CODEX OMNIVERSA

In the beginning, there was a rich, burgeoning light of possibility surrounding the still-forming multiverse. 

Beneath the domain that would eventually be known as the Sphere of the Gods, the girl sensed another, darker, multiverse. She created a barrier to it because she did not want her beautiful realm of possibility sullied by horror.

The girl began visiting Earth, the center of the new multiverse, and watched humanity grow.

Believing in their own myths about creation, each pantheon on Earth tried to win her favor. Hecate agreed to marry Hades, the Greek god of the underworld. The other gods welcomed her and expected to shape her godhood.

Soon, mankind noticed that her power exceeded that of the gods. They no longer wished to be subservient to any god or power. In an effort to capture her magic, they summoned Hecate and bound her to a circle that was a fabrication of the moon itself.

As years passed, she prayed to her adopted pantheon, who claimed to love her so dearly. However, Hades appeared before her to say that he had found a new bride, Persephone, and that the gods would no longer welcome her.

And Hecate began to scream. And in her screams, she felt what she had not felt in an eternity. The dark upside-down mirror to her own great power. Roiling, toxic, and dangerous. Full of hate.

Hecate, the moon goddess and goddess of witchcraft, became a crone that desired an instrument of her own revenge against the gods. She thought she had found it when she appeared to Circe and granted her one-fifth of her immortal soul… 

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Artists: Jesus Merino, Fernando Blanco, Miguel Mendonca
Editor: Chris Conroy

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Penciller: George Perez
Inker: Frank McLaughlin
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