PROLOGUE

PROLOGUE

            Once upon a time, before a time that God and Shaytan consented upon yet another wager, similar to that found in the Book of Job. And so they successfully created three avatars to coexist harmoniously. An amorphous entity known as the Spirit was the first being. The second was a feminine entity named Lilith, and the third being was a masculine entity called Metatron. It gave each one an exclusive divine attribute, to the Spirit was bestowed the tree of knowledge, Lilith was granted the tree of providence, and to Metatron was given the tree of life. As a gesture of trust within the newly created accord, God and Shaytan interchanged their avatars. The feminine God, governed the male entity Metatron, while the masculine Shaytan, controlled the female entity Lilith. God and Shaytan both influenced the Spirit. Contrary to today's traditional belief God and Shaytan were neither good nor evil. Then, such concept did not yet exist. God and Shaytan were simply known to them by an interchangeable being named Tetragrammaton. And it was so.

            Eons afterward, Lilith and Metatron created third dimensional beings of themselves, and so they formed humanity in their own image, man and woman; in the image of themselves, they designed them. Metatron named the male Adam, and Lilith named the female Eve. The Spirit since it is amorphous. It bestowed upon mankind a unique element called a Soul. When the Spirit gave humankind its Soul, the first gust was given to the man, and then the woman received the second breeze. As a consequence of this, the man acquires a comparatively minor advantage over the woman. However, Lilith was not at all satisfied with this outcome. Apart from their opposite sex, she wanted the woman to be as equal to the man, as she is equivalent to Metatron. As powerful as she may be, she could not get the Spirit to alter Eve's soul, for the simple fact that the trinity was ruled by consensus. The relationship between Lilith and the others soon fell apart. Lilith having her requisition turned down by her peers, sets out to ratify her own cause. And so, she seeks out the assistance of a flamboyant Seraph by the name of Lucifer.

            One of the most beautiful of all the heavenly creatures was Lucifer, but there was no valid comparison when it comes to Lilith's perfectionism and charisma. As Metatron's spouse, Lilith was the ultimate seductress, the exemplar of sheer beauty and femininity. She effortlessly persuades Lucifer to joining her cause by leading him astray. Bewildered by pure lust, Lucifer conjured a most devilish grand scheme. He recruits as many angles as possible, raised an army, in order to take over the heavens. A bit preoccupied by the duties of war, heaven left the gates of Eden virtually defenseless. Lilith took advantage of this golden opportunity to at last set Eve free. Lilith convinced her to eat the fruits of the forbidden tree, hoping that it would somehow equate her with Adam. However, the fruits of that tree had rather a mortal taste, which unfortunately brought death instead into her world. Lucifer and his minions lost the battle but the war has dispersed beyond the boundaries of the heavens, as he and his willing accomplices now reigns in hell.

            Banished from paradise, Adam and Eve with the assistance of Lilith soon discovered a new way of cheating death, a way of regaining immortality by passing along their deoxyribose nucleic acids (DNA) to their offspring. The permanently exiled couple bore triplets, two males and one female. They named the female Norea. The one male was named Cain and the other Abel. As the children became adolescents Norea became more emotionally attached to her jovial brother Abel, but the ambitious Cain desired a family of his own. The riddles of death lurk still around the first family for they did not know yet of its nature. Cain wasn’t willing to take the risk of lingering on until Adam and Eve could provide him with a suitable mate, and so he cunningly overturned Norea's heart by having her consume a magically enchanted pomegranate. Later in life, when Abel eventually discovered the means of which Cain had attained Norea's affection, he became furious, but yet incapable of changing the fact that Norea was now Cain's legitimate wife. As a manner of vindication, Abel began having an affair with Norea, but when Cain became painfully aware of their unfaithfulness and vividly caught them in the act, he was unforgiven. He used his scythe to brutally slain Norea and Abel. Consequently, Cain became a cursed nomad, until one day he came across a mysterious woman bathing along side a waterway called the Euphrates river, and he took her as a wife. Her name was Serena. Cain and Serena built a settlement in a land they called Nod, and they had many children and lived happily.

