 Also complementing the main plot are the "Musings of the Watcher", interspersed through the book and told in flashback from the first person perspective of a god-like entity whose consciousness has survived from the previous cycle of creation.The Watcher was originally an extraterrestrial being that existed in the universe prior to the birth of the current one.Its consciousness survived into the current universe, which has different physical laws that place harsher constrictions on the ability for life to flourish.