The First Age/Edenith Civilization

## Origin

### Origin

The original civilization built by the Primordial Humans os the First Age. It was destroyed by the Angels in the Great Flood.

The **Edenith Civilization** is the first civilization in existence and the main settlement of the Primordial Humans. Due to the crimes of their leaders - the Nephilim - and the collective hubris of its citizens, it triggered the beginning of the first apocalypse and was destroyed in the Great Flood.

## Summary

As the first civilization in existence and pre-dated the Big Bang by millennia, the Edenith Civilization is shrouded in mystery even to the most ancient of gods. It was founded by Cain, the first-born son of Adam and Eve, after he was exiled for killing his brother Abel, and after several centuries, it was eventually taken over by its first official king Enoch, who was his son with an unnamed woman.

It was the largest and most powerful out of all the settlements of Primordial Humans across Tellus Mahte, consisting of numerous colonies and largest populations in comparison with the other settlements, even the one formed by Cain's younger brother Seth.

Despite its antiquity, it was an extremely technological advanced civilization, being vastly superior to even the most complex technology of this modern day and closely resembled what people today would consider science-fiction. According to Raziel, during this time, science had been upgraded to whole new levels and could be deemed a school of magic in its own rights. This was partly because of the Grigori's influences, as they had taught the Primordial Humans forbidden knowledge far too advanced for their current time which allowed them to makeo major leaps in terms of technological advancements.

The civilization was said to be extremely talented in numerous forms of magic and sorcery, as many schools and fields of magic were created by ancient magi and sorcerers from the ancient civilization. Many ancient documents stated that they were the creator of Thaumaturgy, an Ancient Magick deemed the "*bridge between men and gods*".

However, due to their advancement in magic and technology, their rulers became prideful and believed they were as great as the Angels, Fallen Angels, and Demons, some even comparing them as great as God Themself. They developed an atheistic view of the world and of Creation itself, and abandoned the Old Religion as a whole, which later became one of the reasons the Angels claimed to be why they decided to wipe out the Primordial Humans.

In the year 666 of the Edenith calendar, the Heavenly Council had decided that it was time for the First Age to come to an end and start a new world. They summoned forth the Four Horsemen and gave them their first mission - Destroying the Edenith civilization via END and bringing forth the end of humanity's first civilization.

In its original and primordial form, END appeared as a 40-days-long rain and a 150-days-long giant flood which wiped out all forms of life within the Four Worlds, leaving behind a blank state devoid of any existence, bar from the few survivors chosen by the Heavenly Council and those saved by the Demons and the Grigori. God then recreated the Four Worlds, though these new versions were significantly less impressive than the originals, and tasked Their celestial creations to refill those empty blanks. The Celestial Princes Gabriel and Raphael then created the Primordial Gods and the Outer Gods respectively, creating the Big Bang and setting the foundation for rebuilding the Mortal World and the Divine World, and the rest was history.

Out of all the survivors, the most famous ones are Noah and his family, who escaped their doomed fate via their unwavering piety toward God and was able to create an Ark to save themselves based on the Angels' instructions. Shortly after they entered the Ark, Michael placed them into cryosleep within Diegesis for millennia, only waking them up in the early 16th-century BC and opened a gate for them to park their Ark on Mount Judi. He, however, erased all of their memories about the First Age as a whole and replaced them with period-accurate ones, as well as sealing away the Ark.

## Influences

Despite having been obliterated millennia before the Big Bang, the Edenith civilization still has many influences over the current world, both mundane and supernatural alike, even if they are mainly unnoticed.

The most notable influence it has is possibly on the multiple religions all over the world, with many famous and high-ranked figures from the civilization later got recorded by scholars and prophets into numerous religious works, most of them are in the Abrahamic religions. Many events that happened during this period were also recorded, though they had been greatly changed due to complicated reasons, such as the banishment of Adam and Eve or the Great Flood. According to Ahura Mazda, many well-known myths typically attributed to ancient pagan cults are, in reality, based entirely on stories from this biblical period.

Many important technologies and documents from it were also saved by the survivors, the most notable one being Noah' Ark and the Omphalos, and had proven to carry immense importance to both sides of the world. Multiple attempts at replicating Edenith technology have all ended in failure, though many wizards, sorcerers, and scientists were able to create artifacts based on these famed technology, which are undoubtedly far inferior much to the surprise of nobody.

Overall, the tale of the downfall of the Edenith civilization itself serves as not only a lesson about hubris, but also a thinly-veiled statement from the Angels to the Demons and Fallen Angels, that if they ever tried to fight against the forces of the Heavenly Council, they would be wiped out as as how the Edenith civilization was.

## Trivia

* The capital city of the Edenith civilization was named Enoch after its first official king.
* The civilization itself was said to be a combination of dictatorship and theocracy.
* According to Azazel, the written language of the Edenith civilization resembles a mixture of Sumerian language, Biblical Hebrew, Mycenaean Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphs.