Humanity

**Humanity,** also known as **Children of Eden,** is a mortal race of intelligent primates originating from planet Earth. At the dawn of the Seventh Day, Yahweh, seeing his work bearing fruit, resolved to give his soul and free will to human beings, allowing them to walk their own path. Since then, they have become the center of Creation and the main trigger of various conflicts between the angels.

## History

### Emergence

The first generation of humanity emerged on Earth within the Sixth Day of Creation, 400,000 years ago. Through natural selection, this group of hominids, dubbed the eridals by the angels, became more intelligent and sophisticated than the other primates around them. Exactly where the eridals emerged is not known, as approximately 320,000 BC they spread across the planet in an event known as the Great Migration, in which one group traveled to Middle Eastern lands and another ventured across the European continent. until arriving at the Island of Mu, located in the Atlantic Ocean.

Over the millennia, natural evolution caused eridals to differentiate into three distinct species: Men, later known as Enochians and as *Homo sapiens sapiens*; Atlanteans and Neanderthals. Men, being these descendants of the group that settled in the Middle East region, were the most numerous among the species and soon spread across the globe, with minor physiological distinctions naturally appearing over time and resulting in ethnic variety across the world. . The Atlanteans, in turn, were descendants of the group that traveled to the Isle of Mu, where they were guided by an Elohim known as Orion, sent by the Archangels. Finally, the Neanderthals were a more "primitive" species compared to the others, with many characteristics still similar to their primate ancestors and they settled in the northern region of the planet, especially in Western Europe and North America.

### Receiving the Soul

At the beginning of the Seventh Day, as he contemplated how his creation was finally bearing fruit, Yahweh turned all his attention to the Earth, called Eden by him, and he was amazed to see how the eridals had become so sophisticated. Happy with his work, the Mighty realized that his Creation was complete and decided to rest, giving control of the Universe to Archangels and Angels. Before ascending Mount Tsaphon, the Splendent gave part of his divine essence to humans, granting them his soul and allowing them to no longer be guided by primitive instincts but to walk their own path.

After that, the Mighty summoned Metatron, the First Angel, and ordered him to choose a select choir of winged from all castes to integrate the Sentinels, angels responsible for protecting Earth and humanity at any cost. After gathering his most trusted angels, Metatron and the celestials also received the Creator's soul just like humans. Meanwhile, to the archangels and other angels, Yahweh's last command was to "guide and protect humanity without interfering with its course".

### The Awakening

Soon after Yahweh bestowed the soul on humanity, a few humans began to differentiate themselves from their others: they became aware of themselves and the world around them and were no longer guided only by their animal instincts. The first human to become conscious (or one of the first, there is controversy) was a man named Adam, followed by his wife Lilith. Upon realizing this "awakening of consciousness" of these humans, Metatron was so impressed that he decided to protect them from the rest of the world, as he believed that humanity was instinctively good, but living in a group caused discord and conflicts. So he created a luxurious oasis in the middle of the desert of the Middle East region and called it the Garden of Eden; soon after, he abducted Adam and Lilith, erased their memories, and placed them inside the garden, presenting himself as God to them.

In the meantime, more and more humans began to become conscious and start human civilization across the globe, thus forming the Fabric of Reality. This fabric was a metaphysical membrane formed when the human subconscious rejects all that is unnatural, such as magic and the occult, creating a barrier that prevented supernatural events from manifesting on Earth. The emergence of the Fabric became known as the First Awakening, but as there were still few humans and civilization was just born, it was fragile and inconsistent.

### Garden of Eden

Inside the garden, Adam and Lilith became immortal by drinking its waters, but could not have children as their lands made them infertile, as Metatron did not want to create large groups in the oasis. Even so, the couple began to argue and generate conflict within the garden, so Metatron took Adam's side and expelled Lilith. Soon after, he abducted a new partner for the man, a young girl named Eve. For many years, Adam and Eve lived peacefully within the garden, undergoing trials created by Metatron.

