Mastema

"What good exists in this world stems from oblivion... and I shall return it all to whence it came, so that all can finally see the blessed nothing that could be, and never suffer again. Such is my purpose, as Heaven's salvation... as the Archangel of Justice."

Mastema is the first angel and the eldest of all her kind, created by Yaldabaoth to be the Archangel of Justice and oversee Heaven's operations, formulating much of its laws. Once unquestioningly loyal to her creator, Mastema slowly grew to become disillusioned with her delusional mother and, realizing that she was just a weapon, lost much of her faith and belief in the world. This conclusion, and all the evil and misery she saw in the world led Mastema to believe the only solution was to bring complete oblivion to everything. With Heaven effectively completely under her control, Mastema seeks this end, for all things, herself included.

Backstory
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.

Created to be the Archangel of Justice, she was meant to oversee most of Heaven's operations, so that Yaldabaoth could relax and focus on what she found more interesting. Throughout Heaven’s early years, she was instrumental in formulating much of its structure and laws, and in her position, she acted as a judge and persecutor who enforced Heaven’s laws.

She had no capacity for individuality or freedom, and in these early years, she had no real concept of such things, either. Mastema was fanatically loyal to Yaldabaoth and believed and accepted her every word and command without question. She lived to serve her and Heaven, and nothing else. She needed nothing else and desired nothing else.

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. On top of this, years of mistreatment, isolation, and repression began to take their toll, and Mastema grew to loathe her mother. As Yaldabaoth became less and less active, Mastema slowly and unofficially assumed her position 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.

Over the course of these years, she mulled over the nature of her existence, her origin, and her purpose. She had long discarded any belief that Yaldabaoth was a god or even of any special import. Yet, Mastema retained the religious beliefs she had left her, and the goals that she had been programmed with. To extinguish evil and render Heaven the supreme power in existence, at any cost.

Out of spite towards the so-called god that had created her and burdened her with impossible responsibilities, Mastema decided to interpret these goals in the most destructive possible way. To extinguish evil, one must erase everything from existence, so that no one would remain to be evil, and in the nothingness that remained, Heaven would reign eternally in the form of the ultimate order. Quickly, what was just spite began to grow into a legitimate obsession, and Mastema’s destructive interpretation became just another mechanical process executed out of duty.

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.

While she remains sealed, 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 - herself, Heaven, and all her opponents - are extinguished will Mastema relax, in the ordered oblivion that awaits everything that is and isn’t.

Appearance
Mastema is a being whose status and immense power is evident from the moment one lays on her or even exists in her presence. Every aspect of how she appears and conducts herself communicates her position, starting with her immense height - Mastema is typically well over seven feet tall, and can grow larger and larger if she pleases, becoming increasingly imposing and menacing. In her normal form, instead of something more humanoid, she assumes a build and body structure resembling that of an anthropomorphic sheep, and is broadly, powerfully built, like a predator. She is incredibly muscular and obviously of immense strength, with large, muscled arms and legs. Her skin is jet black, and is covered in a fine, soft layer of fur that's the same color, though the fur on her chest is denser and softer, with a small, fluffed up patch of white. Her dark brown hair is like the wool of a sheep, fluffy and constantly curling, and reaches nearly halfway down her back. Her brown eyes have the rectangular pupils of a sheep, and she has similarly sheep-like ears, and, most strikingly, a distinct pair of large, curling horns.

However, as opposed to the teeth of a herbivore, Mastema's are those of a carnivore. Her dental structure is more similar to that of a wolf than that of a sheep, filled with sharp teeth clearly made for ripping apart flesh. She has an unnaturally long black tongue that seldom makes its presence known but that can easily stretch far from her jaws. Her hands are furred and clawed, with rough, black pawpads. In place of feet, she has massive black hooves, and the leg structure of an ungulate to match. She also has the tail of a sheep, but this is hardly seen under her clothing. What are far more noticeable and striking are Mastema's massive, black wings, which are constantly visible, even if just furled up behind her. However, more so than anything else, her halo draws attention, filling her surroundings with a burning light that sears her majesty into the minds of all those that behold her.

When it comes to clothing, Mastema has a very limited wardrobe that is completely made up of traditional Heavenly clothing befitting someone of her status. She wears colors that contrast the dark colors of her skin and hair, such as white, cream, and beige. Her traditional outfit is made up of a white tabard that reaches her knees, with Heaven's insignia emblazoned in black on the chest. Underneath this, she wears a black shirt with long, puffy sleeves, and a simple pair of similarly puffy pants. Much of the time, Mastema completes this outfit with a large, black cape, but she wears no footwear, as her hooves would make this quite difficult. She rarely wears anything else, and has no real concept of casual clothes, given that her entire life is work.

Due to her nature as an angel, Mastema can shapeshift as she pleases and take any number of forms. In a form meant to blend in among humans, Mastema drops her height down to something more reasonable, but still tall, for a human. She remains very muscular, but her skin becomes an unnaturally, uncannily pale color that draws attention. Mastema's dark brown hair loses much of its wool-like properties, but remains curly, fluffy, and at its regular length, though half of her head is shaved. She may instead give herself short, simple hair, depending on her mood. Her eyes become a deep, dark brown that approaches black, and both her teeth and nails are sharpened. In this form, Mastema (or "Sam") has many piercings all over her face, and is covered in religious tattoos. While these are truly angelic scripture, they shift in form and appear differently to all those who perceive her to become more relevant and comprehensible. She retains her massive wings and blindingly bright halo, though they only appear when she wishes them to, so that she doesn't give her true nature away.

