Garden of Eden

## Description:

The Garden of Eden corresponds to the "perfect" section of Earth created by God to act as the birthplace and home of mankind. The Garden was used as a closed-off testing site by God for humanity; the famous test, avoiding consumption of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, was rigged from the start. After Adam and Eve committed that Original Sin, they were cast from Eden and into the world. The Garden was known to feature lush forests and jungles, four (4) large rivers that fed the region with water, bountiful animals that, during that time (*Note: This period is estimated to be the Age of Beasts*) could understand human language, and the most beautiful of all the plants and trees; this paradise was the perfect habitat for mankind to live in harmony with nature.

The JPCU became aware of the Garden of Eden through the Bible; its location was speculated many times across history, but only when the Medio Inferno was created were the group's suspicions confirmed. The region was detected on magical/anomalous radars across the world when the portal to Hell was opened, although this cataclysmic event only served to further distance the Garden of Eden from the Material Realm, separating it farther and making it even tougher to access.

### Physical Description & Attributes:

The Garden of Eden's physical features are described in detail in the Bible (and above), but the region's size is never described. Through the region's nature as a Hinterland, researchers and Bible scholars within the Catholic Church posit that the region has no known edges; Adam and Eve will not provide comment on the area.

The Garden of Eden is also known to possess a number of Magical and anomalous properties. Most notably, the Garden is incredibly receptive to the will of humans that inhabit it, and will respond physically to wishes and strong emotions; whatever a person needs or desires, the Garden can provide. Plants and animals will sprout or die with intense emotions, and the landscape will shift to accommodate habitation without the need for terraformation; food will grow within sight of someone who wishes for food. Additionally, this wish-granting effect applies to exiting the Garden; once a person enters the Garden, they can choose to appear almost anywhere on Earth upon wishing to exit.

The Garden of Eden only has one (1) known entrance - a massive set of magical gates that were slammed and locked shut when Adam and Eve were banished from the region; the gates have no set location, but can be summoned through Pantheonic Magic or pseudo-divine willpower. This gate is supposedly guarded by a Cherub (Angels) and a flaming sword said to have previously belonged to an Angel of Death - this flaming sword, according to Jewish myth, obliterates the soul of anyone who is deemed unworthy of entering. No mortal being has ever stepped foot in the Garden of Eden since Adam and Eve were banished, and both Adam and Eve doubt that anyone ever will again, especially now that God is confirmed to have been killed and Heaven destroyed. The Catholic Church continues to search for a way inside the Garden, and dedicates large quantities of their resources to fighting back the Medio Inferno in order to reach the fabled location of the Hinterland.

### Flora & Fauna:

According to the Bible and accounts from Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden is filled with all of the animals of the Earth and all of its plants, acting as a pleasant and perfect microcosm of what an ideal Earth would look like. No physical proof to back up these claims has been obtained due to the nature of the Garden (*Note: Authorization for a secret expedition into the Medio Inferno with the intent of investigating Eden without the Catholic Church is pending as of the time of writing*).

### Religious Significance:

The Judeo-Christian faiths (which includes Islam) consider the Garden of Eden to be an incredibly holy and blessed place, the perfect, sinless Earth made manifest through God's grace. Some Jewish sects believe that the Garden of Eden contains two (2) layers, the lower one being the physical location in which Adam and Eve resided and the upper one being the Catholic idea of Heaven, although this interpretation is often disregarded as it conflicts with the Jewish ideas of Hell (Gehenna).

## History:

Created by God shortly after the Earth was forged and populated, the Garden of Eden acted as the birthplace of humanity. It was in the Garden of Eden that God made Lilith and then Adam, and it was there that Lilith refused Adam's authority and was banished to Hell; it was then the site of Eve's creation through the stolen and repurposed rib of Adam, and then the site of Adam and Eve's Original Sin after their temptation by Satan which resulted in Satan's fall from grace, the banishment of Adam and Eve from Eden, the birth of Cain and Abel, and the development of mankind in the current K2 cosmology.

According to records taken from 05-1, Eve, of the SCP Foundation's 05 Council, humanity broke back into the Garden to escape the Great Flood which destroyed almost all of humanity; Adam and Eve sought the Garden for refuge against the deluge, and managed to do so successfully. While the truthfulness of Eve's testimony has been brought into question, information regarding Adam and Eve's survival of the Great Flood remains scarce.