Mandos

==Summary==
Mandos (Whose true name was Namo) is the brother of Irmo (Lórien) and Nienna. The three of them are the Fëanturi, the Masters of Spirits. His wife was Vaire the Weaver.
After the captivity of Melkor, Mandos pronounced his Doom: He was to spend three Ages under the duress of Mandos, guarded by his hound Gorgumoth in Lumbi. Mandos also judged Fëanor, banishing him from Tirion for twelve years after Fëanor's drawing of a sword against Fingolfin. After the destruction of the Two Trees, Yavanna asked for the light of the Silmarils, which Fëanor denied and said that Yavanna would break them and he shall be slain, the first in Aman. But Mandos spoke and revealed that Finwë was the first, having been slain at the steps of Formenos by Melkor, when he stole the Silmarils. When the Ñoldor revolted against the Valar, Mandos appeared before them and pronounced the Doom of the Ñoldor ("Tears unnumbered ye shall shed; and the Valar will fence Valinor against you, and shut you out, so that not even the echo of your lamentation shall pass over the mountains. On the House of Fëanor the wrath of the Valar lieth from the West unto the uttermost East, and upon all that will follow them, it shall also be laid. Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. To evil end shall all things turn that they begin well; and by treason of kin unto kin, and the fear of treason, shall this come to pass. The Dispossessed shall they be for ever...").
Only once has he been moved to pity: When Lúthien sang of the grief she and her lover Beren had experienced in Beleriand. Then he declared that either she could stay an Elf, or become a member of the race of Men with Beren. She chose the later, and then, with the Elder King's approval, he released them to Middle-earth to begin their second life there as mortal beings with no certitude of life.
When Eärendil arrived in Aman to beg for assistance from the Valar, Mandos considered Eärendil and Elwing's nature as Half-elven and gave them and their descendants a choice: Either to be counted among Elves or Men.
Mandos, upon appearing before the Ñoldor, was referred to be a tall, dark figure with a loud voice, solemn and terrible. He is stern, dispassionate and never forgetting a thing. He was the Vala who cursed the Ñoldor leaving Aman and counseled against allowing them to return. But unlike Morgoth (Who cursed Húrin), his Dooms are not cruel or vindictive by his own design, for he is not wicked. Rather they are the will of Eru, and he will not speak them unless he is commanded to do so by Manwë.
==Powers and Stats==
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Key: Within the confines of Eä | Prior to entering Eä
Name: Mandos, Namo
Origin: The Silmarilion
Gender: Male
Age: Existed before the creation of time
Classification: Ainu, Vala, Arata, Fëanturi
Powers and Abilities: 
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Powers and Resistances of the Ainur (Abilities and Resistances of the Aratar from "Within the confines of Eä"), Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Flight, Regeneration (Low-Godly), Immortality (Types 1 and 3), Shapeshifting, Size Alteration, Elemental Manipulation, Death Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation (The lords of the Ainur could create joy and, by extension, sorrow), Summoning, Transmutation, Precognition, Invulnerability (The Ainur are immune from harm via conventional weaponry, as seen when, upon unlocking more of his divine power, Gandalf became invulnerable), Resistance to Death Manipulation (Mandos is the creator of the land of the dead, a place of the same name. Ainur do not travel their upon death, rather becoming spirits until they regenerate), Intangibility and Non-Corporeality (At the very least in spirit form), Analytical Prediction, Acausality (Type 2; Changes to the past or future are unable to affect the "Music in being", otherwise referred to as the present)Morgoth's Ring: PART FIVE. III. as a verse-wide ability. Resistance to Mind Manipulation (The barrier of Unwill within every individual mind prevents mental penetration by even the likes of Sauron without consent.)The Nature of Middle-Earth, Part Two: Body, Mind, and Spirit, IX ÓSANWE-KENTA. and Soul Manipulation (Soul with free-will are considered indestructible)Letters of Tolkien: Letter 211 due to verse-wide resistances
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 Powers and Resistances of the Ainur (Abilities and Resistances of the Aratar from "Prior to entering Eä"), Resistance to Mind Manipulation and Soul Manipulation due to verse-wide resistances.
