JTTM Lore: The Six Gods

There are six Gods of the Multiverse, not counting Gods from other worlds like The Man of the Beginning, the Guardian of Valpuella, and the Princess of the Midway. They’ve been split into two different tiers: Gods of the Eternal Balance and Gods of the Human Evolution.

The three Gods of the Eternal Balance are Gods that focus on life, death, and the balance of the two. Many stories list off how good or evil the Gods are, though most of it greatly depends on where the story is told, as it has a tendency to have bias. Written by the winners, after all.

Xerneas focuses on life and champions people who fight for it, such as The Man of the Beginning or the Guardian of Valpuella. His works include creation and/or preserving life, such as creating a flying castle in a world where it was devastated so much by a magic war that the only people who could safely live on that land were elves and fairies to house those who can’t live on the land anymore.

Yveltal, meanwhile, represents the flip side: death. His champions embody this, like the Princess of the Midway and The Ultimate Despair. His works include destruction and ending life. He has been known to create, but he has only created monsters that care for the destruction of anything that isn’t them. He resides in the Abyss, where he infects anyone who dwells in his plane with his own darkness.

Zygarde is the middle of the two. He champions people who fight for even ground, like the Reaper and the Baron. That said, he’s not exactly a good guy. He follows the code of “Creation cannot begin without Destruction” and has actually created world-threatening beings to ensure that creation can follow through. This includes Helheim Forest and even a piece of tech called the DecaDriver.

The three Gods of the Human Evolution, however, are more common Gods, able to interact with humanity more than the Eternal Balance Gods. However, their interactions have led to some of either the greatest tragedies or the greatest monuments.

Diancie is the Goddess of Fairies and had been intrigued by emotions. She had studied the draining of energy in the multiverse and realized that Yveltal feeds off that energy. The problem, however, was that this energy was running out and soon destruction of several worlds would be require to sate Yveltal’s hunger. So, she devised a system where emotions can be converted into energy to feed Yveltal. She chose a race that was immortal, so as to ensure an infinite source of energy.

Unfortunately, while the creatures she gave the system to were immortal in the sense that they always have backups, they lacked in emotions and morals. They took her system and modified it, allowing them to crystallize souls and have emotions cloud it to the point of the souls breaking and corrupting. They then took it to another world and handed it to humans, particularly young girls, and tricked them into a cycle of death and abuse.

Diancie was devastated that these creatures, the Incubators, could abuse her system like this. When war broke out because of massive groups of people declaring the Incubators as the enemy for their crimes against humanity, people eventually found her out to be the Goddess responsible for handing the system to the Incubators. She fled the multiverse, only to be captured by scientists and experimented upon. However, this gave humanity her Multiversal Gift: Shards.

Shards, to sum it all up, are small, crystallized slivers of people's souls (don't worry, they're fine when they get an extraction, though it drains a lot of energy from them) which act more as backup copies when used correctly, like placing the Shard in a replica mannequin. However, its side effect gets used more often, as the Shards can be embedded into other people and thus are able to gain their powers, with the risk of becoming possessed by them or even having the two personalities merge into a single, inseparable entity.

Hoopa, meanwhile, was intrigued by human desires. He had noticed that humans have desired to explore the world beyond them, ‘escaping’ he puts it, and decided to help them by creating a portal that accesses to the quickest lane in the Multiverse so that they can get to their destination quick and easy: The Abyss.

As you might expect, this isn’t something that ends well. Though while Diancie was intending to do good for humanity, Hoopa didn’t really care about whether his Multiversal Gift led to the rise of evil villains. He actually really enjoys it. He’s a God, he can get easily bored. Besides, it usually has at least one good guy emerging, and that’s all the difference it makes.

That said, his invention helped cause the rise of villains like Count Logan and intensified the Incubator Wars. Not to mention that he also created a threat to the Multiverse in the form of Devils/Demons. As you might expect, Hoopa’s kind of a troll. Though his only fault in it was creating access to the Abyss. Yveltal and the Abyss’ denizens are the ones who help corrupt the travellers into Devils.

And lastly, Volcanion, who is intrigued by humanity’s technology. During the war against the Reapers in Mass Effect’s world, Volcanion intervened and fought back the Reapers, effectively saving the galaxy. Unfortunately, in a bid for Godhood, that world’s Shepard hijacked the Reapers and became the new commander, destroying the Mass Effect Relays in the process.

Despite this seeming act of betrayal, Shepard vowed to protect ‘the many’ and acknowledged Volcanion’s strength. As a reward, Shepard, with the help of other people, repaired his broken back and built a Stargate on his back. Grateful and awed by their technology, Volcanion shared his Multiversal Gift to the world of Mass Effect: repairing the Mass Effect Relays and allowing them to travel through the Multiverse.

This in turn caused other worlds to become ‘Multiversally Aware’, a term used to describe a world knowing about other worlds and being able to travel through them. This in turn led to some discussions on ethics. Stuff like meddling and Prime Directive gets hotly debated and wars have even broken out because of them. It’s one of the reasons why there was an Incubator Wars in the first place, as a couple of people fighting for the Incubators believe they shouldn’t meddle in their affairs and let them continue their job.