#and Tabbris...who is secretly the son of one of Heaven's seraphim

[soulsxng]

The First Nephilim, pt 1 (pt 2 here!)

The beginning:

Beings born primarily between Heaven's Watchers-- angels who lived in the mortal realm, alongside their mysterious deity, Iryin-- and the humans. It is said that the deity these Watchers followed was a child of Heaven's God...and when this Iryin began to grow more beloved to his humans and angels than himself, he grew jealous. When the Watchers began to grow into a powerful force that he couldn't control, he became angry.

When he found out that Iryin himself had grown more loyal to their beloved-- another god that stood blatantly against Heaven's own, and he could no longer command his own child to do hid bidding?

That was enough...and so, he cursed the Watchers.

And his plan to regain control began in earnest.

The curse:

It was actually taken from one of the disciples of Iryin's beloved, whom Heaven's God had learned of when she married the grandson that Iryin had stolen and hidden away from him. A curse for a coven of nonhuman witches, who had thought that they could steal from the Zhrun-- the Void to which all souls eventually go, so as to be returned to the energy used by Creation themselves to be used anew.

For the coven, the curse causes an insatiable hunger for death...or, to be more specific, the energy that a being gives off at the time of their death. To the point where, eventually, this hunger slowly causes the afflicted to lose their sanity, and transform into an abomination.

For the first nephilim, it was different. Instead of transforming into these abominations, many of them were born as such (even more gruesome than those of the coven)...and those that weren't generally transformed shortly afterward. Uncontrollable, and extremely deadly, each time one was born, it would generally result in a high casualty event. Their only recourse at the beginning, was to confine the newborn nephilim to prevent them from being able to exact their carnage. Kept until they eventually starved, or their souls crumbled away, while Iryin, their Watchers, and their beloved god tried in desperation to find a way to nullify...or at the very least, control the curse that had somehow spread amongst them.

For months, it was to no avail.

And to make matters worse, the souls of these nephilim weren't allowed entrance to Zhrun, no matter how badly damaged and destabilized their souls were upon their deaths. If they didn't return as Anguished spirits, they would be locked into a cycle of seemingly endless reincarnations that all shared the same suffering, and cruel fate.

Facing a deep hopelessness, Iryin and their Watchers found their efforts fruitless, as the nephilim suffered on. As their own numbers quickly began to dwindle from the casualties.

...Soon, Iryin instructed his Watchers to make the Fall, alongside his younger brother, Lucifer. To cut themselves free of Heaven's strings, and escape a coming disaster...one that would break the curse, going forward. But one that would require the sacrifice of those nephilim that had already been born.

Though many listened, and joined Lucifer, just as many couldn't bring themselves to leave their children to die, regardless of the condition they were in. And even when they pleaded to their deity for another way...for once, they received no answer.

Iryin had seemingly disappeared. It was uncertain whether the god, once known for their adoration and doting nature toward their disciples and followers had met with some grim fate...or if Iryin had simply abandoned them in their time of need.