LUCIFER LUCIFER

When she came to be, she knew only her name and nothing more.
She had awoken within the center of the red space, face to face with the three doorways that stood before her.
One lead to a large void of a world filled with light so bright that she could not bear to stay within its walls for too long.
The other two doors lead to much darker worlds.
One made of flesh, rotting metal and rust, and the other made mostly of flesh and blood and nothing more.

She named these worlds herself, upon exploring them more thoroughly.
She called them the Hollow, the Nightmare, and the Dream.
And she titled the red space as “her court”.

In the beginning, she was all alone with these worlds. And all Phanuel felt compelled to do was to create and to destroy.
Using the confines of her own mind, the being began creating large towers throughout the Hollow and the Nightmare.
She created them with the flesh and matter of the realms around her.
These structures served no purpose. They just needed to “be”. That was all she could repeat in her mind.
The more Phanuel created, the more she dismantled. And then she would repeat the process
over and over and over again.
She did not understand the desire she felt to create in the way that she did, and she could not bring herself to stop.
Even when she grew tired of creating, she would just keep doing it.

But the more she created, the emptier she felt. Her consciousness began to help her realize that she was alone in existence.
And she wanted to be around other living beings like herself. She wanted to create “life”.

Using the flesh and blood of the Nightmares walls, she created something entirely new. Something alive, and with its own consciousness.

She would see visions of a strange creature within her mind.
One with many legs and a long body. At the time, Phanuel was not sure of what it was, but she
felt a need to replicate it.

She created a being that she later called “Nikoli”.
This being was unlike anything she’d ever known, but for once, she felt pride in her creation.
In time, she bonded with this creation, and she cherished Nikoli so.
When Phanuel realized she had the ability to create life, she felt compelled to create even more.

In time, she created two other beings, known as Amaris and Carey.
They too were based on visions she would suddenly see in her mind.
Shortly after, she created six more beings that she merely called her “butterflies” and her “crows”.
And, just like before, they were always created on visions that would suddenly
appear to her.

The butterflies were eventually sent to live in the Dream, as they could somehow survive its light.
The crows were sent to reside in the Hollow, as they could survive its darkness.
The last three were sent to live in the Nightmare as they could withstand it’s chaotic environment.

As time passed, all of Phanuel’s creations began reporting strange instances of unknown
beings suddenly appearing in the realms they were assigned to.
These beings had memories of who they were prior to arrival, and all seemed to express that their last
memories centered around their final moments on “Earth”.
Phanuel asked Nikoli to research these instances further, thus leading her to the discovery of Earth and human life
and her worlds direct connection to it.
From within her court, she discovered she had the ability to spy on Earth and humans alike, while also
spying on the souls of the ones who arrived in her domain.
However, Phanuel could seemingly only communicate with these strange
creatures through their minds when they would sleep.
And she could only do it with some humans, and not all humans.

And as time would pass, Phanuel would also learn that she was capable of deciding the fates of any souls that
appeared within her realms once they passed on. She had the capability to either put their souls
to eternal rest, send them back to Earth, OR let them rot in her own world
for her own personal gain.
What that gain is, however, no one but her knows.

TRIALS AND HOW THEY WORK:

Trials are occurrences where souls are chosen to stand before Phanuel in her court and are forced to reveal their
memories to be judged accordingly. If Phanuel believes that someone is worthy of passing
on to eternal rest, she will send their soul into the universe
where it gently tears apart and becomes intertwined with reality itself in a final act of “rest”.
Despite how this sounds, it’s actually a very pleasing and tender experience.

If she feels a soul is not fit to pass on but could use a “second chance”, Phanuel sends the soul back to
Earth in an act of reincarnation so they can try again.

And in most cases, when she feels a soul is entirely unworthy of a second chance or eternal rest,
she sends the soul back into their assigned realm to succumb to the rot.

If a soul comes from the Dream, they are automatically granted a trial by default.
Souls that reside in the Dream are highly unlikely to be sentenced to the rot. In fact, it’s hardly ever happened.
Phanuel typically never feels a need to do much with souls that
are assigned to the dream, but she never really tells anyone why.
Even Nikoli doesn’t know.

Souls that come from the Hollow and the Nightmare, typically have much less of a chance of being sent into eternal rest.
Phanuel seems to show a strong sense of favoritism or something more sinister.

Trials within these two realms are completely at random, and no one is ever truly guaranteed one.
Only human souls can be granted trials.
If a human is capable of producing anomalies, their anomalies cannot be granted
trials alongside with them. They are kept aside in wait of their creators fate.

If a human soul that creates anomalies is sentenced to reincarnation or to rot,
their anomalies will remain in their respected realms for eternity.
And in some cases, the anomalies find ways to
escape the realms and drift into the universe aimlessly with no purpose.
But when they don’t find a way to escape the realms, they typically linger for eternity, sometimes
even changing in appearance and personality over time as they no longer have
a present soul to emulate.

And if a human soul is sent to eternal rest, their anomalies will cease to be, dissipating from existence entirely.