Aranman

Aranman is a seldom-spoken alternate name for Yaweh / God across Dozerfleet Comics. While always active behind the scenes, characters usually invoke Him rather than interact knowingly directly.

Notable attributes
Attributes should be like described in the Bible. Anything additional in Dozerfleet works is noted here.

In relation to Volition Dilemma Paradox
To be loved truly, one must be confirmed in it until unable to ever leave it. Before that, one much paradoxically first be given a trial period that includes ability to choose not to love. But with this risk, comes the risk of temptation to not, and of every evil that can result. This led to the War in Heaven, and the fall of creation. It led to the mode-locking of Apthalans (angels) and Biroots (demons) first, and then to the entire course of history with regards to humanity. It led to the struggle of good and evil, as fallen creation sought to go its own way, while God sought to reconcile as much as possible unto himself.

While no true lesser gods were allowed to be, as God didn't want anyone else worshiped nor to share his glory of title with anyone else, that didn't stop the Abdygalis from being forged for Abrujan to wield against the dark forces that were backing Nimrod's plan - the same ones that were punishing the tribes that parted ways after the confusion of language for not trying to maintain the humanistic experiment of Babel in spite of the confusion.

Abrujan being careless with the Abdygalis, however, resulted in its rapid growth to unbelievable sizes, its being jettisoned into space, its fragmentation, the Abdygalis shards coming to exist, hunts for shards by the power-hungry to create miniature Abdygalis staffs, and the Barely-Explicable Phenomena resulting as a consequence.

This further prompted, post-ascension of Christ, in the Divergency becoming necessary in the Megaverse. This Divergency saw the universe get splintered into multiple fractional timelines, with three primary cultures of timeline coming to exist: the Dromedeverse, Geroshaverse, and Eccentriaverse, along with pocket dimensions. The Geroshaverse further splintered into a multiverse of its own, with dozens of separate timelines. Characters rushing to use the Barely-Explicable Phenomena for their own use result in superpowers existing; but none can credibly hope to replace God. Even that fact, however, didn't stop many from becoming delusional amidst their power grabs, in their quests to become demigods. As such, God must contend with an omniuniverse filled with delusional false deities trying to steal his glory.

Character bio
Details should be as described in the Bible, unless otherwise noted. While God Himself seldom makes appearances in Dozerfleet works, He is often invoked by other characters, or a power source for many, such as the Angelic Army. There are a few noble exceptions. He would have appeared as "Minshus" in a few episodes of Stationery Voyagers, had that series not been cancelled.

He makes a tiny handful of explicit appearances as well in The Gerosha Chronicles, such as when he appears as Jesus to Mahima Zecharia in a vision, telling her to get up and to not despair, after almost being killed by a meteor. She awakens to find herself having miraculously survived the destruction of the cage that Daruka Naiju was keeping her in, with only very minor scratches, along with superficial burns and bruises.

While making very few appearances in the Saga of the Angel of Radioactive Death and Destruction, he is mentioned more times in that saga, especially by Cherinob herself, than he is directly mentioned anywhere else in Dozerfleet. Without Him, the Angelic Army would not be able to justify its own existence. As such, serving Him is clearly their goal, shaping their every action. While he may lack a lot of "screen time," His intentions are usually felt through His influence on what the various angel characters do, as well as different church bodies like the Order of the Oraphim and Sodality Church. Apthalans are always busy in the background, but are most active in the forefront in Cherinob (story)Cherinob]], Cherinob 2, Of Angels and Icicles, Cherinob 3, Swappernetters, and Percolation Warriors.

Along with the Divergency is the promise of the timelines eventually merging back after multiple incursions, as all are readied for the Last Day of Judgment - and eternity afterward. Even word of the Reconvergence, however, leads to evildoers trying to hijack it for their own purposes, or make it happen on their own terms.

Attributes
He is comprised of three personal singularity particles called Divitons, which remain distinct for specific offices but which are co-equal and co-eternal, and function as a single hive mind.

Being an entity that values the concept of love above all other things, he made all other things for its purpose. However, completion of love requires sharing, which also requires that the other party be at least temporarily allowed the ability to choose not to love and obey - though not without guarantee of zero logical consequence. Thus, while the use of the term "free" in "free will" is possibly pejorative, "able will" is a temporary necessity.

This paradox became known as "Volition Dilemma." Being freed from the conflict of Volition Dilemma became known as being "Mode-Locked," which was referred to by the New Testament writers as "confirmation" in either holiness or sin (1 Thessalonians 3:13.) Thus, all things became subject to the conflict between what they should be and do, and what they are or what they choose to be or do. The right way to go became known as the Vocational Destiny, or calling, of a being or thing. The conflict between Volition Dilemma and Vocational Destiny as Consequence formed during the intersections of wills became the "Web of Destiny."

