Metatron

**Metatron, the First Angel**, also known as the **King of Men on Earth**, is a character who appeared throughout the *Filhos do Éden* trilogy, debuting in *Herdeiros de Atlântida*. He was the first angel created by Yahweh, in the center of Fulgiston, and served as the foundation for the entire heavenly race that would come to be. Because of this, he possesses all the abilities and powers of all castes, being one of the most powerful beings in the Universe.

At the beginning of the Seventh Day of Creation, the Mighty ordered Metatron to gather a select choir of angels and give them a soul, so that they would protect the Earth and humanity from outside threats. This group of angels, known as the Sentinels, became the guardians of the planet and took their main task seriously for millennia. When the archangels decided to extinguish humanity, Metatron and his followers rebelled, continuing to protect men even after the Firstborn's order.

## Biography

### Creation

Metatron was the first angel created by Yahweh, being made at the center of Fulgiston, the cosmic explosion that gave rise to the entire Universe. Following the creation of the First Angel, the Mighty used him as the template for an entire race that he would create next: the angels. These angels were divided into castes and had characteristics and functions according to them, such as the Ishim, who would have the power to manipulate the elements and the Malakim, who would have to record the evolution of God's work. Metatron, as he had been the base of all celestials, possessed the abilities and powers of all angels combined, making him one of the strongest beings in the Universe alongside the archangels.

Billions of years after the creation of the Universe, Yahweh decided to rest, leaving the Cosmos in the hands of the archangels and angels. To protect Earth and its main inhabitants, humanity, the Splendent ordered Metatron to gather a choir of angels from various castes and give them part of his divine essence, known as the soul, which would make them different from other celestials. This choir, known as the Sentinels, would have to safeguard the Earth and protect men, guiding them without interfering with their free will. Initially, Metatron would be named as patron of the Elohim, but he declined the task.

### The God of the Garden

Following the dawn of the Seventh Day, men and women began to gain awareness of themselves and the world around them, thanks to the soul that the Creator had given them. When the first couple, Adam and Lilith, became self aware, Metatron was amazed and resolved to protect them from the dangers of the world. In one day, he created a great oasis in the Middle East region and surrounded it with golden gates, filling the place with exotic plants and animals. Afterwards, he placed the couple in the garden and erased their memories of the ancient world so that they could live peacefully within the oasis. In the Garden of Eden, as this sanctuary in the middle of the desert became known, Adam and Lilith drank from the waters of its rivers and became immortal, but they could not have children as their lands left them infertile, as Metatron believed that life in society corrupted humanity.

For many years, the couple lived in peace within the garden, but over time, they began to argue, mainly over each other's position in the sexual act. Taking Adam's side, Metatron decided to expel Lilith from the garden, seeing that she would be bringing conflict into that sanctuary. Realizing that he needed another woman for Adam, the angel decided to abduct another human, this time named Eve, and placed her inside the Garden, erasing her memory of the outside world. During this time, Metatron introduced himself to the couple as the Supreme God of the Universe and created trials to teach the two about life and its concepts.

After some time when Yahweh had gone to rest, Enuma, the last of the children of Tehom, decided to attack the Seven Heavens, as he was still an enemy of the archangels. The five firstborn, fighting for the first time without the Father, were lost and were almost defeated by the Destroyer, but were eventually saved when Metatron interfered and entered the battle, being the variable that allowed the defeat of the dark god.

Following Enuma's defeat, Lucifer, one of the archangels, had disliked Metatron's interference, finding it humiliating that he was saved by an inferior, younger creature. Because of this, as he knew that the First Angel loved the protected couple in the Garden very much, the Morning Star devised a plan to affect the rival. He sent one of his most loyal angels, Samael, into the garden. While in the sanctuary, the angel, disguised as a serpent, told Eve about the world outside, about how Metatron kept them trapped inside the garden, and how she was not Adam's first wife. After the angel's report, the couple confronted Metatron, who had no choice but to let them leave Eden to explore the outside world, but not before giving one last piece of advice: "Praise only the human race and trust not no winged being." Knowing that Lucifer was behind this, the First Angel found out about Samael and ripped his wings off, sending him back to his master with a message.

For a time, Metatron was known as *Bahr Shaddai*, the Curly God over the Garden, in the city of Bahr Hut in Nod.

### War Against Heaven

After Adam and Eve left the Garden, Metatron decided to use a different strategy to get closer to humanity. He moved to the Southeast Asian region, where he had a family with a human women and created a small village. Lucifer, still wanting to hurt his rival, started spreading lies about humanity to his brothers, saying that the humans were corrupt and evil and needed to be exterminated. Michael, manipulated by the Dark Archangel, became convinced and decided to freeze the planet, claiming that no human could survive. However, for the plan to work, he would need to remove from Earth the greatest defenders of humanity, the Sentinels.

