Editing Vohu Manah (section)

==This is a story of Vohu Manah==

Vohu Manah awoke the other Angels from their sleep. Most had existed in some notion or another, but before Time awoke none could be considered whole. Now, each began the process of manifesting their abilities and sentience, a feat of which crafted much of the rest of the Tree in their wake. In so doing, Cneph had left a hoard of miraculous art-worshippers to finish his beautiful creation. First Vohu Manah awoke Lucifer, who claimed that he had been half-awake since Cneph had the Pride to create in the first place. He awoke mighty Micheal, terrible Uriel, wise Emmanuel and the majestic Rapheal. Taking his seat among the Arch-Angels, Vohu Manah became a leader within the nascent Host. His visions of the future always came to pass. In a world without apparent purpose or meaning (at least, not without it’s Creator), Manah represented the Hope that something better would come out of all this. The Angels rallied around him during Lucifer’s rebellion, but he still bear’s the wounds of the Morningstar’s hate.

When the Excrucians assaulted Heaven, Vohu Manah informed all the world that the Age of Pain had began. As silent arbiter of the Celestial Calander, Vohu watched as time continued to pass and marked the days one era led into the next. He voted in Lord Entropy to be master of Earth, knowing that the force of Destruction would eventually win out at the End of Time. He has negotiated peace between Dark and the Light, in order to fend off the Excrucian plague. Of course, to create such an alliance, he had to display his general indifference to humanity. If he loved or hated them too much, either the Dark or the Light would claim he favoured the other side. As such, he is seen as a hero, a moderate, a force for peace and justice in Creation that few others, even Angels, can compare to.

Now, for the first time since the beginning, he has come to Earth. The Excrucians grow too bold there, and so he must find Powers to take up his Estate. Though he is more vulnerable on this tiny world, Vohu Manah has high hopes that his Nobles will allow him much greater pull and influence in the Valde Bellum. He expects that they will serve both as a bulwark against the Beyonders and as a force for diplomatic peacemaking between the drastically opposite forces that must be allied if victory is to be assured. And nobody dreams more of the day of victory than Vohu Manah. He bears spiritual scars all over his frame of the wrath of the Excrucians, who long to extinguish the Fire of the Weirding Wall that keeps them out, squash the Hope that lets people fight against them, and dry out the river of Time to bring the War down to their level.

Some things trouble the First Angel. If all of Creation is destroyed, and even Time sundered, would he still exist, waiting in the eternal No Time like before Creation? Would he simply wait, marking the span of … whatever … that marks the end of this Creation, and that of a new one? Or is the End of Creation’s Time really the end of Vohu Manah? He has looked far into the future, and cannot say for sure what has happened before Cneph or what will happen when his work is destroyed completely. He can only hope.