God ultimately works all things to reconcile His ultimate plan, regardless the efforts of others to undermine said plan. And while every abstract detail is not knowable, the Bible was written to give mankind the important highlights of those details as pertains to human fate.

Such is His power, that His ultimate will is fulfilled regardless of any reality warper or multiversal overseer.

He is acknowledged outside of Dozerfleet as well, being given a variety of names even within the cosmologies of far less Christian-oriented comic publishers such as Marvel and DC. While not always given deserved glory in Image Comics, God is acknowledged there as well - albeit, reduced to a shady bureaucrat in the cosmology of Spawn. In Marvel, he often goes by the title of "The One Above All." His identity and role are split in DC's cosmology between the Over-Monitor and the Presence.

Human overseers of Divergency history in the Abrujanian timelines of Dozerfleet are not known apart from Ivan Wilinski - who had no power to alter those events he was given knowledge of. Even then, he was only allowed to know this after retreating back to the bunker in the woods and abandoning his old life in Veskinsaya.

His ultimate domain is all of Outer Reality, which has a raw logic and information-defined outer wall with nothing able to exist outside of it. This Outer Reality works as a "Super Universe," or "Omniverse." Within it, there are four major sub-realities acknowledged in Dozerfleet mythos: The Divergency, Metabeautalium, Depositalium, and Courtellium.

Due to the demands of Volition Dilemma, Depositalium became the de-facto necessary realm for disposal of those who became mode-locked on rejecting God. Alas, those sent there filled it with all their wrath, resulting in a violent planet in that universe that is able to sustain life in spite of itself. However, that world's life specimens struggle every single hour of every day. Depositalium acquired strange regenerative properties for its lifeforms; but with a twisted purpose: it would fully revive and regenerate the body of any lifeform with a body; but only to torture that entity to death within 24 hours and then repeat the cycle of death, rebirth, torture, and death perpetually for all eternity. The intense heat also made life there difficult - but not impossible. Plant life - the most common source of food - became bizarre in its properties in order to survive an environment where there was no sun and where normal photosynthesis was not viable. Constant volcanic activity also complicated life in that realm.

Depositalium throughout many generations of humanity was simply known as "the Underworld," with interpretations varying. A valley in Israel caled Sheol became the sight of some gruesome, sick, fiery human demises. Therefore, the Jews took to calling Depositalium "Sheol." The realm was later renamed "Hell" by early Anglos, in reference to the realm of Hel in Norse Mythology.

Metabeautalium became the de-facto realm of God Himself. This realm contained a planet which also contained regenerative properties for lifeforms, but without the twisted purpose. Often with portals manifesting from the sky, ancients began to look to the sky for 4th-dimensional visitations from this realm. "Heaven," a reference to the sky, became a reference for the realm as well - as well as for the reaches of space.

The Holy City is a massive metropolis at the center of Planet Heaven, presumably constructed solely by God Himself. It is the holiest and most pleasant part of the entire world in that realm; yet none but God Himself may enter it until the Day of Judgment passes. (John 3:13) The city's exact size is unknown; but all residences are mansions - at least, by the standards of what a 1st-century Jew would define a "mansion," if not also exceeding the 21st century American definition. It hosts a mansion for every saved individual human being that has ever existed, plus has residence capacity for every single angel.

Saved entities reside in villages outside the city gate, waiting for the day when they are allowed to enter the city. They wait tirelessly, as the realm doesn't allow for fatigue. While the entirety of the entity is in this other realm, a merger of the realm with a replacement Physicalia is possibly what is meant by "a new Heaven and a new Earth" in Revelation 21.

Courtallium is the Divine Courtroom, a special realm that exists in-between all the others. It is where all souls go for judgment, which doesn't take long. This realm is the smallest, due to its limited purpose.

It connects all the realms together through what are known as the Chasm Tubes. The one between Heaven and Hell is blocked off, referred as the "Great Chasm." This is so that the rebel spirits can never invade paradise and inflict harm to it as they once did during the War in Heaven. As a consequence, however, human souls that become mode-locked on the wrong side of Volition Dilemma's completion are also unable to be rescued from Hell. And those in Heaven cannot travel to Hell to alleviate their suffering. Instead, the Heaven-bound are often overwhelmed with thoughts of their own realm; so that they cannot even be all that mindful of the rebels getting their just desserts.

Apart from God Himself, only Ferrymen can navigate all the Chasm Tubes. Ferrymen only arrive to the gate of the Infernal City when they have more condemned humans to drop off. They seldom stay longer than they have to, as their presence would not shake the realm from its purpose.