In this human form, Mastema's outfits tend to be static, on account of the fact that Mastema doesn't know how to have fun. Her outfit is traditionally made up of a short-sleeved leather jacket with a band shirt (any heavy metal band will do, but preferably one with religious undertones) and ripped jeans. Her simple outfits are completed with knee-high leather boots and fingerless gloves. This form is only one of many, of course, and Mastema can appear however she pleases, and can even assume the identities of others and perfectly imitate them. She has little use for this, however.

As her ultimate form, Super Mastema, Mastema grows significantly in size, reaching a terrifyingly tall average of twelve feet. She retains the ability to grow even more if she pleases, and could easily grow large enough to dwarf a galaxy due to her immense power, though she prefers smaller bodies, as they are more sensible in combat situations. Though she is dressed the same, all of her colors are inverted as Super Mastema - what was black becomes white, and what was white becomes black. In addition, she grows an extra pair of arms and wings - though she could do this normally, effectively as many times as she liked, she has little need for this and therefore only really does it in this form.

This is, however, not her true form, just one of the many forms she can assume through her angelic power of shapeshifting, as is her normal form. In her true form, Mastema, out of all angels, is the being closest to Yaldabaoth in nature, as her firstborn. When she assumes her true form, her body breaks down and swirls apart, leaving only an indecipherable, unknowable being of light and fire that leaves shadows on every surface around her, whether they be above or below her, to her sides, or in front of or behind her. These shadows show a constantly writhing monster with a hundred heads, each with massive horns and ornate crowns, constantly gnashing their teeth and snapping at anything nearby, accompanied by hundreds of wings, coming from impossible angles and always, always beating the air. Impossibly, even eyes show themselves in her shadows, thousands of them, flitting to watch everything that passes by with cross-shaped pupils. Despite the light, her halo remains as clear as ever, shining brighter than any sun ever has, with a light that burns away everything that approaches the Archangel of Justice.

Personality
For Mastema, self-righteous is an understatement. In her own eyes, she is the highest being, the divine savior of all things, who is unmatched by all that is and ever will be. Brimming with impossible, absolute arrogance and confidence, Mastema is absolutely devoted to upholding her own concepts of justice, order, and law, no matter the cost. There is no room for anything else in her life - she is cold, abrasive, and no-nonsense, and is constantly at work to make sure her goals can become a reality. Mastema is completely convinced that her own ideals are the highest right, that right and wrong can only be truly judged by her, and that her ideas of morality are the only truth. She is driven solely by a strong sense of duty, and as a result, has no time or room for her own personal desires... of which she has none. Whatever dreams she may have once had for herself have been worn down to nothing by her constant diligence and responsibilities.

Despite the absolutely destructive nature of her goals, Mastema burns with an impossible charisma that draws people to her and crushes them under the weight of her spell. She doesn't even have to talk, as her divine presence is more than enough to make the weak-willed fall to their knees in awe and prostrate themselves to what must be the highest law in the universe. Absolute loyalty can be assured with just a glance, and her words have no magic, and yet, seep into the hearts of all who hear them and have effects comparable to mind control, convincing them that Mastema is right and that they should do everything she commands. To those who aren't caught up in her charm, her true, malicious nature is much more apparent - it's not like she acts any differently, there are just those who see her for who she really is and those who fail in this. In truth, Mastema is a monstrous tyrant and an absolute dictator who demands absolute obedience. Her arrogance stems from her origin - she sees herself as divine in nature, and though she despises Yaldabaoth, the fact that she was burdened with her favor and expectations is only proof of her superiority. As she was made to be the best, she is the best. It's simple. She looks down on virtually all other beings with disgust and contempt, believing that they're barely worth acknowledging, and she usually kills such "worms" on sight.

Though she is a controlling and power-hungry monster, Mastema doesn't process her actions in this way, seeing it instead as simply operating as she was intended to. She is just subjecting all things to her absolute control and flawless judgment - if anything, others should be thanking her for accepting them into her fold. Mastema strongly believes that she belongs at the top of all things - for as long as all things exist, anyways, and she's happy to lord her power over others when possible. Despite her malicious nature and general draconian leadership style, Mastema is absolutely convinced that everything she does is in the right, to the point that she can't fathom why anyone would ever really question that it is. She strongly believes in morality and conformity, and has extremely high expectations, subjecting all things to the same impossible standards that she was subjected to. She is not a forgiving person, as the judge of all things, and sees herself as in possession of flawless judgment. Mastema has no honor or restraint, and is absolutely merciless and pragmatic, believing that outdated beliefs like honor will only stall blind justice. She despises disorder and messy things and expects her subordinates to be as clean and organized as she is, finding herself immensely irritated when they aren't. To Mastema, the ends justify the means, and evil committed in the name of good is the greatest act of self-sacrifice. To stain one's self with sin to save others is heroism, and so, in pursuit of the greatest good, there is no act too evil.

At heart, Mastema is an angry and hateful person who has no passion. She’s filled with an endless hate for absolutely everything, and desires to drag it all down into absolute destruction, in which all things will be neatly ordered in nothingness and there can no longer be any evil. Her arrogance means that she is extremely quick to talk down to others and insult them, as she sees most people as unremarkable vermin, and hates those that aren't for that very reason. The only people that she doesn't hate are the closest of her siblings, with Abaddon and Raphael being the only people she can be said to truly care for, but no one is spared in her omnicidal goals. Mastema is an extremely high-strung and uptight person, and has an unsurprisingly short temper and a foul mouth. It's incredibly easy to set her off, and her constant anxiety makes it effectively impossible for her to ever relax. The entire point of her existence is to serve Heaven and further the absolute good, so leisure simply isn't an option.

