''Negation War'' was a comic book series published by CrossGen Comics, and serving as a culmination of the

metaplot The metaplot (also, metastory) is the overarching storyline that binds together events in the official continuity of a published role-playing game campaign setting, also defined as an "evolving history of a given fictional universe". Major officia ...

s of nearly all of CrossGen's other titles. It was cancelled after only two issues, in spring

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, before the company declared

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and ended production on all their titles. It was intended to answer many, if not all, of the questions surrounding CrossGen's metaplot, allowing the company to move on to new titles and perhaps a new company-wide metaplot.

Plot

The events of ''Negation War'' revolve around the invasion of CrossGen's Sigilverse, i.e. the mainstream universe where all the other titles take place, by the forces of an alternate universe known as the

Negation In logic, negation, also called the logical complement, is an operation that takes a proposition P to another proposition "not P", written \neg P, \mathord P or \overline. It is interpreted intuitively as being true when P is false, and false ...

. The Sigil-Bearers, the protagonists of the core titles, led by the Atlantean Danik, are brought together to serve the purpose for which the Sigil was created: to fight off the Negation, led by the god-emperor

Charon In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (; grc, Χάρων) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of Hades, the Greek underworld. He carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which separate the wo ...

and his new consort/queen Evinlea. ''Negation War'' reveals some of the key mysteries of the CrossGen metaplot, continuing from the revelations of the later issues of ''

''. Charon and his opposite counterpart Appolyon, are revealed to have been the human scientists who organized the Great Transition as seen in '' Crux''. Charon secretly engineered the device to impart him with incredible god-like power, even as the rest of the human race ascended to a higher form themselves. The transition also sent the pair into another universe, which came to be known as the Negation; Charon took command of this universe, building it into a massive intergalactic empire, and imprisoning the slightly less powerful Appolyon. After meeting Appolyon, several of the characters from the ''Negation'' title travel to Han-Jin, the world depicted in ''

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'', '' Way of the Rat'' and '' The Path''. Meanwhile,

Samandahl Rey ''Sigil'' is an American comic book series published by Cross Gen Entertainment from July 2000 to December 2003, ending at issue forty-two. ''Sigil'' was one of the publisher's first four titles (the others are '' Mystic'', ''Scion'', and ''Merid ...

, hero of '' Sigil'', is sent by Danik to gather the Sigil-Bearers. The series ends with a cliffhanger, as Evinlea leads the Negation assault on Elysia, home of

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. There, the first god to die is Raamia,

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's former consort. Information concerning what was to occur in the remaining issues to tie up the plot has not been released. 2004 comics debuts CrossGen titles {{Marvel-comics-stub