Idea of Evil

The Idea of Evil manifests as an immense, fleshy core shaped like a heart and studded with countless eyes, dwelling in the lightless Abyss. It is less a body than a presence, the physical anchor of a will that has no true form of its own.

Born from the shadowed half of mankind's collective consciousness, the entity exists to satisfy a deep human craving: the hunger for reasons. Humanity longed to know why its lives brimmed with pain and why its deaths felt meaningless, and so the Idea arose to supply those answers and to author each person's destiny. It claims no will of its own beyond the desire of the species that dreamed it into being, insisting that whatever suffering or salvation results is ultimately what mankind itself wanted.

During the Eclipse, Griffith's spirit sinks into the Abyss amid the flood of sensation from the sacrifice he has willed, only to feel nothing within his frozen heart. A voice explains the scattered beherits as droplets of ideas spilled across eternity, then guides him to the sight of the eyed, heart-like core, prompting his stunned question of whether he beholds God. The Idea reveals that it shaped his very lineage and the history that carried him before it, that he is a part of it as it is a part of him, and it bids him draw upon the Abyss to reforge his body. From this meeting is born Femto, the fifth angel of the God Hand.