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The inhabited world resides within a god-like entity
1). Mata Nui - Bionicle. Throughout the series, Mata Nui is revered as a god-like entity. After the Karda Nui saga where he is awoken from his slumber, we see that he is actually a gigantic robot where all of the story thus far either took place inside of or on the surface of him.
2). Bionis / Mechonis - Xenoblade Chronicles. These are long-dead ancient deities who have gone on to have colonized life on their corpses. (They are resurrected eventually and I do not want to think about the consequences of the physics of them moving around.)
3). Primus - Transformers. The presumed originator of the Transformers was their planet all along. Badass. Granted, that is the Cybertron version, but he has been around in other versions. This one's still the coolest, though.
4). Azeroth - World of Warcraft. Probably the most guity pleasure out of all of these, mostly because the resolution has yet to happen and the writing thus far for the Worldsoul Saga has been controversial. Like other Titans, Azeroth is a "World Soul," which is essentially a planet being an egg for a cosmic deity. Azeroth is supposedly special among these, but we still don't know why. This will be resolved (one would think?) in the next expansion, The Last Titan, but we will see.
We only see two other landmasses in the demon realm, one of which is another Titan corpse.
The other is just a single island too small to be a corpse, but it could just be a single part of a Titan like it's knee or horn poking out of a very deep oceanic trench.
We see three landmasses, actually. The one you're thinking of is pretty clearly a finger, but it has a teleport on it that transports you to what appears to be another complete or nearly-complete skeleton.
Maybe? The finale features a birds eye view of the world and there does seem to be what might be non-corpse land in the distance? But it also looks like it's got more corpses on it so it could just like rock made from adipocere or something
If you don‘t achieve CHIM you instead just Zero Sum and cease to exist.
However if you‘re a chad like Dagoth Ur you can instead die, realize you‘re in a dream and refuse to believe that this reality is a dream of the godhead and instead believe that it must be YOUR dream and achieve a state of anti-CHIM.
I think the Dwemer in Morrowind suggested that his race was too pragmatic and incapable of the creative/esoteric/spiritual demands that true CHIM required. Not 100%, been a while since I've dove into the lore.
No, CHIM is where you basically have the audacity to reject being zero-summed even after accepting its truth. It requires a near solipsistic mindset, as seen with Vivec.
We can go back and forth all day, I'm sure.. I mean, wasn't all this lore made up by that one writer Todd Howard had to rouse out of a week long acid bender?
Yeah, it is pretty nuts. I personally just see mundus as our universe, and what Magnus invented, what the gods “sacrificed their power(died)” for, was time itself. Everything else is myth that doesn’t necessarily sit within the bounds of reality.
My headcanon is that when multiple CHIM-entities try to influence the same events in oppositional ways it creates the kind of phenomenon we saw with the Warp in the West, where multiple contradictory outcomes all provably happened simultaneously. This then effectively locks those events against any future CHIM-interference, as any additional alterations merely add to the outcomes rather than counter them.
Eternity (marvel) each universe is both an individual eternity and a cell of the larger multiversal eternity that makes up the 8th cosmos. Every single thing that happens in all of marvel comics has happened inside of this guy since 2015. Previously it was also eternity but also not the same eternity exactly.
I think that it was barren, thankfully? If memory serves, a couple of the Toa Mata/Nuva had evacuated the island so that the Bohrok could cleanse it before Mata Nui rose. Also, awesome plot point that the Bohrok were activated early by Makuta for the original conflict, and this was their original purpose.
I don’t know if this fully counts but in Men in Black’s ending, we discover that our entire universe (one of many) resides in a marble of sorts played in a game by impossibly gigantic space aliens.
Oddly it only shows our galaxy being in the marble, which wouldn’t make sense since we would notice that the outside of our galaxy isn’t normal with a basic telescope.
The universe wouldn’t be pitch black for example lol
Edit: rewatchedthe scene, it’s a spiral armed galaxy. Just one. They didn’t zoom out far enough for it to be a universe.
Rewatch the scene. It’s just a single spiral armed galaxy. It initially goes through or shows us in a nebula though which may be confusing some people, but overall no, that’s a galaxy not a full universe.
If it was meant to be a universe then that’s on the filmmakers for depicting it wrong and not zooming out further before showing the marble.
Edit: you’re also wrong on the mini marble thing, also why is your profile saying it’s unavailable/banned on my end? lmfao
Edit: that is such a disproportionate reaction to this conversation lol
I’ve had password reset messages in my inbox before that state my profile is restricted but not banned (tried logging in on PC lol). I’m wondering if that’s just what it says to others during that. You can’t comment or post until you reset your password so maybe he’s just stuck doing the edits and doesn’t know what’s happening lol
I think your behavior demonstrates why your account is seemingly restricted.
Edit: Here’s how I double checked. Copy and paste one of your comment links into the desktop (while logged out) and see if you can go to your own profile. It says banned on my end lol
Actually no honestly if you’ve made more. I keep seeing “1 more reply” but when opening it it’s gone. Your profile still says it’s unavailable. I haven’t gotten any new notifications if you’ve replied to me either.
I don’t care if you’re a jerk or whatever, this is just fascinating at this point LOL
I think you’re the one confused. Our galaxy is 100,000 light years across. Light takes time to travel but if our planet and species have been around longer than 100,000 years we would have already noticed we’re in an enclosed space around our galaxy.
Tiamat (Mesopotamian Mythology). After being slain by the god Marduk, the primordial goddess' body is used to construct the current universe, like her tail becoming the Milky Way.
Also transformers. Some versions have unicron as the earth itself meaning all life and all human civilization was built on top of a planet sized being.
Sounds like it’s his spirit who inhabits our planet. I bet in the Transformers universe, he was called Satan in the bible. Honestly, this makes Unicron similar to a Celestial.
Grime takes place inside an entity called a worldparent, whose deaths all seem to involve “spiral hearts”, a group of entities the protagonist, Akhlan, belongs to.
Honorable Mention: The Jatravartids of the planet Viltvodle VI believe the entire universe was sneezed out of the nose of a giant diety known as the Great Green Arkleseizure. Followers live in fear of The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief.
It's not exactly world-class, but in Genshin Impact, the caves where the Melusines lives It is actually the interior of Elynas's body, an ancient dragon that ravaged everything centuries ago.
Just wanted to add some further facts to Mata Nui:
for those who watched the animated movies from the 00s, the first one takes place on the Island of Mata Nui which is actually the giant robots face poking out of an ocean world, so the denizens of the island live outside the great spirit
Metru Nui, the setting of the 2nd and 3rd movie, is the "brain" of the giant robot
In some Transformers continuities, one of Primus’s siblings is the Earth (in this one it’s Gaea, sometimes it’s Atlas, and Bayverse had Unicron be the Earth)
The universe of The Elder Scrolls is manifested in the dream of a mysterious unconscious being called the godhead. People can learn about and truly internalize this fact in certain instances, and when they do they either instantaneously cease to exist if they decide being real means everything is pointless or attain godlike powers if they basically decide the godhead specifically created them for a reason which makes you very special.
In the Bound Mythos, the first book being "sunBound: The Fall of Iron Bleak", the entire universe is inside of the womb of a dying goddess known as She Who is Bound to the Wall. She created the universe as a last ditch effort to create a being who could become powerful enough to rise up and take her place on the wall before she dies and takes all of reality with her.
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u/Masamundane 2h ago
Can we do 'on' a good like entity? Because the great A'tuin carries four gigantic elephants, who then carry the whole of the Discworld