Supreme God

Biodata

Power Progression

The Supreme God’s development follows Gary’s increasing control of the Primal Stone, rather than a numbered cultivation system.

Nature and Theology

Invented identity and actual godhood

Gary initially invents the Supreme God while trying to give a dying captive hope. He describes the deity as standing above all other gods, then presents his own healing magic as its answer to prayer 69 71.

His claimed relationship to the deity changes with his audience: he calls himself its messenger, mortal incarnation, high priest, and foremost believer. He explicitly gives Gary as the god’s holy name 71 89 144 212 313.

The distinction between Gary and the deity eventually disappears in practice. After merging with the Primal Stone, he identifies himself as Supreme God Gary; the narrative describes him as the only true god possessing a body, a higher existence than the other gods 355 358 359.

Religious claims

The faith’s apparent separation between god and messenger causes a crisis for Melisandre. When the Seven tell her that Luke himself is the Supreme God and is using the Primal Stone to become divine, she fears that her beliefs rest on lies 253.

Background and History

Establishment of the faith

Tysha’s restoration provides the faith’s first major miracle and its first devoted follower. Gary orders her to accompany him and spread the Supreme God’s teachings in place of other religions. Her testimony later helps draw Daenerys into the faith 71 81.

Gary initially has no interest in ruling the Seven Kingdoms, but recognizes that royal authority would let him spread the religion rapidly. He consequently makes developing the Supreme God Faith an explicit reason for pursuing the Iron Throne 89.

Expansion and religious conflict

In the North, public healing, resurrection, and rejuvenation undermine the lords’ confidence in their ancestral religion. Their conversion does not immediately transform popular belief: northern subjects continue worshipping the Old Gods secretly, while preaching among Winterfell’s refugees creates a large new body of adherents 123 125 126 223.

The faith also spreads through Melisandre’s conversion of the Queen’s Men and her public displays of magic in the Riverlands. In Pentos, Tysha expels the Lord of Light’s followers, converts a Red God Temple into a church, and erects a statue more than ten meters tall. Magical coercion produces outward conformity, but some residents retain their old faith privately 159 229 314.

The Seven regard Gary’s expansion as a threat to their followers and prepare organized resistance. In King’s Landing, the Father empowers the High Sparrow, while Gary uses public healing to win commoners away from the Sparrows 292 308.

Ascension and its aftermath

Gary’s actual transformation results from Nawija’s consciousness-exchange pact. After acquiring her divine power, he enters the Primal Stone, emerges in a new body, and destroys the Night’s King with a gesture 354 355.

His return confuses those who knew Luke Stark. Margaery, who believed Luke was merely the god’s avatar, initially demands that the Supreme God return her husband. Gary nevertheless retains his personal attachments and his identity as their king 359 362.

During his later return to Earth, Gary gathers faith by having worshippers recognize him as God. Before crossing a spacetime rift again, he stores most of his divine power in church crosses worldwide to reduce losses to spacetime turbulence 369 374 376 377.

Abilities and Skills

Faith Connections and Blessings

Believers form Faith Threads, which Gary can connect to the Primal Stone to supply magical power 169 172.

• Different recipients gain different abilities: Tysha gains ice magic, Daenerys fire magic, Little Deer bodily transformation, and Arya extraordinary strength 71 92 172 219.
• Blessings can be designed: Teresa explains that Gary can assign elemental powers or animal-like abilities instead of leaving believers to discover their gifts unaided 337.
• Devotion is not ordinary compliance: Gary initially detects no faith connection from Daenerys despite her wish to join. Conversely, powerful personal obsessions can become the foundation of fanaticism when attached to the deity 82 126.
• Prayer can reach him remotely: Melisandre’s battlefield appeal sounds to Gary as though she were beside him 236.

Healing, Resurrection, and Rejuvenation

The faith’s most persuasive miracles restore damaged bodies and reverse death or aging 71 126.