Later, due to the interference of the First Angel in the affairs of the Seven Heavens, the archangel Lucifer decided to take revenge on his rival, hitting his weak point: humanity, more specifically the couple he protected. According to his plan, the Morning Star sent his most loyal angel, the seraph Samael, into the garden disguised as a serpent, so that he could tell the couple about how Metatron kept them imprisoned and that Eve was not the first wife of Adam. Eager to see the outside world, they confronted the First Angel who, knowing the damage was done, allowed them to leave, but not before giving one last piece of advice: "Praise only the human race and trust no winged being."

### The Ice Age

Not satisfied, Lucifer resolved to further antagonize his rival by hurting humanity, so he went on to convince his brothers that humans were inferior beings, evil and corrupt by nature, so they didn't deserve Yahweh's love. Convinced, Michael then decided to eliminate all of humanity before it corrupted the rest of Creation, so he ordered the ice ishins to freeze the entire planet so that no one would survive. However, despite the efforts of the Ishim, humans survived by hiding in caves and mainly because of the protection of Sentinels, such as Kaira, who kept them warm during the Ice Age. Because of this, the archangels declared war on the Sentinels and began to hunt them down.

After the end of the glaciation, humans came out of the caves and began to recreate their civilizations, thus starting a time of prosperity in which many nations were founded.

### First Cataclysm and the rise of Enoch

Determined, Miguel tried other strategies to exterminate humanity. In 100,000 BC, he sent earthquakes so powerful that they ended up splitting continents in half and reshaping the face of the Earth. In this period, a good part of the planet was already inhabited by human beings, mainly by Men, and many nations and empires appeared and disappeared over the millennia. Among these nations, one stood out in the midst of the cataclysm: Nod, founded by Adam shortly after he left the garden with his wife. The capital of Nod was Enoch, the Beautiful Giant, who was founded by Adam and Eve's firstborn, Cain.

Over the millennia, Enoch became a major political, military, and cultural power on the planet, with it influence spreading across the globe. Men came to be called Enochians and the Beauty Giant became known as the "homeland of men"; moreover, the era that followed until the Flood in 11,500 BC was known as the Enochian Period. Due to ideological differences, Enoch and Atlantis entered a series of conflicts known as the Mediterranean Wars to see who would be the greatest nation in the world. Despite the efforts of both nations, neither was ever able to invade the other's capital and the conflicts lasted for nearly thirty millennia.

### Second Cataclysm

After the failure of the first cataclysm, Miguel resolved to send another wave of destruction to the planet. This time, he ordered the ishins to cause volcanic eruptions, stronger earthquakes, and meteor showers. Many nations suffered from the disasters, but two managed to protect themselves: Atlantis, who was sympathetic to the celestials, and Enoch who defended itself from the attacks using steel and magic. Although the human race as a whole managed to survive and rebuild its civilization, the Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 BC.

### The Great Flood and the Regress of Civilisation

Even with two cataclysms, humanity still thrived and came back stronger and stronger. Miguel, who was tired of losing, decided to order a definitive solution: flood the entire planet so that no human can survive. Though it seemed infallible this time, the Ethereal Wars fiasco had caused a split in the Seven Heavens, with angels supporting the destruction of humanity and others questioning the Prince of Angels' motives, invoking Yahweh's last command to guide humans to the instead of destroying them.

To try to proceed with his idea and prevent a massive rebellion in the Seven Heavens, the Firstborn decided to create a test to see if there was a human worthy of being saved, thus satisfying both opinions of the celestials. In the end, the angels found a human who proved himself worthy, Noah, the exiled prince of Enoch. So Michael had the approval to send the catastrophe, but only if he kept Noah and his family safe.

The Prince of Angels ordered the ishins of fire and lava to melt the polar ice caps, causing an unprecedented flood that covered the entire world with water, which resulted in the destruction of all antediluvian nations, including Atlantis and Enoch, the extinction of the Atlanteans and of other human subspecies that existed at the time, and in the reshaping of Earth's continents, islands and seas. Even with this deluge, humanity managed to survive, both by Noah and his family and by the many survivors scattered around the world who managed to escape in time.

### Rebuilding

Despite the great destruction caused by the Flood, humans managed to survive and began to rebuild civilization again, regressing to primitive levels of society and losing much of the memory of the nations of yore; however, the nations that followed had many elements inspired by their precursors in the Enochian Period. With the extinction of the Atlanteans, the Men, or Enochians, became the only human species and soon spread across the Earth again.

