Metatron

Metatron, the Scribe of Heaven, is Eden's senior archangel, keeper of the Wall That Divides Good and Evil, and principal embodiment of the Oldest Good. He preserves Eden through doctrine and administration, yet the same system turns people—including Metatron himself—into replaceable carriers of “Good.”

Biography

The institution of Eden

Metatron first appears as a distant sponsor whose thirty-thousand-coin offering shows a scale far above most constellations courting Kim Dokja. Within Eden, that power takes bureaucratic form. He presides over ordinance sessions, maintains records, assigns metaphorical sub-scenarios, and delegates Uriel's duties after detaining her. Gabriel's irritation at the lectures and at inheriting Uriel's work reveals a functioning institution rather than a loose assembly of heroic angels. Metatron's aim is to preserve Eden's doctrine and readiness while preventing the Armageddon whose approach has left him visibly tired. (Chapters 100, 278–279)

His control is considerable but incomplete. A release of Status silences agitated archangels, and later his pressure stops Michael from attacking Kim inside Eden. Yet Uriel continues choosing Kim and Jung Heewon over institutional permission, Gabriel questions assignments, and Michael interprets restraint as evidence that Eden is disappearing. Metatron can issue missions and punishment because he represents the highest active standard of Absolute Good; he cannot make every archangel's personal loyalties coincide with that standard. His leadership therefore depends on repeatedly translating doubt into duty. (Chapters 278 and 315)

A bargain over the future

Kim enters Metatron's book-filled office seeking a treatment route for Yoo Sangah and information about Eden's predicted destruction. Metatron listens to the 1863rd-turn account with selective curiosity, then tests Kim through the Wall That Divides Good and Evil. The Wall cannot judge a demon king favored by archangels cleanly, while the Fourth Wall responds as another fragment of the same larger structure. Metatron explains that the Final Wall broke into meaningful fragments and identifies Kim's as the largest. He regards that anomaly as a possible key to changing a destruction he has already accepted as “set.” (Chapters 315–316)

This concern does not make the conversation altruistic. Metatron's preferred style is to make the other person state the use he has in mind, preserving deniability while arranging the bargain. He advises star fluid for Yoo Sangah and times Surya's return so Kim can negotiate for Soma, then seeks Eden's stake in the future Giant Story. Kim gains medical information and allies for Gigantomachia; Metatron gains a demon king capable of operating across the boundary that confines his own Wall. The partnership is sincere about survival but still instrumental on both sides. (Chapters 316–317)

The oldest Good and Evil

During the Great War of Saints and Demons, Metatron and Agares stand as the oldest representatives of Absolute Good and Absolute Evil. The opposition has continued so long that their Stories define and compel them. Michael's memories show him repeatedly asking whether the war can ever have a victor, while Metatron answers by pointing him back toward the enemy. At the conference, Seekers of the End turn allies against one another and dead archangels fall from the collapsing venue. Metatron watches and invokes the will of Good, accepting the deaths as part of the ideal conclusion rather than admitting that the premise itself has failed them. (Chapters 367 and 404)

The awakening Dragon of Revelation finally breaks that certainty. Metatron's planned seal cannot match the accelerating calamity, and despair appears through his composure. Agares, who briefly tried to abandon Evil, becomes the person able to name their shared prison: even if both die, successors will inherit “Scribe of Heaven” and “Ruler of East Hell” and repeat the war. Metatron admits envying Agares's attempted escape. Their antagonism has made them the beings who understand one another best, and neither can determine whether their final choices are properly Good or Evil without appealing to the same Story that trapped them. (Chapters 404, 408, and 412)

The ark and inherited wall

When sealing the Dragon becomes impossible, Agares suggests that a Wall exists to protect something. Metatron combines the Stories of Eden, the Wall's authority, and Agares's Oldest Evil with his unfinished sealing tool. Together they transform it into the mythic Ark and order the surviving incarnations and constellations aboard. The two custodians must remain outside to sustain the vessel, converting their last power from classification and war into a limited rescue. Metatron's decision does not erase his responsibility for the catastrophe, but it saves lives the idealized victory of Good would have sacrificed. (Chapters 412–413)

Main-world Metatron dies in the aftermath, and Uriel later becomes Eden's new Great Good. A Metatron seen in the altered later regression is a counterpart, not the dead individual restored. That version accepts Eden's eventual destruction yet makes a different choice: he grants the shared Wall to Jung Heewon and Lee Gilyoung and permits Eden's angels to aid the incarnations. The variation demonstrates both constraint and agency. The title and Story pressure each Metatron toward familiar roles, but world-line holders can entrust their authority differently. (Chapters 486, 502, and 537)