Primalus
The first to make a conscious decision within the Divitons (John 14:28) - including the decision to create all other non-Diviton entities - the Primalus is absolute. It otherwise bears only one true feature that sets it apart from the other two Divitons: the ability to withhold very specific knowledge from the other Divitons - namely, the day and hour of the final obliteration of all remaining Earths (Matthew 24:36.)

Since the overall concept of the Primalus is difficult for human minds to comprehend in a practical way, the best analogy to its relation to the Secondarium is to use a father-son analogy. This was especially meaningful to older, more patriarchal societies where a son's obedience to his father was more common and expected. The Primalus instigates a willful thought to convert to action. The Secondarium immediately carries it out. The Trimalus acts as a facilitator for the other two, wishing to keep his speech on matters to a minimum. Therefore, the Primalus is commonly addressed as "God the Father."

Secondarium
By extension, the Secondarium is referred to as God the Son in most theological discussions. This Diviton is most commonly thought to inhabit the physical human body of Christ, though the entire Trinity inhabiting the body is possible. The body is referred to as the Full Human Shell, to distinguish from the "Body of Christ" that is a term used to describe the Invisible Church. The term "shell" is used to determine that the body is fully (enhanced) human, whereas the angelic Manifests are temporary pseudo-humans.

This also is used to avoid using the term "avatar," as that term is derived from Hinduism - and there is some confusion about what exactly defines an avatar in a theological context. In Dozerfleet terminology, the angelic Manifests are hard-construct avatars for the angel spirits. In Hinduism, an avatar is merely a representation that is visible. This could be a hard construct, or even a mere astral projection - such as Luke Skywalker's near the end of The Last Jedi. The term "avatar" is not used in reference to Jesus' body on the Dozerfleet Database, specifically to avoid confusion between modern Western and traditional Hindu understandings of what an "avatar" actually is.

While the Manifests could be considered an "avatar" in the sense of being a "vessel," the term "avatar" is also used this way to refer to the link between the human and cybernetic minds that's developed when a Pilltar pilot assumes control of a Pilltar droid. "Pilltar" is short for "Robotic Pill Bug-like Humanoid Avatar." Limitations in the use of "avatar" are also to avoid confusion with the web representation image of someone, as well as to avoid confusion with James Cameron's concept from the film Avatar - and with the unaffiliated animated Avatar TV shows. The Dozerfleet Megaverse - and Cherinob by extension - aim to keep things as Christian theology-friendly as possible. Cameron's work is more of a Gnostic-mystical-socialist worldview, whereas The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra derive most of their inspiration from Buddhism.

Likewise, the "Shell" is not referred as a "Manifest" - in spite the phrase "God in Man made manifest" being a line included in "Song of Thankfulness and Praise" by Christopher Wadsworth in 1862, referencing 1 Peter 1:20. This is to indicate that the Shell has full humanity, whereas the angels' manifestation hard constructs are incomplete golems with fluctuating levels of pseudo-human detail.

Jesus had a full and fully-functioning digestive system. While he could condition it to go without food for a very long time with little sign of any ill effect, it existed. And he was able to feel hunger. Cherinob's manifests, by contrast, almost never have a true digestive system. Jesus had reproductive organs too, though he never used them for that purpose. Cherinob's imitation of female genitalia may or may not be complete at any given point in time. Jesus needed to be fully human, to fulfill Genesis 3:15. Cherinob only needs to resemble being human, to contain the violence of her true form. How often Jesus needed to wash himself is unknown, but it's assumed he bathed at times like any ordinary man. Cherinob rarely has to worry about hygiene in the traditional human sense, instead needing to shed excess radiation buildup as a substitute for shedding biological body filth.

Trimalus
Finally, there's the Trimalus. Lack of a better term to do justice to what this facilitator Diviton does has led to him being often referred to as merely "the Holy Spirit." Without his input, the souls of mankind would be incapable of possessing - nor maturing - in anything resembling saving faith. What he does grow of seeds planted from hearing the Word in the human soul, the Great Hubris (often dubbed the "Old Adam") within fallen human nature is tirelessly and aggressively seeking to snuff out - often just to prove to itself that it can.

This final entity is probably the least understood, and the least discussed even in the Bible itself.

Trivia

 * He is the only being relevant to Dozerfleet that is capable of completely maxing out the entire Gold Bar System for power rankings, which is itself based on the Marvel Power Grid.
 * Not even Luminarod, Cherinob, MODM, nor the Bison are capable of this, in spite their own absurd power levels.