Celestial Arbiters

The **Celestial Arbiters** were a trio of guardians chosen as by the Patronium’s consciousness to safeguard and keep the archaic artifact known as the Patro Tumulus, an object that was connected to all Patronium particles in the entire multiverse by atomic binding and quantum entanglement. It was capable of wreaking havoc on the fabric and continuum of the cosmos if used correctly, or incorrectly, and could grant a being immense power if imbued with it. The Tumulus was created and developed by the great builder known as Azmith, a legendary inventor with most of the multiverse’ powerful artifacts attributed to him and his construction.

The Arbiters were often three random individuals from different worlds of the multiverse with each sharing visions by the Patronium, leading them to a common location in which they converse and confer about the logistics of their roles and responsibilities.

There are always three Arbiters at a time, with one acting as the leader and the head, another as a chronicler, keeping track of their activities and the history of the Tumulus, and the third serves as laborer. Once chosen, the Patronium grants them powers and abilities that few entities possess, only the Rhodesian Mystics are comparable. These powers include, limited control over nature, matter bending, clairvoyance and enhanced intellectual ability. The level of these powers is variable and depends on the role given to each Arbiter and his natural connection to the Patronium.

The power of the Tumulus is seductive and lures beings to it, with the weaker and weak willed being especially succeptible to it. Therefore the Patronium replaces the Arbiters when He sees fit, usually around the thousand year mark.

The First Arbiters were chosen somewhere between 1.000.000-6.000.000 linear years ago, and served their roles for over two millennias until they were replaced. The Last Arbiters were Cronan, Kazlan and Azdan. They served for a thousand years until the leader, Cronan, succumbed to the Tumulus and it’s lure and fled into hiding on the planet Querella, attempting to imbue himself with it’s power. Azdan who was the chronicler of the three, understood that the Patronium replaced the Arbiters, but when Cronan was allowed to take it, Azdan was confused. He meditated until receiving a vision that showed the death of Cronan, a godly being clothed in white and Azdan in a wasteland with limitless bodies around him. Still unsure, Azdan only understood that the time of the Arbiters was done and that a new action would have to come in their place. After tracking down Cronan and killing him, Azdan and Kazlan returned and guarded the Tumulus for one hundred years until Azdan received another vision, this time of Kazlan‘s death but the godly being in white was there again. Taking this as a message, Azdan killed Kazlan and remained the sole possessor of the Tumulus until his death at the hands of the godly being he saw in his visions, the White Deacon. But before dying, Azdan imbued a human male known as Adias with the Tumulus, deeming him worthy of it’s power. With the last Arbiter dead, the Celestial Arbiters were no more, but the Tumulus did not fall into the wrong hands, thus completing the purpose of all the previous Arbiters and fulfilling what their ultimate responsibility was.