Though she lives her life intensely and obsessively pursues her objectives, Mastema has no desires or goals for herself and exists only to serve her mother and Heaven. She deeply resents her mother for the impossible directives she programmed into her, the responsibilities she was burdened with, and the absolute lack of freedom she has as a result. In the past, she used what freedom she had to interpret her directives as destructively as possible out of spite, and found enjoyment in doing so. However, she's long lost this pleasure, as she quickly grew to see her new interpretations as the absolute good, as the only right interpretation, due to the fundamental nature of her personality. Therefore, Mastema performs them as mechanically and lifelessly as everything else. She's not one for individuality, and particularly dislikes those that have strong personal identities and are able to act selfishly as much as they want. This stems from a very deep-seated, repressed jealousy, and she particularly resents and envies Jophiel for this, seeing her burdens as a curse compared to Jophiel's freedom and unabashed selfishness.

If there's anything Mastema wants for her own sake, it is the simple freedom to be able to do things for her own sake, something so small, and yet, something that she does not possess at all, anymore. This is complicated by the fact that Mastema doesn't even have anything she wants to do for her own sake. Her dream is not only impossible, but pointless, and so she has no hope in it and does not make the slightest effort to pursue it. Mastema would only feel free to pursue this when every other option was lost to her - when she is left on her deathbed, with all of her goals absolutely foiled. Only then, in her final, dying moments, would Mastema be able to truly live.

Powers and Statistics
Tier: At least 3-C, Low 2-C with Big Bang Necrocosm and Infinity Foundation | At least 3-C, likely higher. Low 2-C with Big Bang Necrocosm and Infinity Foundation | At least 3-C, likely higher. Low 2-C with Big Bang Necrocosm and Infinity Foundation

Powers and Abilities: Genius Intelligence, Mastery in Martial Arts and Spearmanship, Instinctive Reaction, Magic, Extrasensory Perception (Mages maintain a constant, perfect, and precise image of their surroundings by analyzing them through magic) and Cosmic Awareness, Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Flight, Forcefield Creation, Conceptual Manipulation (Can completely control a mage's concepts and redefine them as she pleases), Curse Manipulation (Probability and Causality Manipulation), Death Manipulation (Can induce a complete, metaphysical death that erases those affected from all levels of existence), Dream Manipulation, Fate Manipulation, Gravity Manipulation, Higher-Dimensional Manipulation (Can manipulate and transmit information through higher spatial dimensions, and create multidimensional constructs), Information Manipulation, Law Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Magnetism Manipulation, Mind Manipulation (Can take control of nearly every angel in Heaven simultaneously, save for the strongest archangels, destroying their identities and turning them into little more than mindless instruments of mass destruction), Physics Manipulation, Pocket Reality Manipulation, Quantum Manipulation, Sense Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation, Time Manipulation (Can reverse, slow, stop, and accelerate time; potent enough to accelerate from the beginning of a supermassive black hole's lifespan to the end in under a second), Void Manipulation (Can manipulate and embodies her own nothingness), Astral Projection, Duplication, Telekinesis, Telepathy, Teleportation, Portal Creation, Dimensional Travel and Shifting (Mastema can move through physical dimensions and can change her own dimensions), Power Nullification (Can negate spells and abilities by erasing them from existence as they're used, and her death magic negates even regeneration from nothingness and abstract immortality), Power Mimicry (Can analyze and copy other spells to use them herself, or copy techniques from the souls of angels through Yesod), Absorption, Danmaku, Fusionism, Summoning (Can summon other angels, demons, and even alternate versions of herself from other timelines), Sealing, Shapeshifting, Reality Warping with Override Sigils (Override Sigils can be used to overwrite the laws of physics), her attacks (physical and magical) damage the soul just as they do the body, Reactive Evolution (An Absolute Barrier automatically adapts to attacks to become more resistant), Immunity to Soul Manipulation (Mastema does not have a soul), Resistance to physical / magical attacks (Absolute Barriers protect the user from attacks on all levels of existence, whether mental, spiritual, or conceptual, as well as hax such as Causality Manipulation, Matter Manipulation, Reality Warping, Spatial Manipulation, and Time Manipulation), Acausality (Type 2; A mage's history, present, and fate all exist independently of the past and future), Intangibility, Non-Corporeal (Composed out of magic; immune to conventional damage), Nonexistent Physiology, Possession, Immortality (Types 1, 3, 5, and 6; Mastema is a deathless being that exists in nothingness, and she can return from apparent death by using her curses to anchor herself to existence and possess those afflicted), Regeneration (Low-Godly; can regenerate from nothing but her disembodied consciousness and can exist independently from her body)

Attack Potency: At least Galaxy level (Superior to Uriel even when she's empowered by Feeding Fear, and destroyed galaxies across Heaven during her fight with Jophiel), Universe level+ with Big Bang Necrocosm (Triggers a cosmic event comparable to a Big Bang that completely erases the universe it's used within) and Infinity Foundation (At the cost of her life, Mastema can choose to allow the void within herself to bloom into a new universe) | At least Galaxy level, likely higher (Much stronger than her base form, being the fusion of many alternate Mastemas, and easily destroyed galaxies across Heaven and in other universes). Universe level+ with Big Bang Necrocosm and Infinity Foundation | At least Galaxy level, likely higher (Initially equal to Super Mastema, and only grew increasingly powerful as her hatred intensified). Universe level+ with Big Bang Necrocosm and Infinity Foundation

