Guiding Hand
- The Guiding Hand is a pantheon from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Guiding Hand are five ancient deities created by Primus. They are featured in one of the more prominent myths regarding the creation of the planet Cybertron and its native people.
Members
- Primus, the Light-giver and Life-giver
- Mortilus, the Death-bringer
- Solomus, Wisdom Incarnate
- Epistemus, Knowledge Personified
- Adaptus, Blessed with an Infinity of Shapes
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
According to a religious story related by Cyclonus, the Guiding Hand were formed after the creation of the planet Cybertron, when Primus the First Light stood forth on the miracle planet. At the time, he felt a nest of sparks within him, and he split his essence into four other vessels. They then populated Cybertron with a gesture, thus creating the Cybertronian race. Under their remote but benevolent guidance came the First Golden Age, which was shattered when Mortilus believed that the Guiding Hand should become a fist against the rest of the universe. As Mortilus stood against Primus, all of Cybertron became divided in a conflict that saw the planet shudder, and its first moon ripped asunder. The Death-bringer was ultimately destroyed in the struggle, but the conflict left the remaining members of the Guiding Hand mortally wounded.
A badly injured Primus went into the heart of Cybertron, where he re-integrated himself with the planet and became Vector Sigma, the source of all sentience. Solomus was trapped by Mortilus in a crystal prison, but the wise god managed to re-arrange it into the Creation Matrix, which not only served as a connection to Vector Sigma but provided wisdom to future generations. Both Epistemus and Adaptus were not as lucky, as Mortilus had stripped both bare. Epistemus was transformed into a brain module, while Adaptus became a transformation cog. Prior to their death, they offered their designs to future generations, to utilize both their intellect and functionality to face the rigors of their environment. With Mortilus's destruction, death itself was gone, allowing the sparks of Cybertronians to burn perpetually, rendering them functionally ageless. After this period, the first inheritors of the Guiding Hand became the Knights of Cybertron, who were given the gifts of sentience, wisdom, intellect, change and immortality, whereupon they went to spread peace across the universe. You, Me, and Other Revelations
The Hand, if they existed, created the first Transformers roughly twelve million years ago. How to Say Goodbye and Mean It After they departed, Cybertron descended into war between the Thirteen Primes that lasted until ten million years ago.
Due to the long life of Transformers, there should be people who remember the days of the Hand. Unfortunately, information creep had caused memories to fade, alter, and become shifty legends. The Crucible
The Guiding Hand were mentioned in an ancient inscription within the Matrix of Leadership. Rewind was unfamiliar with the very term "Guiding Hand", while Optimus Prime knew them because of his contact with the Matrix; in his words, it had made him privy to "a rival set of facts" and "alternative truths". The knowledge faded from his memory upon the splitting of the Matrix. The Death of Optimus Prime
Their existence or otherwise was a matter of some debate—"evolutionary engineerists" like Ratchet and Jetfire rejected the concept of "gods" entirely in favour of atechnogenesis, You, Me, and Other Revelations and even Optimus Prime himself, before he took that name, once rejected the whole idea of Adaptus and Mortilus. Others, like Springarm, were true believers. Chaos Theory Part 2 Forged medics had better hands than ones who were constructed cold, seen by some as proof of Adaptus's existence Life After the Big Bang and the link of Adaptus to forged Transformers may be why, in the old days, constructed Transformers suffered apartheid. Chaos Theory Part 1
Cyclonus's version of the Guiding Hand myth was one Rewind hadn't heard before. You, Me, and Other Revelations
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After supposedly arriving in the Afterspark, a disgruntled Rodimus yelled at Primus in dissatisfaction with him, and his works. In response, Rodimus found himself zapped with a bolt of lighting, and brought before no less than the Guiding Hand themselves. The Everlasting Voices (1): Metastasis
Notes
- The Robots in Disguise story "Primus: All Good Things" has the Metrotitan said to be part of the Guiding Hand's fleet , rather than that of the Knights of Cybertron, and that these gods lived in a city and were known by Omega Supreme. It's not known if this was the writer confusing the Knights with the Hand (most likely), or if this is deliberate, mirroring how real world religions will get real-world historical details wrong or conflated.
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