The Arbiters

**Arbiters**, also known as **Ha-Satans**, **Accusers**, and **Prosecutors**, are angelic beings within the Heavenly court tasked with testing humanity's loyalty to God. Arbiters judge the morality of humans through a series of trials and tribulations to see if they are worthy of entering God's kingdom.

## Description

As angels tasked with the judgement of humankind, the Arbiters have come to view the majority of humans as unworthy of God's love, with each genocidal act committed by the species serving as further evidence for this conclusion. Due to their angelic nature, Arbiters have a difficult time understanding why humans succumb to emotional impulses, as they themselves are almost always able to overpower their emotions thanks to their divine intellect.

Despite being angelic entities, arbiters are by no means allies towards mankind, but are also not enemies towards God. They are indifferent towards the suffering of mortals, as they themselves are unable to succumb to the effects of pain, despite being capable of feeling it. Uriel states that arbiters do not feel emotions the same way as other beings, as they tend to view emotions as a distraction from the rational. One arbiter angel responded to a human that questioned it on why they bring so much suffering upon mankind simply with "It's my heavenly duty. Nothing more. Nothing less."

## Overview

In the beginning, the first arbiter and first one to hold the title of "Adversary" was Satanel, who was also prince of the Cherubim choir at the time. He was one of God's closest angelic advisers. Satan's job was to tempt man away from God's law in order to test man's righteousness and loyalty to God in the face of adversity. Satan, however, began to judge God's actions upon seeing how the Almighty was handling the workings of creation and consequently rebelled against God alongside Lucifer.

The main task of an arbiter angel is to pass judgement on the morale of a human. Arbiters have different methods of discovering the true nature of a Human, however the main method of judgement, as enforced by the First Satan who tormented Job, is to place the humans in an extreme condition in order to draw out the darkness and evil hidden within. The types of trials and tribulations an Arbiter may use must be determined by God Himself and moreover, an arbiter must request special permission from God in order to test these humans.

Only those possessing true spiritual strength in the face of adversity are viewed with respect in the eyes of these angels, as they are the quickest to spot the flaws in mankind. The most famous of these is the **Trials of Job**, which took place as part of a bet between god and the first Satan when they were debating Human nature.

## Common Powers and Abilities

**Angelic Aura:** The Arbiters can surround themselves in glorious angelic energy. It is impressively sacred, it can also turn others into angels as well and can cause goodness.

**Angelic Form:** The Arbiters are angels, who possess these forms naturally and/or can naturally channels their own angelic powers through their bodies to bring out their true inner forms, empowering them to their fullest potential. The angelic form usually manifests as an extremely beautiful winged light-like entity with varying amounts of goodly/light powers and intense energies, and overwhelming feelings of fear/love/holy power through the body/appearance of the angel and grants improved versions of their lower assuming form and abilities gaining the full potential of their abilities and reflect their true selves. Sometimes these forms angels take are minor minor alternations from there lower or hidden in forms, merely gaining holy light, a halo, aura and/or the wings of an angel.

**Angelic Wings:** The Arbiters have/or possess the ability to manifest or generate two or multiple pairs of powerful wings on themselves at will as a natural feature of the divine/celestial species. Flight is an angel's wing's main function; however, it is not their only purpose as they also enable angels to teleport and travel to other planes and dimensions, possess healing and magical powers, aid in combat and are said to contain their angelic powers and immortality. So, if their wings were removed, they could be rendered a mortal human in certain worlds/fantasies. Angel wings, depending on the situation, can also be regenerated if removed. This, however, varies per fantasy world and mythology itself.

**Feather Wing Manifestation:** The Arbiters have or can form feathered wings and use them from transportation to offensive and defensive purposes.

**Angelic Force Manipulation:** The Arbiters with this power possess and are able to use strong angelic power. This ability not only grants the Arbiters great strength, abilities, and control over numerous variations of holy energies, but also allows them to overwhelm weaker angels as well as rival that of powerful sacred entities.

**Divine Force Manipulation:** The Arbiters have control of anything that is divine. They are able to manipulate divine objects and relics that are connected to the gods or divine power. With this, the Dark Angels are completely considered worthy of spiritual respect, allowing them to achieve feats that are impossible to be reached by mere mortals.

**Demonic Slayer:** The Arbiters can kill demons/demonic entities of any form, being able to go toe-to-toe with even the strongest of demons and gain resistance to their demonic powers and demonic corrupting effects.

**Enhanced Condition:** The Arbiters possess all their capabilities, attributes and aspects at an advanced level, beyond that of the peak members of their own species. This means the Arbiters aspects (E.g., beauty, charisma, character and physique) attributes (E.g., physical and mental condition) as well as capabilities (E.g., potential, feats, skills and abilities, be it natural or supernatural) would be beyond that of standard individuals.

**Super-Condition:** The Arbiters possess supernatural capabilities, attributes and aspects that are beyond what is naturally possible. With their condition alone, they can dwarf most beings in their respective universe, being virtually supreme in their existential aspects and attributes. With their superhuman physique, they can move buildings, run at the speed of light, survive nuclear explosions unscathed, and remain active for days to weeks untired. With their mind, they can amass knowledge and information about everything, allowing them to invent and create things beyond the grasps of regular humans. They can master languages and subjects in mere days or even hours too.

**Semi-Immortality:** The Arbiters with this ability never age, and as a result, they stay young forever or at least never suffer the ravages of aging. Because of this, the Arbiters will always be at their physical prime. The Arbiters will also be immune to aging abilities, such as Age Acceleration or Reversal.

**Immortality:** The Arbiters possess immortality, a state where one has eternal life and is undying. They never age, are completely self-sustaining, free from all bodily necessities, and can survive virtually any kind of harm, remaining immune to all forms of decay. Any damage done to the Arbiters would either be regenerated or simply remain non-fatal. As a byproduct of having everlasting life, the Arbiters may have an infinite reservoir of life energy that fuels the dynamic system of their immortality.