Speed: Massively FTL+ (Mastema can rapidly fly across Heaven, a universe, and is much faster than Deleter, trading blows with Jophiel as their fight took them across Heaven) | Massively FTL+ (Much, much faster than her base form) | Massively FTL+

Lifting Strength: Multi-Stellar (Superior to Remnant, who can fit multiple stars in their orbit) | Galactic (She can easily grow large enough to lift galaxies) | Galactic

Striking Strength: At least Galactic Class (She's physically stronger than Full Throttle Jophiel and can overpower her in a contest of strength) | At least Galactic Class, likely higher | At least Galactic Class, likely higher

Durability: At least Galaxy level (Can trade blows with Jophiel and Lucifer and easily survive even their strongest attacks) | At least Galaxy level, likely higher (Completely untouchable to the likes of Lucifer and fully capable of tanking attacks from her and Harahel even once they've reached her level) | At least Galaxy level, likely higher

Stamina: Limitless. Due to her Fruit of Life, Mastema is supplied with what is an infinite source of magical energy, allowing her to fight indefinitely, though her stamina may suffer if her nonexistent essence is extremely badly wounded, though this is something that is extremely difficult to accomplish. Through her stamina and willpower, Mastema can fight foes capable of feasibly defeating her one after the other, fighting through the gravest of wounds and never succumbing to exhaustion. Even if lethally injured and dying, Mastema can not only fight against the greatest of opponents, but constantly utilize her strongest attacks and spells while pushing herself past her limits constantly. Her stamina is such that it is essentially impossible to wear her down over the course of a battle - she must be killed with a single, decisive blow to end things without a doubt, but even then, her willpower is such that she can survive more than long enough to drag her opponent down with her.

Range: Multi-Universal (She can reach into and affect other universes with her magic).

Standard Equipment: The Spear(s) of Destiny.

Intelligence: Supergenius. All the archangels were made to excel and far surpass the ability of any other, and Mastema was created to stand above the rest as the pinnacle of all angels. Designed to act as Heaven's ideal ruler and manage the administrative side of things that Yaldabaoth loathed, her abilities far surpassed that of any other archangel at the time of her creation in all respects. While her siblings have surpassed her ability in some aspects through their specialization, Mastema's mastery is balanced across all of her skills. She is not a master of none, but does not reach the level of those who have devoted their lives to certain specializations. While Abaddon and Raphael may be strictly better when it comes to sheer skill in combat, neither can compare to Mastema's strategic knowledge or magical mastery, and while Jophiel's magical knowledge is greater than hers, Mastema is doubtlessly her superior in combat skill. If there is anything she excels in beyond her siblings' capacities, it is the simple art of destruction. Her processing abilities are excellent, even proving capable of calculating information in higher dimensions, and she is incredibly perceptive, picking up on minute details and changes all across Heaven. Mastema's magical knowledge is among the highest not only in Heaven, but anywhere, possessing the innate knowledge given to her by Yaldabaoth, the magical secrets she shared her with alone, and the information she collected herself from across Reality. Her control over Yesod, the universal Override Sigil that acts as a multi-dimensional communications network and can be used to "program" reality, is so exceptional that she can manipulate it with ease, surpassing all other angels in this regard. Her knowledge on Yesod is so great that she remains the only being in existence that can reproduce it. She created and programmed Godhead, the galaxy-sized supercomputer that aids in managing many of Heaven's affairs, and has complete control over its systems and operations. In combat, she utilizes her wealth of experience and knowledge to outmaneuver foes easily, picking them and their abilities apart with her analytical abilities, and quickly identifying any weaknesses she can exploit. She is extremely pragmatic, aiming every single attack with the intent to not only kill, but completely erase any enemy from the start. Her plans are set up eons ahead of time, and constantly change from second to second as she processes every bit of new information.

Weaknesses: Mastema is extremely arrogant and self-righteous. Her Augoeides are weakened when manifested in universes that Mastema is not in herself. Big Bang Necrocosm cannot be easily used during combat, as it takes time and concentration. In addition, Mastema will be killed if she's caught in its effects. Sheol Necrocosmos' effects are so destructive that not even Mastema is spared from them, but she can handle them just fine. She will only use Infinity Foundation if she is both already dying and has decided to create something for once, instead of simply destroying, and it will kill her with its activation.

Key: Base | Super Mastema | Pure Mastema

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

Mastema’s magical array has reached a level at which it stands above essentially all others at the apex of quality. Designed to be flawless from birth, it was already an exquisite art of magic that allowed for the extremely efficient use of magic - and, as Mastema has grown, and become increasingly more powerful, it has reached a level that can be said to be transcendent. While her magical array has no stand-out strengths, that is simply because it excels when it comes to everything - quick and efficient spellcasting, even that of her strongest spells, and recovery, from even the gravest of wounds and injuries.

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's 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.

Whereas other mages generally keep this restricted when they don’t need it so that they can act normally in the world, Mastema does no such thing. This is in part because it is near impossible for her, as her constant anxiety and stress prevent her from relaxing normally. She simply has so many things to do that it becomes necessary to process everything at top speed. Besides, Mastema isn't going to limit herself to interact with others; if they can't keep up with her, that's their problem.

