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General Information[]
Apotheosis - The Fifth Universe of Gold (至高天・黄金冠す第五宇宙, Shikouten・Ougon Kansu Daigo Uchuu?) is the Hegemony type Briah degree of Reinhard Heydrich.
Born from the wish to destroy his dull and boring life, emerged from Reinhard's craving of "I want to love everything" and his ideology of "Memento Mori" manifesting into a Hememony type Briah.
Taking the form of hell itself, completely made out of souls numbering in the millions, where Reinhard brings all the souls to the battlefield so they can fight, die and repeat until Ragnarok; Only those who are worthy enough to be called his champions become his Einherjar or fangs, the finest warriors amongst warriors.
It usually manifests as a devilish castle made up of millions of the dead with a size of a modern day city, or during battle it can also take the form of a giant golden skeletal creature, which moves in a bipedal way. Its arm's length is enough to grab mountains, capable of generating earthquakes more powerful than any seen to mankind.
Inside the “castle” is the Wewelsburg castle itself, which was the cradle of the Longinus Dreizehn Orden, and currently the Valhalla for their souls. A magnificent temple-like throne. Everything that represents life is destroyed, and there is silence, stagnation, coldness, darkness, a pit of chaos, an abyss, no more. It sinks like an underground grave. Death in this place meant being shackled to their bony walls for an eternity. The flooring, polished up like a mirror without a single dust speck, looks like marble.
Originally a gathering place of the Obsidian Round Table when it was only for a select few men, around a hundred knights had been permitted entry to this castle: Himmler, Hess, Haushofer, Dietrich, Eicke, Manstein, Marseille…then Rudel, Wittmann. Besides Reinhard himself, all of the other heroes and initial members ended up becoming a part of the castle.
Giving shape to pain itself, it has as many hells as there are Legions. Everyone chooses their own hell, being a sea of fire, hellish tundra; all of them turn into reality. While Reinhard governs over all of Gladsheimr, those who surpass the rank of Einherjar are given the right to govern over one of the hells:
- Niflheimr: Realm of shadows and darkness. Occupied by those who were killed by either love or insanity. It's governed by Schreiber.
- Muspelheimr: Realm of fire. Occupied by those who died in martyr. It's governed by Samiel.
- Midgard: Realm of humans. Occupied by those who died in battle. It's governed by Machina.
- Alfheimr: Realm of fairies. Occupied by those who were killed by love. Hell in the form of paradise, a beautiful garden full of grass and flowers as far as the eye can see. This is the place where Valeria Trifa's physical body is kept.
Abilities[]
Upon being created during WW2, Gladsheimr acquired several abilities. Those who were slain by the Longinuslanze Testament, killed within the castle, or those who were offered as Swastika sacrifices become part of Reinhard’s legion of Einherjar, granting him all of their knowledge, memories, and abilities as well, making it a legion of millions. Furthermore as long as Reinhard is alive, his Legion will keep fighting, they will not only regenerate forever but also become immortal warriors, transcending death itself.
Reinhard's true skill as a commander lies in his leadership and dominance, to the point where it could be considered magical. Due to this prowess, he can do two things:
- First is the arrangement of his army and distribution of burden; through this he can reduce the consumption per soul.
- Secondly, through leading and inspiring them, he can promote the soul quality of a weak soul to the splendor of a hero.
Considering these two aspects, before the addition of Zonnenkind to Gladsheimr he can keep his Briah for 2 months without consuming any souls. And since power of Stigmata is also boosted, collective power of the army is enough to maintain it for 3 months. Such a feat is considered extraordinary compared to other members of his legion, for whom their Briah degree's durations are around a few dozen minutes at most.[1]
Singularity[]
Gladsheimr is a singularity within the 4th Heaven. Its enormous spiritual power acts like a clot that disrupts the flow of recurrence. Thus it exists without being washed by its currents.[2] Since it forcefully severs connection from the world of foreknowledge, it distorts distance and coordination.This means that no one can enter or even get close to Valhalla without permission.[3] Moreover, everything that's covered by Gladsheimr becomes isolated from the world too, from people to entire cities. Upon materialization into the world it automatically rips out the souls of everyone. After it's done, Reinhard can see and hear everything covered by his castle.[4]
Army of the Dead[]
Being formed completely out of skeleton’s dead bodies, Reinhard is able to freely manipulate them as he wishes, changing form, shaping into a different one. Due to the fact that many of his soul stock is made out of Nazi Germany’s army, its formations and weaponry are those of WW2. Going from military units with rifles to bayonets, panzerfausts, tanks, landmines, Luftwaffe’s planes, etc; with enough fire power to face even a certain God of Darkness. Due to his entire legion being part of “him”, every single one of them is able to affect the souls just like a Holy Relic. Due to the castle being in a state of creation and destruction, their ammunition will never run out as it refills after each destruction by Reinhard’s power, should they ever fall in battle or if their soul gets destroyed. Because of this trying to reduce their numbers is impossible as long as Reinhard and the castle exist. Some of the 40 Waffen-SS divisions that manifest include:
- Marseille: Reinhard calls upon Luftwaffe’s ace pilot during the North African Campaign, known as the “Star of Africa”. Summoning Messerschmitt Bf 109’s machine guns behind him, predicting the future position of the enemy, shooting them down with deadly accuracy and power.
