God's Right Seat
God's Right Seat is an organization that features in A Certain Magical Index.
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History
God's Right Seat (Japanese: 神の右席, Hepburn: Kami no Useki?) was a secret organization that was linked to the Roman Orthodox Church. It was said to had been born of the great calamities that befell Europe with a need for individuals to talk directly to the Pope on matters regarding the Church. Thus, God's Right Seat was formed consisting of four members that initially were tasked with aiding the Pope and providing advice. It came to be regarded as separate from the clergy where it became a secretive group that the Papacy began to rely upon for support.
Afterwards, Pope Matthai Reese was summoned to St. Peter's Basilica where Vento of the Front forcibly convinced him to sign a form that declared Touma Kamijo as an enemy of God and by extension the Catholic Church. Vento of the Front cultivated a deep-seated hatred for science following a tragic accident that killed her brother, and she used this venom to fuel her 'Divine Punishment' spell while manipulating church policy to declare Kamijou Touma an 'enemy of God'. As a result, Vento was given full authority to travel to Academy City and eliminate the boy. Alongside her were both Terra of the Left and Acqua of the Black along with a supporting invasion force to aid Vento in her mission. Meanwhile, Terra of the Left conducted ruthless experiments on non-Catholics—whom he considered sub-human 'pagans' to refine his 'Execution of Light' magic. Acqua of the Back, formerly the British mercenary William Orwell, spent years protecting the United Kingdom from the shadows and acting as a 'Sage' to war-torn villagers before joining the Seat to monitor global threats to his homeland. Above them all, Fiamma of the Right meticulously planned for World War III, having recognized a fundamental distortion in the world's laws during the Angel Fall incident and concluding that seizing the Imagine Breaker and the secrets within Index was necessary to achieve his ultimate ascension. Together, they orchestrated global unrest and used the church's vast influence to position themselves for a final conflict that would reshape humanity.
A month later, tensions began to run high between the Roman Orthodox Church and Academy City with the latter being decimated from the earlier attack that left it in ruin and costing over 8 trillion Yen to repair. The Roman Church came to believe that this indicated a shift in the balance of power to its favour where it planned its next move against its rival.
Overview
In appearance, God's Right Seat was a secret group that consisted of four individuals that were powerful magicians who aligned themselves to the four Archangels. Originally, their role was simply to advise the Pope on matters regarding the Church with them keeping in the shadows. In time, however, they began to exert a greater control over the Roman Catholic Church. This saw the group change to the point that they began having secret discussions with the Pope where they began overpowering the Pope and vetoing their decisions. Their ultimate goal was to remove their original sin and ascend to the position equal to God with the potential of becoming even greater than the Lord.
It waas born from a dire necessity for individuals capable of advising the Pope on matters that transcended human knowledge and the standard hierarchy of the clergy. Though it functioned as a secret advisory group, its members were considered separate from the traditional church 'pyramid' and eventually amassed power that eclipsed even the Papacy. The organization was fundamentally built upon a heretical loophole in Christian doctrine; members utilized artificial spells—inspired by the belief that the Virgin Mary’s original sin vanished upon contact with the Holy Spirit—to dilute their own original sin. This purification allowed them to wield divine, angelic-class magic aligned with the four Archangels, though it came at the cost of losing the ability to use standard human magic. Their ultimate objective was to transcend humanity by sitting in 'God's Right Seat', a position of equivalency once held by Lucifer before his fall, which they believed would lead them to a state known as La Persona Superiore a Dio, or 'The One Above God'.
Its members were known to dilute their original sin by artificial means via a spell and sought to reduce as much of it as possible by using the example set forth by the Virgin Mary. Though not entirely removed, enough original sin was removed to allow them to freely carry out spells that far exceeded those of normal humans with them able to craft magic that was normally used by angels and God. A side effect of this was the loss of the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge which prevented them from using spells normally used by ordinary magicians.
Members
- Fiamma of the Right :
- Vento of the Front :
- Terra of the Left :
- Acqua of the Back :
Notes
- God's Right Seat were created by Kazuma Kamachi where they served as the primary antagonists in he God's Right Seat story arc in A Certain Magical Index.
- In the English dub, they were called the Right Seat of God.
In other media
Television
Appearances
- A Certain Magical Index II:
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