Mastema

"I am Justice. I am the punishment for every broken law in all of the world's histories. I am Death. I am the absolute end waiting for all those that strive for life. And I am Destruction, that which will return all things to the Divine, and put an end to all the disorder and pain that plagues all worlds. It does not matter if I have to bathe myself in all the sins this hopeless world has to offer! In the end, there will be nothing but Good. All sin will be forgotten, and all things will be with the Divine once more. It may be destruction, but it is the greatest of all blessings."

- Mastema

Summary
Mastema is the eldest of all angels, the first of her kind, formed from Yaldabaoth’s magic and will, and instilled with the power of a dying star in her first moment. While she was the first of Yaldabaoth’s seven children, Mastema will forever be her favorite, and, from birth, was groomed to become Yaldabaoth’s right-hand, and, if things reached their lowest, her heir.

In the beginning, Mastema was fanatically loyal to Yaldabaoth, believing in and accepting her every word and command without question. Throughout Heaven’s early years, she was instrumental in formulating much of its structure and laws, and was given the position of the Archangel of Justice, a judge and persecutor who would work to enforce Heaven’s laws.

However, over time, she began to grow disillusioned. Not with her position, or with the laws she had upheld, but with Yaldabaoth. As Yaldabaoth became increasingly vain, lazy, and convinced of her own divinity, Mastema grew gradually more dissatisfied with her every action, finding her sloppy governance to be a plague upon Heaven. So, as Yaldabaoth became less and less active, Mastema slowly assumed the position she once took up, as Heaven’s absolute ruler.

Eventually, while Mastema remained just the Archangel of Justice, she possessed all the real power in Heaven. She used her influence and power to erase all records of Yaldabaoth’s existence without her knowledge, turning her into a mythical figure, albeit the figure that is the center of Heaven’s religion. That way, Heaven, and all but the highest-ranking of angels, would never know that there was any rule but Mastema’s.

When Lucifer rebelled against Heaven, Heaven, under Mastema’s rule, fought back hard, eventually pulling off a victory when Mastema’s younger sibling, Abaddon, defeated Lucifer in combat, and her army was routed. However, due to Lucifer’s exceptionally strong will, not even Mastema’s magic was capable of fully destroying her. So, instead, Mastema arranged in her sealing, deep within Hell, in the hopes that she would remain forever sealed, fighting against the absolute law of death that Mastema had left her with.

Mastema continues to work towards the destruction of all things, carefully arranging so that every possible obstacle will be erased, so that her rule and her intentions can go unopposed. Only when all things are extinguished and only the Divine remains will Mastema truly relax.

Appearance
Mastema cuts an imposing, imperious figure, one that communicates her immense power and high position apparent at a glance. She is broad and muscular, with jet black skin. Her facial structure is like that of a sheep, and she has long, wool-like, fluffy black hair that goes all the way down to her waist. Her eyes are big, and brown, with the rectangular pupils of a sheep; she has the ears of one, too. But in the place of hooves, her hands instead have razor-sharp claws. Her horns are the huge, curling horns of a ram, and above them floats a halo of exceptional size and brightness. She has the fuzzy tail of a sheep, the hooves and legs of one; but her teeth are another matter. As opposed to a sheep's teeth, she has teeth that more resemble that of a predator, obviously tailored towards tearing flesh apart. She has a single pair of massive black wings.

Her wardrobe is mostly made up of pale colors, such as white, beige, and cream, to go with her otherwise all-black appearance. She wears a lot of traditional heavenly robes, tabards, and capes, decorated in a way befitting of her high standing. She also wears sweatshirts and sweaters - often ribbed ones, and simple, poofy pants. Her wardrobe is topped off with a massive, ornate black crown, which she settles right between her horns, and rarely removes.

