The power to hold dominion in the Afterlife. Variation of Personal Domain.
Also Called
- Afterlife Dominion/Sovereignty/Supremacy
Capabilities
The user has authority and duty in the Afterlife, a place where the souls of the all recently departed go. Exact conditions of the dead vary depending of the pantheon, but every soul comes there and while some may be punished and others rewarded.
Users are able to command the dead, and have powers related to life, and death, souls in general as well as power to bind and restrict (dead are expected to stay there after all). Some may have duties and powers related to Death and bringing the souls where they belong.
Applications
- Afterlife Guardian
- Afterlife Manipulation
- Binding
- Communing
- Guardianship
- Necromancy
- Death Sense
- Ectoplasm Manipulation
- Life-Force Absorption
- Mediumship
- Necrotic Empowerment
- Reanimation
- Resurrection
- Soul Manipulation
- Summoning (deceased souls and/or corpses)
Variations
- Heaven Lordship
- Hell Lordship
- Limbo Lordship
- Purgatory Lordship
- Spirit World Lordship
- Underworld Lordship
Associations
- Death-Force Manipulation
- Heaven Manipulation
- Monetary Manipulation
- Nether Manipulation
- Underworld Manipulation
Known Users
Folklore/Mythology
- God/Yaweh/Jehovah/Allah (Abrahamic Religions); Heaven
- Metatron (Judaism); Heaven
- Jesus Christ (Christianity); Heaven
- Michael the Archangel (Christianity); Heaven
- Samael/Lucifer/Satan/Iblis (Abrahamic Religions); Hell
- Hades/Pluto (Greco-Roman Mythology); Greco-Roman Underworld
- Odin (Norse Mythology); Valhalla
- Hel (Norse Mythology); Hel
- Susanoo (Shinto Mythology); Neno-Katasu-Kuni
- Baron Samedi (Vodou Mythology); Voodoo Afterlife
Film
- Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean franchise); Davey Jones' Locker
Live-Action TV
- Missy (Doctor Who); The Nethersphere
- Hades (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys); Greco-Roman Underworld
- Papa Legba (American Horror Story: Coven); Several Hells
- Michael (Supernatural); Heaven
- Castiel (Supernatural); Heaven
- Lucifer (Supernatural); Hell
- Crowley (Supernatural); Hell
- Azazel (Supernatural); Hell
- Lilith (Supernatural); Hell
- Hades (Once Upon a Time); Underworld
- King Arthur (Once Upon a Time); Underworld
Cartoons
- Hades (Hercules); Greco-Roman Underworld
- Lord Garmadon (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
- Death (Adventure Time); Land of the Dead
- Hunson Abadeer (Adventure Time); Nightosphere
- La Muerte (The Book of Life); the Land of the Remembered
- Xibalba (The Book of Life); the Land of the Forgotten
- Ms. Slither (Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy); the Detention Dimension
Comics
- Lucifer Morningstar (DC Comics/Vertigo); Hell
- The Presence (DC Comics/Vertigo); Heaven
- Izanami (DC Comics/Vertigo); House of Windowless Rooms
- Odin All-Father (Marvel Comics); Valhalla
- Hela (Marvel Comics); Helheim
- Mephisto (Marvel Comics); Hell
Video Games
- Hades (God of War); Greek Underworld
- Medusa (Kid Icarus); Underworld
- Hades (Kid Icarus Uprising); Underworld
- Lord of Bones (Darksiders 2)
- King Minos (Dante's Inferno); Limbo
- Lucifer (Dante's Inferno); Hell
- Jubileus, the Creator (Bayonetta); Paradiso
- Queen Sheba (Bayonetta); Inferno
- Aesir (Bayonetta 2); Purgatoria
- Michael (Valkyrie Crusade); Heaven
- Hades (Valkyrie Crusade); Underworld
- Lucifer (Valkyrie Crusade); Hell
Manga/Anime
- Master of Hell (Hell Girl); Hell
- Sailor Pluto (Sailor Moon); identified as the "Guardian of the Underworld"
- King Yemma (Dragon Ball)
Other
- Roger (Channel Awesome); Angel's Purgatory
- The Devil (Channel Awesome); Hell
- St. Jude (Dante's Infanzia); Limbo
Gallery
Hades/Pluto (Greco-Roman Mythology), Ruler of the Underworld.
Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean) had power over both the seas as well as Davy Jones' Locker, a purgatory afterlife where those lost at sea or taken by the Kraken dwell.
Papa Legba (American Horror Story: Coven) is the ruler of the many Hells the coven encounters
La Muerte (The Book of Life), Ruler of the Land of the Remembered
Xibalba (The Book of Life), Ruler of the Land of the Forgotten
Hades (Hercules), Lord of the Dead and Ruler of the Underworld
Ms. Slither (Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy) is the oppressive ruler of the Detention Dimension, a hellish-realm where bad children are sent to detention for all of eternity.
Lucifer Morningstar (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), former ruler of Hell
King Minos (Dante's Inferno), judge of the damned and duke of Limbo.
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Jubileus, the Creator (Bayonetta), Goddess of Light, and the creator and ruler of Paradiso and the angels that inhabit it.
Queen Sheba (Bayonetta), ruler of Inferno
Aesir (Bayonetta 2), God of Chaos and ruler of the realm of Chaos, including Purgatorio and the Mortal Realm.
Michael (Valkyrie Crusade)
Hades (Valkyrie Crusade)
Lucifer (Valkyrie Crusade)
Crowley (Supernatural) is the King of Hell
Hades (Once Upon a Time) was ruler of the Underworld, a limbo-like afterlife where those with unfinished business dwelled...
...a title passed onto King Arthur.
Death (Adventure Time), ruler of the Land of the Dead.
Hunson Abadeer (Adventure Time), ruler of the Nightosphere.