Editing List of The Sandman characters (section)

===The Presence/The Creator===
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The '''Presence''' is the ''Sandman'' universe's equivalent of a [[God|Supreme Being]] and he shares many characteristics with the standard Abrahamic God, such as almost never taking a physical form, being a [[Creator deity]], and having unmatched power. Nevertheless, Gaiman has on several occasions stated that he never intended the Creator to be any specific religion's god, just as he makes it clear in the first appearance of the abode of the angels, the [[Silver City (comics)|Silver City]], that it "is not [[Paradise]]. It is not [[Heaven]]. It is the Silver City, that is not part of the order of created things", although the Silver City is often identified as "Heaven" in the ''Lucifer'' comic book series.

In that series, one of the critical turning points is the Presence's abandonment of his Creation, which leads to a large number of problems, including struggles to claim the power that the Creator has abandoned, to make the destruction of the universe inevitable and to the slow unraveling of the universe due to the disappearance of the Name of the Creator written on every atom in existence. This is an ongoing storyline in ''Lucifer''.