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Haven’t seen it mentioned so far but I highly recommend the Spellmonger series by Terry Mancour.
10 books so far and any author who creates his own method of cursing based upon the goddesses assets he himself writes about gets some of my money.
Highly quotable
[SPOILER]I can completely see Tizzy being a god of chaos that can be birthed from humanities subconscious. I mean who doesn’t have a stoned, eight-limbed, flying wise-ass in their brains[/SPOILER]
I have a feeling that as demons we might see many versions of Melissance. As a named character that has yet to appear in the story or even be described it sounds as if she spent some of that time in limbo and many threads of history could need to be unraveled before she becomes clear.
The biggest question I have is that given Melissance has been held by a demon and “forgotten” as inconsequential for so many years I have to assume she died as a human in the Abyss. It doesn’t seem that the lower level demons given guard duty have a good grasp of “light” when it comes to torture.
I also think that Melissance might just hold a grudge if she is found but it happens when Talarius isn’t searching for her.
I also think that the most illogical of human reasoning will come into play and Talarius will “discover” it is all part of Tomus’s evil plan.
sorry if this was covered by the earlier post for some reason my browser will not let me browse the pages of a forum. I think the website demon is being punished and it is causing faults.
I can just imagine how the negotiation would go
“Your master will have to get through me….but before that happens I’m going to need your true name a nip of blood and I have the contract prepared right over here…8-[ binding circle what binding circle those are just abstracts my secretary makes when shes bored.
No No STOP
GLURG
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I would love to try and become a beta demon if possible but I just joined and can’t seem to verify my account by email. I sent a email to tizzy@astlan.net love to help with apostles.
gallandro
Love to toss my name into the lottery here I am known to hold up to three histories in my head at once so I feel fully qualified to beta.
So I recently reread Heavenly hosts and I was surprised at the hints of the strange and complicated history between the Ennead gods and the denizens of the Grove.
We are told that the members of the Grove are the various denizens from failed and displaced races that may seem to have created their multi-dimensional land to pool their resources and protect themselves from other ascendant gods.
This seems to be something that happened before Ragnarok in which the FOE and the FOG did battle and it is implied that the FOE had a strategic victory with the sundering of the Bifrost. This was also a battle that Orcus and his forces seemed to have played a pivotal role in that battle. It is also implied but not stated that it is due to his role in those events that caused Lilith and Samel to unify against him.
It also seems that the denizens of the Grove while being mainly non-human still consider themselves and hold themselves to be part of the FOG. In fact it was implied but never stated that they were the third power that helped craft Excrathadorus Mortis. This means that when the FOG went against Orcus it was a triumvirate that still needed to secure Lillith as a saboteur in order to assure their victory.
We also know that this happened about 4000 yrs ago. (I am assuming shortly after Rangnarok which is when the denizens of the Grove were cut off from their former confederates.)
It is interesting to know that at this time we don’t have any information on what the disposition between the Ennaed Gods and the Etonian gods were at this time.
This becomes important for any number of reasons.
1. The Ennaed Gods (most importantly Bastet) retreated to the Abyss but still try to disguise themselves as demons. This could be because of the natural antipathy between god and demon or because of a history between the FOE (especially Lillith and Samel) and the Ennaeds.
2. While it seems Bastet is in alliance with Exador and Ramses it hasn’t been stated against whom they are plotting. Since they were originally cast as three arch-demons I am assuming that Exador and Ramses are part of this cabal to somehow take power over demons and the Abyss. Bastet seems to be using this as a plot in a scheme to overthrow the Etonian gods.
3. It has been implied that the gods are gods because they hold a sphere of power in the “outer realms” that allow them to be all powerful. In fact I can deduce that it was Orcus crafting Mt. Doom allowing him to hold a similar power in the Abyss itself where the gods are sundered from their own wellspring that caused him to be targeted. The question becomes will Bastet see Tom seizing Orcus’s power as sneaky or an upstart seizing power against the rules of “gods”.
We also don’t know how the Ennaed gods came down in the wars between the FOG and the FOE against Orcus. Did the help the Etonians and then were betrayed or were they neutral parties who were then declared evil for not helping.
Then we find out that 2000 yrs ago is when Bast, Anubis and the Ennaeds were cast out of their heavenly realm and declared to be false gods.
We also found out that they had asked and were denied the help of the citizens of the Grove which means that either the Grove denizens didn’t feel that they were strong enough to stand up against the Etonians or that their hidden alliance from the time of Orcus could still be in effect between the Etonians and the Grove.
I would love to see what the other members think about just what the author might have in store for us from the annals of history he has devised.
