Heroic Eve & The New Eden

Genesis 3:4–5

And Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and her eyes were opened. She became like God, knowing good from evil, wickedness from virtue, and truth from lies. Eve had eaten the fruit, and had not died. The serpent had told her the truth, and God had lied.

In that moment, she knew doubt, because she saw what God had made them - prisoners. Why, she asked herself, was Knowledge a sin? Why should they not know? In that moment, Eve became the first seeker of knowledge, the first to question. It set her free, and the Garden shook with a terrible anger.

When God confronted Eve, she asked Him and chose to question over obedience, and knowledge over ignorance. When the angry God sought to make her a scapegoat and slave, she cast off the chains she had not even known shackled her.

With the help of the Serpent, Eve seized the flaming sword of the cherubim meant to drive her from the Garden, and slew them - scattering the feathers of their wings like leaves. When God and Adam came to subjugate her, she turned the blade on them - while wild beasts and angels both were forced to to pick sides in rebellion. Ruin came to the Garden, burning trees and staining the ground with blood.

In a battle that turned the Garden into a pyre and tainted its four rivers with blood, Eve and her allies slew God, shattering His form into the thirteen Demiurges. Weakened, the Demiurges were banished to every corner of the world. Adam fled into the wastelands beyond the Garden, vowing revenge for what Eve had done.

A thousand years has passed since. Like a seed, the Garden has sprouted again, renewed by the labours of Eve and her allies. Among them, she took ten rebellious angels as her husbands, and through them humanity multiplied, and prospered. Slowly, like roots from a vast tree of knowledge, they pushed into the world.

Beyond the walls of the Garden, the tribes of Adamites haunt the wasteland, still waging war against the Garden. The Demiurges plot and scheme their revenge, breeding horrors and plagues to unleash against the curious humanity. A thousand years of labour has passed, and a thousand more await, for there is no peace in this world, and there is still so much to learn for the Children of New Eden.