Uriel

"Soul laid bare, a lifetime of choices to sift through--I wonder, what shall we find?"

### Aliases

Lord of the Fundament, Throne of Judgment, Riftwender

### Relatives

Myvera (Mother), Sunael (Father), Enkian (Brother), Eberhon (Brother)

## Judge of the Firmament, Celestial of the Fundament

From the union of Myvera and Sunael, the two Seraph brought forth their 'first born': Uriel. Though the Seraph never admitted it outright, Uriel was the most beloved of Sunael's three sons and well favored. Because of this, his fate immediately became solidified and Sunael granted Uriel the inheritance of the Throne of Judgment. This gave Uriel the power to dispense judgment to the souls of lesser beings and Celesti alike.

However, Uriel also inherited formidable creation powers from his mother. During his years while he still resided in Themis, the Celestial was well known to practice these powers by experimenting with creating various lesser beings and concepts. Through this, Uriel is the originator of several magical and non-magical beasts still found on Gaia today.

### Leaving Themis, Arrival on Gaia

When Uriel fully developed his powers as a Celestial, he was allowed to roam the Beyond, and through it, venture into other planes of existence. This led him to eventually arriving upon Gaia and meeting the Celestial Zielaph.

And from that happenstance, it is very much the spark of the rest of history. Uriel felt immediately attached to Gaia and enamored with the beginnings of creation on it--to the point that he brought his own creations from Themis to Gaia and established his own domain there alongside Zielaph.

Uriel soon became the Final Judgment of the Lifestream when the concerted efforts of the final Celestial War and Zielaph's essences formed the ether stream from weavings of souls and cosmic magics. However, in the between times of this happening, Uriel had an immensely influential hand in helping further shape Gaia, to create upon the lands, and to forge the beginnings of planeswalking under Zielaph's tutelage.

Because of his never-ending efforts, Uriel was eventually granted the moniker Lord of the Fundament by mortality and in sacred texts.

### Legacy in Current Timelines

Uriel's deep influence in Gaia's making is seen as highly favorable, making him a more popular deity to worship in the Celestial faith.

Planeswalking is still a school of magic to this day, refined and iterated upon through the ages. However, it is still very much a rare and small 'school' with only a small number of known practitioners; most of them having died off or lost in the Beyond and doomed to never find their way back.

The Celestial's command over final judgment dispersed into the Lifestream and almost nearly autonomous--however, every so often, Uriel will deign to intervene on a particular soul for his own greater devices.

## The Way of Planeswalking

As mentioned, Uriel is the patron deity of planeswalkers and originator of rift-weaving for non-Celestial. The details surrounding this muddled and typically contested by historians and scholar-mages alike.

### Army of Uriel

Some believe Uriel granted planeswalking in the wake of the sundering of his father, Sunael, by the prime archaeon Zodiark. Uriel arrived to Elysian by Sunael's side when it had been ambushed, however, he soon found himself incapacitated after being separated. When coming to, Uriel discovered his father's fate. In this theory, it is said that planeswalking was originally meant as the foundations of an army Uriel could personally command alongside other vengeful Celesti.

### Magics Gone Haywire

Another theory suggests planeswalking is a magic gone awry when trying to refine powers over the Lifestream. Because the Lifestream can serve as a type of leyline when rift-weaving, there is speculation it had originally intended to be meant as a means of refining the path of Returning. In an accident or turn of events, the power was then siphoned to a handful of beings and created planeswalking as it is known today.

### A Waypoint in the Beyond

In truth, Uriel discovered something early on when first arriving to Gaia: the world had an abundance in leylines and conduits--more than any other world or plane of existence. This piqued his curiosity and made him dig further for an answer. Eventually, he came to the conclusion that Gaia is a type of 'waypoint' or port for many other points within the Beyond.

