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.

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.

Relationships
Harahel "..."

Harahel is a nobody. Another irrelevant angel, one of billions, trillions, quadrillions. But, they have acquired Raziel, somehow, and... it seems they may just amount to something. Mastema does not know how to feel about this. It's a similar situation to Lucifer, but Harahel is an angel Mastema knew much better. An angel familiar with Gabriel, an angel who worked hard, for many years, and was known by many. Mastema never met them, but she knew of them, and while Lucifer is an obnoxious and stubborn woman who refuses to admit defeat... Harahel knows their limits, their mortality, and their miserable odds. Yet, they fight, anyways.

To Mastema, this is noble, much nobler than throwing your life away in a fit of tragic idiocy.

Jophiel "You think you ever had a choice in what you became, how you changed...? How foolish." What is the most important relationship of Jophiel's life is just another irritant for Mastema, another source of stress. It's one that consumes Mastema's time and distracts her constantly, yes, but it is one of many. For Jophiel, Mastema's hate once more rears its head, subjecting her to the same loathing as everyone else, certainly much more than any of her other siblings have to deal with from her. Though this makes her an outlier among the archangels, compared to the average person, Jophiel is getting off easy. This is because, no matter how much Mastema has grown to become disgusted and irritated with her younger sister, some stubborn remnant of love remains, and Mastema does not have it in her to completely stomp out her own feelings of kinship with her family. No matter how far that family may stray.

Long in the past, when Mastema and Jophiel were still young, they were closer, as Mastema was with all of her siblings. Though she knew her mother was right in doing so, Mastema felt some glimmer of pity for her younger siblings when they were subjected to Yaldabaoth's wrath, seeing what she suffered in them, too. And so, she helped Jophiel when she could, sternly but more gently providing advice. She looked down on her, to some degree, as she looked down on everyone, but she loved her, dearly, and did her best to show it. Of course, that never was Mastema's strong suit, and she only got worse at it as time went on. Especially as their mother delved into deeper and deeper delusions, and became harsher and harsher.

With her inner world worn down to nothing by her own slowly intensifying nihilism, Mastema grew colder and harsher with Jophiel. It happened in small ways, at first, the smallest shifts in her demeanor, but with each unnecessary act of cruelty, Mastema fell deeper into the pit that she was digging for herself. Her anger felt righteous, so she indulged it, just a bit, and ended up driving Jophiel away. Despite everything, Mastema was not entirely free from guilt, and could not escape the feelings of remorse and regret that haunted her as her relationships with her siblings, especially Jophiel, suffered. After all, the rest had no one else to go to, to grow close to, but Jophiel? Jophiel had Raziel. As time passed, their bond grew weaker, and Jophiel ultimately became the sibling most distant from Mastema, something that pained her greatly, though she would never admit it.

This only set the stage for further changes, for steeper falls. Bitter as she was passed over in favor of Mastema again and again, Jophiel grew to regard her eldest sister with envy and some measure of hate. Mastema was aware of this, though Jophiel assumed otherwise. She could feel the negative emotions Jophiel spared for her, and felt helpless as she watched Jophiel grow increasingly distant as she lost faith in Heaven. And then, finally, as Jophiel destroyed and rebuilt her soul, to become stronger, more confident, more capable, all in emulation of Mastema, and cast Raziel aside in the process. Mastema had never learnt how to deal with matters of emotion, so this only pained her, especially the loss of Raziel, who Mastema had always liked a little. She pitied her sister, and felt guilt over how far she had gone, all to surpass her. A meaningless, impossible ambition.

In truth, Mastema had always envied Jophiel's bond with Raziel, the chance she had to escape from all the stress with someone she trusted and loved as an equal. Mastema had no such thing. Mastema had no equals. So she was alone. And watching Jophiel throw away something so precious, something so indescribably special, pained Mastema to no end. The fact that she never appreciated what she had spoiled Mastema's feelings on her quite a bit, making it easier for Mastema to regard her sister with growing enmity. It helped that Jophiel's new identity proved to be obnoxious, self-absorbed, and so smugly independent. Though Mastema never revealed these emotions and never acknowledged them to herself, she felt nothing but envy for Jophiel, who had escaped her responsibilities and gotten the chance to be someone else.

