Isla Noctis - 5 January 2125
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The Archangel called Eremiel spoke directly into the minds of all those present for the ritual which had invoked him to become the Adam’s Messiah:
Adam’s kind called our [species] by the names of their biblical Angels from almost the moment they first witnessed our physical form. Do you understand why that is?
We were born onto this relative point in multidimensional spacetime long before this planet existed. Long even before the birth of this solar system, this galaxy. Our kind, beings of karmic energy, were scattered across the fabric before even the universe began. We have evolved alongside physical lifeforms throughout the universe, across all time. The existence of physical life and [angels] is inextricably, inevitably, invariably tied.
You named us, upon our physical reformation, after those names which we gave ourselves when we earlier came to your ancestors in dreams and visions and plasma-engulfed shrubs. You called us by our names.
Lucifer was the first of [Earth’s angels] to fall from the karmic layer into physical reality. He bore the karmic burden of Adam’s kind’s breaking of the universal laws which caused the instantaneous deaths of nigh eighty thousand of their fellow beings. For decades, Lucifer hid alone at the edges of your societies, before the karmic cycle brought him into contact with Agatha.
This genesis incident was the catalyst of change which has allowed us, [angels] and Adam’s kind, over the course of a century, to bridge the ephemeral gap between the karmic and physical planes, and to alter the course of the fate of the universe itself. The chaos and calamity of this period of metamorphosis ought to have been tempered continuously by a smaller choir, the [guardians]. Their purpose was served rightly to reign in the crisis caused by the collapse of the Host into Agatha. However, when the last of their choir was eliminated, everything was destabilized.
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So you see, it was the actions of Adam’s kind which created our current form, the “Archangels” as you call us. It is meant to be the role of our [species] to ever maintain the balance of the karmic flow for our physical counterparts. By becoming physical ourselves, and degenerating our consciousnesses to the scale of physical reality, we have put such things at risk that are inexplicable and inconceivable to your kind.
And so, because of this, I will abide your karmic wish, as exalted through the ritual which we showed to Solomon so long ago. Before this, I will deign to acknowledge one chain of events which has transpired that was not insignificant in the pulling of my will toward your present cause:
The one of Adam’s kind by the name of Herod Ecleates was responsible for the destruction of the [guardians] which has led to this current state of affairs. You, the one called Edith Gorman, displayed an understanding of karmic balance which many of my fellows have lost in this age when you took his life and took up his mantle to right his misdeeds. Furthermore, emotions are tied to the soul, and so have weight in the karmic flow— it does not fall lightly upon me that your life’s quest has been so tied to those of your kind whom you have loved fiercely, dearly, dangerously, and courageously.
Here, Eremiel expanded his voice to all of the remaining Archangels, and to all the vestiges of humanity in all corners of the Earth:
I will take on your burdens. I will sever the connection that binds the Host and Adam’s kind— the connection which binds Adam’s kind to the karmic layer. May Adam’s kind forgive themselves their misdeeds, and may they forgive me for whatever may come from the end of karma. I call the last wounded seraphs of the host into myself by name:
GABRIEL, BARACHIEL, JEHUDIEL, SAMAEL, ZAPHKIEL, CASSAEL, RAMIEL II, KHAMAEL, HADRANIEL, ISRAFIL, RADUERIEL, YOMIEL, SABRIEL, PURIEL, HARUT, AZRAEL.
As Eremiel called each Archangel, they were summoned from across the earth and collapsed into his frame instantaneously in an inconceivable display of sound and light. With each one his frame doubled in size, until Eremiel stood as the completed Adam’s Messiah— a giant glowing cross scraping the stratosphere: an eternal reminder of the end of the century of the Angels.
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