Editing God Beyond

|type={{cat tag|Religion}}

|'world={{tag|Sel|cat=Selish culture}}, {{tag|Scadrial|cat=Scadrian culture}}, {{tag|Threnody|cat=Threnodite culture}}, {{tag|Roshar|cat=Rosharan culture}}

|universe=[[Cosmere]]

|books=[[Elantris (book)| Elantris]], [[The Emperor's Soul]], [[Mistborn Era 2]], [[Shadows for Silence]], [[The Stormlight Archive]], [[The Sunlit Man]]

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|She was a woman. Good at lying, they are. The God Beyond made'm that way.

|[[Wayne]]{{book ref|mb4|10}}

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The '''God Beyond''' or the '''Unknown God''' is a god that is worshiped on multiple [[Cosmere#Planets|planets]] in the [[cosmere]].{{book ref|aol|10}}{{wob ref|4089}}{{book ref|sfs}}{{book ref|sa4|10}} It is a belief in a greater God of the universe beyond entities like Shards, and presumably Adonalsium itself.{{wob ref|697}}{{book ref|tsm|39}} It is unknown what relationship the God Beyond has to [[Adonalsium]] or to the [[Beyond]],{{wob ref|6555}} although it is presumably held to be greater then Adonalsium.{{book ref|tsm|39}}

== Mentions of the religion ==

* On [[Scadrial]], [[Wayne]] and [[Lessie]] mention the God Beyond in passing.{{book ref|mb4|10}}{{book ref|mb5|13}}{{book ref|mb5|prologue}} Wayne believes the God Beyond to have directly made the world and the people in it.{{book ref|mb4|10}}{{book ref|mb5|13}}

* On [[Roshar]], Hoid refers to the God Beyond in a parable while talking with Shallan.{{book ref|sa2|45}} [[Dalinar]] also casually mentions the God Beyond while talking to [[Kaladin]].{{book ref|sa4|10}} [[Nomad]] states that he believes in the God Beyond while on [[Canticle]], he believes it to be separate from Adonalsium.{{book ref|tsm|39}}

* On [[Sel]], it is referred to as the Unknown God by the [[MaiPon]], although this is indeed the same as the God Beyond.{{wob ref|4089}} [[Wan ShaiLu]] prays to the Unknown God,{{tes ref|2}} and her people relate it to the rocks that fell from the sky.{{tes ref|98}} Additionally, while attempting to become an [[Elantrian]] at [[Devotion's Perpendicularity]], [[Hoid]] thinks that the lights of the restored city of [[Elantris (city)|Elantris]] seem to ascend "to the Unknown God's domain itself."{{book ref|elantris|part=postscript}}

* On [[Threnody]], [[Silence Montane]] and her daughter [[William Ann]] swear to the God Beyond.{{book ref|sfs}}

== Trivia ==

* The relation between the [[Beyond]] and the God Beyond, like most questions about the Beyond, is currently [[RAFO]]'d.{{wob ref|6555}}

* Brandon Sanderson has compared the God Beyond to various [[wikipedia:Gnosticism|Gnostic]] interpretations of God, likely referring to the [[wikipedia:Monad (Gnosticism)|Monad]].{{wob ref|697}}

* According to Silence Montane, the symbol for the religion worshiping the God Beyond is a silver dagger.

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