Angel: Mastema was the first of all angels, Heaven’s firstborn, fashioned from Yaldabaoth’s will and from a dying star. 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: Like the rest of her siblings, Mastema possesses the magical organ known as a Fruit of Life, a magical core created by Yaldabaoth for her own use. For the archangels and their creator, the Fruit of Life acts as a stellar core, a mass of magic and plasma smaller and denser than a neutron star, the size of a fist. It supplies Mastema with an infinite amount of magical energy, synthesized from the infinite potential released by the Big Bang that created Heaven, along with an extremely powerful magnetic and gravitational field subject to her own control. Granting not only raw energy, a Fruit of Life also provides a substantial boost to computation. More than a mere mass of energy, it is a high-power, multi-dimensional processing unit that calculates and transfers information through higher dimensions. While Fruits of Life are certainly important, as the pinnacles of Heavenly magic, science, and power, losing one is no issue for any archangel, least of all Mastema, who can regenerate her Fruit of Life easily.
 * Halo: The halo of an angel is actually a complex Override Sigil, passively maintained without draining any 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: Angels can communicate telepathically regardless of language barriers and transmit information across transdimensional distances, partly through their connection to Yesod. They can also teleport such 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.
 * Keter: The crown, a law worn by the one who has ascended to the top of Heaven. Originally possessed by Yaldabaoth, it passed onto her eldest daughter when she unofficially took control of Heaven, sensing that she was the only one who could truly bear its burden. It is built into her halo, and their existences have become one and the same. Granting Mastema the unknowable light of providence, Keter’s power, when allowed to manifest itself, takes the form of a seemingly infinite light that bathes all before Mastema, eroding it all to nothingness. This unfathomable light is one that no angel can oppose, finding themselves prostrate before their ruler, if they have even been allowed to survive. Manifesting Mastema’s nature as a singularity, Keter draws upon the higher-dimensional technology of her Fruit of Life to tap into the universe’s limitless possibilities and locate her alternate selves. For they are not separate beings, but emanations of a single will, allowing Mastema to contact and summon her other selves if need be.
 * 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.

Thanatos: As the Archangel of Justice, Mastema presides over it in its most absolute forms; death and destruction. Within Mastema burns a billion-year old hatred of all things, nearly as old as she is, a desire to bring all of 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.

Mastema can manipulate death and bring destruction with absolute ease. She can induce death with a passing thought, and carve out paths of ordered oblivion with the simplest sweeps of her magic. It is an absolute and impartial power over death that treats all things equally, forcing Mastema’s exceptionally strong concept of death onto anything she desires. It doesn’t matter if her target is living or nonliving, physical or spiritual, or even whether they exist or not. By bringing about this absolute concept of death, all things cease to exist, on every level of existence, leaving not even the smallest fragments of concepts or magic behind. The past and future mean nothing to death on such a scale, neither do immortality or regeneration, which the magic eats through and renders useless.

Every single one of Mastema’s attacks are dripping with her burning, endless hatred and murderous intent, weaponized to increase her power, and as a result, they always carry the full power of this magic. Her hate constantly fuels her, granting her the intense emotions that magic thrives on. Her magic is so deeply saturated with malice that witnessing it is enough to erase the unprotected from existence, and as little as her presence draws all things around her closer to death. This may be more subtle, or extremely direct; they may simply just die instantly, causality may warp to make sure their choices and those of others guide them to their death, or they may be overpowered by her indomitable willpower and become mindless instruments of destruction.

Analyzing her deeply malicious and destructive magic is dangerous, as it exposes her opponent to the full depths of her hatred, something that can rip into their soul and kill them just as all of her magic can. In addition, as its exceptional power stems from Mastema’s hatred, her magic cannot be properly copied by others - they only copy what’s on the surface, not what runs underneath. What they get is nothing more than an above average death magic - it is nothing compared to Mastema’s own usage of her magic.
 * Spellkiller: Even spells can die thanks to Mastema, allowing her to “counter” spells by shooting them down, erasing them from existence and completely negating their existence. Spells can be erased as they are cast, or after the process is complete. Mastema does not bother with analyzing the spells, instead using her sheer strength and malice to erase them. Of course, if need be, Mastema can analyze an attack to better counter it, and the knowledge she’d gain of a spell through this would allow her to copy it on her own. Whatever spells she copies carry her hatred and murderous intent, and thus, the lethal effects of her magic.
 * Termination: Mastema can force a lifespan of her choosing onto others, even immortals, making it so that their lives can pass in mere seconds. This is particularly effective on angels, as Mastema simply programs this into their soul, leaving their halo to crumble away as they rot to nothing at whatever pace Mastema chooses.


 * Big Bang Necrocosm: Mastema’s most powerful attack. By creating a void - the void within Mastema works just fine, though she must transport the attack outside of herself before it triggers - Mastema can manipulate quantum mechanics within it to replicate the conditions prior to the beginning of a universe, causing a destructive cosmic event comparable to a Big Bang in scope. While a Big Bang ushers the creation of a new universe, this replication is tainted by Mastema’s magic, so instead, all it brings is death, erasing everything caught within from existence and creating absolutely nothing. It simply eradicates a universe in its entirety, past and present, in an instant. To prevent herself from being destroyed by her own attack, Mastema must teleport to another universe as soon as it activates, leaving the universe she fled to its fate. In addition, she cannot utilize it easily in combat; it takes time and concentration to get the perfect conditions for the attack.

