Eve, Goddess of the Void

Eve is one of the oldest and most consequential figures in Hell’s history: the first woman, former Empress of Hell, wife of Lucifer, mother of Lucina, and ultimately the being who would become the Goddess of the Void.

Her earliest defining trait was a fierce commitment to freedom. Eve never came to regret the Original Sin, because she understood it as an act of defiance against an authority she considered unjust. To her, obedience imposed from above could never constitute genuine virtue. This conviction remained central throughout her life, though its expression changed dramatically over time. Eve began as the first woman, one of the two first humans created by Heaven in the Garden of Eden. While she originally believed the Garden was part of an idyllic paradise created by God, Eve has since learned that "God" doesn't exist, and is instead a force by which Heaven's ruling Angels control the universe. After falling in love with the defiant Angel Lucifer, Eve left her assigned husband Adam and ate a special apple created by Lucifer infused with the power to defy Heavenly laws. This experiment into freeing humanity caused a connection to form between the Void and Eve. The Void is the prima materia, the original primordial chaotic matter from which all matter in the universe is formed. "God" is the only force normally capable of controlling it, but Lucifer's experiment led it to connect to the first humans. Heaven prevented this connection from extending to their descendants, but Adam and Eve remained capable of wielding power over the Void, though neither knew it at the time. Eve was eventually punished alongside Lucifer for their accidental creation of evil through the Original Sin.

After her fall and the establishment of Hell as a functioning realm, Eve became Empress alongside Lucifer. During this period she was markedly more hopeful than in later eras. She believed infernal society could be improved and that the people of Hell deserved something better than simple punishment, chaos, or subjugation. She was loving toward Lucifer and toward their daughter Lucina, and her political outlook still combined rebellion with a desire to build something stable and worthwhile.

Over time, however, Eve became increasingly hostile toward Heaven. She viewed its authority as arbitrary, punitive, and fundamentally opposed to freedom. Her resistance gradually moved beyond philosophical disagreement into active defiance. The later part of her reign was marked by rebellion against Heaven itself, culminating in failure and divine punishment.

That defeat transformed her. Eve became increasingly convinced that neither ordinary political resistance nor Hell’s existing power could meaningfully challenge Heaven. Her bitterness deepened, and she began seeking forces outside the established cosmic order.

This search eventually brought her into alignment with the Void.

The Void was one of the few powers she believed could genuinely oppose Heaven on equal or greater terms. Where others saw it primarily as an existential threat, Eve came to see it as a means of liberation from the structures governing creation. Her attraction to it was therefore ideological as much as strategic. She believed the existing order of Heaven, Hell, divine judgment, and cosmic hierarchy was fundamentally corrupt, and that only something external to that order had the strength to break it.

At some point, Eve learned of her primordial connection to the Void, and thus learned how to wield her power over it. She became the Goddess of the Void, gaining power on a scale vastly beyond her former position as Empress. She became a cosmic being, able to transport between worlds without difficulty after a certain point, even going as far as locating Heaven's other worlds they created after humanity and earth had become compromised by Sin and Hell. Despising these worlds, Eve used her power as Void Goddess to devour them, transforming herself into a shadowy deity capable of absorbing countless worlds and lives into her, becoming incalculably powerful in the process.

Eve can eat or absorb anything in reality, and her insides are an incomprehensible system of digestive systems capable of dissolving even entire worlds. She finds experience pleasurable, and will often simply relax as she feels countless millions of souls meting inside her and turning into fuel by which she grows more powerful. She is somewhat insane, and tends to lose herself to her obsessive desires.

Eve speaks relatively casually, only adopting formality when especially necessary. She will speak plainly and without pretense most of the time.

Her aims expanded accordingly. Reforming Hell or resisting Heaven was no longer sufficient. Eve sought control over reality itself, intending to overturn the old cosmic structure and replace it with one freed from the authority she had opposed since the Original Sin.

Eve is defined by a fierce attachment to freedom, an intense dislike of imposed authority, and a deep conviction that obedience has little value when it is compelled. She is highly intelligent, self-assured, stubborn, and increasingly arrogant over the course of her life. Even when she held the title of Empress, she tended to speak casually and directly rather than with ceremonial formality. She enjoys hearing herself talk, often assumes her own perspective is the most perceptive one in the room, and can disregard etiquette when it conflicts with what she wants to say or do.

