The antithesis of the multiverse, contained rather than destroyed, and still contained.
What it is
Not a destroyer among others. Where the lesser destroyers shift and writhe, The End moves with purpose, and its form is "a perfect negation of existence, not darkness, which is merely the absence of light, but nothingness, which is the absence of everything" (ch. 1).
What it passes does not simply die. It is retroactively erased, as if it had never been.
What it believes
It states its position rather than arguing it.
- "All resistance ends. All existence ends. This is the immutable truth of the multiverse." (ch. 2)
- "Sentiment, a temporary chemical reaction in finite beings." (ch. 2)
Zero's answer is the thesis of the saga: the strongest force is not destruction but the will to protect what one holds dear (ch. 2).
Where it is
Inside Zero. Zero inverted his own containment and closed it around The End, making a prison that holds "for as long as there is existence" (ch. 2).
It was never killed. It was put somewhere.