The City of Judgment is a metaphysical dimension outside reality, beyond death and mercy that serves not only as a place of torment and penance to those who find themselves in it but also as a cathartic realm of purification.[1][2] The sphere of judgment can be reached through the Overspace.[2] There is also a key that leads out of the Sphere of Judgment through a dark door into the Dark Cold Room.
History
After Magneto's death during Judgment Day, his soul departed into the Waiting Room, an Elysian Fields for mutantkind built by Wanda Maximoff from the Well Beyond the Worlds. There, he moved on from the afterlife through the path of the Tower into the Overspace, where he was studied as data by the Dominions and discarded into the City of Judgment. There, Magneto stood on a strange shore, readying himself to enter the ruined city and, in torment, sent a distress call that reached to Storm through a dream.
Taking the same path as Magneto, Ororo arrived at the fifth sphere to save the departed soul of her ally. Within the broken city, there were dozens of walls inscribed with the names of every single life Max had taken either directly and willingly or otherwise. With the help of Ororo, Magneto was reminded of his cause to live, a second chance to right the wrongs of his past, manifested through the transformation of the metallic walls into marble, inscribed with the names of every life Max had saved. Purified from his judgment, Magneto, alongside Storm, used the key a Sea Witch gave to him to retreat the City of Judgment to elsewhere, the Dark Cold Room.Residents
- Magneto (formerly)
Trivia
- The City of Judgment is likely associated with the fifth sephirot of the Kabbalah, Geburah, as Al Ewing has stated to take inspiration from to map the Mystery.
- This is not the first time Al Ewing has mentioned Geburah. He first mentioned the realm in his Immortal Hulk run.
- When passing through Overspace into the City of Judgment, Magneto was portrayed in panel in the position of the Tarot card known as "The Hanged Man". This Tarot card represents in the Jewish Kabbalah the path in between Hod and Geburah.