Does your Universe have something like the Octessence?
Inspired by Sir_Superhero's latest video on the Octessence and the existence of the Principalities in general. I want to ask:
Does your setting have something similar?
My universe has the Dominions (Original name, not really, but I'm working on a better one.).
Immensely powerful cosmic entities that are equal to entire pantheons all by themselves at minimum, and can clash with the Lovecraftian Gods (which do exist in my universe, but the universe won't just die if the Dreamer wakes up.) at the maximum. Thankfully for the world, Dominions don't usually interact with the regular world, thanks to the actions of the Seven Anchors (High-Tier Dominions) who joined their wills and essences together to form the Covenant of Freewill in the age before the Big Bang.
This act separated the Higher Realms from the Mortal Realm, and locked the other Dominions from acting directly without major concessions. They can however act through agents, avatar's, and demi-gods much more freely.
In addition, due to the nature of the barrier splitting the layers of reality, Magic Users can use freebies, spells that are widely accessible and don't require pledging yourself to a dominion, in a manner similar to what Marvel Magic Users do.
Finally, for now at least, Dominions are different from Gods. Gods, the ones we know from Myth, exist on the Middle Realm (The next step up from the Mortal Realm), but below the Higher Realm, and infinitely below the Pinnacle Realm of the Fundament (This is were my Living Tribunal, Chaos, and other such beings dwell.), the Dreamer and some Dominions however do knock on that realms door, and in the case of the Seven they knock really, really loudly.
As for specific Dominions.... Well I'll put two of the ones I've put some thought into below.
Marthos: The Dominion of Manipulation, the Master of Strings, the Puppeteer. Marthos serves as the primary patron to one of my Strongest Hero's (Vortex) main villains: Singularity Fortis. Marthos is one of the Ten Terrors, a group of Dominions that detest the Covenant, and believe that they should be allowed to turn the Mortal Realms into their playpen. Thankfully the Ten Terrors aren't anywhere close to strong enough to be a threat to the Covenant, even when working in unity, and in addition to that, they all hate each other enough that they sabotage other members of the group's plans possibly more often than heroes stop them. For the Puppet Master it's all horrifically aggravating.
Tindarical: The Hunter, the Tracker. Tindarical has hunted each creature to exist in both this universe and the one before, and is one of the Dominions to have ascended during the end of the old universe and the birth of the new one. In addition to being one of the most influential of the Dominions, thanks to his willingness to bless hunters, and lack of care with granting access to spells, Tindarical is one of the few Dominions to willingly hamper himself enough to enter the Mortal Realm. He cares not for anything but the hunt, and wasting away in the Higher Plane sounds like a boring death for the universes greatest hunter.