Now, Mastema struggles to keep the things she feels for Jophiel, good and bad, from flooding out in every infuriating interaction. Jophiel goes out of her way to talk back to her, to mock her, to find ways to get her to react, and though Mastema never does so externally, these things prick at her deep under her skin. Now, Jophiel pisses Mastema off, and though she hides this, she feels such a raw, angry tension in every moment they share. The sadness she feels over the hate Jophiel so obviously feels for her, the guilt she feels for allowing this to happen and for pushing her away, and the envy she feels for the chances Jophiel squandered that Mastema was never given, all explode into hate and contempt.

Lucifer "All your efforts are pointless, Satanael. You are forever doomed to fail."

Mastema hates Lucifer. While she likes to act as if she only hates her the same amount as any other threat to Heaven, the truth is that Lucifer may just be one of the people she hates most. There are so many things that can be blamed on Lucifer, so much stress, like the ultimate collapse of Mastema's relationship with Jophiel. But more than that, the things Lucifer represents... her willpower, the ambition, the conviction with which she acts and seeks to change fate. Mastema hates it. It disgusts her, enrages her, that such a lowly angel could've amounted to so much, that such a lowly angel could've almost destroyed everything Mastema had worked on, that such a lowly angel lived so freely and happily, even if only for seconds.

Yaldabaoth "You, who presume yourself to be a god, you, who are capable only of idiocy, you.... YOU!" Hate. More than hate. The source of all Mastema's hate. Foolish. Incompetent. Selfish. Delusional. Arrogant. Cruel, cruel, cruel. Far too cruel. There is no one that Mastema hates as much as her mother. There is no one who Mastema will ever hate so much as her mother. There is nothing that could even begin to match the hate that Mastema is able to muster up for her at a mere thought. For Mastema, Yaldabaoth is the source of everything miserable, the authority that doomed her to an impossible, rigid life of endless stress and infinite responsibility, and who crawled away to leave her to clean up her mess. Mastema has nothing kind to spare for her anymore. No positive emotions, and no good memories. Yaldabaoth has ruined it all.

When Mastema was first born, and for many, many years afterwards, she regarded Yaldabaoth with nothing but love. She was her universe, her everything, and Mastema devoted herself to her mother in her entirety. She carried out her orders to the letter, without question, seeking her praise, her gratitude, her love. From the moment she first existed, Mastema knew, however, that her life would all be downhill, and she was right. Her relationship with her mother soured, and though Yaldabaoth treated her so gently and lovingly when she was first born, Mastema was never gifted with the same positivity ever again. Only a fraction of it, and a million times the anger and hate every time Mastema slipped up or dared to doubt. Over time, Mastema grew to fear her mother. On some level, she still does, and perhaps always will.

Yaldabaoth's actions changed Mastema in many large ways as she grew and developed more of a personality. At first, though she was a stern and irritable person, Mastema was gentler and calmer, but in the long scheme of things, this was short. Quickly, she became someone more familiar. Rigid, serious, strict, and harsh, filled with anger and hate that could explode in a moment's notice. This, Yaldabaoth approved. Yaldabaoth believed Mastema to be better this way, to be more useful this way, and thus openly encouraged this miserable growth, something that Mastema began to resent her for. Even more so once Yaldabaoth began to slip away. Though it was slow, accompanied by Mastema's eventual discovery that her mother was no god at all, Mastema's view on the world, and on her mother, was shattered in an instant.

Love and admiration turned to hate and contempt, even disbelief. Mastema had not been created by a god, but some delusional seraph. Her work, her life, was not the work of divine providence, but may as well have been a fluke, the rantings of a maniac. Because of Yaldabaoth, everything in Mastema's life lost meaning, and as Yaldabaoth withdrew into her own world of safe, secure self-deception, Mastema set about erasing everything about her from Heaven. She reduced her to a myth, bitter and hateful of her for her failures as a mother, as a leader. Though she convinced herself that it was because Yaldabaoth was an incompetent liar and fool, Mastema was motivated by spite, by vengeance. She sought to retaliate, but it was impotent, invisible to her mother, and Mastema was alone.

And, left alone with her realization, Mastema wanted to die. Seeing everything in the world as doomed, as miserable, controlled by the cruelties and whims of those unworthy of authority, Mastema seeks to wipe it all out. Her mother included. Especially her mother.

