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Riel is an older man when the Angels of the Apocalypse descend, and he knows very clearly that they’re here to turn the wheel.  He sends his generals out to meet them, once it is clear that his army is the exception – he won’t lay down his weapons, and the angels won’t forcibly kill [...]

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The Angels put the Well of Souls on freeze when they arrive – in fact, that is their primary purpose. But before the Well of Souls is taken offline, their chief architect has already managed to produce the first mathematically singular world (mathematical and mental equivalent of a black hole? – A vacuum bubble [...]

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SCENE 1 – Opening. Stars fall from Space.
Deep in the dark of space, beyond the sweep of Mars, the lights of the asteroid belt flare and melt toward earth.
SCENE 2 – Opening. The descent of heaven.
In various cities across the globe, there is a beautiful sunrise. This seems to be a day of [...]

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The angel explained it to Tal:
Everything is connected. Everything. It’s like when you draw your saliva-coated fingers apart, and that string of saliva stretches between them. But these threads never break – they only draw thinner and finer, impossibly thin and fine. You are connected to everything. To the other [...]

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The Descended Angels (the souls of elves embedded in manufactured bodies) derive their Force Majeur from the captured essence of the intersection of soul-mind and matter.
The Angels move (beside standard locomotion like walking) by navigating in mindspace and dragging with them these material anchors.  Their swords and armor are also driven by this ley power [...]

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Tal

Tal, the daughter of Lili, daughter of Riel, is born in the year after Heaven Descends. She is called to be a servant of the Angels, and from the age of a toddler, she lives and is taught in the sky.

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Angel Eyes

Tal is referred to as “Angel Eyes” by her human lover, not only because she has the eyes of an angel – they are preternaturally large and bright in color, and make her face beautiful, and they let her see in spectrums and ways that human eyes cannot – but because she is eternally innocent, [...]

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