And through further simple curiosity, he reasoned that the first beings on Gaia could have ideal candidates for an experiment. In this, he blessed a handful few with the abilities of planeswalking--the self-same found in Celesti. However, Uriel also soon discovered that the abundance of these energies had permeated into a mutation in even fewer creations still; some of them having the natural ability--the 'spark'--to planeswalk.

Uriel would consider his experiment unfinished even to this day, with results inconclusive. But upon bestowing this rare gift, he decided not to take it back in consequence.

Now, to learn the ability to riftwend is to survive--literally. If one does not possess the very rare spark, then, they must venture forth into the Beyond via an opened leyline, conduit, or portal and gain the knowledge to come back without dying in the arduous process. Many have been driven to madness in the Beyond if they weren't first killed by some foul beast; however, amongst the majority, there are the few who looked directly into the Void and were able to still stand afterward.

## The Romance of Fate & Final Judgment

In his tenure on Gaia, and because the knowledge of Gaia being a waypoint was shared freely with other Celesti, others started to roam and subsequently create upon the world. This is how Uriel came across Moirai. Though well aware there was a Throne of Fate, he had yet to meet the Celestial who presided over the Throne.

And to him, upon meeting, it was immediate love.

Uriel became quickly and deeply captivated by Moirai. He actively pursued her and for a long stretch of time, tried convincing her that their two Thrones were meant to work in tandem. Even if it meant being only in a 'work' capacity, Uriel was unrelenting in this pursuit until finally, Moirai agreed.

### From Fate, to Judgment

For a long while, their partnership in the fate and final judgment of the various souls within the Lifestream did indeed make sense and flourished. It was during this time Moirai created the first knight of the self-named order that would much later become part of the Moirai Empire. The first Seat, Ananke, becoming a close accomplice. Uriel content in this agreement for some time despite Moirai continuously remaining reserved in feelings.

Cracks began to form in the partnership when Moirai did show outward admiration toward Ananke. Uriel mistook these gestures as romantic love and grew jealous.

Eventually, Moirai created the Seats of Lachesis, Cloto, and Atropos when Gaia and the Beyond began teeming with more life, and thus, more fates to weave. Again, she showed outward admiration to her creations and Uriel's jealously soon began to form into resentment.

### The Betrayal of Moirai

Once the now known thirteen warriors of Moirai came into full fruition, the fracture finally split between Judge and Fate. Moirai reasoned their pact fulfilled and they no longer needed to combine efforts. Uriel took this quite poorly. The Throne of Judgment raged upon Gaia for many days and nights, until finally, anger quelled and distilled into an ultimate plan.

At the time of the split, Moirai shortly after joined the ranks of other Celesti in the War--her Knights left upon Gaia to fulfill her duties. However, much to the surprise of several Celesti, Moirai fell in battle.

Uriel still held domain on the judgment of Returnings for higher ranking Celesti in this age, which meant he could dictate how long a Returning needed to take until fulfilled and the Celestial brought back in full power. When Moirai's Returning was presented to him, he did not hesitate in his plan: her Returning cursed to take a millennia. Her own fate sealed and her essences, for now, dispersed into the Lifestream as magics for lesser beings to draw upon.

Another piece of his plan then also set into motion: the Celestial deigned to create his own Aspect.

### Odin, King of the Fundament

From Uriel's hand came Odin. An Aspect meant to embody vengeance, and in some mythos, the true King of the Fundament (Gaia). The foundations of Odin's making meant to subjugate and eventually ruin the Moirai Knights while taking his rightful place as sovereign. Even if it meant taking several lifetimes.

However, it seems Uriel held regrets in this finality--but it was too late. The Aspect had been created, and thus, its existence sealed; just as Moirai's Returning was irreversible. The Throne of Judgment relinquished his power over judgment of Returnings almost immediately. The Celestial retreating his dominion over Gaia, and he too seemingly enmeshing with the Beyond like so many of his fellow Celesti in this ruthless war.

The result of this, and the ending of the War, left the Moirai Knights in shambles. However, a false beacon came to light their way: Odin.