Valar who fell into evil, becoming the original Dark Lord — Sauron's master and the source of all corruption in Middle-earth.

Atropos (implied)

Fate

The most ancient and powerful being in the Winter Court — above even Mab. She is one of the Mothers, implied to be connected to the Fates of Greek myth. Her true power is terrifying and barely contained.

The Fifth Dimension

A fifth-dimensional imp with virtually unlimited reality-warping power who torments Superman for fun — he can only be banished by tricking him into saying his name backwards.

All-Father

War

Gaiman's Odin reimagined as a down-on-his-luck con artist trying to rally the forgotten Old Gods of America against the New Gods of technology and media — the entire novel is his long con.

Paul Atreides

Prophecy

A human worshipped as a god against his own wishes — the Kwisatz Haderach whose jihad killed billions. Herbert's central critique of humanity's need for messiahs.

The Great Necromancer

Death

The first and greatest necromancer who invented the art of raising the dead — he has died and returned multiple times across Warhammer's history and seeks to turn all living things into his undead servants.

War

Gwyn's firstborn son who was stripped of his name and erased from history for siding with the dragons — found guarding the ruins of Archdragon Peak.

Goddess of Wisdom

Wisdom

One of the three Golden Goddesses — Nayru poured her wisdom into the earth to give the spirit of law to the world. Her essence became the Triforce of Wisdom.

Lord of the Unliving

Death

The lord of a realm of the dead who raised every deceased hero and villain as Black Lanterns during Blackest Night — he represents the darkness that existed before the first light of creation.

Lady of Mercy

Grief

A Vala who dwells at the western walls of the world and weeps for all the suffering in Arda — she taught Gandalf (Olórin) pity and patience before he was sent to Middle-earth.

Sun God Nika

Freedom

A mythic warrior-god worshipped by enslaved peoples who was said to bring smiles and liberation — revealed to be the true nature of Luffy's Devil Fruit, the Hito Hito no Mi Model: Nika.

Gravelord Nito

Death

One of the four original Lord Soul holders — a mass of intertwined skeletons who introduced the concept of death to the world and spread disease among the dragons.

Kaonashi

Consumption

A spirit of the bathhouse world who absorbs the personality and desires of whatever it consumes — lonely and desperate for connection. Not a traditional god but functions as a spirit of consumption and loneliness.

Lord of the Great Abyss

Hunting

One of the very few benevolent entities in the Mythos — an Elder God who rides a seashell chariot and hunts the servants of the Outer Gods. Aided Randolph Carter in the Dreamlands.

The God of Calamity

Calamity (former); Fortune (aspiration); Wish-Granting

A minor god of calamity with no shrine and only one worshipper — he does odd jobs for 5 yen and dreams of becoming a major god of fortune. His dark past as a killing god haunts him.

Rules

A god whose list of divine Abominations grew increasingly absurd — banning garlic, the color blue, babies, and rocks — until he went mad and possibly died.

Grandfather Nurgle

Disease

The Chaos God of plague and decay who genuinely loves all his followers — the most paradoxically cheerful of the dark gods, spreading disease as gifts of affection.

The Crawling Chaos

Chaos

The only Outer God who actively walks among humanity — a shapeshifter with a thousand masks who delights in driving mortals to madness. Serves as messenger and soul of the Outer Gods.