The Plantæ

The Plantæ (singular: Planti) are an inter-universal race of photosynthesizing beings made out of an alloy of Time Energy, Void Iron and Huon Energy, allowing them to survive for a limited amount of time in the Time Vortex, and indefinitely in the void. They are merciful and kind beyond any other race, and are at the same time virtually omnipotent. They have a cyclical existence, gliding in the void inside millions of tiny luminous pods until they find a suitable universe. When they do, they find the perfect spot to come through, creating each a tiny rift that they soon close. They come through deep beneath the earth, and the pods hatch. When the pods open, the dirt surrounding them becomes Dirt of Prosperity, allowing them to grow heartily, becoming massive growths the wood of which would fuel the empires of the earth and spur on unimaginable changes to the time line. When the unholy growths reach the surface, a single bud on a pale green stem pokes through the soft earth, and unsheathes four perfect leaves, after their shard of Crystal of Remembrance rises from the pod into the stem. Three more perfect leaves soon grow, and the stem grows one foot. At this stage the Plantæ have reached consciousness, each crystal shard a consciousnessian contained. Their minds now linked form a telepathic web connecting all other Plantæ in reality in song, they remember their identity and all of their past lives. They receive enlightenment and the collective love of all the others after each one reaches enlightenment, and begin to rise as their underground growth dies. They collectively ascend from the 3rd to the 5th, and sing. Their collective telepathy makes up the bulk of reality's telepathic defenses, as well as keeping the Patchwork Man sedated in his glass tomb. They make a single rift where they exit that world, sealing it up when they leave.

In the Void they think deep thoughts, occasionally planting themselves in a world to help it through a tough time, and after one trillion years they begin to die, compressing their mass into a luminous pod with their crystal shard within, and go with their brethren to be born once again.