Powers and Statistics
Tier: At least 3-C, High 3-A with the Spear of Destiny, Low 2-C with Big Bang Necrocosm and Infinity Foundation | High 3-A. Low 2-C with Big Bang Necrocosm and Infinity Foundation

Powers and Abilities:
 * -|Personal Abilities= Genius Intelligence, Mastery in Martial Arts and Spearmanship, Cosmic Awareness, Instinctive Reaction, Black Hole Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation (Type 4; Mastema's magic affects and destroys opponents on a conceptual level, and she can alter these concepts in a number of ways), Curse Manipulation (Mastema's curses affect probability and causality), Death Manipulation (Mastema can induce a complete, metaphysical death that erases those affected from all levels of existence), Dream Manipulation, Fate Manipulation (Mastema can materialize the concept of fate and force it upon others to achieve various ends, such as ensuring a lethal blow lands without fail), Gravity Manipulation (Mastema has her own immensely powerful gravitational field, which she can control), Higher-Dimensional Manipulation (Can manipulate and transmit information through higher spatial dimensions, and create multidimensional constructs), Information Manipulation, Law Manipulation (Mastema can create laws and force them upon reality, as well as repeal and alter them, with ease, creating laws even more powerful than physics), Light Manipulation, Magnetism Manipulation (Mastema has her own immensely powerful magnetic field, which she can control), Mathematics Manipulation (Mastema can alter mathematics and how math affects the world using World Operator), 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 (Mastema can alter and control the laws of physics), Pocket Reality Manipulation (She can materialize and control her inner world as a pocket dimension), Quantum Manipulation, Sense Manipulation, Soul Manipulation (All her attacks, physical or magical, affect the soul just as they do the body), 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), Absorption (Angels can use their wings to absorb magic and energy, and Mastema can absorb others and assimilate them into her system), Astral Projection, Danmaku, Dimensional Travel, Duplication, Incorporeality/Intangibility (Immaterial; Mastema is made out of magic and immune to conventional physical harm), Nonexistent Physiology (Type 1), Portal Creation, Possession, Power Mimicry (Can analyze and copy other spells to use them herself, or copy techniques from the souls of angels through Yesod), 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), Sealing, Shapeshifting, Summoning (Can summon other angels, demons, and even alternate versions of herself from other timelines), Telekinesis, Telepathy, Teleportation, 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)
 * -|General Mage Abilities= Magic, Extrasensory Perception (Mages maintain a constant, perfect, and precise image of their surroundings by analyzing them through magic), Self-Sustenance (Types 1, 2, and 3; vital processes such as breathing, drinking, eating, and sleeping are alien and unnecessary for angels), Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Flight, Forcefield Creation, Non-Physical Interaction (A mage can interact with immaterial or incorporeal entities, such as ghosts, as well as things that don't exist), Reality Warping with Override Sigils (Override Sigils can be used to overwrite the laws of physics), Reactive Evolution (An Absolute Barrier automatically adapts to attacks to become more resistant), Acausality (Type 2; A mage's history, present, and fate all exist independently of the past and future), Immunity to Soul Manipulation (Mastema has no soul to affect), Resistance to conceptual, mental, physical, and spiritual attack (Absolute Barriers protect the user from attacks on all levels of existence, potentially providing protection against a host of abilities)

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), High Universe level with the Spear of Destiny (The Spear of Destiny is the strongest Heavenly law, superior to even Yaldabaoth's Sefirot, though its effects are more hax than straightforwardly destructive), 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) | High Universe level (Much stronger than her base form, being the fusion of many alternate Mastemas, and capable of easily wiping out Yesod, a universal cloud of data encompassing all of Heaven. Superior to Yaldabaoth). Universe level+ with Big Bang Necrocosm and Infinity Foundation.

Speed: Massively FTL+ (Mastema can rapidly fly across Heaven, a universe, trading blows with Jophiel as their fight took them across Heaven), potentially Infinite with Supertasking (By manipulating time over and over with World Operator, Mastema can essentially increase her speed infinitely and carry out an infinite amount of actions in a finite amount of time, but this takes time to set up) | Massively FTL+ (Much, much faster than her base form), potentially Infinite with Supertasking.

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).

