Vaktrapati

Bear one (1) or several of the Parts of the Name of God

If the world cannot birth worthy gods, let us kill until we find one.

— The Victors of the Infinite War of Seven Fronts

The Great War in Heaven—known across the Realms as the Loka-Yuddha or the First Great Multiversal War—was not simply a conflict of armies. It was the unraveling of metaphysical Law itself.

It began with Judas, the Figure of Warning, once a high angelic steward of Hasadiah. Armed with the Inverted Spear of Heaven and seduced by the doctrine of chaos, Judas defected to the side of the Seven Deadly Sins—primordial Khaos Beings spawned from the Crucible, allied with the Champions of Ymir, the 1st Born of the Yawning Void.

Together, they laid siege to Hlidskjalf, the Throne of God, piercing the gates of Sempiternal Heaven and murdering Queen Hasadiah, the 1st Name of God. Her death shattered the Tenth Commandment, the Prime Throne Law, which ensured that no being could surpass the One Who Watches. Its breaking triggered the First Sign of the End: “When a Crown is Forged from Seven Shadows, and All Banners Bleed the Same.”

This prophetic event unlocked the Seal of the Great Multiversal War, summoning the Rider of the White Horse—Conquest- and plunging all of Yggdrasil into open, apocalyptic warfare.

The arrival of Conquest marked the escalation of the conflict into a cosmic cataclysm. Armed with both Power Yin and Power Yang, Conquest rampaged across the Realms, sundered time-lines, and unmade worlds.

From this chaos emerged seven ascendant beings, each empowered either by Conquest directly or by the metaphysical forces released through the broken Seal. These would become the Seven Conquering Kings, each carving a realm from the shattered trunk of Yggdrasil, forming Seven Sovereign Worlds.

These Kings declared dominion not just over territory but over metaphysical law. They restructured reality itself according to their own will, etching their power into the framework of the Hyperverse. Thus, the Loka-Yuddha lasted for millions of years, reshaping the cosmos beyond recognition.

As the war spiraled toward entropy, a mysterious and unnamed entity—known only as the False God—rose to power. Possessing terrifying command over metaphysical law, the False God wielded the Subjugating Chains of Fate, binding the entirety of Yggdrasil in one sweeping act of cosmic enforcement. These Chains rewrote the nature of reality:

• Dharma, the sacred right of beings to define their path and destiny, was stripped away.
• The remaining Seals were forcibly locked.
• Change, in all its divine forms, was banished from the multiverse.

Under the False God's rule, the Hyperverse entered an era of Stagnation—a beautiful, horrifying stillness where no realm could rise or fall, no soul could evolve, and the Commandments could not be restored.

In the absence of divine balance, the Seven Conquering Kings turned to ritualized warfare as sport, power-play, and prophecy.

Every 10,000 years, they host the Contest of Power—a sanctioned free-for-all where any being may rise, challenge, and slay one of the Conquering Kings to claim their power and domain.

The Contest is not mere entertainment—it is a pressure valve. The Kings want worthy challengers to emerge. They believe that through this cycle of slaughter and inheritance, they can stave off their own entropy and find a successor worthy enough to bring meaning back to the multiverse.

The Bala-Saṁgrāma (Contest of Power) is ritualized violence conducted by both by the Vaktrapati and against the Vaktrapati. They created it as a means to foster the cultivation of a foe that could entertain them and as a means to foster peace between their pieces of reality. In reality, via the Binding Vow they made, it is a monopoly on violence, a system wherein the Vaktrapati can do whatever they want to whomever they whenever they want and a person's only rebuttal is in the form of a Death Arena once every 700 Years.

Each Vaktrapati separated a piece of Yggdrasil (Hyperverse) for themselves, claiming a 7th of the infinite cosmos for themselves to rule as their own.