or, LONG DARK ROAD TO DESTINY
"Can God create a rock even He can't lift?"
In my heresy game idea, every being has a Destiny and a Fate - even God -
and just like every other being, God's Destiny or Fate will be the result of
choices. To enact these choices God essentially split himself in two forming
a Destiny-track entity (called 'God') and a Fate-track entity (called 'The
Beast').
For most of history, the Destiny-track entity has been running the show
creating the universe and generally setting up the playing field for the big
choices to come. Just like in canon, things get interesting around the time
of humanity's creation. The hand-waving short explanation is that humans are
the instrument by which God can achieve His Destiny or embrace His Fate.
Yves, being the shepherd of Destiny, is the first to figure out that God has
given Himself a choice between Destiny and Fate and that the actions of
celestials and humans will determine the final outcome. To complicate
matters, I made Michael a key element in God's Fate. Essentially, Michael's
vulnerability is pride and if he ever thinks so highly of himself that he
questions God's plans, he will tip the scales toward Fate. To further
complicate matters, I also made Michael the unwitting vessel of The Beast.
The reason Michael has never lost a competition or conflict is that he
literally has God on his side, although in this case, he has God's Fate's
riding him like a Shedite.
Using further hand-waving, I decided that Yves figures out what The Beast
plans. The Beast wants to tempt Michael with the leadership of a rebellion
in Heaven. In an effort to thwart this Fate, Yves talks to Lucifer in
confidence and tells him about the existence of The Beast. If left
unchecked, The Beast will likely cause Michael to rebel, and Michael will
likely destroy Creation and possibly even Heaven. Why doesn't Yves tell
Michael about his role and end this whole nonsense? God forbid him to.
Michael must make his own choice - War for God or War against Him.
Upon hearing the truth in Yves' words Lucifer transforms into the first and
only Malakite of Light. Yves then offers Lucifer a choice: wait for Michael
to rebel and stand against him as the general of God's armies or take
Michael's place and lead a 'controlled' rebellion engineered to keep Michael
struggling for God rather than against him.
Since I like drama, I envisioned Yves and Lucifer naively believing that
they could engineer a bloodless rebellion by having Lucifer challenge
Michael to a contest. The loser of the challenge, which of course would be
Lucifer, would then be exiled to Hell. During the exile Lucifer would consul
the fallen and convince them of the error of their ways and they would
redeem upon their eventual release. To thwart this happy little plan, I had
The Beast corrupt the Metatron and begin using it to speak in Lucifer's
voice. Unknown to Lucifer, the corrupted Metatron convinced the rebels that
Michael would never consent to a 1-on-1 challenge. Instead, it encouraged
Baal to launch a bloody first-strike to force Michael to accept Lucifer's
challenge.
So, on the day of the rebellion, Lucifer talks to the Metatron and God
reveals that it has been corrupted by The Beast. God, speaking through the
Metatron for the last time, informs Lucifer that a bloodless revolution is
impossible, and that Lucifer must slay the Metatron to keep it out of the
control of The Beast. God also informs Lucifer that he will have a long dark
road to Destiny. Part of this Destiny will be acting as a credible adversary
to Michael. As long as Michael Wars for God and focuses the power of The
Beast towards Lucifer, then there is hope for Destiny. To add a bit of
foreshadowing and prophesy, God concludes with, "Your sister Light must not
fall."
Lucifer slays the Metatron and the rebellion begins. After much bloodshed,
Lucifer makes his way to Michael and issues his challenge. Michael accepts
and commences to thrash Lucifer within an inch of his life unknowingly using
the power of The Beast. For more gratuitous drama, I have The Beast tempt
Lucifer by exposing a soft spot on Michael during the fight. Lucifer knows
that if he strikes the soft spot, he will win the battle but damn Michael to
Hell. Not giving in to the temptation, Lucifer suffers the evil of The Beast
to live in Michael and merely touches the soft spot. Thereafter, Michael has
a softly glowing spot on every form he assumes (I dubbed this "Lucifer's
Light touch"). Of course, Michael wins the fight and Lucifer and the rebels
are exiled to Hell.
This leaves us with a Malakite Lucifer leading the forces of Hell who can
lie all he wants with no dissonance. He has a mission from God to act as
Michael's adversary. He also has the ability to grant words because both God
and The Beast want him to have that ability (although for different
reasons). Lucifer accepts no servitors because he has a big secret to
maintain. And speaking of Secrets, whatever became of that wayward Demon
Prince Gebbeleth? Well, he discovered first hand that the very much still
Archangel of Light can channel the light of Heaven anywhere he darn well
pleases - including directly on Gebbeleth.
Haven't I just replaced the Devil-as-Lucifer with the Devil-as-The-Beast?
Um, yeah - your point? Why are the Higher Heavens closed? To preserve God's
choice and to keep The Beast from corrupting them. Who is the sister Light?
Gabriel is the obvious choice, but what if Novalis was a former Servitor of
Light? Or perhaps the sister Light refers to the light of Hope, Blandine?
You can decide for yourself. Where did Kronos come from? Ask The Beast. Why
doesn't Kronos expose Lucifer for the traitor he is? Because he wants
Lucifer to embrace his Fate and cause Michael to Fall. Why did Lucifer let
Kronos live when he found him? I don't know. Maybe because he reminded him
of certain voice come back from the dead or maybe because Lucifer got hit
with a God-level Balseraph resonance at the wrong moment.
Oh, and speaking of Balseraphs, Baal was the first Balseraph, but you knew
that right? The whole band is named after him after all...
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