One day, Michael sent Gabriel, the Fire Master, to convince Metatron to renounce his role as Earth's protector and summon all the sentinels back to the Seven Heavens so the archangels could wipe out humanity. However, as he was still very faithful to his task given by God, the First Angel declined the offer, saying that he and his followers would protect humans from the archangels at alol costs. Furious, Gabriel returned to the Seven Heavens empty-handed, promising he would return. Sometime later, while on a hunt, Metatron noticed smoke coming from his village and when he arrived at the scene, he realized that all of his family and friends had been killed by Gabriel. The two soon entered an epic combat, which ended with Gabriel killing Metatron by stabbing him with his sword. However, Raphael, who watched the fight from Heaven, descended to Earth and decided to resurrect Metatron for reasons still unclear at the time. After his resurrection, the First Angel and his sentinels declared war against the Seven Heavens.

### Fighting Ablon

For a considerable time, Metatron and his allied sentinels roamed free through Haled, as all agents sent by Michael were simply defeated by the angels. Determined to put an end to it, the Firstborn, along with Lucifer, sent one of his best generals, Ablon, to Earth, along with the cherub Ishtar, with the mission to exterminate the remaining First Angel's allies and capture Metatron himself.

After defeating the Three Pillars, Ablon finally found himself with Metatron inside a dormant volcano in Teluria, where the two fought a deadly fight. Metatron was initially obviously invincible, having used his powers such as telekinesis and elemental manipulation to leave the cherub general in a near-death state, but his goal was not to kill him, but to change his view of the archangels, and so he implemented an illusion in Ablon that showed the death of Ishtar, his partner. Enraged, Ablon awakened immense energy within himself and finished Metatron with a single blow. The First Angel was then taken into custody to the Seven Heavens, where he was confined in Gehenna for an indefinite period.

### Escaping Gehenna

Metatron was incarcerated in the Prison of Fear in Gehenna for thousands of years after the fall of the Sentinels and the Great Flood, until he finally decided to escape. Without any difficulty, he finished off two cherub soldiers and teleported out of the structure before being intercepted by Astaroth, the Hashmallim who managed the prison. Again, with ease, the First Angel defeated the celestial before disappearing into the clouds of the Second Heaven, returning to Haled.

The time confined to Gehenna, as Metatron himself would reveal, was purposeful, with him being able to leave the place at any time. He had actually used the place as a means of engineering his future plans, using Sophia as his agent on Earth and also influencing Teth to found the Angels of Death, with the secret aim of rediscovering the location of the obelisks and the Spear of Nod.

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## Appaerence

Metatron is described as a strong, muscular angel. He was slightly bald at the creases of his forehead, had a mature, bearded face, a lot of hair on his body, thick fingers and a robust face. At the time before the Flood, he wore only a leather loincloth and walked barefoot.

## Personality

Metatron is described as sarcastic and self-assured. He is also very strict and systematic, never giving up on the mission given to him to protect the human species. He himself eventually dies at Kaira's hands for refusing to break his own code of not killing innocents.

It can be said that before Gabriel's attack on his village, he was very calm, docile and kind, but after the massacre of his family, he became much darker and colder, calculating a series of plans to achieve his goal of acquiring the Earth for him.

## Powers & Skills

As Metatron is the first angel created by Yahweh and served as the mold for making angels, he possesses the abilities and characteristics of all castes, making him the most powerful angel in all of existence.