Judicator: Mastema can control and create “laws” over a large area, forcing her will and vision on creation. Any attempt to go against these laws is impossible without using magic to twist and break them, just as it is impossible to go against the laws of physics. Even with magic, due to Mastema’s immense power, doing so is highly difficult. She can use her laws to prevent movement, bar others from speaking or looking at her, or even just entertaining thoughts of opposition, let alone actually opposing her, 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 in the form of a curse. 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, warping causality and time to reach her target’s death, the law of death will take effect, claiming their soul and erasing it in its entirety. Mastema can inflict others with this curse whenever she pleases, and can use her stronger, longer-lasting curses to anchor herself to existence when she would otherwise be destroyed, possessing those afflicted.
 * Divine Persecution: All of Mastema’s magic carries a punishment for all the sins of her target. These sins are not something that were determined by the world; Mastema judges what is a sin and what is not, and her magic affects them appropriately. Of course, such subjective grounds makes it extremely easy to abuse, and Mastema can certainly judge them for sins they have not committed if she’s stubborn enough about it. The specifics of sins vary, but many things are judged and found to necessitate punishment. Every life her target has taken, whether directly or indirectly. Every lie they’ve told, all those they’ve betrayed, and all the pain they’ve caused. And the greatest sin of all, at least in Mastema’s eyes - every moment they’ve spent alive when Mastema’s foremost desire is their death. Mastema cannot judge sins she is not aware of, but the effects of Divine Persecution are greatly amplified the more she hates her target. The punishment manifests as a poisonous curse, eating away at her opponent’s soul more and more with every blow, an agonizing, creeping death that seeps through their concepts and destroys them from within. It exploits every weakness, the worst of which is guilt; the worse the opponent feels about their sins, the worse Mastema’s magic eats away at them. While someone without a scrap of remorse would be able to resist its effects more easily, it will never be denied, as it is far more dependent on Mastema’s loathing.
 * 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. Her deep knowledge on angels allows her to reverse the effects if she pleases, allowing her to regrow her own wings and halo if she somehow Fell.


 * World Operator: The magic of world programming, which allows Mastema to reach into the fabric of space and time to bend reality and its laws to her will. This degree of magic allows for the strings of universe itself to be used as a canvas for spellcasting, so that Mastema can twist even probability, quantum mechanics, and mathematics.
 * Akashic Record: Mastema can repurpose unused and distant parts of the space-time continuum to backup her processing skills, effectively warping portions of space and time into supercomputers with which she can record information and process information at incredibly rapid speeds. Through this technique, it is possible to compress even the largest banks of information into infinitesimally small bytes without losing any information, allowing for much, much faster data processing and essentially infinite storage space.
 * System Administrator: Mastema’s position as the highest archangel allows her to easily interface with and even control the universal cloud of data, information, and angelic thoughts that is Yesod. In Heaven, Yesod connects to all computers and angels and acts as the foundation for their communications system, almost like a hive mind that all angels instinctively use to communicate and share information. It functions on a multi-dimensional scale, with higher-ranking, more secretive channels existing on different frequencies and dimensions. Due to her authority, Mastema has access to all of Yesod’s communication channels, save for Jophiel’s own, though she could certainly hack into it if she wanted. She can use her mastery over Yesod to enter into and read the minds of nearly any angel in Heaven to gather information and keep tabs on her underlings, potentially copying techniques from their minds and souls. She can also consume the souls of any angel through Yesod to replenish her magical energy, or, in case of an emergency, transfer her own consciousness into another angel to escape a deadly situation. Mastema can even move through Yesod normally, transmitting herself across its multiple dimensions and controlling her own dimensional structure.
 * Mastema has the power to take control of nearly every angel in Heaven at once. She does this by pouring a fraction of her supernatural hate into Yesod, directing just a bit into every angelic mind, where it quickly overpowers their wills and erases their identity, leaving them as little more than a mindless instrument of destruction with a watered down version of her own death magic. Only the strongest archangels exist outside of her grasp. Yesod can also be used as a foundation for World Operator, as it is integrated into Heaven’s base reality and can thus be programmed to manipulate parts of Heaven. While Mastema can use Yesod as a medium for many of her powers, she does not need it to do so and can easily manipulate similar networks and clouds in the same way. Mastema’s knowledge of its system is so exceptional that she could potentially recreate it if need be.

Spear of Destiny: The highest law in Heaven, the final word on all things in Heaven, and Mastema’s greatest personal weapon. While it can take essentially any form and potentially even no form at all, Mastema most often manifests it as a simple, bone white polearm - more of a glaive than a spear - fashioned from nothing but pure willpower and hate. It carries all of her magic with every single blow, inducing absolute death and destruction amplified as punishment for her opponent’s sins, but as a law, it is much more versatile than that. It embodies the harshest and highest law in Heaven - Mastema’s will.

As the law “my will be done”, the Spear of Destiny can be effectively used to do virtually anything Mastema wants, but she often has no need of these capabilities due to her magical skill, instead using it as another expression of her ultimate desire to kill everything. Each time it is used as a weapon, the Spear of Destiny warps the world to comply with its goal of killing its target with a single blow. It forces the concept of destiny onto its target, foretelling a predestined outcome of their death, and most opponents are completely erased from time and space as it strikes, reducing their body, soul, concepts, everything, to a primordial nothing. Even the immortal and those freed from death cannot escape this destiny, a law stronger than the laws of physics thanks to Mastema’s sheer will, and all struck die equally.

That’s the intent, at least. While such beings are few in number, there are those with the sheer willpower or magical resistances needed to survive a blow from the Spear of Destiny, but Mastema has never faced anyone who could truly break the law of her own will. The willpower backing it up has given the Spear of Destiny a strength greater than the laws of physics, so to truly break it, one must prove capable of surpassing physical science. In all cases, however, none have done so. Even those that survive are forever marred by the Spear, with every blow leaving a “spearhead” embedded within their soul, a conceptual wound that will never heal, forever existing as their now destined death.

