The Devourer is associated with the consumption of realities. Its threat is therefore not limited to the destruction of worlds, civilizations, or bodies; it reaches the conditions that allow those things to exist at all.
The full nature, motives, and limits of the Devourer remain matters for the wider cosmology. This entry records the essential distinction: an ordinary catastrophe may leave a world ruined, while a consumed reality may leave no world behind to recover.