Edenith Civilization

"We were powerful. We were absolute. In our ever-growing hubris, we thought ourselves to be gods. And thus, we had to reap what we had sowed."

- Achron about the downfall of the Edenith Civilization

The Edenith Civilization is the first human civilization in existence, formed by the Edenim who were the descendants of the original humans, Adam and Eve. It was destroyed in the Biblical Deluge because of their own hubris, having deemed themselves greater than the Abrahamic God and the Angels.

Summary
The Edenith Civilization is the first civilization in existence and is shrouded in mystery, even to the most ancient of gods. It was formed by the Edenim, children and descendants of the original humans, Adam and Eve, several centuries after they were banished from the Garden.

Despite being the first civilization, they were extremely technological advanced, being vastly superior to even the modern world's most complex technology and resembled what people would consider science fiction. This was partly because of the Grigori's influence, having taught the original humans forbidden knowledge that allowed them to make major leaps in terms of terms of technological advancements.

They were also said to be extremely talented in numerous forms of magic. Multiple ancient documents said that they were the creator of Thaumaturgy, one of the most well-known lost magics and was said to be the bridge between human magic with the magic of the celestial, i.e. the Angels and Fallen Angels.

However, their advances in magic and technology quickly made the Edenim prideful and started to think of themselves as gods, forgetting about their origins and even deemed themselves to be greater than the Abrahamic God and the Angels. Some Edenith cultures even started to worship several Archdaemon as gods, further insulting the Heavens even more.

It was also in this time that the first of the Nephilim began to appear, half-human and half-Fallen Angel offsprings of the Grigori with attractive humans, who began to use their powers to take over the world.

Because of this, the Heavenly Council had decided that it was time for the first civilization to come to an end. In the year 666 in the Edenith era, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was summoned to herald the first Armageddon, releasing END and brought forth the end of the glorious civilization.

In its first form, END took the form of a 40-days-long rain and a 150-days-long giant flood which wiped out all form of life within the mortal world, leaving behind the world in a blank state, devoid of any existence bar from the few survivors. God then recreated the mortal world, first by snapping His fingers which forced the Big Bang to happen and formed the current world in the span of 13 seconds in the celestials' eyes, though in reality, it was around 13.5 billions years.

The only known survivors of the Edenith civilization were the famed Noah and his family, who escaped via their piety toward the Abrahamic God and was able to craft themselves an ark for their own survival based on the Angels' instructions. Shortly after they entered the ark, God had the Archangel Michael teleported them to the early 16th-century BC and placed the ark on Mount Judi, as well as erasing their memories about the Edenith civilization as a whole and insert memories that would better fit into the current era.

However, unknown to the Angels, seven Nephilims were able to survive the Deluge through various means. After the Heavenly Council and the Four Horsemen found out about this, they decided to track down the Nephilim and those who hid them and punished them for their crimes, though before they were able to enact their decision, they were stopped by Michael and Gabriel, who were sent by God to stop their decision for unknown reasons.

Influences
Despite having been obliterated since before the Big Bang, the Edenith civilization still have many influences over the current world, both mundane and supernatural alike.

The most notable influence the civilization has is possibly on the Abrahamic religions, with many famous and high-ranking figures being recorded by later scholars and prophets into religious works. Many events that happened in the Edenith civilization were also recorded, though many of them had been changed to due to multiple reasons at the time, such as the banishment of Adam and Eve, the founding of the ancient kingdom of Nod, to the famous Flood myth which served as the inspiration for the flood myth narrative in multiple mythologies.

Many important technology and documents from the Edenith era were also saved by the surviving seven Nephilim and had proven to carry immense important to both sides of the world. Multiple attempts at replicating Edenith technology have all ended in failure, though many magicians and scientists were able to create artifacts based on these technology, which are undoubtedly far inferior much to the surprise of nobody.

Several known failed replicas of Edenith technology and magical artifacts are:


 * Gogmagogs: A groups of golem created based on a line of ancient Edenith surveillance robots. They were first created by the ancient gods of the Sumer civilization as a means of massive destruction, but their efforts were shown to all ended in vain as the Gogmagogs managed to develop artificial intelligence and rebelled against their creators. The god Enlil then deactivated them using his magic and banished them into the ruins within the Dimensional Gap.
 * Crystal Skulls: Skull-like devices made out of enchanted crystal based on a surviving type of Edenith-era telephone. It was widely used by pre-Columbian Mesoamerican shamans as their communication devices, though the instructions for the creation of a Crystal Skull has been lost to time due to the colonization of Mesoamerica.
 * Antikythera Mechanism: A form of mechanical computer created between 150 and 100 BCE by a demigod child of Eros based on the Edenith documents they discovered in their father's temple. According to Azazel, it was nothing more than a poorly-crafted Edenith calculator.
 * Angel Light: A stealth device that can render walls, hands, stealth shielding, and other objects transparent. It was created by Troy Hurtubise based on an Edenith scrying glass he discovered using his Space-Time Sacred Gear. It was collected by the Order of the Iscariot shortly after its creation and all verifiable evidences of its existence were destroyed.

Overall, the tale of the downfall of the Edenith civilization served as not only a lesson for humanity about hubris but also a thinly-veiled threat toward other supernatural forces, especially toward the Fallen Angels and the gods.

Trivia

 * The Edenith Civilization is based on the Isu civilization from "Assassin's Creed" franchise.
 * The capital city of the Edenith civilization was named Edinnu.
 * The Edenith Civilization was said to be a matriarchy.
 * In the Edenim language, the name "Edenith" meant "of the Sacred Earth".
 * Due to the Edenim's questionable humanity, it is unknown if the Edenith civilization is truly the first human civilization.
 * The "Earth" where the Edenith civilization was located is a far more ancient version of the current Earth, in addition to being actually flat.
 * According to Azazel, the written language of the Edenith civilization resembles a mixture of Sumerian language, Biblical Hebrew, Mycenaean Greek, and Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.