Tomen the Archivist
The only Alphian to keep his wits after Omega unleashed Entropy on the first people’s minds is Tomen the Archivist, who now lives alone in the World-Library of the SourceBook. Within the pages of the SourceBook are the first words ever, inscribed by Unus shortly after Creation itself, when the Alphians were still being born from his tears. Part of the tear that formed Tomen fell onto the pages of the SourceBook; the Archivist was born weaker than the other Alphians, for he was not born whole. To complete him, Unus presented Tomen with the SourceBook, which contained the remainder of his essence.
Tomen can gaze into the Void and beyond to scribe the history of all things (except for a few creatures of shadow powerful enough to obscure even his sight). He is keeper of the SourceBook, which is one of the three receptacles of the moment of Creation (the other two being the depths of Unus’s mind and the body of the Throne). He lives alone in his great World-Library, scribbling almost ceaselessly at his desk.
Tomen rarely meddles in the affairs of The Terminus, but Omega despises him. There are only a handful of things Omega wishes to do more than hurl the SourceBook into the maw of the Void. However, because it contains Creation, Entropy’s antithesis, neither Omega nor The Annihilists may physically touch it. For his part, Tomen treads carefully, pretending to be a dispassionate observer of history. However, he covertly feeds information to heroes across the omniverse, and when The Centurion injured Omega in their battle in Freedom City, Tomen spread word of the deed to Omega’s enemies. He gave them the one thing the dark master of entropy most wishes to deny them… hope.
Tomen’s only servant is Scrivener Jones, who appears as a tall, well-dressed man with a bowler hat, tweed suit, and an upper class British accent. He rides a dimension hopping bicycle, which he uses to pop into a world, drop off a book to a person of Tomen’s choosing, and then pedal away, disappearing into a fog. Tomen has cosmic energy manipulating powers, although he rarely resorts to using them, as well as access to incredibly advanced technology and essentially all the information in the cosmos.
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