Aeredein

**Aeredein**, also known as the **Mother of Death**, is the Singularity of Death and the Afterlife as well as the creator of both.

## Biography

### Death and the Afterlife

As a Singularity, Aeredein has existed since forever. After eons of roaming the inhabited plains, the Mother of Death saw that immortality made Deities and mortals alike unappreciative of the privilege to live. The innate immortality of life caused the creation of regimes and institutions that were effectively invincible and timeless. Aeredein believed the concept of change to be pivotal for "truly living". Hence she created mortality as well as the Afterlife as the plain for all deceased souls. She initially ruled the Afterlife for eons but eventually grew bored and relinquished her regnal powers.

Aeredein then travelled to and explored the Uncharted Regions. She conducted various experiments there for billions of years until she accidentally created the first Infinity Swirl and thereby also the Infinite Dark. As a form of compensation, Aeredein made the Authorities, the rulers of the Three Heavens, the Arbiters of Neutral Souls in the Halls of Judgement. This act was meant to balance cosmology as the Three Heavens were the place most hated by the Infinite Dark. This was the last time Aeredein used her omnipotence.

Aeredein was despised by both Deities and mortals alike for ending immortality. After she accidentally gave rise to the Infinite Dark, Aeredein was hated even more and this point became universally known as the "Mother of Death" and the "Source of all Evil". After eons, she faded into oblivion and almost no records of her remain. Today, the Singularity is largely a myth. The Scholars of the New Age, perceive Aeredein more neutrally and give her credit for greatly increasing the value of life as well as for causing all living beings to be judged based on their deeds and tenets and thereby promoting virtue, kindness and grace.

### Life as a Student

After eons of exploring the Uncharted Regions, Aeredein incurred a feeling of solitude and elected to return to the inhabited plains. She settled on a primarily mortal world in the Borealis System and reverted to her more mature physical appearance, the one she used before ruling the Afterlife; additionally, she erased this manifestation of her from the minds of all beings throughout existence. Aeredein then enrolled in a higher scholastic institution there and posed as a mortal.

Due to her witch-like hat, she was ridiculed by her female classmates but not so much by her male classmates due to her rather good looks. Aeredein however, chose to largely ignore all of her classmates. After studying and living there for years, Aeredein was delighted to have made the decision to return to the inhabited plains. However, her female colleagues did not lose their bullying attitude and one of them overstepped by pulling off Aeredein’s infamous hat. The Singularity chose not to kill her but instead caused her to experience limitless fear. The event traumatised the girl and the other bullies, which subsequently chose to never again bother Aeredein.

## Mindset

Aeredein largely shares the mindset of the Will of the Balance with regard to her nature as a singularity. The mindset entails as an absolute rule never to meddle with one's desires and emotions. As a semi-absolute rule it prohibits reverting one’s actions and tempering with casualty in general; this is the main reason why Aeredein did not undo the creation of the Infinite Dark. It also includes as a relative rule non-interference with the Godly and Mortal Material Plains; Aeredein only partially follows this rule as she created the Afterlife and currently poses as a mortal and lives among them.

## Abilities

### Singularity

* **Singularity physiology**
	+ **Natural omnipotence**: singularities are the only entities in existence that are completely and utterly all-powerful as opposed the the Overgods and the deities.
	+ **Timelessness**: the singularities have always existed and will most likey always exist.
	+ **Indestructibility**: Aeredein cannot be destroyed or harmed. Her bones are unbreakable and her skin cannot be pierced, burned or otherwise damaged.

### General traits

* **Individual traits**
	+ **Resurrection**: Aeredein can restore any deceased being back to life. It does matter if the soul is in Paradise, the Seven Hells, or the Halls of Judgement.
	+ **Reincarnation**: Like the Authorities and the Lords Infernal, Aeredein can reincarnate souls. However, she posseses both, the power to reincarnate them as any living being and the power to reincarnate them as devils or archdevils (the latter being a feat beyond what the Lords Infernal are capable of).
	+ **Erasure**: Like the Lords Infernal, Aeredein can completely erase souls from existence.
	+ **Soul reconstitution**: Aeredein is the sole being in all of cosmology able to restore erased souls. Although it exists, this is an ability that is physically and logically impossible.
	+ **Temporal shapeshifting**: Aeredein only changes the age of her physical appearence, never the general foundation of that appearence. Aeredein appeared as a seemingly underage girl when she ruled the Immaterial Plain and currently manifests as a witch-like mortal.
	+ **A Simple Blessing**: Aeredein sometimes blesses Mortals she is personally fond of. This causes the remainder of the mortal's life to be simply but definitely positive (and it makes them immune from the effects of endarkening).

### Offensive abilities

* **Individual traits**
	+ **Aeredein's Blink**: as her primary offensive power against living beings, Aeredein usually disintegrates her target simply by blinking and thereby releasing a black shockwave. This ability was recreated and adopted by Lucifer and renamed after him. The only other current user of this ability is the Dark Prince.
	+ **Darkness Finger Beam**: as her principal offensive power to annihilate inanimate matter, Aeredein usually projects a black-purple energy beam from the tip of her right Index finger, able to cut everything.
	+ **Iris of the Singularity**: as an alternative to her material abilities, Aeredein sometimes changes the iris of one of her eyes in a way that her target is able to see the vastness of her power. Although this ability is generally plain and harmless, in Aeredein’s case–due to her limitless power–the victim permanently and completely loses their sanity.