Heaven's 2nd Civil War
In the Beginning, there was...hold on, lemme smoke on this...
["Going Back to Cali" by The Notorious B.I.G. plays in the background]
Death: dude...you've got to give your audience...more background info
dataMage: okay, like what?
Death: give them...the main story and...major players. literally, no one reads this.
dataMage: Matt, shut the fuck up.
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In the beginning, there was a Civil War where Lucifer and his friends sorta tripped out of Heaven and re-organized themselves elsewhere in the spirit world. they called their new territory "Hell."
As part of the - quite fragile - truce, Purgatory was established as a buffer between Heaven and Hell. also, everyone agreed to leave Earth alone (but absolutely nobody respected Earth's sovereignty). things were more or less peaceful -- and then Jesus of Nazareth taught humans how to get to Heaven and the truce literally went to Hell.
Now, the warmongers St Peter and METATRON have kicked Jesus out of Heaven; no one can find the Archangel Michael (or his army); Lucifer is leaving Hell out of either protest or boredom (no one knows which) and he's named Joan of Arc heir apparent...yes, that Joan of Arc. she goes by Jean.
Forces gather on both sides, as Heaven looks to block Jean's ascension - and block the rising Matriarchy she represents.
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dataMage: how's that?
Death: good, not great.
dataMage: seriously?
Death: you don't mention me.
dataMage: "also the Angel of Death is here too - "
Death: well yeah, but ya know...make it part of the story.
dataMage: "- and he helped start the war by swallowing a grenade."
Death: yeah, there ya go. more...more of that.
thy Kingdoms have Come
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The Hell Imperium
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good. now imagine that city is the size of Russia...that's us.
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Earth
the stuff that occurs in the spirit world (Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory) tends to manifest here on Earth.
note: time isn't linear and the mapping isn't always one-to-one.
for instance, Lucifer once sneezed while peeing and accidentally came to Earth as zombie-Rasputin. it was gross.