Over the course of ten thousand years, humans have created new civilizations, this time using science and technology rather than magic and the supernatural. This ended up causing the gradual thickening of the Fabric of Reality, increasingly separating the world of men, called Haled, from the spiritual world and its supernatural wonders. Despite forbidding humans to easily perform magic again, this separation was beneficial to them as it made it difficult for angels and archangels to work on Earth, thus serving as supernatural protection.

### Third World War

In the 21st century AD, global human civilization was in an international crisis caused by the imperialist policies of different nations. In this crisis, two political blocs stood out: the Berlin League and the Eastern Alliance. Due to the worsening of hostile relations, both powers declared war on each other and used nuclear weapons to destroy each other, killing much of humanity and polluting the Earth at first. With the Fabric of Reality once again fragile from the war, humans were finally extinct when Apollyon used his most powerful ability, Total Destruction, to end the Civil War on the Ethereal Plane.

Fortunately, Ablon, Aziel, Amael and Nathanael decided to turn the Wheel of Time to erase that timeline, going back years before the Apocalypse.

## Characteristics

Humans are mortal living beings native to planet Earth. Apparently, they are products of the natural evolution of hominids already existing on Earth during the Fifth and Sixth days of Creation. At first, humans, known as eridals during their emergence, were primitive animals a little more intelligent than the other animals around them, but they were still guided by their instincts. Only after receiving the soul did they become aware of themselves and the world around them, finally able to start their civilizations.

### The Soul

The soul is an important part of humanity and something that defines it among mortals and immortals. The human soul was created when Yahweh gave part of his divine essence to humans, something Michael refers to as "the final remnant of Yahweh's existence, the last vestige of a vanished God, exterminated of his own will." Through the soul, humans became aware of themselves as individuals and of their place in the Universe; this allowed them to create their own history and live according to their will, that is, it granted them free will, something that the angels and archangels greatly envy him.

In addition to free will, the soul bestowed two other unique characteristics on humans: now, after the physical death of their body, humans could live forever as spirits, something that even angels and archangels cannot. The second is the ability to practice magic, this being a unique manifestation of the human soul, which allows its users to perform feats considered impossible by many.

## Subspecies

The term "human" in the past has served to encompass all direct descendants of the eridals, that is, intelligent and soulful hominids who lived in society. Among these were Men, or Enochians, Atlanteans and Neanderthals.

### Men, or Enochians (2nd race)

Men, the 2nd race, made up most of humanity during the Antediluvian Era, colonizing over 90% of the planet. During this era they were called Enochians, as Enoch was known as the "fatherland of men". They were more versatile than other species, as they were able to survive many cataclysms and even the Flood, thus being the only human species to repopulate Earth after the waters receded.

Among humans, there is a great ethnic diversity across the planet, with many shades of skin and hair color, facial features, etc...

### Atlanteans (3rd race)

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The Atlanteans were a population of humans that most differed from the rest of the other races in many characteristics. Physiologically, they had blue skin in many shades depending on their clan, white hair, and turquoise eyes. In addition, they lived an average of 350 years, which is the longest life span of any species.

Culturally, the Atlanteans were quite diverse. Their society was divided into two clans, the asuras and the devas, and was considered to be the most advanced in all of human history. As their souls were "stronger" than the others, magic was something common and even banal among the Atlanteans, being part of their society such as architecture and transport, for example.

### Neanderthals (4th race)

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Neanderthals were the smallest of the human subspecies. They were considered the most primitive of the three races, closest to their eridal ancestors both physiologically and culturally. They settled in Hiwatha, Telluria and Ys, but their civilizations, which were limited to clans and tribes, did not reach the level of other human species. They became extinct during the Second Cataclysm, around 40,000 BC,

## Notable Members

### Antediluvian Era

* Adam and Eve
	+ Cain
	+ Seth
* Lilith
* Kothar-wa-Khasis

### Antediluvian Era

* Cush
* Nimrod
* Shamira
* Zamir
* Adnari
* Minos
* Radamanthys
* Thales
* Tommaso
* Pollix
* Flower of East
* Holy Child
* Gutaska Razda
* Tom Craig
* Rachel Arsen