Hyphernoen

Hyphernoen, or the Missing God, was the Supreme Creator of the Universe prior to disappearing shortly after It created all that existed, including the Prime Gods that would later rule the many realms.

Origin

Hyphernoen's name comes from an ancient, extinct dialect with no ties to Earth whatsoever. The most ancient cults of Ombs do not recognize Hyphernoen by this name either in most discourse, preferring to exclusively call the ultimate source of all existence and divinity as the "Missing God" in their own tongues. Regardless, key themes are apparent; Hyphernoen itself is Time incarnate, both before and after, and as a result no knowledge of the Supreme Creator is accessible to any mortal, even to the one remaining Prime God known as Jereth, as even history did not exist before Hyphernoen did.

Appearance and Nature

Hyphernoen's appearance and nature are both things completely unknowable objectively, and believed by the few scholars who've studied the history of Ombs' religious lore to be something that will never become knowable. A minority of cultists who belong to Jereth's cult and thus refer to Hyphernoen as the "Missing God", however, do believe Hyphernoen will reveal itself once more, although when has not been agreed upon and myriad attempts by fringe elements of their religion have even issued predictions, all of which have been unsuccessful. Philosophers otherwise use the events of Ombs' natural history and reality writ-large to come to their own respective assumptions about what Hyphernoen most likely is in terms of nature.

Some cults view Hyphernoen as a distant and removed deity who created the universe but later removed Itself from any immediate affairs in the life of Its creations. Others perceive Hyphernoen with slight ambivalence, and view the "Missing God"'s absence in mortal affairs as a sign of its unwillingness to take responsibility for its perceived-chaotic actions: the creation of countless deities that warred with each other, annihilated and/or tormented mortal races, and whose greed according to oral tales led to the destruction of untold life when the first Ark was opened. A small sect of Philosophers instead do not believe Hyphernoen is consciously sentient at all. Until the Missing God long-claimed by soothsayers to return ever does, Hyphernoen's true nature will remain a mystery.