Appearance and personality

Metatron has waist-length grey hair, a slim build, thin-framed glasses, and an expression made tired by efforts to avert Armageddon. He works behind mountains of books, reflecting the office of heavenly recorder more than a battlefield commander. Sunlight across his face leaves one side unnaturally bright and the other in shadow during his conversation with Kim, a visual counterpart to the Wall he administers. He normally wears the same measured smile across centuries; only the Great War's failure and Agares's unexpected proposal visibly shake it. (Chapters 278, 315–316, and 408–412)

His courtesy is disciplined rather than warm. Metatron listens carefully, asks questions whose desired answers he already anticipates, and delivers institutional judgments in calm language. He can be genuinely curious about another world-line and concerned about Eden, but habitually converts people into strategic functions. That habit is also a defense against recognizing what Good demands from him. His late cooperation with Agares matters because it suspends the textbook answer long enough to choose a concrete group of lives over the abstract victory their roles require. (Chapters 315–317, 404, and 412)

Abilities, attributes, and stories

Scribe of Heaven

The modifier represents Metatron's authority over Eden's records, ordinances, missions, sponsorship, and scenario participation. He communicates across channels, assigns sub-scenarios to archangels, negotiates nebula-scale agreements, and records reports from other world-lines. These privileges organize a large institution but do not supply total control: archangels may disobey, missions remain subject to Probability, and knowledge recorded in a Wall does not guarantee the capacity to change what is written. (Chapters 278–279 and 315–317)

Absolute Good and true voice

As the standard of Absolute Good, Metatron channels the Oldest Good, exerts overwhelming archangel Status, and can silence combatants or suppress Michael's manifested power in Eden. The accumulated Story mobilizes armies and supports myth-grade constructions. It is also a limitation on judgment. Oldest Good continually prompts the Scribe to seek its enemy and enact the moral binary, while the role can survive his death by selecting another carrier. Uriel's later succession confirms that this authority is institutional and narrative, not proof that Metatron's person has returned. (Chapters 315, 404, 409, and 502)

Wall That Divides Good and Evil

Shared with Agares, this Final Wall fragment supplies the Star Stream's standard for distinguishing Good from Evil. It can classify a target, allow Absolute Good constellations to vote on the decision, and lend Probability to derivative powers such as Jung Heewon's Judgment Time. Ambiguous existences confuse it, collective judgment may alter a result, and ownership does not make the user morally infallible. In its final main-world use, the same Wall becomes a protective component of the Ark and is later carried toward the Final Wall by incarnations. (Chapters 315–316, 412, 484, and 537)

Sealing tool and Ark

Metatron gathers Eden's Stories and both hands' effort into a tool intended to seal the Dragon of Revelation. The Dragon's actual Status exceeds the design, and accelerating phases remove the remaining preparation time. When Agares contributes Oldest Evil and the shared Wall, the object expands into an Ark capable of evacuating nearby lives. The transformation requires both custodians to remain and sustain it; neither can board. Its success is therefore specific cooperative myth-making, not a repeatable vehicle Metatron independently owns. (Chapters 408 and 412–413)

Relationships

• Agares: Public enemy, narrative counterpart, and eventual collaborator. Millennia of opposition make Agares the only person who fully understands Metatron's imprisonment in Good, and their final cooperation creates the Ark.
• Uriel: Metatron disciplines her unauthorized attachments and reassigns her missions, but never extinguishes her loyalty to Kim's company. After his death, she inherits Eden's Great Good and uses it according to her own choice.
• Kim Dokja: Kim progresses from a potential sponsored incarnation to a demon king whom Metatron tests as an anomaly capable of crossing Good and Evil. Their agreements exchange information, medical access, and Story stakes without becoming personal trust.
• Michael: Michael serves as Eden's weapon while repeatedly questioning whether the ancient war can end. Metatron's habit of redirecting those doubts toward Evil contributes to the archangel's exhaustion and corruption.
• Jung Heewon and Lee Gilyoung: A later-turn counterpart entrusts them with the shared Wall. Their use of an institutional boundary to reach the Final Wall demonstrates a future Metatron can support but does not personally control.

Items

Metatron's principal object is the Wall That Divides Good and Evil, a narrative fragment and authority rather than ordinary equipment. His book-filled office also expresses the Scribe's recordkeeping, while the sealing tool becomes the Ark only through combined Stories with Agares. No required generated item inventory is assigned to him.