* **Nigh-Omnipotence:** As he possesses the powers of all castes, Metatron is one of the most powerful beings in the Universe, being in the 7th cycle of power, the same as the Archangels. In the past, he was the variable that allowed the firstborn to defeat Enuma and defeat him. As a sentinel, he draws power from Earth itself, becoming virtually invincible while on the planet. While in Hades, he was able to defeat Uziel, one of the five archangels.
* **Advanced Materialization:** Metatron is able to materialize instantly and is unaffected by the thickness of the Fabric of Reality, as he was when he materialized for Kaira and her group in an area sealed off by the Steel Curtain.
* **Aura Camouflage:** By spending a lot of time in Haled, the Sentinels have learned to hide their pulsating aura, blending in with humans. During his confrontation with Gabriel, Metatron used this technique to deceive the archangel.
* **Biokinesis:** Metatron caused the inhabitants of the Garden of Eden to become sterile while within its territory. Furthermore, whoever drank from its waters became immortal.
	+ **Healing:** In one of the trials in the Garden, after Adam wounded a pregnant gazelle, Metatron healed the animal's wound and commanded the man not to slaughter any animal about to give birth.
* **Crossing Dimensions:** Metatron was able to abandon Gehenna and travel to Earth without having to use cosmic rivers or some other connection to do so.
* **Enhanced Endurance:** Metatron is extremely tough. Hundreds of blows from Ablon were unable to even scratch him.
* **Enhanced Strength:** Metatron's strength is absurdly great. In his fight against Gabriel, he reduced immense chunks of stone to dust with a single blow. Only a few of his punches were able to seriously injure Ablon, and in his brief battle with Kaira, a single attack sent Urakin two blocks away from the rest of the group.
	+ **Wrath of God:** Ablon's main technique and also used by other cherubs was initially created by Metatron. He focuses his aura on his fist to deliver a powerful punch accompanied by a shock wave.
* **Elements Manipulation:** Like the Ishim, Metatron can manipulate the four main elements and their derivations.
	+ **Plasma Manipulation:** In his escape from Gehenna, Metatron conjured a plasma barrier to defend himself from Astaroth's shadow orb.
	+ **Ether Manipulation:** Metatron was also the only angel in the entire series of books to conjure ether, the element that makes up the dark matter of space. He used this substance to fight Kaira.
	+ **Elemental Form:** Metatron is also capable of, like the most powerful Ishins, altering his body partially or completely into the form of a desired element. In his combat with Ablon, he transformed his forearm into orichalcum, the mystical Atlantean ore.
* **Insanity:** Using a powerful ability of the Elohim, Metatron managed to disguise his powers in the midst of New York City, the largest metropolis in the world, making his fight with Kaira's choir look like a terrorist attack.
* **Intangibility:** The First Angel is able to make his body intangible, as when he passed through his shackles and the walls of the Prison of Fear. In Hades, he traversed the Earth's mantle and crust along with Minos to show him how much Earth has changed since he died and convince him to fight by his side.
* **Portal Creation:** Metatron created a cosmic tunnel after his clash with Uziel to send the archangel back to the Seven Heavens.
* **Powers Granting:** Metatron granted his servant Cerberus the ability to converse with the spirits of deceased Greek heroes and awaken them from deep sleep.
* **Stasis Bubble:** Like the Malakim, Metatron can conjure a bubble in which time does not function properly, trapping his enemies in an eternal time loop. The angel used this technique on Dariel to escape Gehenna.
* **Temporal Hurricane:** In their confrontation in New York, Metatron trapped Denyel in a Temporal Hurricane, causing him to visit different times of the city
* **Telekinesis:** Metatron learned this ability after his fight with Gabriel. A very rare technique, which makes the First Angel move objects and people only with the desire of his mind.

## Relationships

### Yahweh

Since always, Metatron considers Yahweh as his supreme leader and his creator, respecting him above all. After he turned against the archangels, Metatron took his mission given by the Mighty himself even more seriously.

### Michael

In the past, he respected and followed Michael's orders, but when the archangel ordered the sentinels to return to the Seven Heavens so that the human race could be wiped out, Metatron came to hate him.

### Gabriel

Metatron has hated Gabriel ever since he massacred his village and its offspring. With the onset of the Civil War, however, he maintained a more neutral relationship with the Fire Master, even forgiving him for the killing in the past and offering him a truce deal.

### Lucifer

Since the Garden of Eden, Metatron has had a personal feud with Lucifer, who is one of his greatest enemies.

### Raphael

Metatron did not show a direct relationship with Raphael, but the God's Healing resurrected him after his battle with Gabriel.

### Uziel

Metatron considers Uziel naive, claiming he was being used by Michael as a pawn. He was merciful and didn't kill him in his battle in Hades, sending him back to the Seven Heavens so he could discover the truth about his brother.

### Ablon

Initially, the First Angel showed contempt for Ablon, considering him just a soldier who would never defeat the Supreme Angel. But in truth, Metatron did not intend to slay the cherub, but to change his mind towards the archangels, and so, in the end, he respected him when he managed to learn one of his techniques, the Wrath of God.

### Kaira

Metatron nurtures respect and appreciation for Kaira because she is also a sentinel. But still, his plan to use her as a generator of divine energy for the planet shows that possibly this courtesy is just a facade for his real goals.

### Sophia

Sophia worked as an agent of Metatron since pre-Flood times. The sentinel became part of the Elohim caste and influenced Solon to found the Angels of Death, which served as an immense exchange of information about the location of the monoliths and the Spear of Nod.

### Ishmael

Metatron offered an alliance with Ishmael when the two first met, but with the hashmalim's refusal, the First Angel was merciless and ordered his death at the hands of Sirith.

## Victims

* Hakem (heart ripped out)
* Ishmael (indirectly; ordered his execution)

## Trivia

* Metatron (from Hebrew מטטרון) is a seraph angel, in Jewish tradition and mystical Christianity. In some Christian traditions he is referred to as "The Supreme Angel", Divine Spokesperson, God's mediator with humanity.
	+ One of Metatron's titles in the books is also "Supreme Angel", on account of his nature as the most powerful angel.
* Eduardo revealed that he had plans to add Metatron already in *A Batalha do Apocalipse*, but decided to leave him to appear in future works. In the short story "The Last Angel", a tale written by Spohr that served as the prototype for A Batalha do Apocalipse, Metatron was a fallen cherub and former master of Ablon.