History Characters / OfSheepAndBattleChicken

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: High Ascended planned to do that; it didn't happen, and only allowed Darkness to arrive to that reality.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: They managed to give themselves god-like powers through enhancing themselves and siphoning energy from other realities.

* EvilerThanThou: To both Leviathans and Darkness. Those can at least be reasoned with, and they are not without redeeming qualities. Not with that being.

* JerkWithAHeratOfGold: Being a super-intelligent sophont, Vigil is haughty and tends to look down at races of our Cycle. However, see below.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: High Ascended planned to do that.. It didn't happen, and only allowed Darkness to come.

* RealityWarpingIsNotAToy: Attracting the attentions of the Darkness led to galaxies of sapient beings' deaths.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Katha made contact with the Dark Gods when the modern galaxy started to assemble itself, but decided he didn't like what they had become and left them their own devices.

* GreaterScopeVillain: It is responsible for creation of eezo, dark energy and dark matter, using which led to the majority of problems in universe.

* {{Jerkass}}: Being a super-intelligent sophont, Vigil is haughty and tends to look down at races of our Cycle.

* {{Troll}}: Of course!

* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: They absolutely shunned Element Zero because there was no way it was naturally occuring to them, they had taken one look at it and decided the stuff was nothing they were messing with. The Mass Relays, on the other hand, outright violated the laws of thermodynamics. [[spoiler: They were right, it's the creation of Outsider.]]

The final secret of the Premiseverse. Fifteen thousand years after the end of the story, Shepard's final recorded message plays for the Council of the Five Galaxies. She informs them that after the end of the Reaper War and the establishment of the Crucible system, that the Darkness came to her a second time with a warning that its home dimension had been destroyed in its absence. It detected a presence of hands reaching through dimensions, grasping for prey, and fled. Upon informing the Ascended of this, they too fled this reality. Though the restriction on Godpower research crumbled long ago, in five thousand more years the Crucible will fail and the doors of reality will be opened. Shepard's suspicion is that the Darkness and the Ascended were both consumed by this Outsider after leaving.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: High Ascended planned to do that. It didn't happen, and only allowed Darkness to come.

* BatmanGambit: It is implied to be behind creation of eezo, dark matter and dark energy. As inhabitants of other realities use them for their purposes and change constants, it allows Outsider to enter those realities and eat everyone and everything.

* GodIsEvil: A fair assessment of what the Outsider is and implies. It seems to create eezo, dark matter and energy, and inject them into multiple dimensions, and it uses them to invade and consume entire realities.

* GreaterScopeBeing: It is responsible for creation of eezo, dark energy and dark matter, using which led to the majority of problems in universe.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: They spend several Reaper cycles studying the Reaper's extinction phoenomonon, from its causes, the technology the Reapers search for, and their numbers and capabilities, and have advanced themselves and thier OrganicTechnology to the point where they can reasonably go toe to toe with whatever the Reapers can throw at them. With all the factors accounted for, they go to the Citadel and trigger a Reaper cycle early and ambush the Reaper forces that come to enact the cycle. The Reapers are wiped out... until a few decades later when ''more'' Reapers arrive to check on why their advance ships have gone silent. They catch on to the Inusannon's technology that let them avoid several Reaper cullings and call in the troops from across ''several dozen'' galaxies and tear the governors off their RealityWarper powers to make up for lost time.

* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: They absolutely shunned Element Zero because there was no way it was naturally occuring to them, they had taken one look at it and decided the stuff was nothing they were messing with. The Mass Relays, on the other hand, outright violated the laws of thermodynamics.

* BatmanGambit: It is implied to be behind creation of eezo, dark matter and dark energy. As inhabitants of other realities use them for their purposes and change constants, it also allows Outsider to enter them and eat everyone and everything.

* EvilerThanThou: To both Leviathans and Darkness. Those can at least be reasoned with, and they are not without redeeming qualities.

* AscendToHigherPlaneOfExistence: High Ascended planned to do that. It didn't happen, and only allowed Darkness to come.

* RealityWarpingIsNotAToy: Attracting the attentions of the Darkness lead to galaxies of sapient beings' deaths.

* GodIsEvil: A fair assessment of what the Outsider is and implies. It seems to create eezo, dark matter and energy, and inject them into multiple dimensions.

* AntiVillain: Seems to be of WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds variety. High Ascended' usage of Godpower led to near destruction of their society and universe, then it proceeds to violently stop that, which led to destruction of Leviathan society, destruction of multiple galaxes and death of uncountable beings.

* EvilerThanThau: To both Leviathans and Darkness. Those can at least be reasoned with, and they are not without redeeming qualities.

* EvilerThanThough: To both Leviathans and Darkness. Those can at least be reasoned with, and they are not without redeeming qualities.

* GodIsEvil: A fair assessment of what the Outsider is and implies.

* NotSoDifferent: With humans. Despite the unyielding hatred between the two races, batarians and humans share many philosophical and biological standards including music, individualism, alternate sexuality, and a caste system. In fact, before the Skyllian Verge debacle the Hegemony was politically pro-human, preferring a society that is more masculine than the asari and salarians and more pragmatic than the turians.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Aethyta has a very long history of either personally breaking things or being manipulated into breaking things.

* GoodIsNotStupid: The single 'purest' being in OSABC is also one of the most frighteningly intelligent.

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