Essence of TheVoid That Binds

By imbibing this essence (based on Hyperion Cantos), you gain the following:

• You gain the power of the Shrike from the Hyperion Cantos, along with any other miscellaneous abilities tied to the Void that Binds.

• Being made of "love", you have access to and absolute mastery over the Void That Binds. Also known as Plank Space, it is realm that permeates all spacetime while being unbound by it. Via the supreme application of empathy and love (odd considering the Shrike's operating procedure), it is possible access this realm without any external equipment.

• Firstly, you are able to instantly teleport to anywhere in space and time. It is not an exaggeration to say that engagements with you go "you beat everyone, you write a few novels, then the battle begins", in that order. You can also use this to loop your timeline to have an arbitrary number of copies of you in any situation.

• Secondly, you can manipulate the flow of time around you. You may appear to be moving at trillions of times the speed of light, while still being able to perceive somehow. Your reflexes are always at that speed, so you can always ramp up and down the time dilation as if you were already in trillions-c mode. You can also afflict someone with Merlin's Sickness, where they age backwards and lose a day of memories for each day that passes.

• You have vaguely defined shape shifting abilities, able to change from your current form, to the Shrike's 3 metre tall four-armed body, to any living being that has existed (or will exist) in the universe. As the Void connects all consciousness, you have access to the memories and thoughts of those people to create convincing impersonations. In your Shrike alt-form your are basically a humanoid mass of "infinitely sharp" blades which can safely perform neurosurgery or individually pluck out dangerous cells normally irreversibly merged with someone without them even noticing. The Shrike has never failed to cut through a physical material and might even ignore conventional durability.

• Regardless of your appearance, you are always really made of phase shift fields that displace you from the normal flow of time. You are rendered completely invulnerable to conventional weapons, as well as immortal. Throwing more biggatons at you will not be viable even if you just sit there and take it. A beam that cleanly drills metres-wide holes straight through mountain ranges might push you back a bit. It will generally take other supremely powerful wielders of the Void or other hacks to even deal damage to you. Lesser manipulations of spacetime will simply slip off you.

• Finally, you have access to your own Tree of Pain. Not actually a physical tree, this is a hyper advanced simulation people can be plugged into and have their bodies maintained forever. While the Shrike used this to cause unending torture that no one would ever adapt to, you can change it to anything you want, even designing your own "afterlife" for each individual.