Diana was a tier 1 angel (called Guardians) in sector 666 of Heaven. Her she was a servant to a family of humans; cooking their food, mending their clothes, cleaning their home, and caring for the small children when the other adults were busy. But the family much preferred to do these things themselves, giving Diana a lot of free time. They also loved her like one of their own, and would teach her to do human things like singing, dancing, art, games, and she even ate meals with them. She adored them. The other angels never showed her such love and kindness.
Sometimes, a Cherubim would come to the home to inform the family that someone in their lineage has died, but did not earn their place in the kingdom of Heaven. Back then, the souls were simply destroyed. Their entire being permanently erased for their mistakes. Diana watched the family mourn, just as heartbroken as they were. Eventually her grief turned to rage, and she gathered other Angels of her tier to convince them that Sol (closest translation of God's true name) was wrong, that humans deserved forgiveness. Thrones witnessing this dissent reported her to Cherubims, and she was arrested and tried before Sol as an insurgent.
She had the opportunity to apologize and plead for forgiveness, but she refused. She called Sol a tyrant before millions of other angels, who believed their kind to be incapable of such sin. As punishment, Sol created a new plane between Earth and Heaven: Hell, a place of endless scorching dirt under a blinding sun. Sinners would no longer be destroyed, but instead cast into Hell where Diana was now tasked with torturing the people she loved for all eternity. Sol sent her there without supervision, and if, upon returning in 5000 years, she did not create the cesspool of suffering It desired, she would be destroyed like the sinners of old. This was her chance to redeem herself in the eyes of the Lord. Of course, she refused.
Angels were created when by Sol pulling a piece of its on body off and forming it into a separate being. Death was not an angel. Sol needed someone to gently guide the humans between the planes, but angels were a poor fit the job, being too utilitarian and unempathetic. So, Sol chose the most virtuous human it could find, and offered it a holy mission. Death accepted, and was granted a tiny piece of an angel's power. However, humans and angels alike rarely respected Death's work. Humans saw him as frightening, or blamed him for their own deaths (especially if it was tragic). Angels saw him as too human, capable of sin. Death didn't hate either of them back, but felt betrayed by the hostility nonetheless.
Only very ancient humans were actually taken to Heaven by Death's hand. After a certain point, the population had grown too high, and simply too many humans were dying a day for Death to keep up. So, Sol created a new group of angels called Dominions to direct the passge of souls between the planes. They were highly efficient, and never interacted with the humans directly. Death was then allowed to return to the kingdom of Heaven, but was also allowed to keep is power as reward for his dutiful work. Death was one of the witnesses to Diana's insurrection, and believed the world she envisioned would free him from his ostracization. He followed Diana into the Hell, and no one noticed his abscense.
Diana was cursed when cast into Hell so that she could not use the powers she was born with as an Angel, even if the power remained within her. In Hell, she tore it from her body and planted it into the ground, where it grew into a great tree and became what is now called Magic. With the combination of Magic, and Death's angelic powers still available to him, they were able to create a child together, and named her Edith. Edith is called a demihuman, half of an angel and half of a human. Some of her body is made up of cells and chemicals, and some of it his made of up of the holy material of an angel. Which parts are which seem to shift and change over time.
She was raised to have the same love for humans as her parents, although it didn't quite work out the way they intended. While she doesn't hate them, she lacks an understanding of their Earthly suffering and the grief that comes with death. To her, none of it matters. Dying is basically just travelling from one place to another. As such, she is often reckless when she travels to Earth. Reconnaissance is her job, bringing back information and materials from Earth for the benefit of Hell's denizens. It was once Death's, but he did it rarely out of fear of being more easily caught. Edith's demihumanity makes her much less obvious, in theory.
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