A/N: Ok so heres a revision of the story so far. There aren't many changes in this chapter but there are in later chapers. I plan to post the next chapter very soon.
He existed as part of the ancient darkness beyond the gate, reveling in the vast cosmic knowledge that lay there. He existed as one being with the darkness and pulled those who would dare tread in this domain, the domain of god, through. Unaware, this monotony was life since the beginning, until he was pulled from his calignositic completeness and thrust into a new life.
It was during this inception that he first encountered it; the ethereal energy that existed past the darkness. It was light, intangible, and flowed freely overall in a domain out of his reach. He tasted its power, its potential, for just a brief, fleeting moment and it was the evanescence of that confrontation that drove him.
The unfortunate thing about his creation was that he was confined to a flask in a world full of beings that seemed to be living paradoxes. These beings, humans, as he'd come to know them as, were ignorant of the enlightenment on the other side of the gate, as such they were easy to manipulate.
He quickly took a human under his wing. Slave 23 was what he was called and as he soon found out, the one other living creature with whom he shared a bond of a blood. For that he was grateful. It was that slave's blood that pulled him from the gate, that allowed him to experience that inexorable power so he granted him three things, a name, knowledge of alchemy, and ultimately, immortal life.
Soon after that he began to formulate his plan to obtain that celestial energy. It took hundreds of years but he finally reached it, his final act. The human he named, Van Hohenhiem, unfortunately, proved not to be an ally but a formidable opponent, despite all that he gave him. In the end Hohenhiem was ignorant his true plans and this proved to be his downfall.