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"That stinks, Professor. Too bad the universe made it turn out that way and not some other way. I wonder why it did that?"
"Fry, you idiot! <beat> You're a genius! Why are the laws of physics what they are? Instead of some other laws?"
― Philip J. Fry and Hubert Farnsworth (Futurama)
"So why can't we Awakened souls do anything we please if magic is a godlike power?"
"Because reality won't let us do that. Imagine reality as a large body of water. You can splash around in it, channel it, swim in it, or drown in it. But you can't just turn it into confetti though, no matter how hard you wish upon a star because that water was her long before you were and it will still be here long after your gone. That's the reality behind capital-R Reality. Its bigger than any mage, bigger than any group of mages. We can work with it, but it is not, and never will be our slave."
― A newly Awakened mage asking why they can't fully control or define reality (Mage: The Awakening)
"Reality is often disappointing. That is, it was. Now, reality can be whatever I want."
― Thanos (MCU)

The power to define the basis for reality and how it operates, functions, and how it's experienced. Sub-power of Grand Design Construction and Origin Manipulation. Apex of Realistic Appearance Manipulation. Technique of System Creation. Not to be confused with Reality Warping or Logic Mandate.

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The user can determine and define how reality is, allowing them to decide how everyone/everything experiences it and how its basic underlying functions operate on a universal, multiversal and omniversal scale. This means they decide its entire systemic makeup including how it looks, all its rules/laws, logic, aspects, dimensions/planes/locations, properties, spatial and temporal mechanics (or lack thereof), designs/structures, lifeforms, and other basic factors are experienced by everything that exists within it. Users of this essentially determine the how, what, why, are, and is; of reality is defined and understood.

Unlike Reality Warping, the user doesn't alter or warp reality to something else...rather they determine/define its most basic state that allows for the warping to even happen in the first place. Since this power decides how reality "IS" rather than what it "ISN'T", it cannot be undone or prevented by the usage of Reality Alteration Negation or Reality Restoration, because as far as those powers are concerned there is nothing to undo or revert. The nature of this power affects even users of Reality Perception and Reality Anchoring by defining how they properly experience reality as it is, rather then what a warper thinks it should be.

Since the nature of this power is so fundamental to existence, its effects cannot be undone by anyone other than the user themselves. As the power makes it so reality was always one way or another, there is no evidence or underlying factors that remain behind that suggest it was ever anything other than how it appears to be.

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