Demiurge (Realms)

Demiurge
Realms of the Multiverse character
Created by	RMD
Based on	Yaldabaoth
Portrayed by	Yeh Shuhua
Voiced by	Yeh Shuhua (Native) Karen Strassman (English)
Information
Alias	Mother of the Archons Yaldabaoth
Species	False god
Gender	Genderless, female (human form)
Title	False god
Occupation	Diety, villain
Weapon	Gun, hammer
Family	Chesed (daughter, creation) Gevurah (daughter, creation) Keter (daughter, creation)
Nationality	None (formerly) Golden Empire
Height	Variable, 180 (human form)
Weight	Variable, 52 kg (human form)
Birthday	Unknown
Alignment	Lawful Evil
Additional information
Qì colour(s)	Rainbow
Soul Arsenal	The False God

The Demiurge (Chinese: 迪米乌哥斯 Dímǐwūgēsī), also known as The False God (假神 Jiǎshén), is an upcoming villain in Realms of the Multiverse. While she is technically genderless, female pronouns are used to refer to her, mainly because of her title of "Mother of the Archons" and because of her chosen human form.

Design

In her true form, the Demiurge is a massive entity with white, pearly skin, who appears vaguely humanoid from the waist upwards and serpentine otherwise. The serpentine parts of her body display scales not unlike real snakes. She has two pairs of skeletal arms that seem as if they were made from gemstones, with her top right arm being blue, her bottom right arm red, her top left arm green, and her bottom left arm black, giving the impression that they are made of sapphire, ruby, emerald, and onyx respectively. A pair of halos float above her back, which are connected to a wing each, one set of halo and wing coloured silver, and the other gold. Her head is akin to that belonging to a marble lion statue. Above it is another halo, this one coloured black with colourful spots, giving the illusion of a night sky.

As a human, the Demiurge appears as a young Chinese woman around 16-18 years of age physically. She has a unique face compared to other characters, with relatively large eyes and a v-shaped jaw structure with prominent cheekbones. She is tall for her physical age, and has skin so smooth and pale the other girls in her class asked her about her skincare routine. She is often seen wearing dresses when not wearing her uniform.

History

Birth

After God finished creating the Multiverse, residues of His power was left in the space between each universe, due to the sheer amount of His power used in the event. These residues began to gravitate towards each other, growing as they absorb more of them for millions of years. Soon, this concentration of raw power gained sentience and became the Demiurge.

As the false god

Unaware of her origins, she looked on as the earliest life forms of the Multiverse, (in the case of R1, the ghosts), granting them miracles and punishments as an experiment to gauge their reactions. Her sadistic tests drew the attention of an angel, who was then ordered to warn her of her actions and that God is watching her and that there are consequences for every good and bad deed.

Confused and afraid, she attacked the angel, who disappeared once its job was done. It was then that she realized she wasn't truly the God that fashioned the Multiverse, but merely a pretender.

Back on Earth, her actions have already left a mark on the ghost civilizations, who worshipped her as a deity under different names and religions. Noticing this, the Demiurge used their faith to her advantage by rewarding loyalty and punishing dissent. Conflicts between worshippers of God and worshippers of her own rose, and her cults became the dominant faith of each of the five civilizations. At this point, she no longer needed to waste energy to ensure faith in her. Those who refused to worship her were prosecuted all over earth. They were treated as expendable second-class citizens at best and an enemy of the state at worst.

Birth of the Archons

With more energy to spare, the Demiurge attempted to create her own angels to serve as her most loyal messengers, armies, and governors. Due to her limitations, she could only produce three imperfect "angels" bound by space and time, who retain their emotions, needs, and wants, with unlimited free will. She named these creations Chesed, Gevurah, and Keter, and collectively, they were her Archons. She made Chesed the Archon of creation, who was charged with the creation of new universes following the death of each one to ensure the Demiurge's rule. Gevurah was to be the Archon of destruction, whose task was as an executioner and enforcer to eliminate resistance. Keter was created to monitor and guard the Multiverse from any more angels that sought to threaten the Demiurge's power.

Imprisonment

Observing the Demiurge's abuse and mistreatment of her subjects, Keter decided to stand against her creator. Chesed was convinced to join the rebellious Archon after being visited by an angel and Gevurah, after being defeated by her sisters. After the Archons' betrayal, the Demiurge was imprisoned in the Cosmic Ring, the ring that separated the Realms Multiverse from the rest of the Greater Omniverse. The Archons continued their duties, but adapted them to the current state of affairs and ruled with an even hand, unlike their creator.

However, even from her prison, the Demiurge exerts her influence on the sentients of Earth for thousands of years

Weaknesses

As the Demiurge is a divine being, she takes more damage from weapons and ammunition made of Soul Stone.

Creation and Conception

The Archons and the Demiurge were initially planned to be cosmic entities, concepted after RMD watched the MV and several performances of (G)Idle's song Oh My God. Reading on Gnosticism gave him the inspiration to finalize them as their current version. Their creation was also fueled by his desire to run a "rage against the heavens" plot without having villain protagonists rebelling against God. The Demiurge gave the opportunity for such a plot with heroic protagonists, while keeping the final boss of the campaign an unknowable, powerful, and and truly divine entity who happened to be evil despite her nature.

The design of her true form was inspired by the real-life depiction of her namesake in Bernard de Montfaucon's L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures and other depictions of him as a serpent with a lion's head. Her arms were inspired by the depiction of Izanami in Persona 4 and was a reference to the Qì colours. The halo above her head and her wings were references to her divine nature and the colour of it a reference to her cosmic nature, while the ones on her back were inspired by the Messiahs and Link Jokers from Cardfight Vanguard.