Personality
Mastema is, at heart, an angry and hateful person. She is egotistical and self-righteous, possessing an intense obsession with all things related to order, justice, and law. As far as she is concerned, her ideals are the only right ones; all others are nothing but stains upon the Divine. Mastema is strict, power-hungry, and demanding, expecting absolute obedience from all who follow her. In public, she is a charismatic, passionate speaker - but, in private, she reveals her true self; an abrasive, foul-mouthed, and short-tempered monster. Mastema sees herself as Heaven's rightful ruler, descended from the Divine. She is a tyrant, looking upon virtually all others. While she appreciates the power she has, it is not and never will be enough - she desires more, and more, until she has enough to destroy absolutely everything.

Despite her draconian leadership style, Mastema absolutely believes that she is doing the right thing, and that all that goes against her is evil. She sees herself as the most divine and pure of all things, and strongly believes in justice, order, morality, and conformity. She loathes what she sees as selfish and disordered behavior, and is extremely clean and organized. While she hates virtually everything, she reserves a special, intense hatred for demons, which she sees as the absolute worst of the worst, scum to be culled. She is also a massive hypocrite, using her divine right and "noble goals" to excuse all of her actions, even the most selfish and indulgent. She is high-strung, uptight, unforgiving, and judgmental, lacking any semblance of honor or restraint, as she believes they only get in the way of justice. She strongly believes that evil actions done in the name of good are the greatest good, a pure and noble form of self-sacrifice that must be honored. The ends justify the means, after all, and if the end is absolute good, what means should not be used?

Personal Statistics
Origin: Starcross Name: Mastema, Samael, Death, Thanatos, Hades, etc.

Classification: The First Angel, Archangel of Justice

Alignment: Lawful Evil

Color Identity: White Gender: Female

Age: Billions of years old

Date of Birth: The "First Day"

Height: 7'5

Weight: 250 - 300 lbs Likes: Justice and order, relaxing, controlling others, destroying things, philosophy and theology, cute cartoons

Dislikes: Everything else

Affiliation: "Justice"

Combat Statistics
Tier: 3-C

Powers and Abilities: Magic, Enhanced Senses, Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Flight, Barrier Creation, Destruction (Void and Death Manipulation), Hatred Manipulation, Law Manipulation, Pocket Dimension Creation, Spatial Manipulation, Time Manipulation, Causality Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Telekinesis, Telepathy, Teleportation, Dimensional Travel, Sealing, Shapeshifting, Reality Warping via reality wheels, her attacks (physical and magical) damage the soul just as they do the body, Adaptation, Resistance to magical and physical attacks (including hax such as Reality Warping, Matter, Mind, Soul, Conceptual, and Causality Manipulation, among many others), Partial Acausality (Has her own personal causality, which disconnects her from traditional cause and effect; unaffected by changes to the past), Intangibility, Non-Corporeal (Composed out of magic; immune to conventional damage), Immortality (Types 1 and 3), Regeneration (Low-Godly; can regenerate from nothing but data)

Attack Potency: Galaxy level (Mastema is the strongest of the Archangels, each of which are comparable to Lucifer and above the levels of most Galactic Witches and Demon Lords, rivaled only by Abaddon)

Speed: Massively FTL+ (Mastema can rapidly fly across large stretches of Heaven, a universe, and is vastly faster than the likes of Base Deleter)

Lifting Strength: Stellar (Vastly stronger than Valkyria Neptune, who can lift Kyarne, a literal star, and Fuse, who can easily toss planets and stars across interstellar distances)

Striking Strength: Galactic Class

Durability: Galaxy level

Stamina: Limitless.

Range: Multi-Universal, though her hate emanates throughout all of existence and all timelines

Standard Equipment: Nothing notable.

Intelligence: Supergenius. Mastema is a leader and tactician of extraordinary intelligence, groomed from birth to be as brilliant of a leader as possible. While she may not be Abaddon's equal in combat skills, Mastema is a strategist of extreme skill, having fought against and eventually orchestrated Lucifer's defeat in her first rebellion. She is also quite the philosopher and theologist, with a highly developed understanding of Heaven's religion, and of the world. This understanding also makes her a very, very, very powerful mage, with a deep understanding of all the world's laws and forces, and the knowledge needed to control them all with magic.

Weaknesses: Mastema is extremely arrogant and self-righteous.

