Solomus

One wonders if he's ever suggested that a protoform be cut in two...

Solomus was a wise Transformer deity who lived during the earliest period on Cybertron. Once a multiversal singularity, he has been shown to be a member of two separate ancient pantheons in different universes.

He is sometimes known as Arrius.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

First Appearance: Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Annual 2012

According to legend, the Light God Primus formed the miracle planet of Cybertron. He later split his essence into five avatars consisting of himself, Solomus, Mortilus, Epistemus, and Adaptus. This pantheon of deities were the Guiding Hand, and Solomus was wisdom incarnate amongst them. Together, these gods guided Cybertronian civilization and helped bring about the first Golden Age. This ended when Mortilus shattered their union in his desire to strike against the universe. The conflict sparked by him caused Cybertron to shudder and ripped asunder its first moon. Before his destruction, Mortilus managed to entrap Solomus within a crystal prison, but the god managed to reshape its form to become the Matrix of Leadership, which also served as a connection to Vector Sigma, though his most important gift was wisdom to future generations of Transformers. You, Me, and Other Revelations

In another telling of story, known as the Keening Texts, four of the Guiding Hand receded from Cybertron before returning to combat Mortilus's macabre experiments in what became known as the "God War". Anticipating his fellows' return, Mortilus "reduced" Solomus to "a flash of thought – half impulse, half reaction" and locked him within a crystalline prison. Though the Guiding Hand's physical forms were destroyed by the God War, they were eventually reborn. Accepting Mortilus back into their ranks, the five pooled their resources and power to create the Afterspark where Cybertronians could live forever following their physical deaths. The God War

In the primitive age following the departure of the Knights of Cybertron but before the rise of the Thirteen, the region of Protohex worshipped Arrius as a god of wisdom and providence. Septimus Prime oversaw the Supplicants of Arrius who used the god's name as an excuse for bloodsport before Megatronus slew them all. Once he had (frighteningly quickly) conquered Protohex, he decreed that Arrius would be known as Solomus, as he was known in the Darklands. Origin Myths

There was a shrine to Solomus, unimaginatively called "the Shrine to Solomus", in the Greater Iacon area. An Institute branch was based near it, in secret. Patternism

Fun Publications

Solomus was a member of the Thirteen. Vector Prime fondly remembered his brother's kindness and wisdom. Vector found that he had competing, contradictory memories of universes in which Solomus was not a member of the Thirteen, including one in which he predated Vector's pantheon, and another in which he never existed at all. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/14 When Nexus Prime later used the Star Saber and Terminus Blade to obliterate multiversal singularities, the reason for these contradictory memories became clear, as Solomus and the other Thirteen were splintered into infinite alternate selves across the multiverse. Out of the One, Many

When questioned if Solomus was Alpha Trion and vice versa, Vector Prime enigmatically answered that his brother wore many faces, and answered to many names. Make of that what you will. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/01

Beast Wars: Uprising

Solomus was a deity worshipped by the Transformers. Steel Jaw sardonically noted that they were doing Solomus's work as they laid siege to Tesarus. Derailment