Coup against Urizen

The coup against Urizen (PROSE: ) was the event which led to Urizen losing his status as uncontested ruler of the Morning Star. According to Olivia Kagg Waldermein, it was "much-mythologised" and was the "bridge" between the founding era of the planet's history and its modern age. (PROSE: )
Declaring "God", alias Urizen, "unfit for command", his "angels" deposed him. Because he was immortal, they did not kill but simply "cleaved" his "eternal spirit" from his "undying flesh". The former was then "buried beneath the Cathedral like a dirty secret". There, (PROSE: ) within the caldera, (PROSE: ) "Urizen's disembodied mind" led the spirits of other dead Elementals - his "angels" - to use "their own mental powers to generate a simulated block-transfer environment within the anomalous void", a "self-sustaining virtual afterlife" corresponding to (PROSE: ) the virtual reality within the Matrix. (TV: ) Meanwhile, an "anonymous line of figureheads" replaced Urizen as Supreme Beings. (PROSE: )
Category:Conflicts
Category:Time Lord conflicts
Category:Gallifreyan history
Category:Time Lord history