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Born Of An Umbral Star [DxD Quest]

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[X] Return to heaven with your brothers and sister to show your Father what has happened in Babylon, let him decide the fate of the sinners.
 
[] Address the Annunaki while they are still shocked: "Those who wish to survive, tear down your tower and beg for Fathers mercy."
- [] Return to heaven with your brothers and sister to show your Father what has happened in Babylon, let him decide the fate of the sinners.

Half hearted attempt to make them give up without a fight? Sounds Anath enough to me. And i am certainly in favor of shucking the responsibility for this mess off to someone else. Anath doesn't like to destroy things, it is just the only thing she is good at.
 
[x] Return to heaven with your brothers and sister to show your Father what has happened in Babylon, let him decide the fate of the sinners.

Tempted for a write-in, but i can't think of something suitably biblical. If someone comes up with one tag me so I can switch.

It's not our place to assume God wants war, they might do enough to repent for God to grant them His Mercy.

Besides, while we're good we're not good enough to solo the Pantheon.
 
Darik29 said:
Where God wants Peace, he sends forth Michael to speak.

Where God wants a Message, he sends forth Metatron to speak.

Where God wants Wrath, he sends forth The Morningstar to speak.

When God is Done Speaking, when He is finished with words, when there is no more hope for Forgiveness...

Then, and only then, he sends forth Anath. And there will be no more words.
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Except the mission was pretty clearly not to slaughter all the upstarts, but to impress upon them the foolishness of defying Heaven, and retrieve the two captives. The former is actually rather important as it kinda implies Anath isn't supposed to slaughter all of them otherwise there isn't anyone left alive to take the lesson to heart.
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Some of them have to be smart enough to surrender.
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When someone whose only good at destroying things phrases the Wrath option in terms of 'slaughter' why would she take prisoners? Well I suppose she might mean defeat, but that is a rather odd diction to use in this case.
 
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We got what we came for, upstart dead, angels retrieved.

[X] Return to heaven with your brothers and sister to show your Father what has happened in Babylon, let him decide the fate of the sinners.
 
[x] Return to heaven with your brothers and sister to show your Father what has happened in Babylon, let him decide the fate of the sinners.
 
[X] Tell Baraquiel and Sachiel to fly the prisoners to Heaven as fast as possible while you stay behind to show those unworthy the power of God's wrath.

Without a face, a single word, the flames of war unify
Sundered clouds, a bloody rain, seas that covers the sky
capture the gods, march the troops, fire consumes the towers
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Darik29 said:
Where God wants Peace, he sends forth Michael to speak.

Where God wants a Message, he sends forth Metatron to speak.

Where God wants Wrath, he sends forth The Morningstar to speak.

When God is Done Speaking, when He is finished with words, when there is no more hope for Forgiveness...

Then, and only then, he sends forth Anath. And there will be no more words.
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Ultima Ratio Caeli, the final argument of Heaven.

[X] Tell Baraquiel and Sachiel to fly the prisoners to Heaven as fast as possible while you stay behind to show those unworthy the power of God's wrath.
 
[x] Return to heaven with your brothers and sister to show your Father what has happened in Babylon, let him decide the fate of the sinners.
 
Blonddude42 said:
Besides, while we're good we're not good enough to solo the Pantheon.
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Hm. Technically speaking it would have less to do with power levels, and more the fact that Anath's Spear appears to be able to erase things from existence probably including the soul for beings who actually have one.

Like sure there are some who can probably combat Anath, but they're a minority of the Mesopotamian pantheon, which is why she classifies fighting them as a slaughter after she send both of the ten winged angels to return her other siblings to Heaven.
 
We are a Seraph—that means, or at least it should mean, that we are not an unthinking automaton that needs to ask for permission or for further instruction every time a problem comes up. We are the sort of authority other people go to to give them those things, since not everyone is so important that God can drop whatever he's doing to instruct them. I don't think it's a good idea to begin establishing an in-character preference or precedent for not being able to interpret our orders and the intent behind them, given our rank; nobody wants one of the supreme commanders of Heaven to not be able to command, least of all us.

