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The Beginning

Earth

The world below the clouds upon which angels danced and fluttered innocently above the world upon which they knew nothing of.

The surface had always fascinated one angel in particular, a young apprentice by the name of Eden. She was young in her angelic years, having only lived for five decades but her youth made her mind fill with copious amounts of curious thoughts and fascinations about the world.

She was like most of the younglings, curious about the mysterious world beneath the clouds of High Heavens, however, she unlike all the others wanted to see the world, experience what it's like to walk among those mysterious people who walked upon the Earth.

Sadly, the law of the Angiris Council dictated her, forcing her to remain up high, speaking tales of horror and gore of foul beasts known as man that hunt angels with fire and pitchforks and cuts off them wings and mounts them as trophies and watch gleefully as angel dies and withers away.

A particular tale has been spoken of many times of how men banded together and captured the former Archangel of Wisdom and former Leader of the Angiris Council, Malthael and corrupted him. Of how man dragged him towards what in previous times was known as the forest of Pandemonium and left him there.

The Reapers, also known as death that lived inside the forest, came out like predators, reaped away his soul for seven days before they corrupted him, making him their master so that that he was no longer the Archangel of Wisdom but the Archangel of Death and Lord of the Death Reapers.

Chalad'ar, the Chalice of Wisdom was corrupted and turned into the weapon he now wields, The Scythe of Darkness upon which he reaped many innocent souls, claiming it was the work of the High Heaven that ordered the angels deaths.

It caused uproar between the angels and man, who once lived in peace, and those who captured Malthael were punished before the alliance that once existed between man and angels was eradicated and another angel has never visited the surface below ever again.

That didn't stop Eden. The horror stories didn't dis-way her curious urges. Each day she wandered right to the Gate of the High Heavens that imprisoned her in the cage that had been built around them.

Eden was a special prodigy in the High Heavens. She was an apprentice to the Archangel of Hope, Auriel. She was one of the most beautiful angels to walk upon the clouds and the only female Archangel in the Angiris Council.

The Archangels were the higher beings, there were five before Malthael was corrupted and walks with demon. Now they were just four. The leader was now Imperious, the Archangel of Valour, the mightiest warrior of all.

Ithereal is the Archangel of Fate, a strong leader as well but silent and calm, forever living most of the time in the Library of Fate, and then there was Tyrael, the Archangel of Justice and Wisdom. He took on the burden of Malthael and his title and carries two now, because in truth he was the wisest of them all.

The Archangels were the higher beings, and then their were the lower angels, all the angels who just spent their years living in the sky, awaiting for the moment they were either called for war or needed to bring peace, which hadn't happened in years.

Between those two, were specialist angels or apprentices that were chosen and blessed to learn beneath the Archangels incase one day, the Archangels were lost or gave up their position then the apprentices would take over.

Eden was one of many possible apprentices to Auriel but she was chosen and had been learning under the Archangel of Hope for a short while, it was easy to learn from Auriel cause she was understanding and tried her best to sooth Eden's curiosity instead of stamping it down.