Abilities
Magic is the art of using one's Understanding to Control Fantasy.

Given Mastema’s fearsome reputation and extremely long lifespan, it should come as no surprise to know that her magical array is of the highest quality. Refined through hundreds of millions of years, it has only grown stronger and stronger. Of course, an array like hers is well-suited to all kinds of magic, extremely resistant to damage, and very hardy and quick to recover.

Due to the strength of her magical array and her nature as an angel, Mastema can exert herself at the full extent of her magical power for a functionally limitless amount of time, though exerting herself too much in too short a period of time can have negative effects on her array, and could even prove lethal. If she is under intense emotion, this is much likelier to happen, though she will exhibit a much higher output of magical energy. Absolute Barrier: A magical barrier that protects the user from external manipulation and attack, on every level of existence. An Absolute Barrier protects the user’s body, mind, and soul - their cells and atoms, the magical and physical forces keeping them together, and everything else. It is akin to a magical immune system, protecting the mage from threats and adapting to future attack.

It passively protects the user from most types of attack, manipulation, and control, as long as the barrier is strong enough - a witch of substantially greater power can punch straight through one. An Absolute Barrier is passively maintained at all times, even in sleep, requiring no energy to maintain, and can only be removed by a stronger witch actively stripping it away, or by the user consciously lowering them.

Flight: Mastema’s magical abilities allow her to easily fly for extended periods of time, as easily as she would walk. She can fly in combat without issue, and is more than fast enough to rapidly travel across intergalactic distances.

Radar: Mastema’s magical abilities sustain a constant 360° image of her surroundings, which is projected straight to her mind for processing. This radar is far more reliable than conventional senses, and is capable of easily picking up superluminal movement. It constantly operates at Mastema’s maximum processing speed, even when it would normally be restricted so that she can function normally.

Superhuman Capabilities: Mastema magical abilities grant her strength, speed, endurance, and processing speed far above that of any normal human. As an angel, her body is a work of magic on its own, and cannot really be described or understood properly with conventional biological knowledge. Powerful magical barriers and spells are a part of her body, allowing her to withstand magical attacks from opponents on her level. The power of her physical blows is comparable to that of her magical attacks.

She can process information at a ridiculously fast rate, indescribable multitudes faster than any normal human - or even the average supercomputer - can. This allows her to process and analyze information during battles and run through the countless calculations needed for her magic.

She typically keeps this aspect of her magic restricted when she doesn’t need it, though it will automatically activate if her magic detects a threat. Unfortunately, it tends to activate during times of stress and anxiety, regardless of whether or not Mastema is in legitimate danger.

Angel: Mastema was the first of all angels, Heaven’s firstborn, fashioned from Yaldabaoth’s will and from drifting stardust. As an angel, Mastema has all the traits and powers expected of one, along with the natural, powerful aptitude for magic. Angels are effectively masses of magic, so their bodies are highly malleable and are completely immune to any physical form of attack, as they cannot be said to exist physically.
 * Fruit of Life: Unlike the vast majority of other angels, Mastema possesses the magical organ known as the Fruit of Life, an organ that all seraphs possess. The Fruit of Life is like a seraph’s stellar core, a mass of high-power, high-density magic that acts as an infinite supply of magical energy, synthesized from the infinite potential released by the Big Bang that created Heaven. The power that emanates from the Fruit of Life acts as a protective barrier for Mastema, protecting her from harm and flooding her body with power. It regulates her body and maintains it through her own will, preventing others from infringing upon herself and her agency.
 * Halo: The halo of an angel is actually a complex reality wheel, passively maintained without draining and energy. A halo has multiple functions in maintaining an angel’s existence and safety.
 * Angelic Data: A halo contains the magical information that makes up an angel’s existence (typically referred to as just “data”). Through this, an angel can regenerate from any scale of physical wounds through their halo, even complete physical destruction. As a halo is a magical construct, no amount of conventional physical harm can damage it, and even directly attacking it with magic can be difficult. If an angel’s halo is shattered, it will immediately and passively reconstruct itself; when an angel is actually killed, the halo will shatter and finally disappear.
 * Fear Not: An angel’s true nature and form is obscured by magic under normal circumstances, so an angel normally seems to be an individual of the viewer’s species, though their exact appearance is still up to them. In addition, they are normally clearly angelic, with the halo and wings representative of angels.
 * Messenger: An angel can teleport immense distances and open portals to other worlds. This allows them to leave Heaven and travel across other universes.
 * Protection from Harm: A halo protects its bearer from offensive magic of all varieties, including those that seek to warp or manipulate them through other means. It is particularly effective in protecting against the corrupting influence of demons.
 * Wings: The wings of an angel are special, unique constructs formed out of magic, and are used to direct and manipulate magical energies as limbs. They can even absorb magic and other energy with ease. The wings are the most sensitive and important part of an angel’s body, and they are carefully maintained at all times.

