> > when Yelm was killed he became illuminated,
>Sorry: nonense. Gods don't "become" illuminated. They either are or are not,
>by virtue of their creation.
I think the source of this is the Glorious ReAscent:
"Most importantly Yelm was Illuminated. He experienced the
impossible. Yelm experienced being one of the Many while he
was nameless and faceless. He had no contact with the One.
He at last knew the other.
When this harmony was achieved, the Divine Justice reasserted
the cosmos, and Yelm built the world anew with the released
forces of creation."
GRAoY p37 Ivory Pages edition.
Likewise the Order of Day teaches:
When Being began, Illumination was lost. [...]
Illumination was rediscovered by the God Yelm, the Emperor of the
Universe. Yelm had been the One, always isolated from the world
by his virtue. He was slain, and when he was lost in the Underworld
he was nameless. He knew not who he was. He was only one of
the Many. When Yelm understood this, he remembered the One.
In that moment the impossible was achieved and Yelm was Illuminated.
The Fortunate Succession page 80.
However these are in-gloranthan statements that are made by people (Plentonius, a bunch of riddlers) whose grasp on the truth is far less than ideal. If Yelm has always been illuminated then they are simply wrong.
--Peter Metcalfe
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