            Now it happened that when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them. The angels of heaven became tempted by the attractiveness of the daughters of men, and their passions toward them became absolutely intolerable. The angels observed humanity willingly having the power to give or take away life, and they became somewhat envious of humanity. Under the aegis of Lilith, some of these angels took on human shapes but not without any adverse repercussions. The fallen angels under their cleverly human disguises established a tribe named the Nephilim. At first, they lived harmoniously with humanity, until they begot children with the daughters of men, and their offspring was an abomination upon the face of the earth. Some of these descendants were Giants; others were of the half-human, half-goat clan called Satyrs. Some were of the half-human, half-horse forming the Centaur clan. Others were of the half-human, half-bull forming the Minotaur tribe. Some were half-human, half-angel beings with wings who were capable of flying; and then there were the amphibious ones who called themselves the Leviathans. However, due to their awkward abnormalities, the Nephilim descendants could not appropriately adapt to the humane society, and so as their numbers grew, mankind became distrustful of them, and bitter resentments toward one another later emerge. Between all the various races inhabiting the earth at the time, the humans detested the Leviathans the most, and the animosity was reciprocal. And so, a war between the diverse tribes became inevitable, but neither sides want to become the harbinger of this conflict.

            All that is about to change dramatically when an Emim boy named Icarus fell in love with Naamah, the younger sister of the King. Dagon, the self-proclaimed leader of the Leviathans absolutely hated this union between Icarus, and Naamah. Dagon considers humanity as nothing more than a race of parasitical diseases upon the earth, hardly worthy of existence. Given that the earth largely consists of water, Dagon reasonably presumes that it shouldn’t be dominated by mankind, a non-amphibian race, but rather by his tribe. So, one day Dagon hatched out a plan to murder Naamah, in hopes that the humans would rise up against the Nephilim race in retaliation, thus giving him a valid reason to exterminate humanity. After murdering the girl, Dagon got exactly what he had hoped for, a war with mankind. King Tubal-Cain infuriated by the news that his sister Naamah had been killed. He boldly declared war on the Nephilim clan. When Tubal-Cain and his men arrived in the city of the Nephilim tribes, they unexpectedly found themselves facing an even greater challenge. An increasing menace that is far more monumental than what they could have fathomed. The Nephilim’s King revealed to them that heaven was not satisfied by what the earth and humanity became, and that they have decided to flood the entire earth. At this moment in time, the two rivals had no other ultimatum but to combine their forces in order to survive the deluge.

            While the Nephilim had a greater chance of surviving the deluge, mankind got the support of an unlikely foe, an adversary whose interests and objectives firmly depend on the survival of the human race. Hell, came to their rescue but not selflessly, they wanted more souls and with the mass extinction of humanity on the verge their supplies were about to run dry. In the end, mankind withstood the deluge, and so did some of the Nephilim. Humanity was now set on a new path, an era of virtue, until Cain re-emerges. Cain by then, had learned that Lucifer was his legitimate father and not Adam, and so he returned to earth, from the underworld possessing a number of supernatural abilities. Under the alias of King Nimrod, Cain led humanity to indulge excessively in wickedness. He made use of his vampire abilities and supernatural advantages to beguile humanity and successfully gaining possession of the new world. Cain’s strategy for uniting humanity was very much different from his predecessors. He rallied around mankind not by the strength of his armies but rather by his mastery in diplomacy. He knew precisely what humanity yearned for, and he brought forth to them the most innovative devices that could be transpired from the underworld to the new world, and the people loved him, and he was idolized. King Nimrod unified all of mankind toward one common aspiration, their own self preservation, not adhering to neither heaven nor hell. Humanity has become more than heaven could have bargained for, and so Metatron sent out his angels to confound their speech and randomly scattered them upon the face of the earth.

            Lilith extremely upset by the drastic measures Metatron took in dealing with humanity. She called upon the holy name of the almighty Tetragrammaton, seeking justice on the behalf of mankind. However, when justice was given, Lilith and Metatron were unpredictably found blameworthy. They were both sentenced to a lifetime on earth as mortals. The harsh burden of mortality led to Lilith and Metatron rekindling their broken relationship. Nevertheless, their reconciliation wasn't enough to rectify the preexisting tribulations that already were in progress. Heaven has no rage quite like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.