[X] Tell Baraquiel and Sachiel to fly the prisoners to Heaven as fast as possible while you stay behind to show those unworthy the power of God's wrath.

I don't think God's response to the mutilation of two angels is going to be a deescalation from his response to their capture—which, as our previous vote and internal monologue this update established, was to basically 'softly' declare war. 'The spirit of destruction will already be in their homes' and all that. We can also takethe Biblical attitude (to cite four separate instances; I had more options) toward Babylon as a reasonable indication that God wouldn't complain about it being erased off the map, and while that's not an action we should unilaterally take—hopefully it's not an action we have to take at all, for obvious reasons, and we can just knock off their leadership and convert the mortals to worshipping God instead—I believe it's fair for us to stick around and chastise them before the big boss sends an army to finish the job.

Be aware I'm writing this post on ~4 hours of sleep, so blame any logical inconsistencies on me being a tired idiot, as opposed to my normal level of idiot.
 
Magery said:
We are a Seraph—that means, or at least it should mean, that we are not an unthinking automaton that needs to ask for permission or for further instruction every time a problem comes up. We are the sort of authority other people go to to give them those things, since not everyone is so important that God can drop whatever he's doing to instruct them. I don't think it's a good idea to begin establishing an in-character preference or precedent for not being able to interpret our orders and the intent behind them, given our rank; nobody wants one of the supreme commanders of Heaven to not be able to command, least of all us.

[X] Tell Baraquiel and Sachiel to fly the prisoners to Heaven as fast as possible while you stay behind to show those unworthy the power of God's wrath.

I don't think God's response to the mutilation of two angels is going to be a deescalation from his response to their capture—which, as our previous vote and internal monologue this update established, was to basically 'softly' declare war. 'The spirit of destruction will already be in their homes' and all that. We can also takethe Biblical attitude (to cite four separate instances; I had more options) toward Babylon as a reasonable indication that God wouldn't complain about it being erased off the map, and while that's not an action we should unilaterally take—hopefully it's not an action we have to take at all, for obvious reasons, and we can just knock off their leadership and convert the mortals to worshipping God instead—I believe it's fair for us to stick around and chastise them before the big boss sends an army to finish the job.

Be aware I'm writing this post on ~4 hours of sleep, so blame any logical inconsistencies on me being a tired idiot, as opposed to my normal level of idiot.
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I agree if we go back to God he may as well give order to destroy Babylon completely and take from us an option of spearing innocent people and giving them chance at redemption. This way we kill the pantheon and convert them
 
[X] Tell Baraquiel and Sachiel to fly the prisoners to Heaven as fast as possible while you stay behind to show those unworthy the power of God's wrath.

I think it would kind of weaken our position to just retreat after the utter indignity done to the prisoner angels. The Tower was explicitly mentioned several times as a transgression, after all, and Anath herself dislikes it.

It seems justified to stay a bit longer to really impress upon the pantheon the depth of their folly here, and I'm fairly certain that Anath is capable of limiting the carnage somewhat to only the gods. She kind of likes the city, after all, and admits the citizens are reasonably innocent in this; I don't think it's farfetched to think she'd spare most of the population.

Edit: plus, iirc Heaven has a really good surveillance thing and I seriously doubt Anath's blast just now went unnoticed. It's likely anyone important Above already knows or will know what happened and the response probably will be... fierce. Might as well do it now, before the pantheon has time to gear up and drag the battle on, plus we could actually spare people now and possibly convince them to convert. It's just more efficient, really.
 
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[X] Tell Baraquiel and Sachiel to fly the prisoners to Heaven as fast as possible while you stay behind to show those unworthy the power of God's wrath.

Let this day be known, whence lofty gods are shot down from their towers.

Let this day be known, where the sinners and heretics are punished under the Authority of War.

Let this day be known, when arrogant men knew the name of our Lord and King.
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I really shouldn't do these things in the middle of the night. That is the chuuniest thing I've typed all week.

EDIT:Also I just realized I picked the wrong vote. Me and my groggy ass.
 
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[X] Tell Baraquiel and Sachiel to fly the prisoners to Heaven as fast as possible while you stay behind to show those unworthy the power of God's wrath.
 
