> > 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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