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vultur:
Well, I think Uriel's job kind of is to skirt the lines... at least that's what Mab and Bob seem to imply in SmF, that he's kind of Heaven's head secret agent/operative/etc.
Kind of like what Eb is for the White Council.
He just might be taking that somewhat further. Lending his Grace to Michael was IMO a huge, huge deal... technically allowed by the rules, but really incredibly risky.
The_Sibelis:
--- Quote from: vultur on August 26, 2020, 04:47:16 PM ---Well, I think Uriel's job kind of is to skirt the lines... at least that's what Mab and Bob seem to imply in SmF, that he's kind of Heaven's head secret agent/operative/etc.
Kind of like what Eb is for the White Council.
He just might be taking that somewhat further. Lending his Grace to Michael was IMO a huge, huge deal... technically allowed by the rules, but really incredibly risky.
--- End quote ---
yea... Thinking about the balance... I'm not so sure that's not gonna bite him in the ass later, when Lucifer or someone gets to loan out their grace in reply (or if as I suspect, Lucifer is stuck without his grace, he'll get to have access to it)
Dina:
I don't think so. That would be a huge risk for them. Uriel took it by love, the bad guys won't have that.
Mira:
Uriel has always interfered with mankind, under orders of course, after all he is the Almighty's wet-works archangel.. I mean if you go and kill off the male first born of all the Egyptians, I don't what else you could call it but interference.
toodeep:
So how’s this for an analogy – Someone writes the coolest online game ever (GOD). Assigns system admin to run the game (Angels), but not to stop hackers (outsiders). Players can go from random players, to heads of guilds, etc. so there are many varying levels of power depending on how seriously they play, and maybe how much the system admin trust them (people up to fey, little g gods, etc), and GOD wants them to like the game so much they are willing to work to protect it from hackers. One system admin goes rogue (satan) because he disagrees that protecting the game from hackers is a player job and things it would be much better to be a system admin job. Other admin now spend a lot of their time keeping him locked out, so his main way of messing with the game is encouraging the players to be dicks, occasionally giving out cheat codes, etc. hoping that if they all will do as he says, he’ll effectively run the game anyways. So system admin might do their job because they love god, love the game, or love the players but they can absolutely only do what they were assigned. Uriel risks things because he loves the players. Michael might do his thing because he thinks God is the bomb, while Raphael might do his thing because he just loves the elegant system architecture and thinks the game is the best.
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