God

*This is for the Sun Celestial. For Celestials in general, who are often considered gods, see that article. For Riku Tazumi, the god of Nijisanji, see his article.*

**God** is the colloquial term to refer to the Celestial of Sol, the star that the Earth and other planets in the Solar System revolve around.

## Etymology

God was worshipped as a god for many human civilizations. The ancient Egyptians worshipped the sun as a deity, Ra. Other religions, such as Christian religions, worshipped the creator of Earth, angels, and heaven, which God did. Thus, God is a fitting name to describe this entity.

## History

### Origins

God was formed 4.6 billion years prior to today. Later, in 4.5 billion years, God created his most powerful and prized creations, the Four Archangels, which he considers to be his children.

Around 4.2 billion years ago, God created Heaven and the Angels as extensions of himself and his essence. The mission of the angels is to protect and act as guardians over the Solar System. In reality, God was just too lazy to do this himself, explaining why he delegated. Since then, all archangels report directly to him, but know better than to pester him with trivial matters.

4 billion years ago God established the order of the Solar Sky Dragons using the essence of Circunus contained within himself. He later associated with Madra, who held a minor (but still significant due to the vastness of the sun) amount of his power/essence.

### Darkness and Ethyria Project

When life first arose on Earth, it was tainted, and God felt unease and Ryugu, the dragon god who had settled on Earth, alerted him to a rapidly growing darkness within the Earth that had been incubating for 700 million years and was ready to emerge. This darkness, The Darkness, would spell the end of all life not just on Earth, but possibly everywhere. To stop the Darkness, Ryugu called out to God Himself, who had been watching Earth as well. God resolved to stop the darkness, but as Earth had formed from the same material He had, He was unable to fully control the darkness due to that entanglement.

As such, God needed a foreign spirit of light who could assist. Ryugu, knowing he would need to be sacrificed to this end, volunteered anyways. God used Ryugu's power to cast a powerful magic spell to contain the darkness which came to be known as The Ethyrium, a ball of both light and dark, with the light from God's spell and the dark from the Darkness which was now sealed inside.

However, that was not the end of the story, and the power of the Darkness continued to grow. To watch over the Ethyrium, God assigned his four firstborn and most powerful children, the Four Archangels, now known as the children of the Ethyria Project. When they noticed the darkness was about to overpower the seal and escape, they sacrificed themselves to restore the seal to ensure the darkness was contained again. In despair over the deaths of his children, God used much of his power to call out to the very Cosmos itself, putting Himself at the whim of the Universe Celestial.

In response, the Universe Celestial granted his wish, and bestowed the souls of his deceased children with the Heart's Melody, the heart of the Universe Celestial itself, where each child would embody some aspect of it. With the power of the Heart's Melody being embodied by the four children of God, a billion years reincarnation cycle, the Ethyria Project, began, where the children would be continuously repowered in death and would need to sacrifice themselves again and again to prevent the ever-growing darkness from escaping again and again.

This cycle continued for billions of years, with only God's children being able to reinforce the Ethyrium due to them sharing the essence of God, the Ethyrium's creator and thus being the only ones who can connect with it in the way needed to essentially recast and thus renew their father's original spell. Seeing his children die over and over again and being able to do nothing about it made God slowly but surely retreat from the usual affairs of the solar system, until he essentially disappeared completely, only seen by his top angels, around a few million years ago.

## Appearance and Personality

God appears as the sun, just like in our sky, in the celestial physical form. In God's avatar form, he appears as a strong, muscular humanoid man most of the time. However, this is just the form he prefers and can take on any other form at will.

As a solar deity, God acts high and mighty, and often is negligent towards lesser beings, considering them beneath his notice. He has a fiery personality, at least as attested by Elira. He is also lazy, delegating most tasks to his angels. Still, God is benevolent as he created the angels for the purpose of protecting the solar system, although this can also be seen as more of a self-preservation measure.

## Powers and Abilities

As the solar deity, God is the most powerful being in the entire solar system. Even the powerful archangels, the highest who are on the level of planetary celestials, report to him. God is around 333,000 times more powerful than the Earth Celestial due to that being the mass ratio between the two, and thus the Immaterial Essence ratio between the two as well.

Creation: God has the power to create. He created the solar system in the way he saw fit and thus by extension all the planetary celestials. He also created the angels and their realm of Heaven close to the sun's surface from remaining metallic debris in the protoplanetary disk.

Solar Energy: God can control solar energies, including solar flares, solar promontories, and CMEs, which are capable of solar system wide effects.

Temperature Control: God is capable of transporting material from anywhere within the sun to heat something up; this can include temperatures up to and including 15 million Kelvin.

Explosion Control: God can induce nuclear fusion wherever he desired by transporting elements of the sun's core where he desires, which is capable of causing explosions on the level of planetary scale devastation.

Teleportation: God, as a being of Immaterial Essence, can control its nonlocality effects to teleport throughout the solar system, and to teleport large amounts of material within the solar system, up to and possibly including planetary masses.

## Trivia

Elira Pendora is old enough to have met God in person.

God is only directly seen in Arc 9 when Aia meets him in person. He is often mentioned and worshipped throughout the rest of the anime, but he does little to help in solving its conflicts due to his reserved nature. Instead, God's actions are most readily seen in the actions of his children, the Ethyria Project.