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Apr. 23rd, 2012 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariAfter episode 13 of AWFW, when the story took a nintey degree turn from the originally planned story, I worked on the new "cosmology" of the AWFW universe.
The creation story of the Ehrem Tribe (xxx) has a lot of the elements I came up with in it in a "mythisized/legendized" kind of way (the elements are exagerated and misunderstood, but not entirely wrong).
One thing I wanted to work into the cosmology, but was never able to was an idea for an angel named Ennoia. Ennoia was an angel soul made human to help act as a bridge between humans and angels.
While she excelled in her duties, she found herself unable to escape her human body. Eventually she resigned herself to a life among humans, fell in love and had children.
Her children, though, each had a half of an angel soul. Each generation after that had a half of that half and so on. The soul pieces wanted, however, to recombine and reform back into the angel it wanted to be. The non angel half wasn't aware of the angelic half, though.
Several generations passed before the angelic soul had whittled down to "recombine." By the time of AWFW there was very little of Ennoia left in each person, but those with more than the others were the ones who could see angels, like Andrea did in those early episodes.
I ended up not liking the "you are predisposed to be/see an angel" angle. Instead I just went for "do the right thing and you'll get noticed" angle, which is a much more satisfying reason.
I still really like the "split goddess" idea though, its just not usable in any of my stories.
The creation story of the Ehrem Tribe (xxx) has a lot of the elements I came up with in it in a "mythisized/legendized" kind of way (the elements are exagerated and misunderstood, but not entirely wrong).
One thing I wanted to work into the cosmology, but was never able to was an idea for an angel named Ennoia. Ennoia was an angel soul made human to help act as a bridge between humans and angels.
While she excelled in her duties, she found herself unable to escape her human body. Eventually she resigned herself to a life among humans, fell in love and had children.
Her children, though, each had a half of an angel soul. Each generation after that had a half of that half and so on. The soul pieces wanted, however, to recombine and reform back into the angel it wanted to be. The non angel half wasn't aware of the angelic half, though.
Several generations passed before the angelic soul had whittled down to "recombine." By the time of AWFW there was very little of Ennoia left in each person, but those with more than the others were the ones who could see angels, like Andrea did in those early episodes.
I ended up not liking the "you are predisposed to be/see an angel" angle. Instead I just went for "do the right thing and you'll get noticed" angle, which is a much more satisfying reason.
I still really like the "split goddess" idea though, its just not usable in any of my stories.