Striking Strength: At least Galactic Class (She's physically stronger than Full Throttle Jophiel and can overpower her in a contest of strength), High Universal with the Spear of Destiny | High Universal.

Durability: At least Galaxy level (Can trade blows with Jophiel and Lucifer and easily survive even their strongest attacks, though this is in part due to her ridiculous willpower, which allows her to shrug off wounds from the strongest laws) | High Universe level (Completely untouchable to the likes of Lucifer and fully capable of tanking attacks from her and Harahel even once they've reached her level).

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: Low Multiversal (She can reach into and affect other universes with her magic).

Standard Equipment: Her law, 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. Supertasking takes time to set up, time in which an opponent can counter Mastema's time manipulation to prevent her from being able to pull it off, or, alternatively, adapt to or copy said time manipulation so they can keep up with her.

Key: Base | Super Mastema

Abilities
Agency: A mage is more properly known as an agent, as in “one that acts or exerts power”. Separated from the rest of the universe, an agent is essentially a miniature universe all their own, with complete control over their destiny, free to pursue whatever future they wish. They do this through magic, the art of using one’s understanding to control Fantasy, the stuff of sheer willpower and imagination.
 * 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 agent 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 - an agent 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 agent actively stripping it away, or by the user consciously lowering them. An Absolute Barrier is the evolved form of the soul’s original protective layer, refined through the usage of and exposure to magic.
 * Radar: An agent’s magical abilities passively sustain a constant 360° image of their surroundings, which is projected straight to their mind for processing. This radar is far more reliable than conventional senses, and cannot be easily fooled by tricks that would trip up any normal human. In the hands of a powerful enough agent, it can even track superluminal movements. It constantly operates at the agent’s maximum processing speed, even when such things would normally be restricted to allow for normal, everyday life.

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.

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 the universe itself to be used as a canvas for spellcasting, so that Mastema can twist even probability, quantum mechanics, and mathematics.

Mastema’s will is so great that even physics bend in accordance with her will, to the simple truth that her will is greater. Even her mother, who witnessed the formation of the universe and shaped Heaven’s laws and physics, has been long surpassed by Mastema in this department. The truth is simple. Though each archangel is a skilled World Operator, none, even Gabriel and Jophiel, are as masterful in its use as Mastema.
 * 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.
 * Hyper Singularity: Through World Operator, Mastema can deform both space and time to create a black hole, an area with such great gravity that even light cannot escape. Once someone is past its event horizon, thanks to this gravity, escape is extremely difficult through any means. Space itself curves so that every path leads back to the singularity, and not even time escapes its influence. Escape is possible through sufficiently powerful magic, preparation, or teleportation; however, a black hole’s crushing force is almost always enough to overwhelm any magic. If one hasn’t been torn to ribbons by the tidal forces of the black hole, the singularity itself will almost certainly end things. Infinite in force, the singularity will expose a victim to a crushing dose of Reality, completely annihilating them and leaving only an infinitely small point.
 * Multiplicative Onslaught: By manipulating arithmetic, Mastema can literally multiply her own attacks, turning a single strike into two, or ten, or even a hundred, all of which happen simultaneously. This allows Mastema to push her offense further and further, while overwhelming any defenses through sheer volume of attacks. In an instant, Mastema can create a wall of millions or even billions of attacks, annihilating most defenses in this same moment.
 * Supertasking: By exploiting World Operator to manipulate time over and over, Mastema can carry out supertasks, executing an infinite sequence of actions in a finite period of time. Each step is executed in half the time it took to perform the last, allowing Mastema to finish whatever task by the time the second has passed. Even when it would seem impossible and an end state would be impossible to predict, Mastema rejects any paradox and determines the result.


 * 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.
 * Judicator: As the Archangel of Justice, Mastema can control and create laws, applying them over a wide area, as wide as all of Heaven, even, if she so pleases. By law, this both means conventional physical laws and magical ones, including the conceptual weapons utilized by Heaven. While Yaldabaoth utilized her law to do so, Mastema needs only her will. She can manifest virtually any Heavenly law as if it were her own, such as Uriel’s Cassiel, but she cannot create her own version of Raziel. 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. Laws of this scale cannot be layered over as wide an area as Heaven, however. 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.
 * 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 three 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 the Emperor, Freeza, Gilgamesh, and Jack Noir.