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The Elder is a relatively well-known legendary figure among many Transcendent Ecosystem species such as SuperGods often credited for the creation of the Transcendentem Continuum or Transcendentem depending on the group that discusses him. He is often described as a very powerful Aspect Lord, though few cultures estimate that the Elder's power may have been actually closer to that of a Transcendental Guardian or Greater Guardian. The creation of the eponymous pseudolifeform "Elder's Fire" is also very often credited to the Elder, though it is not actually known if the Fire had Aspect Lord origins due to the lack of substantial, replicable evidence that suggested anything of the sort. The majority of stories about the Elder consistently agreed that he created a deity vaguely similar to those of Least, Lesser, Greater, and Transcendental Guardians creatively dubbed "the Higher Guardian". The story of the Elder and his child is one of the oldest known stories to SuperGods and it is not known when the first inscripverses that recorded the story were created.

The Elder is by far the most commonly interpreted as well-meaning but an impulsive, reckless, and somewhat negligent individual that very often acted before he thought. If the Elder were to realize a mistake he made, he would immediately try to solve it with the first solution in mind. This greatly contrasted with the Higher Guardian's more prudent and intensely protective nature and created conflict between the two. However, alternate and less mainstream interpretations see the Elder as divine, wise, and benevolent while the Higher Guardian was more malicious and her creation was the Elder's greatest mistake. Such beliefs are held by the somewhat maligned group of SuperGods known as the Clan of the Followers of Nali.

Possible creations

Many texts and inscripverses claimed that the Fires that can ravage the Ecosystem and allegedly burn through solid Transcendentem with ease was a creation of the Elder himself. As such, the Fires are very often called "Elder's Fire". Despite being named after the Elder, it is not actually known if the Elder's Fire can actually be attributed to an Aspect Lord from beyond the Transcendentem Continuum, not even by SuperGods that possessed omniscience^3. However, due to the lack of evidence that an Aspect Lord did not create Elder's Fire, it is also not actually known if the Fires did not have Aspect Lord-related origins.

It is debated whether or not the Elder actually directly created the Transcendentem Continuum (or Transcendentem). The oldest inscripverses that were held in Inscripverse archives owned by SuperGods such as Qorter and Abstractil do not make any mention or useful description of the structure that the Elder and Higher Guardian had dominion over. The most natural conclusion SuperGods came to was the Transcendentem, but due to the advent of a particularly vocal omniscient^3 entity that had a rudimentary understanding of post-beyond cosmology, many became more willing to accept that a large ω+4-verse imaginatively named the "Transcendentem Continuum" was a more likely candidate for the structure the Higher Guardian and Elder had power over.

Some SuperGods believed that rather arcane and rare recessive abilities that SuperGods were able to possess such as Mind Link and the ability dubbed omniscience^3 had origins related to the Elder. Some believed that SuperGods with such abilities were descendents of those that might have been granted the ability, while others believed that the SuperGods were direct descendents of the Elder himself. Others believed that the abilities had no close connection to any actual being that was the Elder whatsoever and were probably just the result of anomalous godsmoke.