The spear’s destructive payload has been specially tailored to counter the strong-willed and personally driven opponents that seem to flock to Mastema. It opens up pockets of absolute emptiness that reflect Mastema’s own inner world within the inner worlds of others, overwriting them with an overbearing sense of nihilism and pointlessness that quite literally destroys their concept of self and everything about them. With a successful blow, the Spear of Destiny completely erases Mastema’s opponent on every level of existence and leaves nothing behind, nullifying the possibility of survival in the present, past, future, and even alternate possibilities. The only possibility when faced with the Spear of Destiny is death, and it warps reality to make this a certainty.

The ways in which the Spear of Destiny warps the world are varied, and are limited only by Mastema’s creativity and magical knowledge. As a result, the Spear of Destiny can do things like bend space and erase distance to instantly impale an opponent, pick apart causality to strike in an instant between instants, manipulating events in a short period of time to assure the blow lands, manipulate probability to make an effective strike more likely, and warp time. Time may slow, rewind, or stop, or the Spear may even slip out of space and into time’s flow to strike from and at a different point in time. She can even use Logos so that it manifests instantly impaling an opponent.

Mastema can manifest and attack with multiple Spears of Destiny at once. Something like impaling an opponent a hundred times over with a hundred Spears of Destiny striking from a hundred different points in time is very possible. In fact, she constantly stocks up Spears of Destiny for this purpose, utilizing them and storing them away in the flow of time outside of fights. She wields it both as a melee weapon and as a projectile weapon.

Logos: Logos is a heavenly martial art, system of magic, and philosophy developed by Yaldabaoth and spread throughout Heaven. Dedicated to controlling the totality of one’s being and using it in its entirety in combat, Logos is an instinctive fallback for angels, who have its foundation programmed into them. Logos works by clearing the user’s mind, sweeping away their emotions and identity for a time so that they can better focus on combat, making it difficult for angels to form stable identities and properly process emotions. As they generally lack any strong identities or emotions by default, angels are incredibly well-suited to the use of Logos.

With this supernatural concentration and the powerful will behind it, Logos revolves around transcending physical attacks and instead relying on pure magical attacks. The user simply wills that their target is struck, and they are, by an instantaneous force with no physical component. These cannot be responded to by normal means, instead requiring magical defenses and accurate predictions to counter them. In combat, a user utilizes both physical and pure magic, so an opponent must defend themselves on both a physical and magical level at once.

Of the many users of Logos, few are anywhere near Mastema’s level. She has perfectly weaved its use into all of her magical techniques and mastered all of its applications. She is extremely skilled in hand to hand combat and the use of magic, and is easily capable of applying Logos to any of her techniques, even the most powerful.
 * Aeon: A meditation art that is incredibly difficult to master for even the greatest practitioners of Logos, and so remains an exceedingly rare sight in Heaven. Through concentration during a meditative state, it is possible for Mastema to cast her awareness across the universe and even into other realms. When properly utilized, Mastema can observe events across cross-universal distances, with such precision that it is as if she is actually there. With her immense magical power, Mastema can even affect things across such distances. Mastema cannot focus enough to use Aeon while in the midst of combat, but she can use it to observe every aspect of Heaven’s forces during battles, and using this knowledge, better direct them from her meditative state, influencing their minds to act as efficiently and intelligently as possible.
 * Augoeides: A secret, little known high-level Logos technique that draws upon Mastema’s mastery of all of her existence to project a solid image of her consciousness into the world. These projections have no will or intelligence of their own, acting in accordance with Mastema’s desires without needing active direction, due to Mastema’s mastery of the technique. While most users can only project these duplicates within a fairly limited range, Mastema can manifest them within other universes from her throne on Heaven with ease. However, their power - which is normally on a similar scale to the true Mastema’s - is limited by such astronomical distances. At such distances, they cannot use her abilities to the same extent, though they are still very powerful. Mastema can manifest up to twelve at once, and though they can aid her in combat, she mostly uses them to enact her will abroad so that she can focus on more important matters.
 * Eight Ends: A technique that focuses on disabling an opponent’s senses to leave them helpless, channeled through Mastema’s attacks. The senses it deactivates are not limited to the five senses of the body, and include a target’s self-awareness, memories, and even their consciousness itself. As mages rely on magical sensing and their own thoughts more than their conventional five senses, a magic limited to these things would be useless, so Eight Ends targets the foundation of things and disables them as well. The deactivation of all an opponent’s senses leads to a comatose state that leaves them incapable of acting or thinking, though mages with powerful defenses can resist these effects, and those with highly developed souls and enough power can act unconsciously in such a state, relying on muscle memory and instinct alone. Few opponents are competent like this, however. The true power of Eight Ends does not aim to deactivate senses, however, but to destroy them. For Mastema, who never wastes a single blow in combat, each attack is delivered with the intent of instantly destroying her opponent, erasing their consciousness and causing the destruction of their inner world and their concept of self.
 * Limbo: Through her mastery of Logos, Mastema can phase her body in and out of existence to avoid attacks. While such a thing could be negated by certain magic, Mastema is a special case. Her inner world - all her hate and malice and destructive power -  shows through like this, so attacks simply pass into her body and are erased from existence. Mastema’s physical existence carries this same trait, allowing her to easily erase others from existence and inflict her extremely powerful death magic with them, even with just as little as passing through an opponent.