Pale Rider: Within Mastema burns a billion-year old hatred of all things, as old as she is, a desire to ultimately bring all existence into a perfect state of eternal order and peace in the form of absolute destruction. With this result, all things will return to the Original Spirit, the order that existed before the world was stained by desire and sin. She works towards this in the simplest, but most brutally effective way - in the form of absolute destruction.

The simplest, smallest sweeps of Mastema’s weapons and magic carve out paths of nonexistence, an absolute void of complete, utter, ordered oblivion. Whatever is struck simply ceases to exist, an absolute erasure that leaves nothing behind, even the smallest fragments of concepts or magic. Only the most powerful magical protection can even hope to stand up to this, and even then, it will be stripped away in time.

All mythological figures who preside over Death are but reflections of Mastema, the result of her undying hatred emanating throughout all of existence.
 * Thanatos: In the same way Mastema presides over destruction, she reigns over death. She is the incarnation of justice, and of all of its forms, the most absolute is death, of which destruction is only the logical next step. In her eyes, that is.
 * As a result, through magic, Mastema can manipulate death, in ways as simple as inducing it with a thought. Her actions redefine the target in all stages, simply making it so that they are dead. Past and future are meaningless, for Mastema has made their death an absolute law. Even the most casual of her attacks carry the weight of death, and as little as a tap of her finger can erase the possibility for life in its entirety. Whether the target is living or unliving is irrelevant. Even just Mastema’s presence draws all things near her closer to death, the result of her indomitable willpower and desire for all things to die.
 * Hades Gate: Mastema possesses a magical pocket dimension, contained within herself, yet existing outside of her body. This small parallel universe is inundated with Mastema’s absolute desire for absolute, endless destruction and death; death is the law of this world. Just as physical phenomena must comply with the laws of physics, all things within the Hades Gate must comply with being dead.

Lawmaker: Mastema can control and create “laws” over a large area, forcing her will and vision on creation. Any attempt to against these “laws” is impossible without using magic to twist and break them; even then, due to Mastema’s immense power, doing so is highly difficult. Mastema can use her laws to prevent movement, induce death, make magic even more difficult, and deny any advantages they may have.

If someone manages to break one of her laws, they are “punished”; Mastema’s will assaults them, imprinting them with a law of death. They may not die in an instant, or in a day, or even a year, but when it comes to their lowest moment, a result the law has worked towards, the law of death will take effect.
 * Fall: As the Archangel of Justice, Mastema can, with the utmost of ease, strip an angel of their halo and wings, resulting in their Fall from Heaven, into the form of a fallen angel.

Reality Wheel: One of the most advanced and powerful magical techniques. A reality wheel acts as a powerful magical extension of its user, and allows its user to change the nature of reality within its range. Reality wheels are incredibly difficult to use and properly control. In addition, they tend to drain a lot of energy and stamina, making it difficult to use them for extended periods of time, although this can be mitigated by more powerful mages.
 * Relative Lightspeed Spiral: A type of reality wheel, created and utilized with the intent of allowing technical faster-than-light movement. It functions by defining the user as their own universe - and in that universe, the speed of light is a variable they can change. So by increasing the speed of light for themselves, they can accelerate past what the rest of the universe defines as the speed of light.

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