Seraphic Radiance

"That day, the flames were almost beautiful as they turned Shanghai to ash. In the blink of an eye, they took away so much...thoughts, hopes, dreams... And as they watched their world burn, the people cried out in grief. It was like a scene from Hell...one of our own making."

- Yoshiko Kawashima: Shadow Hearts

The Seraphic Radiance is a being of unimaginable power in the Game Shadow Hearts. The Seraphic Radiance is the epitome of the planet's ever building anger for the creatures that slowly kill it most notably humans. The sage Dehuai attempted to summon the beast as his personal servant to take control of China but aside from the fact Dehuai almost certainly could not have controlled The Seraphic Radiance he was not able to summon it even after sacrificing his life to muster what he thought would be enough power to trigger the summoning ritual. In the end the Seraphic Radiance was summoned by Dehuai's sponsor, "Roger Bacon", who effortlessly pour a small bit more power into the ritual site after Dehuai died trying. "Bacon" knew Dehuai would never have the power to summon much less control the Seraphic Radiance and was just using him to do all the work setting up the ritual. But "Bacon" did not wish to control the Seraphic Radiance rather he was jsut testing out a smaller version of the rites he intended to use to summon God. When the Seraphic Radiance emerged the hero, Yuri Hyuga, used his power to fuse with monsters to try to fuse with and control the Seraphic Radiance and prevent it from destroying all life on Earth. After the fusion the Seraphic Radiance was still set on destroying Shanghai and all Yuri had done was calmn down some.