Nigh-Omniscience

Nigh Omniscience
The Watcher (Marvel)
Power/Ability to:	Know almost everything.

"I have approximate knowledge of many things..."

― Demon Cat (Adventure Time)

Power to know almost everything in existence. Lesser version of Omniscience.

Also Called

• Limited Omniscience

Capabilities

User knows almost everything in existence while being blocked from certain details or being limited in other ways, possibly only being able to see one timeline or universe, or have just small patches of information that are missing or blocked out. Thus allowing one to keep their sense of free will and uncertainty.

Applications

• Answer Intuition
• Claircognizance
• Cosmic Awareness
• Cosmic Knowledge
  • Extrasensory Perception
• Encyclopedic Knowledge
• Enhanced Memory/Panmnesia
• Instilled Knowledge
• Supernatural Intelligence/Absolute Intelligence
• Supernatural Wisdom/Absolute Wisdom

Variations

• Necroscience
• Omnilegence
• Oneiric Omniscience

Associations

• Data Manipulation
• Science Manipulation

Limitation

• Users knowledge is limited in certain ways/areas: they may be limited to certain areas or subjects of knowledge or lack knowledge about certain areas.
• May have knowledge but no intuitive understanding, ie. they have to find the knowledge among near infinite number of others.

Known Users

• The Endless (Breath of Fire IV)
• Father (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Lucifer (Dante's Inferno)
• Leto Atreides II (DUNE)
• Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
• Doc Scratch (Homestuck)
• Joshua (Kingdom Hearts)
• The Phantom Stranger (DC Comics)
• The Spectre (DC Comics)
• Lucifer Morningstar (Vertigo/Dc Comics)
• Michael Demiurgos (Vertigo/DC Comics)
• Beyonder (Marvel)
• Living Tribunal (Marvel)
• Eternity (Marvel)
• The Watchers (Marvel)
• Octavius Cloptimus (Skylanders)
• Brain (Skylanders)
• Death (Supernatural)
• The Choushin (Tenchi Muyo)
• Sarda the Sage (8-bit Theater)
• Elizabeth/Anna DeWitt (Bioshock Infinite)
• The Oracle (Matrix franchise)
• Posea Reef (Monster High)
• Angelic Spawn (Spawn Comics)
• Samael (Darksiders series)
• John Doe (John Doe)
• Watchers/Grigori (Religion)
• Echidna (Re:Zero)
• Natsuki Subaru (Re:Zero)
• Bartleby (Dogma)
• Beldam (Coraline)
• Ariton (Valkyrie Crusade)
• God (Supernatural)
• Zuno (Dragon Ball)

Gallery

Death (Supernatural) knows almost anything, but lacked the knowledge whether he is older than God or if God was older than him. He also did not know the real reason the Winchesters bound him until after Dean told him so

Ariton (Valkyrie Crusade) knows everyone's secrets.

As the last of the Ancients, Brain (Skylanders) possesses enormous knowledge, up to the point where he locate evil doers from afar.

Dantalion (Valkyrie Crusade) knowing the past and the future, is nigh omniscient, because while she herself says:I know all, so ask me anything you want. the answers she gives are not always accurate.

Zuno (Dragon Ball) knows everything about the Seventh Universe, including the pattern on the underwear of someone he never met.