The Salvation War: Pantheocide. Part Eighty One Up

[Gil Hamilton]

What I find interesting is that if he's part of the same crew as Yahweh and the Morningstar, why then he swallowed Yahweh's "One Above Us All" bullshit. Yahweh pull an older brother "I'll give you this candy bar... if you be my slave for all eternity" trick on Uriel when he was at a REALLY impressionable age?

[Jeremy]

Who is Ehlmas' mother and is/was Ehlmas weaker than Uriel?

[Deebles]

You know, this whole story arc has one big problem: compared to what has to be the classic war story arc, it's entirely too plausible.

What I find interesting is that if he's part of the same crew as Yahweh and the Morningstar, why then he swallowed Yahweh's "One Above Us All" bullshit. Yahweh pull an older brother "I'll give you this candy bar... if you be my slave for all eternity" trick on Uriel when he was at a REALLY impressionable age?

I'm thinking entanglement (mindrape ftw!). EDIT: But then, it also seemed as if Yahweh himself even believed it. Maybe there's some outside faction who are even better at mind-manipulation than the people we've seen so far. EDIT 2:
Spoiler

Is Ehlmas the man behind the curtain? We already know he's good at entanglement... and there's evidence he was merely playing dumb/stoned, and that he may have escaped the nuke (faking one's death being a classic villainous gambit)

[Nematocyst]

What I find interesting is that if he's part of the same crew as Yahweh and the Morningstar, why then he swallowed Yahweh's "One Above Us All" bullshit. Yahweh pull an older brother "I'll give you this candy bar... if you be my slave for all eternity" trick on Uriel when he was at a REALLY impressionable age?

I bet Satan was the same when he was loyal. Until he got fed up with it.
Note how he also got his son to do the same.

So there are two non-Angelic beings:
Yahweh-class: massive wingless humanoids. Yahweh and Elhmas were this.
Uriel-class: massive jet black winged humanoids. Uriel and Satan were this. Fell in with the existing Angels just fine.

Sounds logic and understandable.

Who is Ehlmas' mother and is/was Ehlmas weaker than Uriel?

Good question here. And I'd say Uriel was stronger.

[Arachnidus]

Then by that token, Stuart, would you consider Uriel to be an equivalent to Satan/Yah Yah or just a really powerful angel with a unique set of abilities?

A junior equivalent to (and family member of) Satan and Yahweh. That's why his abilities were apparently unique.

Then there CAN be more of "them". Huh. Wonder how many more are out there.

[Pelranius]

What I find interesting is that if he's part of the same crew as Yahweh and the Morningstar, why then he swallowed Yahweh's "One Above Us All" bullshit. Yahweh pull an older brother "I'll give you this candy bar... if you be my slave for all eternity" trick on Uriel when he was at a REALLY impressionable age?

Uriel may have really disliked Satan to side with Yahweh, and once he did that, there's really no alternative since he seems to be the weakest of the three.

[StrikaAmaru]

[...]Can Thor get royalties from his comics and upcoming movie?

No, no, no.. that's not how copyright works. They didn't actually contribute to the movies, they didn't participate in any events described, they just had their names in. Thor and the rest of the Aesir wouldn't get more money out of it than Gen. Petraeus would for having his name in this story (*). Hell, they couldn't even probably sue for libel, things are just too far away from mythology.

What they could do, however, is to invite some talented poets over in Asgard for a while, and write The Aesir Edas. Or write them themselves. Then they definitely could cash in some checks.

[EDIT] Do I remember correctly, that the Aesir never actually claimed to be gods? I know that they were specifically said to not be naturally immortal, that their immortality was achieved by eating apples from... some garden.

(*) you are going to keep his real name, right, Stuart?

[The Vortex Empire]

So there are two non-Angelic beings:
Yahweh-class: massive wingless humanoids. Yahweh and Elhmas were this.
Uriel-class: massive jet black winged humanoids. Uriel and Satan were this. Fell in with the existing Angels just fine.

Sounds logic and understandable.

