But I speculate the Endless, as well as Night and Time, will be the last beings to go. Will the Endless die? In their turn, yes! We know from Gaiman’s Books of Magic series that the last to die is Destiny before Death “shuts the door on the universe”. So it would be foolish for the Presence to even want to try to remove the Endless. We’ve also seen that when Dream dies a reality storm is created until his replacement assumes the role. Without the Endless whole aspects of our universe would come crashing down. Destiny defines free will, Death gives meaning to life, Dream shapes reality, and Destruction embodies change. Each Endless governs not only their namesake but they also define the opposite of that. Getting rid of them would be harmful to the universe and even nigh impossible. The Endless exist because the universe needs them too. Because the Endless are Primal Fundamental Aspects of Reality that define functions of a sentient universe, their entity is not focused on raw power. Why is Dream of the Endless weaker than Presence and Lucifer if he’s older than them? Quite simple. Indeed there are also Gods and Makers suggested to be even more worthy than the Presence, but as the Presence was the one with the most dreamers he got the job as it were. It was stated in Carey's run on Lucifer that the Presence, although more powerful, was a retroactive creation from the beliefs of Humanity (see: The Dream of a Thousand Cats). Including, to Carey, even the Presence itself, a complete contrast to most interpretations. Gods like the Mythological Gods of different human mythologies are entities created from the myth of belief and the dreams of Humanity and are born in the Dreaming. And three seconds after the universe started Lucifer rebelled and fell from the Silver City. The younger three arose once sentient living beings came into the cosmos. They are older than angels and instrumental in the forming of a sentient universe. Through their union, the first four Endless siblings came into being before the events of universal time. And from them, Creations of all variations and versions arose parallel to our own. Creation in Sandman started out, with the coming of Mother Night and Father Time, primordial deities seen in Sandman: Overture. Regarding the cosmology in Sandman we run into a problem where Neil has said or written one thing, and Carey has said or done another in Lucifer. Which at least had a good reason for having the cosmic entities involved but the later stories, OTOH. IMO this is a much better way to handle cosmic entities than anything Marvel's done since the Infinity Gauntlet. She didn't dredge up Mongul as some Dime Store Thanos to go kick Luthor's ass, she literally went "Woo hoo! My first vacation" and relaxed next to a 'customer' on a mountainside for what was either a few hours or a few minutes. The said Endless did a checkup and it's directly indicated that the Endless in question figured out pretty quickly it would be a brief vacation, and that was how Death of the Endless reacted to Lex Luthor's brief moment of ending entropy and her concept's function. It's worth noting there is a single DC Arc dealing with a brief point where an individual connected to superhero tiers did gain a power to temporarily do away with the sphere of an Endless. The Endless are concepts, they haven't really been used for 'punch Superman in the face' (yet) and this is a good thing. If the Endless or their avatars picked a bar fight with Lucifer or Michael or the Presence it would be a fight in the sense of an ant versus Godzilla. The Presence and the archangels, in particular Michael and Lucifer sons of Yahweh, have a kind of power over the material world completely different to the Endless. DC's cosmology is not 'rocks paper scissors.' The cosmic entities in DC haven't exactly been written, minus the Spectre and Kismet, as participating in the superhero-supervillain tier nearly as much as their Marvel counterparts do.
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