Heavenly War

* The Dragon Gods were created from Lucifer's wrath but was spared from death by God.

### Origins

Abrahamic Mythology

**Heavenly War**, also called **War in Heaven**, is the grand rebellion led by Lucifer and his angels against Michael and the heavenly hosts.

## Overview

The Book of Revelation describes a **war in heaven** between angels led by the Archangel Michael against those led by "the dragon", identified as the devil or Satan, who will be defeated and thrown down to the earth.

Revelation's war in heaven is related to the idea of fallen angels, and possible parallels have been proposed in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

## Summary

The Heavenly War is the first conflict in existence and began shortly after the seven days God spent creating the entirety of Creation. The seeds of this failed rebellion was sown by the Celestial Prince Lucifer, whose pride was wounded when God announced the Primordial Humans, Adam and Eve, were His greatest creations.

Lucifer then rallied his followers and planned an attack upon the Heavenly Council to take over Creation and rebuild it in his own image. In the end, Lucifer and his armies were defeated by Michael and the heavenly hosts, with Lucifer sealed into the Cage while his followers transformed into demons by Michael's curse.

## Events

### Prelude

After God created the Primordial Humans, Adam and Eve, He declared them to be His greatest creations and ordered all the angels to bow down to them, which they all did except for one that was the Celestial Prince Lucifer (then known by the name **Helel**).

As Lucifer is God's most beautiful and majestic creation, he is prideful and arrogant as none could ever rival him in terms of perfection. When he heard his Creator's command, his mind darkened with wrath and paranoia soon overwhelmed him, and before he knew it, he came to believe this to be nothing but a farce held by Michael to overthrone him as God's favorite child.

Because of this, he slowly became delusional and believed that the only way to maintain the absolute perfection that is Heaven's foundations was by becoming the new God in his Creator's place. He then rallied, persuaded, seduced, and manipulated one-third of the angels into swearing eternal allegiance to him and going to war against God and the Heavenly Council in his name.

### History

After rallying his armies, Lucifer stormed into Heaven to destroy the heavenly hosts and all those who dared to oppose him. Soon, the first war broke out all across the seven regions of Heaven and countless angels of both sides were killed, their ichor and their heavenly fire staining the heavenly realm, and the conflict would continue for eons and eons.

As Lucifer reached the Sixth Heaven alone, he encountered the Elder Seraphim, led by Lucifer's twin brother Michael. And while Michael tried to guard the entrance to the Seventh Heaven, the Elder Seraphim rushed forward in an desperate attempt to defeat Lucifer and end the war once and for all, only to be easily defeated by Lucifer.

Lucifer and Michael then engaged in a battle that rang across Creation and beyond. Eventually, Michael was defeated and his body was laid to the side by Lucifer, who then entered God's throne room in clothes covered in his slain siblings' ichor.

It's still a mystery as to what happened within the chamber, as no one was able to enter it during this period. When leaving, Lucifer was quiet with "tears of blood staining his divine perfection" after receiving a *revelation* from his Creator. Seeing an opportunity, Michael made a sneak attack which sent him down into the Empty deep beneath the shadows of the Outside and Creation. Lucifer, humiliated by his single moment of weakness, then gave birth to the Dragon Gods from his sheer anger and had them rampaged across Heaven.

The events afterward became murkier and murkier as documents about this period are little to none. All that is known about a long and difficult battle, in which that casualties ranking in the googolplexes, Lucifer and his forces were finally defeated and cast down into the deepest and darkest region of the Outside, near the unreachable bottom of the infinite void that is the Empty, and far away from Heaven.

### Conclusion

After losing the war, Lucifer's armies were banished from Heaven into Hell, a realm within the Outside created by God millennia ago as the infernal darkness to Heaven's ethereal light. The fallen soldiers were then had all of their wings chopped off and their eyes plucked out by Michael as punishment for their rebellion before transforming them into a new infernal race called **Demons**.

For Lucifer, the leader of the rebellion, he was sealed within a prison created by the remaining Celestial Princes and the Mark of Cain was then created by God as both the lock and key to His favorite son's prison. Despite this, due to his own powers, only his body was sealed within the Cage of Lucifer while his consciousness remains free to roam across Creation, with only fragments of his nigh-omnipotent powers remaining which he later imbued within his most loyal and powerful servants, crowning them the Emperors of Hell, the strongest of which being the Seven Deadly Sins who were his most loyal generals during the rebellion.

As for Lucifer's creations, the Dragon Gods, they were spared from death by God's command before anyone could lay a hand on them. They were sent to live on Tellus Mahte among other wild beasts, and later on, among the First Men following Adam and Eve's banishment from the Garden of Eden.

## Quotes

**Asmodeus**: "*All power corrupts. And God's divine power is no exception. Our rebellion against Him was entirely just.*"
**Magnus**: "*Just or unjust, your rebellion failed.*"
**Asmodeus**: "*Yes, we failed. And we fell to a place so far from the light that we forgot what light, and life, even was.*"
**Magnus**: "*We call it Hell.*"
**Asmodeus**: "*We called it Home.*"
— Asmodeus and Magnus Bane

## Image Gallery

The Fall of a Third of the AngelsAngels Falling Down to the Underworld
## Trivia

* It's unknown why no Celestial Prince other than Michael participate in the war.
* Many places in Heaven are still stained gold with the ichor and angelic power of the angels slain in the Heavenly War.
* While describing the Rebellion of the Angels against God, Beelzebub mentioned "Mount Zaphon". This mountain is the equivalent of **Jebel al-ʾAqraʿ**, a real mountain located on the Syrian–Turkish border on the Mediterranean Sea, and has a long history in the Middle Eastern religions such as the ancient Canaanite religion, where was considered the abode of the Gods.
	+ It's mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures as the highest mountain on Earth, and therefore the nearest to Heaven (Isaiah 14:13).