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Attack Potency: High Universe level (As a Lord of the Aratar, Mandos should be incomparably superior to all lesser Ainur. Members of the Aratar are considered to surpass all other beings under Eru, with even the Lesser Valar or Greater Maiar being surpassed "beyond compare" in regards to majesty and might)Silmarillion: VALAQUENTA, can ignore conventional durability with Soul Manipulation (Ainur can directly influence the fëar/soul to attack it directly)The Silmarillion: AINULINDALËThe Nature of Middle-Earth, Part Two: Body, Mind and Spirit, XIII SpiritMorgoth's Ring: Notes on motives in the Silmarillion (iii) | Low Complex Multiverse level (The Ainur, as described by Eru, are considered to be powerful and genuine entities, being capable of shaking the Timeless Voids as a result of their strife during the Music of the Ainur. As beings that exist in a realm beyond the world depicted in The Lord of the Rings, the Ainur perceive the space-time of Eä as a lower and secondary plane of existence, with them dwelling alongside Eru within the Timeless Halls, a higher and more primary level of existence. As a lord of the Aratar, Mandos is incomparably superior to the Maiar and even the lesser members of Valar), can ignore conventional durability with Soul Manipulation
Speed: Unknown. Massively FTL+ combat speed and reactions (Comparable to the other Valar), Immeasurable when discarding his physical form (The Ainur are still capable of travelling at any speeds they desired, being able to instantly appear anywhere they desired within Eä and exploring the past at will. However, the future is something they can only explore so far as the design was made clear to them during the Music)Morgoth's Ring: PART FIVE. Text XIThe Nature of Middle-Earth: Part Two, XIV The Visible Forms of the Valar and Maiar | Immeasurable (In their origin, the Ainur were unbound by space-time, and were capable of exploring both the past and future with their movements)
Lifting Strength: lnfinite (The Valar, are said to have "had a command, great individually, almost complete as a united council, over the physical matter of Eä.") | Immeasurable
Striking Strength: High Universe level | Low Complex Multiverse level
Durability: High Universe level | Low Complex Multiverse level
Stamina: Superhuman (The bodies of the Ainur are described as being akin to clothing, which they can discard at will. Lesser Ainur than Mandos have been known to fight for days, and he, alongside the other Valar, were said to have contested Melkor for entire ages) | Limitless
Range: Extended Melee Range. High Universal with abilities (Comparable to Varda) | Low Complex Multiversal
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: Nigh-Omniscient (Alongside possessing the usual knowledge of a Vala, Námo/Mandos is said to "know all things that shall be" while forgetting nothing. Indeed, even amongst the Valar there are details only he and Manwë are aware of, such as the fate of men beyond Eä's boundaries)The Silmarillion: Chapter Twelve, Of Men | Nigh-Omniscient (The Ainur acted as the origin to all that which existed within Eä, except for that which Eru himself withheld)
Weaknesses: None notable
Notable Attacks/Techniques: Like all Ainur, Mandos has access to a wide range of dangerous powers, mostly related to the elements.
Dooms of Mandos: Mandos was the Vala of judgment. He is judge, jury, and executioner. Thus he was granted the power to deal divine judgment, and he could curse those he found guilty to doom and darkness. These were known as the dooms of Mandos.
Powers of the Ainur: As a Vala, Mandos has access to wide variety of potent and devastating supernatural abilities, for the Ainur (The Valar specifically) were created as elemental spirits, and each have divine authority and absolute control over a certain aspect of nature. Each and every one of the Ainur is also able to manipulate magical energies and reality to serve their needs, and take any form they wish, even intangible and non-corporeal spiritual forms. Given she is a Vala, above any of the Maiar, there is no doubt she can use all of the basic Ainur powers.
*Elemental manipulation: Mandos, in addition to being the judge of the Valar, was also the keeper of the dead. He was charged with control over his namesake, the Halls of Mandos. There the Elves who were slain dwell, unless the chose to reincarnate. Here Mandos holds those who he has judged as well, such as Melkor (For a time) and Fëanor.
*Foresight/Hindsight: The Ainur can see the past and the future (Though the latter is fallible). Of all the Ainur Mandos uses this power most often, being the one who made the prophesy of Dagor Dagoroth in the first place. He uses this power even more often than Melian.
*Empathy: The Ainur are surrounded by an a powerful aura, which can affect those around them, bringing joy and presumably sorrow to those near him: "In Beleriand King Thingol upon his throne was as the lords of the Maiar, whose power is at rest, whose joy is as an air that they breathe in all their days, whose thought flows in a tide untroubled from the heights to the deeps."
*Shapeshifting: As one of the Ainur, it was highly likely that Mandos possessed the famous Ainur ability to transform and reshape the form of one's body, appearing in whatever form he desired. They can also appear as inanimate objects, such as when Yavanna appeared as a tree.
*Spirit form: As one of the Valar, it was highly likely that Mandos had the typical Ainur ability to cast off her physical form like a snake shedding its skin, and take on an intangible and non-corporeal spiritual form. In this spiritual state, the Ainur can travel forward and backward in time (Though they are unable to affect the future or the past, only see it). Of the Ainur's spirit forms and precognitive powers this was said:
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