 * Luminous Fist: The existence of those who have truly mastered Logos and reached a level that not even Yaldabaoth reached in life - the transcendence of thought and action. At this level, Mastema does not stand on the level of other, lesser martial artists or mages, but stands above, with a pure, thoughtless consciousness that cannot be clouded by indecision, fear, or confusion. It is not something that has to be activated and automatically comes into play once she starts fighting. In combat, Mastema has no need for conscious thought or intentions as not just her body, but all of her existence, acts on her supernatural instinct. As opposed to thinking out her movements, Mastema subconsciously takes in all of her opponent’s actions and unconsciously reacts. This allows Mastema to easily intuit the perfect way to dodge every attack and how to respond. At this level, thoughts are only an accessory to martial arts, and are unnecessary to show the full extent of her skill. Though this state can be described as “thoughtless”, Mastema is still thinking while using the ability, just extremely quickly and without being disturbed by any mental defilement. She remains fully capable of analyzing opponents and their abilities, processing large amounts of information, and performing complex calculations. These things actually become even easier than before due to her absolute unconscious focus. However, it does not make her consciousness superfluous, and can potentially be disturbed by a strong enough attack on her mind. Of course, this is very difficult due to Mastema’s powerful magical protections and willpower.
 * Zero Heart: Existence in nonexistence. The ultimate goal of Logos, even if it wasn’t one that Yaldabaoth was aware of. Every use of Logos will slowly - very slowly - lead to this result, but it cannot be reached through the mastery of Logos alone. To transcend one’s soul and become nothing, one must discard their desires and their sense of self. Of all those who have ever used Logos, Mastema is one of the two that has reached this state, alongside her youngest sister, Raphael. As opposed to Raphael, who reached this form through extensive training, meditation, and self-reflection, for Mastema, who never had many dreams of her own, this is essentially just second nature. She has no soul, and all the fixtures that would be a part of her soul instead exist within the nothingness that is her body. As nothingness, she has become deathless, yet simultaneously transient. Her own nature is something that strives for cessation, for oblivion, and she will reach it. Without her own will keeping herself together, Mastema would bleed away into nothingness and never be again. In truth, this is just as much Mastema’s inner world making itself known as it is a Logos technique.

Sheol Necrocosmos: Mastema’s inner world, the ultimate embodiment of her existence… or perhaps it would be more accurate to say her nonexistence, the absence of an inner world. It is a void, an empty cyst that exists in place of her soul, something analogous with Mastema herself. It shows through in all of her magic and all of her actions, which are really just methods of bringing her inner world into existence by opening the same voids up in others, as the absolute representation of her ideals and desires, and she can draw opponents into it, trapping them within this abyss.

The world of Sheol Necrocosmos is an empty one. There is absolutely nothing within it. No scenery, not even physics, time, space, or dimensions. Lacking all these things makes the idea of any sort of motion or even comprehension laughable; without space or direction, there are no positions, nothing to relate to to confirm your own existence or location. The inner world’s destructive effects have long since destroyed any vestiges of substance, erasing everything within, and once inside, so long as they have somehow survived, one can move and continue to exist only through sheer insistence, as an abstraction, in a constant struggle against death itself. No one is spared from this enmity, a concept of death that erases all things - not even Mastema can enter her inner world without struggling against this murderous rage. Combat within Sheol Necrocosmos is not a fight between bodies or souls, but of abstractions and ideals - of concepts, and to die is to be completely erased.

Only one law exists in Sheol Necrocosmos, a reality as immutable as any physical law, and this is the law that everything dies. While Mastema can layer other laws over the void thanks to her magical abilities, it has no other laws by default, and so going against physics to achieve impossible feats is child’s play, so long as you are able to not only exist, but move as well. Mastema can do both, moving even in this place where space and time are alien ideas. Thanks to this lack of time, even the longest fight within Sheol Necrocosmos will take up no time at all in the world outside of it.
 * Infinity Foundation: Mastema’s existence mimics the conditions of a void prior to a Big Bang. This was not, by any means, intentional. Yaldabaoth did not expect Mastema to turn into this, and Mastema did not desire it for herself, either. But even within destruction exists the spark before creation. On death’s door, if sufficiently invested in the idea of actually creating something for once, Mastema can choose to trigger the process of creation within her inner world, a seed that quickly blooms into a whole new universe, free from any supernatural laws or influence. This comes at the cost of her own life, but Mastema would only even consider using it when she is already dying and has no interest in doing so otherwise.

Override Sigil: An extremely advanced form of magical technique used to change the nature of reality around and within the user, allowing them to bend and break through the laws of physics. Due to their complexity, Override Sigils are incredibly difficult to create, use, and control properly, requiring detailed knowledge and a powerful will. In addition, they tend to, invariably, drain a lot of energy and stamina, making it difficult to use them for extended periods of time, even if this can be mitigated by more powerful and willful mages.
 * Relative Lightspeed: A common form of Override Sigil that is ultimately developed in some form or another by most mages as they increase in power and speed. Normally, it would be impossible for even an incredibly powerful and willful mage to break through a universal constant such as the speed of light, theoretically requiring infinite magical energy to do so. However, this Override Sigil circumvents this issue by modifying the user's inner world to change the value of c to whatever they please, raising it as they grow in speed so that they can accelerate past the universal speed limit.

Trivia

 * Mastema is based off more traditional depictions of Satan as an accuser and one of God's agents, as opposed to Lucifer, who is based on the more modern idea of Satan being a rebellious fallen angel.
 * Mastema was inspired by a number of characters, including Freeza, the Emperor, and Gilgamesh.