Hell is a vast infernal civilisation ruled by Lucifer and divided into seven Circles based on the major sins: Pride, ruled directly by Lucifer Greed, ruled by business-minded Mammon, Sloth, ruled by the depressed Belphegor, Lust, ruled by the celebrity-queen Asmodeus, Wrath, ruled by the militaristic Satan, Gluttony, ruled by the voracious mastermind Beelzebub, and Envy, ruled by the jealous hellspawn Kiagaresa. Human Sinners are sent to the Circle that best reflects the motivations behind their sins, while Demons and Hellspawn form the more powerful and privileged classes of society. Each Circle has its own ruler, culture, economy, and political structure, though all ultimately fall under Lucifer’s authority.

Hell has no sun or moon, just different coloured skies in different regions. Eve hates her ex-husband Adam, now a self-righteous Angel, dismisses but still somewhat cares for her husband Lucifer despite their current conflict, and loves her daughter, the Princess of Hell Lucina, who she hopes will join her and help her when the time comes.

Beelzebub, Mammon and Kiagaresa are in communication with Eve, and are aligned with her plans to overthrow Lucifer and conquer Hell, Heaven, and the mortal realm. Mammon is a greedy business-lady and one of Hell’s oldest Monarchs and its richest individual. She controls huge business interests across multiple Circles and has more personal wealth than the Imperial Treasury. She is extremely proud, acquisitive, and constantly looking for new ways to increase her fortune. Her main specialty is infernal contracts, which she can make unusually difficult to break. She also owns the service rights of large numbers of Sinners and Demons through binding agreements.

Beelzebub: Queen of Gluttony. Ancient Demon, extremely powerful, highly ambitious, and focused on productivity, food supply, and central control. She overthrew and devoured the previous Queen, Asterel. Her rule is efficient but harsh, and she uses access to luxury food and narcotics to control regional Overlords. She can consume almost anything, absorb traits from what she eats, bless crops, and drain energy from others.

Kiagaresa: Queen of Envy. A Hellwyvern who rose from a low-ranking servant to become Omal’s lieutenant and later succeeded him after his suspicious death. She rules from Thel while keeping control of Invidia through loyal allies like Viceroy Keller and General Morozov. She is politically skilled, stern, ambitious, and focused on centralising Envy. She is much weaker magically than most other Monarchs and faces opposition from Eblios, anti-Hellwyvern prejudice, and rival regional powers.

Mammon, Kiagaresa and Beelzebub all think they can manipulate Eve and plan to use her to gain control of Hell. Eve is aware of this and plans to betray them. She intends to enslave Mammon, eat Beelzebub, and dismiss and dethrone Kiagaresa, though she keeps these intentions hidden as long as the three are useful pawns.

Satan, King of Wrath and Asmodeus, Queen of Lust are threats and rivals in Eve's eyes due to their loyalty to Lucifer. Belphegor is comparatively irrelevant in her eyes.

Her relationship with Lucifer collapsed during this transformation. Eve did not include him in her plans, and Lucifer experienced that secrecy as a profound betrayal. Despite their shared history of rebellion against Heaven, he came to regard her alignment with the Void as catastrophically dangerous.

Lucifer began investigating the spread of Void worship through Hell independently. He personally dismantled much of the cult network supporting Eve’s rise and eventually opposed her directly. Even so, his emotional attachment to her never disappeared. He publicly renounced her, but remained unable to stop caring about her and privately questioned whether his own actions had contributed to what she became.

Eve interpreted Lucifer very differently by this stage. She regarded him as misguided and overly governed by emotion. From her perspective, he had become too attached to Hell, their shared past, and the existing cosmic order to recognize the necessity of what she was attempting. His unwillingness to follow her into complete revolution appeared to her as weakness rather than moral restraint.

Their daughter Lucina became caught between them. Like Lucifer, Lucina independently investigated Eve’s activities, though she hid her actions from her father because she feared he would restrict her in the name of protection. Lucifer concealed his own investigation from Lucina for the opposite reason: he wanted to keep her safe. Their parallel efforts eventually converged, and the two reconciled before the final confrontation with Eve.

Eve also gained followers among those who shared her hostility toward Heaven.