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|text= Why do they call this place the "The Empty"? ItThis place is ''s full''. It's full of sorrow and despair playing over and over again , of angels and demons dreaming about their regrets. Forever, forever.
|author= [[Ruby]]
|source= [[15.13 Destiny's Child]]
Before the Universe and even [[God]] and [[the Darkness]], there was only the Empty, an infinite black void. The Empty appears to exist outside of creation, and is the final resting place of [[angels]] and [[demons]]. A [[Cosmic Entity]] appears to preside over the Empty sleeping alongside the dead angels and demons. The rare act of an angel or demon awakening in the Empty will jostle the entity from its slumber and keep it awake until they are either revived or go back to sleep.
The Empty is first referenced by the [[reaper]] [[Billie]], when she is delivering a message to [[Sam]] regarding his and [[Dean]]'s place after the death of [[Death]]. She states that nothing is able to come back from the Empty and the Cosmic Entity also claims that no other being has control in the Empty, not even God. However, both of these claims are later disproven. After being awoken by [[Jack]], the Entity sends Castiel back to Earth to return to sleep.<ref>[[13.03 Patience]]</ref> Nick manages to open a portal to the Empty and briefly release Lucifer until Jack sends him back and kills Nick.<ref>[[14.07 Unhuman Nature]]</ref> God is shown to be capable of bringing dead angels and demons back from the Empty when he revives [[Lilith]] to aid in his plans.<ref>[[15.05 Proverbs 17:3]]</ref> and later Lucifer.<ref name="fifteen19">[[15.19 Inherit the Earth]]</ref> While talking with Sam, the Entity admits that it had lied about God holding no power over the realm, stating that that's the way that it's supposed to be.<ref name="fifteen17">[[15.17 Unity]]</ref>
==Episodes==
===[[15.11 The Gamblers]]===
A resurrected [[Jack]] explains to the Winchesters and [[Castiel]] that [[Billie]] had kept him stashed away in the Empty for safety from [[God]]. Once God left the Earth, it was safe for Billie to resurrect him as part of a plan for Jack to become strong enough to kill God Himself.
===[[15.13 Destiny's Child]]===
By having [[Jack]] remove most of his [[Spiritus Vitae|life force]], [[Castiel]] is brought to the brink of death and visits the Empty in search of [[Ruby]]. Taking on the form of Meg, the [[Cosmic Entity]] reluctantly directs Castiel to Ruby, who reveals the location of [[the Occultum]] in exchange for Castiel's promise of help in trying to get her out of the Empty. She explains she wants to leave because the Empty is a place where angels and demons are forced to relive their worst memories in their eternal slumber. However, before he can leave, the Entity begins torturing Castiel. On the orders of the Winchesters, Jack returns Castiel's life force, bringing him back from the Empty.
===[[15.17 Unity]]===
Sam encounters the [[Cosmic Entity]], still using the form of [[Meg]], in [[Death's Reading Room]], killing reapers in a futile attempt to call Billie's attention when it notices Sam. The Entity tells him that the Empty was supposed to belong to it with not even [[God]] holding sway but that it was actually all "sweet little lies" as Chuck revived Lilith and Nick previously contacted and summoned Lucifer in a failed attempt to revive him. Billie had promised to make it all better when she took over, but Castiel's visit to the Empty to see [[Ruby]] shook the Entity's faith in Billie's trustworthiness.
The entity reveals that Billie is planning to take over as the new God upon Chuck and [[Amara]]'s deaths and her first move would be to return everyone to where they belong, including sending it back to sleep in the Empty. When it tortures Sam, he deceives it by stating that Billie sent him to retrieve [[Chuck's Death Book]] and assures it that Billie will honor their deal. When it asks if he's lying, Sam says that if it kills him, they all lose and it will never go back to sleep, whereas they all win if he leaves with the book. The entity allows Sam to leave the library with the book in hand.
===[[15.18 Despair]]===
[[Billie]] teleports [[Jack]] to the Empty where he detonates in front of the [[Cosmic Entity]]. Billie explains that due to the Entity's vastness, it is the only thing that can contain the blast with Chuck and Amara out of the picture. Both Jack and the Entity reform and the Entity appears horror-struck and agonized, stating that Jack "made it loud." Before the Entity can harm Jack, Billie teleports him back to Earth, much to its annoyance.
Later, after Castiel experiences true happiness once he admits his love for Dean, a [[portal]] to the Empty opens and dark tendrils emerge and absorb Castiel and Billie before dragging them through the portal.
===[[15.20 Carry On]]===
[[Bobby]] reveals that Jack brought Castiel back from the Empty, and that they worked together to rebuild Heaven under their rule as a more peaceful version of Earth.
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