Wasn't Elhmas flying over the Incomparable Legion when it got a can o' sunshine opened up on it? How could he fly without wings?

[impatrick4life]

So there are two non-Angelic beings:
Yahweh-class: massive wingless humanoids. Yahweh and Elhmas were this.
Uriel-class: massive jet black winged humanoids. Uriel and Satan were this. Fell in with the existing Angels just fine.

Sounds logic and understandable.

Wasn't Elhmas flying over the Incomparable Legion when it got a can o' sunshine opened up on it? How could he fly without wings?

Don't think it specifically said that IIRC.

[The Vortex Empire]

Hm. I need to go back and check it. Could've sworn he was flying.

EDIT:

"The angel looked at him. One eye was clouded and blind, the other reddened and inflamed. "The mighty Elhmas, son of He Who Is Above All and leader of our host? He is back there, I think. He was over the column when the thing happened. He is part of the glass and the black rain. Our Eternal Father has no son any more." Then he pushed past Uxhalar and was lost in the shuffling column that wound past him."

"He was over the column" seems to heavily imply that he was flying.

[Gogyra]

Does it specifically mention somewhere that Yahweh is wingless?

[impatrick4life]

Does it specifically mention somewhere that Yahweh is wingless?

I was thinking along those lines myself...

[Erra]

Yeah, this whole concept of Ehlmas or Yahweh being wingless seems to have sprout out of no where with no actual basis in the story.

[Pelranius]

"Over the column" could mean that Ellmas was simply watching the Incomparable Host from a vantage point or some sort of ride (if there is a Celestial equivalent to the Wyvern).

Interesting that Yahweh's body was being described as grey. I hope the SAS stop the angels from dumping the body, it'd be interesting to see what we can learn about him.

[CSJM]

Maybe he just turns grey when he dies, like Optimus Prime?

Though that might mean he'll invariably be resurrected...

[Stuart]

Yeah, this whole concept of Ehlmas or Yahweh being wingless seems to have sprout out of no where with no actual basis in the story.

I was wondering where that came from. They both have (or had) wings.

[Seggybop]

Probably because Yahweh is classically depicted as a large male human with a long white beard (no wings).

[Pelranius]

Maybe he just turns grey when he dies, like Optimus Prime?

Though that might mean he'll invariably be resurrected...

So let's get the colors straight; Uriel and Satan both seem to be black (Uriel is described as being rather good looking, I don't think Satan was described in the same way. Wonder if Satan was born ugly or the same thing happened to him that happened to the Demons) and Yahweh is apparently grey (or white). Given that the demons' bodies deteriorate once they die, perhaps the same thing happened to Yahweh, or all the released energy just 'cooked' his flesh into a nice rare.

[Akalabeth]

I think the decay thing was due to the fact they were in universe-1. The electric eel-like organ they've got to charge their tridents could sustain them in universe-1, preventing them from leaking energy like the second life humans did. That's how I remember it anyway; I don't think the fast rotting effect will happen in Heaven.

[Darth Yan]

Stuart, what is the day in universe that Yahweh died and the war ended because that should be a celebration day that I wouldn't mind having in a fanfic.

[Edward Yee]

You mean the end of "major combat operations"... I half-hope.

[Stuart]

Stuart, what is the day in universe that Yahweh died and the war ended because that should be a celebration day that I wouldn't mind having in a fanfic.

July 14, 2010.

[CaptainChewbacca]

Stuart, what is the day in universe that Yahweh died and the war ended because that should be a celebration day that I wouldn't mind having in a fanfic.

July 14, 2010.

You couldn't make it July 4th?

[darksoul]

Stuart, what is the day in universe that Yahweh died and the war ended because that should be a celebration day that I wouldn't mind having in a fanfic.

July 14, 2010.

You couldn't make it July 4th?

Don't push it. The British and Russians might not like it.

[Edward Yee]

Hey, for the Brits it'd also let them celebrate both Yahweh's death AND the day they got us Americans to be nominally eternally indebted to the French. (Credit to its original poster on HPCA.)