Neil Peart

Neil Peart (1952-2020) was the main writer and drummer of the Canadian rock band Rush who was told the story of the Jilms and many future events by The Historian so they could be told to a wide audience, in the form of Rush's first three albums with Peart, 2112, A Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres.
When he died in 2020 he was given an astral form along with The Historian and The Silent One, the three being tasked with watching over The Visored One as he fulfills his destiny.
== The Albums and Songs ==
It is widely known that Rush's album 2112 was their breakthrough into super stardom, but few know of its divine inspirations.In the year 1975 Rush was visited by a mysterious stranger who told them of fantastical and horrifying vision of times to come. The album's first side tells of a world distantly after the Jilms,broken and authoritarian with only glimmers of the past, ruled by the Solar Federation and now known to be the precursor to what would eventually be the government visited by the Blues.The second side was composed of songs the studio could use as singles. 
A Farewell to Kings followed in 1977, telling of the Jilms razing the old world of kings queens and emperors.The song Xanadu on it further tells the tale of The Historian coming to the band, being locked into a cave of ice for thousands of years following his search for immortality in eastern lands.Closer to the heart tells of his wish for humanity to finally be free of the jilms terror and to finally be “closer to the heart.Cygnus X-01 book 1 tells of the Historian questing to the heart of a black hole in an attempt to find other life in the universe untouched by the Jilms.Though he is lost in the attempt his quest finally brings the attention of the Cosmic Alliance to Earth. 
Hemispheres in 1978 told the saga of the battle between a Visored One and a suited one,personified as the gods Apollo and Dionysus.The historian is pulled through the black hole and meets them both,telling the visored one that to kill the Evil one he must find balance between themselves.He is then sucked back through time and meets Rush,telling them his stories as well as teaching Neil Peart the Drum Solo of Life so he can save Meatwad in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie. 
The Historians physical body then faded away and he became similar to big Jilms astral form,though lacking his pure malice his form is far weaker and can’t influence physical reality.Rush's later albums would also differ in style after his departure, though songs like Tom Sawyer and Time Stand Still show they never forgot their mysterious friend. 
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