- 8th SS-Cavalry Division “Florian Geyer”: Reinhard summons a wall of skeletons below his target, in order to create an obstacle and limit their movement.
- 9th SS-Panzer Division “Hohenstaufen”: Summoning more than a hundred tank volleys, devastating everything in the way of the projectiles and explosions.
- 12th SS-Panzer Division “Hitlerjujand:” Manifesting hundreds of Panzerfausts, Reinhard shoots the enemy with an incessant attack of warheads.
- 24th SS-Mountain Division “Karstjäger:” Summons numerous landmines and Panzerfaust warheads to explode upon the enemy.
- 36th SS-Grenadier Division “Dirlewanger:” From below his enemy, a horde of skeletons suddenly release countless bayonets to pierce their enemy.
Longinus Dreizehn Orden[]
Reinhard can even summon reincarnations of his most trusted warriors, his most loyal Einherjar, his own fangs, summoned at the peak of their power after their death, who he sends them to fight alongside or for him:
- Tubal Cain: An immortal warrior whose Briah allows him to decompose anything physical, like the human body, or intangible, like the soul. Possesses the Wewelsburg Longinus, an inferior replica of the Longinuslanze Testament which allows him to use the abilities of those who had been slain by it.
- Musashi Sakurai - May sasurahime carry all such taint, shoulder all such malice liberating me from woe and misery: Musashi’s Hegemony type Briah, which changes others into corpses within a certain area.
- Rei Sakurai - Begone, exile, for the realm of the gods welcomes you no longer: Rei’s Hegemony type Briah turns Longinus into a cannon, which can shoot out poison. Like the first Briah, it corrodes and poisons anything it touches.
- Kai Sakurai – May all that dare lay a hand upon me pay the price in suffering untold as they writhe and boil in the cauldron of the abyss: Kai's Transcendence type Briah where, when used, Kai's body becomes completely covered from head to toe in poison, allowing him to decompose anything he strikes while also having anything that touches him rot to dust
- Kaziklu Bey - Der Rosenkavalier Schwarzwald: A vampire whose Briah allows him to absorb the energy out of everything within his surroundings, regardless of whether or not they are organic, inorganic, tangible, or intangible.
- Valkyrie - Donner Totentanz - Walküre: A war maiden whose Briah allows her to become lightning itself, gaining its speed and characteristics, making her intangible and ephemeral like real lightning.
- Leonhard August - Man sollte nach den Gesetzen der Götter leben: Similar to the Valkyrie, her Briah allows her to become pure flame, gaining its characteristics, allowing her to vaporize metal with its flames alone and making her intangible as fire.
- Machina - Miðgarðr Völsunga Saga: A superb warrior whose Briah allows him to erase the existence of his target as long as they have a history, being creatures, objects, knowledge and even concepts.
- Malleus - Csejte Ungarn Nachtzehre: A sorceress whose Briah allows her to manipulate shadows, paralyzing and dragging anyone who touches them to her castle full of instruments of torture.
- Samiel - Muspellheimr Lævateinn: A war knight whose Briah consists of two forms: an incomplete and complete form. The former makes her flames expand until they engulf her enemy, with almost infinite range and temperatures that exceed 10.000°C. The latter, complete form where she transports her foe and herself inside the barrel of her own Holy Relic, making it impossible to escape.
- Hrozvitnir - Nilfheimr Fenriswolf: A twisted being, whose Briah allows him to always be faster than his opponent, even if they were to move at the speed of light or try to reduce his speed or try to increase their own speed, unless they directly stop his movement altogether.
Zonnenkind - Gladsheimr: A main gear within the castle, akin to the immune system, controlled by Isaak, Reinhard’s bastard son. Using his craving of “I want to be loved by father” as literal fuel in order to empower him and act as the entity who manages the castle and defense mechanisms of it, protecting his father whether or not harm should ever come to him.
If Reinhard will ever die and Gladsheim will survive like we saw in Kajiri Kamui Kagura, his Throne will disappear as his soul is now gone and thus,the throne of the soul don't exist anymore, appearing like this when the Beast is alive and like this when Reinhard is gone but Tokoyo utilizes the castle inside the kamunagara.
Trivia[]
- The incantation is referencing Mark 5:1-20, & Luke 8:26-39.
- Gladsheimr is the name of Odin's hall in Norse mythology.
- Gullinkambi is the name of a golden rooster whose crowing at the time of Ragnarök.
- Fünfte Weltall is German words, roughly translated as "fifth cosmos".
References[]
- ↑ Dies Irae ~Interview with Kaziklu Bey~
- ↑ Dies Irae ~Amantes amentes~ Other Story 1: Wehrwolf
- ↑ Dies Irae ~Interview with Kaziklu Bey~
- ↑ Screenshot from Dies Irae