[X] Tell Baraquiel and Sachiel to fly the prisoners to Heaven as fast as possible while you stay behind to show those unworthy the power of God's wrath.

Here's a chance to get some proper biblical verses about our role as the Wrath of God going.
 
Huh it just occurred to me that with how much of a mockery their leader made of the concept of mercy he might've done something to his prisoners to get the last laugh, and if getting them back to Heaven sooner matters Anath is probably faster than either of the ten wings. Well that, and she has a mentality better suited should the worst happen.
 
[X]Tell Baraquiel and Sachiel to fly the prisoners to Heaven as fast as possible while you stay behind to show those unworthy the power of God's wrath.

This is a time for smiting. Besides, clearly bad civilization.

Also its straight up Altera's style.
 
Magery said:
We are a Seraph—that means, or at least it should mean, that we are not an unthinking automaton that needs to ask for permission or for further instruction every time a problem comes up. We are the sort of authority other people go to to give them those things, since not everyone is so important that God can drop whatever he's doing to instruct them. I don't think it's a good idea to begin establishing an in-character preference or precedent for not being able to interpret our orders and the intent behind them, given our rank; nobody wants one of the supreme commanders of Heaven to not be able to command, least of all us.
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Additionally the only one who has any sort of real authority over Anath is God himself and he already sent her there, and it would be kind of stupid to think that he does not know what it is that she does. Im also pretty sure he knew or at least suspected what the reaction of Babylonians would be to an extend and that is why he sent Anath.

Although the commanding aspect is a bit iffy because Anath already said that she is a byproduct of humanities creation, God had no plan or intent for her like he had with all the other Seraphs which puts her in the unique situation of not actually being a part of gods original design for his angels. Unless im completely misinterpreting the whole thing since as far as i know Gods grand design for his heaven had a predetermined place and role for all his angels.
 
Yun said:
Huh it just occurred to me that with how much of a mockery their leader made of the concept of mercy he might've done something to his prisoners to get the last laugh, and if getting them back to Heaven sooner matters Anath is probably faster than either of the ten wings. Well that, and she has a mentality better suited should the worst happen.
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Cutting off their wings likely was supposed to get him the last laugh. A bit of a "fuck you" that he didn't think they'd be able or willing to respond to. He was not very good at planning.
 
Hmmmm.

DxD Wiki - Lucifer said:
To those that knew him personally, back when he was a seraph known by the name of Helel, Lucifer was a prideful, kind, and powerful angel who loved all, and all loved him. He was considered to be the most charismatic out of all of them, and a strange fascination with humans. This fascination was partially the reason why he and Azazel, along with other angels who later became Fallens known as the Grigori, observed the humans as they constructed the Tower of Babel. When the Tower was obiliterated, and human culture skewed, Lucifer changed, becoming angered and spiteful towards his father. Though accounts vary between being angry about the event or the fact that God wished for the angels to watch over humans, perhaps out of jealousy, the fact remains that Lucifer rebelled and tried to usurp God, but failed.
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According to the wiki, it sounds like discontent with how Babylon and the Tower of Babel were handled were the key things that drove Helel and Azazel to rebel.

So it looks like the civil war storyline is gonna kick off pretty soon...
 
Kinruush said:
Cutting off their wings likely was supposed to get him the last laugh. A bit of a "fuck you" that he didn't think they'd be able or willing to respond to. He was not very good at planning.
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Very clearly not, indeed.
Adhoc vote count started by JetmechJr on Oct 25, 2018 at 5:52 AM, finished with 36 posts and 24 votes.
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[x] Return to heaven with your brothers and sister to show your Father what has happened in Babylon, let him decide the fate of the sinners.

Now, now. Let's not get all trigger happy here.

Edit: changing vote.

[X] Tell Baraquiel and Sachiel to fly the prisoners to Heaven as fast as possible while you stay behind to show those unworthy the power of God's wrath.
 
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[X] Tell Baraquiel and Sachiel to fly the prisoners to Heaven as fast as possible while you stay behind to show those unworthy the power of God's wrath.
 
[X] Return to heaven with your brothers and sister to show your Father what has happened in Babylon, let him decide the fate of the sinners.
 
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