Heaven

**Heaven** is a realm created by God above himself, the Sun, at the center of the solar system. It is inhabited by God's main creation, that of the angels, as well as many other races including souls from deceased sentient beings in the Solar System as well as Solar Sky Dragons.

## Structure

Heaven is a planar floating island created out of spare protoplanetary material following the formation of the solar system 4.2 billion years ago. It contains many layers within, each layer having different inhabitants and often different conditions. The structure of Heaven itself is imbued with large amounts of God's Immaterial Essence, meaning its structure is ultimately at the whim of God and can change at his very command. Heaven is quite massive, being larger than the entire Earth in diameter.

Heaven is primarily surrounded by the Heavenly Aura, a shield which has numerous different purposes. It cloaks Heaven like a cloaking device, preventing unwelcome beings (and human telescopes and spacecraft) from seeing it. It also serves double duty as a shield, blocking out beings who may wish to enter Heaven for unpure reasons as well as natural threats like solar flares and storms. The Heavenly Aura also acts as a temperature control for Heaven, allowing Heaven to exist so close to the sun's surface without melting. While the exterior of Heaven can reach 5000 K, the inside stays at a cool room temperature on average, although the exact temperature depends on the layer and time.

Heaven is also imbued with a repulsive force in all of its atoms that compose it thanks to the Immaterial Essence. This repulsive force counteracts the force of gravity from the sun. At the surface of the sun, the gravity is around 274 m/s^2, but thanks to the constant repulsion within Heaven, the average gravity remains around 10 m/s^2, very similar to Earth gravity. While Heaven is a safe space so close to the sun, it is ill advised for beings unprepared to try and leave Heaven or fall off its edge, given they will now experience the full solar gravity and high temperatures.

According to Nina Kosaka, time in heaven flows differently than on Earth, where one day in Heaven is many days on Earth. While this is coming from the person who thinks time flows slower on Mars simply because it rotates slower on its axis than Earth there has been a lot of evidence to support this. For instance, it would explain how Elira can live such a fulfilling life on both Earth and Heaven at the same time during her double life phase, and also how Enna was able to do all her antics in such a short time. In Heaven, time flows differently due to God generating a Timeflow Bubble around Heaven.

Heaven has many strict rules set up by God himself. Fighting and sinful actions are highly discouraged both among angels and the souls living in Heaven. In addition, drinking is forbidden, at least among the heavenly host (it is unclear if souls are still allowed to drink). Lastly, talking about Heaven or the afterlife in any way to mortal beings if one is to leave Heaven for the mortal realm (usually in the context of humans and Earth) is extremely discouraged. It is stated that doing so will result in God "suing" that person, although what exactly that entails is not clear.

## Layers and Denizens

### Dragonsphere

The "atmosphere" of Heaven consists of many smaller floating islands far above Heaven's surface but still within the dome that is the Heavenly Aura. This is the realm where the Solar Sky Dragons abound.

### Heavenly Fields

The very surface of Heaven is the Heavenly Fields, a land full of rapidly growing plants and food on demand. Human Souls who are judged as worthy are brought by Recruit Angels from Earth, where they are given a celestial form that can interact with the physical matter in Heaven. Souls mostly live in peace and can interface with the surrounding Immaterial Essence like a person interfaces like a computer in order to change their immediate surrounding environment to whatever they desire. Humans here can also choose to reincarnate after some time.

### Neverland

The domain of heaven where animo souls go when they perish. However, Neverland was cleared of animo souls in order to make room for more human souls, which caused the animos to be exiled to other worlds such as Earth and experience an immediate reincarnation as soon as they die.

### Purgatory

A newly created layer of Heaven following Arc 9. It was originally occupied by Enna Alouette but after her deception was unveiled, the layer was converted into a realm where unworthy souls went to become psychologically tortured but hopefully, in the end, purified so they may ascend into the Heavenly Fields and gain the chance at reincarnation. After Arc 10, demons were also sent to Purgatory to reform.

### Angelic Domain

The most worthy of souls, as well as the primary domain of the normal angels, is the Angelic Domain. It exists as its own sort of Earth-sized civilization populated almost entirely by these worthy souls, angels, and other angelic beings. While the exact political structure of this layer of Heaven is unknown, it seems to encompass multiple territories and possibly countries.

### Core of Heaven

The innermost domain of Heaven is the Core of Heaven where the archangels, powerful spirits including "upper management" spirits like the Spirit of Luck, and ultimately God resides. Elira Pendora hails from this realm, the "heavens closest to the sun".

## History

Heaven was created 4.2 billion years ago by God at the dawn of the Solar System. It was mainly populated by a hierarchical structure of angels, much like the hierarchies present in corporate environments on Earth billions of years later. Originally, there were only three domains, that for the dragons, that for the angels, and that for the inner circle.

3.5 billion years ago, when the demons began to overstep their boundaries and threaten the safety and balance of the Solar System, God sent his angels to deal with the threat, starting a billion years long war known as the Holy War. In spite of their efforts, the demons were never able to overcome the barrier surrounding Heaven, the Heavenly Aura, and as such they have always lost any battle they try to fight against the Angels.

2 million years ago, when humans began to evolve, God created a separate layer of Heaven to accommodate them. In 1020, when animos were created, God did the same for them. However, his favoritism for humanity shown through when in 1990 he ordered Neverland, the realm formerly devoted to the animos, to be cleared so more human souls could move in.

Ultimately, the events of Arc 9 and the Iluna Six's heroism convinced God to put in more of his effort, and he created a new realm, Purgatory, for unpure souls in spite of his strong bias against unpure souls he possessed for millions of years. He also allowed animo souls to move back into Heaven to share it with human souls.