• Regenerates Tysha’s severed limbs, missing eye, and nose 71.
• Reattaches Lajos Furlong’s severed head and restores him to life 126.
• Resurrects Ygritte and authorizes one further revival at Castle Black 144.
• Restores youth to Orrick Locke and Barristan Selmy 126 253.
• Early limitation: Gary’s mortal body suffers from channeling the power. Healing Tysha numbs his hand, and he later warns that his body can withstand only one more resurrection 71 144.

Divine Body and Energy Absorption

After ascension, Gary possesses a physical Divine Body rather than merely an energy existence or a borrowed mortal vessel 355 359.

• Absorbs unconscious energy entities continuously to increase his strength 359.
• Absorbs defeated gods directly, as demonstrated against the Father, Mother, and Smith 364.
• Describes his body as immortal, while acknowledging that another god can seal him and that gods have ways to kill one another 374.
• The Divine Body’s capacity to consume divine power makes Gary a potential threat to other gods even without an immediate quarrel 380.

Divine Offices

Gary can distribute divine power and authority by appointing subordinate deities 358 359.

Divine Combat and Movement

• Large-scale freezing: Immediately after acquiring Nawija’s power, Gary freezes seawater within ten thousand miles 355.
• Teleportation: Instantly moves to Margaery’s side upon discovering her pregnancy 362.
• Suppression of older gods: His Divine Body’s power overwhelms the Father and Mother during their final confrontation 364.
• God-Slaying Weapons: Commands dozens of Divine Weapons capable of destroying gods’ consciousnesses 380.

Worship and Organization

Practices and Expectations

• Exclusive devotion: Gary teaches that the Supreme God must take precedence over family ambitions, love, and hatred, and warns that divided loyalty cannot escape the deity’s notice 82 126.
• Nunhood: Initially requires complete dedication to the Supreme God and a vow never to marry 82.
• Churches and statues: Lords are instructed to construct churches and carve divine statues throughout their fiefs 313.
• Conversion through miracles: Healing and the possibility of resurrection attract followers, although Gary also uses threats and political pressure 126 145 159.
• Pragmatic exceptions: Gary initially permits the Children of the Forest to retain Heart Tree worship while accepting the Supreme God, intending to change their allegiance gradually 172.

Religious and Military Institutions

• Supreme God Faith Church: Intended to replace the Faith of the Seven under Gary’s dynasty 279 313.
• Faith Militant: Jaime is asked to abandon the Seven and lead the faith’s armed organization 279.
• Ice Warrior Corps: Initially consists of twenty selected Fanatics supplied with mana through accepted Faith Threads 126.
• Royal Magic Corps: Planned to recruit people who awaken magical talent through the new order 313.
• Dragonrider Corps: Eligibility is reserved for mages blessed by the Supreme God, without restriction to House Stark 313.
• Holy Fire Tribunal: Receives enhanced bodies and Eagle Eye blessings for its shooters 337.

Notable Followers and Relations

• Tysha Sivifes — First believer and an early missionary; later enforces the faith’s supremacy in Pentos 71 81 314.
• Daenerys Targaryen — Second Fanatic and an official nun; her commitment joins her royal aspirations to the faith rather than eliminating them 92 93.
• Melisandre — Former priestess of the Lord of Light who becomes the Supreme God’s priestess, then receives the Forest God’s divine station 159 359.
• Barristan Selmy — First knight of the Supreme God Faith; receives rejuvenation after pledging himself 253.
• Little Deer — Receives transformation magic through affection and trust in Gary, whom she identifies with the Supreme God 172 173.
• The Many-Faced God — Supplies the reported revelation of the Supreme God’s antiquity, but its associated gods later become enemies 227 253 378 380.
• R’hllor and the Seven — Rival deities competing with Gary for believers and the Primal Stone; members of the Seven briefly offer cooperation against shared enemies 232 250 292 351.