The Eternal Scales

"They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might."

Judgement made manifest, the Eternal Scales is the Demiurge of Gods punishment upon humanity. No infraction is too small, no punishment too harsh, and no sentence too long. Those who go against the word of the LORD will suffer forever, no matter what they did or who they are. The Scales demand that sinner cut their limbs for their body, that they drink the wine of God's wrath, and that they suffer eternal in the fires of Hell. He is the judgement upon mankind, and always finds them wanting. The Eternal Scales is never satisfied, always probing and seeking and gnawing at the smallest failures to ferret out the truth - no one is worthy of its glory and all deserve it's all-consuming wrath.

Within the pantheon of Demiurges, the Eternal Scales is the least worship but most feared. It is avoided, like a curse and pox; a fact it sees but yet another failure, another sin to be punished. Indeed, the Eternal Scales focuses relatively little of its attention against New Eden, instead judging the Adamite tribes that fall beneath its gaze for the slightest flaw. It's obsession brings it into constant conflict with Demiurges with more focus and purpose, a clash of judgement and destiny. No matter its relative weakness in both raw power and position, the Eternal Scales have created a Hell on earth where it judges sinners - and by its standard, almost everyone is - extracting power from their suffering. Every soul that gets snared within this Hell, its power grows.

"Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them. And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord."

The Eternal Scales personifies excessive and unjust judgement. He is the judge that orders death for any offense, the one who condemns mortals to suffer eternal for a momentary lapse, the stone that crushes those who go against the norm. When the Scales visits its few followers in their dreams, it takes the shape of a tidal wave of scrolls, each inscribed with laws and confessions. It grows until it dominates the horizon, bombarding the dreamer with every failure and every slight. It is not a popular Demiurge to follow among the Adamite tribes, and treated more like a natural disaster to endure more than something to venerate. Those marked by its favor or curse are equally shunned - it is only a matter of time before they too are found wanting.

"Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last."

The Demiurge is still called upon within the Adamite Tribes as an arbiter and judge, deciding the most important of cases. It is the one and only case where even the most depraved tribe calls upon the unstable Demiurge. It serves well - if uncompromising - in this role, handing out the appropriately gruesome punishment against the failing party. When the Eternal Scales manifest in the world to judge the unworthy, if manifests as seven pillars of salt. When someone is sentenced, they are either dragged into Hell by scores of its minions, or turned into a pillar of salt for the Demiurge to consume.

These caravanes of damned souls regularly traverse the wasteland and into the contructed hell of the Demiurge. It is a target both Adamites and Edenites target equally, to save its prisoners for unjust and eternal torture. Even death is better than the unreasonable and extreme judgement of the Eternal Scales.

"But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins. You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters."