Daneel Rush said:
I have a proposal to make.
I want the people in this forum who actually read GOSPEL (and I supposed they've checked out this topic by now) to ask questions about the setting. All the questions about the setting you can think of. I said I wanted to give GOSPEL a proper closure (and that will happen), and I want to be as thorough as possible. Even if I never finished it, GOSPEL is and will remain my finest piece of fanfiction, so I want to give it the treatment it deserves.
However, to make it interesting yet simple, here are some "rules".
- Try to pile up all the questions you can think of in a single post. While I don't mind Ryuugi's chain-posting, others might mind. If you post a list of questions and then come up with a new one, either edit the post you just made or wait until you have a new list of questions.
- Try not to direct the questions at me. The characters are perfectly able to talk about themselves and the world they live in...most of the time. Besides, it's not really fun if Takako hogs all the spotlight in the wiki, don't you think? So, ask them! It will be interesting for you and for me.
- Of course, questions about the conception of GOSPEL itself should be addressed to me.
- Try to make the questions as specific and punctual as possible, so that the answers are also short and punctual. Leave the lengthy explanations to the wiki articles.
- 'What if?' questions are both allowed and welcome. By this I mean asking about things that did not happen in GOSPEL, or even scenes you might have wanted to see.
Well then, I'll look forward to what you can come up with. In the meantime I'll make myself busy organizing my notes on Reality Manipulation.
About how many Supernals would you say there are?
About how many are Divinities and how many are Aeternals?
The word Aeterna means 'the eternal' in Latin. Is that the origin of the name Aeternal?
What is the average Level of each type of Supernal?
About how strong (ie. what level would a Supernal who only had that one be) are some Agenda's? For example, Boundaries, Reality, Conflict, Love, Unity, etc.
How do Levels relate to each other within the same group? That is, about how much stronger is, say, Adam (99) then Lilith (96), raw powerwise? What about a Level 1 and a Level 2?
What about outside the group? Ie. a 76 to a 75?
How well known are the Aspects, Archdemons, and Archangels in the Supernal Realm? What are the common opinions of them?
What would the Holy Wars have looked like without the Absolute Treaty and the Aspect Seal?
What would the Universe be like if Adam had combined the Supernal Structures instead of Sophia?
What would it be like if Moloch was a good guy?
What if all the Archdemons were good guys?
What if the Original Sin never happened?
How would the Universe change if all Supernals kept their memories while Incarnated?
How would, say, Rika's (and Kamael's) feelings towards Takato (her father and boss) change if so?
What about Jeri's (Michael's) feels for Henry?
What if instead of three wives, there had been one, like Takako wondered in Adam's write up?
What do you, yourself, think of the Archdemons, who we never saw?
How do the Archdemons get along with each other (since most of them are brothers and sisters)?
What about the Archangels?
What do Moloch and Metatron think of their underlings?
What were Lilith's first thoughts of her sisters?
What were her first thoughts about Adam?
What we Shekinah's?
What were Sophia's?
What did Adam first think about his wives?
Who was Adam's first child? I assume Michael, as he's Shekinah's first born.
What were Adam's first thoughts about his son?
What does Adam think of his children who've Fallen?
How does Adam usually fight (before the Seal and Takato)?
What about Metatron?
Moloch?
Takato?
Of his children, who is Adam most proud of?
Who is Adam's best friend?
Who is Metatron closest to?
Does Moloch trust anyone? If so who?
Were Moloch's thoughts about his Mother ever different?
What did Moloch think of his Father?
What is your favorite Instrumental Weapon, Daneel?
Who's your favorite Supernal?
If Takako went on a rampage, how much damage could she do?
What about Takato?
Moloch?
What is the upper Limit for Parameters? 99 or 100?
What do ratings like that mean? What could you do with, say, 99 in all stats?
Will add more later.
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What were Takato�s Nightmares in Gospel 00 about? I assume they were causes by Moloch, as he sent Dreams to that one guy in the Ruby Ring as well.
If so, why did Moloch stop?
Is messing with people�s dreams one of Moloch�s powers?
How did Moloch get along with others before the rebellion?
What are Lucifer�s Agenda�s?
What is his Level?
How did Lucifer and Michael get along before the Fall?
What did Lucifer and Michael think of their parents?
What did they think of the fact that their Father had more than one wife?
Raziel is one of Shekinah�s Children, right?
Raziel once fell in love with Sophia. What did Adam think of that?
You said: �DC�s, Takako�s, Rika�s, Tai�s and TK�s fights, as well as the final battle against Moloch/Satan are actually almost completely written in my computer.� Do you think we could ever see those?
We now know what Moloch and Metatron think of their subordinates. But what do their subordinates think of them?
We now know what the wives first thought when then met Adam. But what did Metatron and Sandalphon first think?
How does Moloch keep Hell under control given how large it is?
What is Samael�s position in Hell relative to Moloch�s?
You once told me Samael isn�t one of Sophia�s children. Who�s child is he? I assume Shekinah.
How strong in Samael?
You said that among the Strongest Supernals, Level didn�t matter so much as other factors. In that case, how would you say the Aspects measure up to each other?
How strong are the Archangels when they work together?
How strong are the Archdemons?
You said that Moloch doesn�t trust Satan. If so, why do they work together so often?
Did Moloch trust anyone prior to his fall?
How strong is Moloch relative to, say, Metatron, since you said he has �reached the limit of what his Agendas allowed him�?
Why hasn�t Moloch taken any other Agendas?
What does Shekinah think of her Sisters?
What does she think of her Brothers?
What are Metatron�s and Moloch�s opinions about each other?
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What was Arisu asking Alice in the Prologue of Gospel 01?
What would change if Adam had been created by Chaos and Lilith by Balance? Assuming their Agenda�s remained the same.
What were the Chosen Children�s reactions when they found that Taichi was still alive?
What were everyone�s reactions when they learnt Takato was alive?
What about when they learnt he was married?
How did Hirokazu cope with the pain from the Hazard?
Each of the Omnivice Traits that we saw Materialize (or Dematerialize in Pauline�s case) had certain special effects. Maria�s was fire, and Pauline disappeared into Cherry Blossoms. What were the other�s?
How do these special effects relate to their owners powers?
Of the Omnivice traits, who was your favorite Daneel?
What was your favorite Dual Force, Daneel?
On the subject of Dual Forces, how strong is Balor? It�s just that I�m rereading Gospel 01 and, frankly, he seems fairly weak.
What do the ranks of the Archdemon�s and Archangel�s mean? I mean, why is, say, Raziel the Third instead of, oh, Raphael? I mean, in character. I know that those are the angel�s and demon associated with those spheres in real life.
Where did Philippan come from?
Where did Sanglamore come from?
In Gospel 01 Chapter 7, Takako calls Kitsune a Hypocrite. Could you explain why? I would understand most insults, but I don�t see any hypocrisy. Takato does the same thing later on, but I don�t understand that either. Same goes for Takako calling the Royal Knight Hypocrites.
Speaking of hypocrisy, why was Takato so upset at Kitsune for creating Digimon? Takato did the same thing. Twice.
Also, everyone in Gospel 01 expressed disgust (or annoyance, or whatever) at the Fake Digimon. Why? I mean, sure, they were nothing but data put together because of a human. But that�s basically what all Digimon are. The only difference is that the Fakes were made intentionally, right?
In Gospel 01, something confused me. The fight between Alice and Rika�isn�t Rika employed by the government? So isn�t it well within her rights to ask question about matters related to Digimon? Especially to suspicious people (Alice) in suspicious places (near where the Mansion was) who have (as far as she knows) multiple Digimon? Alice said she wasn�t a policewoman, but in situations like that isn�t she within her rights to act like one? If not, then how exactly does the position of 'Digimon Tamer' work?
Therefore, didn�t Alice assault, physically and verbally, a government official who was doing her job? As well as threaten her with Dobermon? After she had been wounded in action? I admit to knowing nothing about the Laws in Japan, but�isn�t that illegal or something?
Though�now that I think about it�why didn�t anyone try to stop Alice? I mean, Jeri, Ryo, Kenta, and DC were right there, and only DC knew Alice was Takato�s wife. Were they that tired? Did all them forget all of their Seed of Health (or similar) cards that day? Hell, not even Renamon tried to do anything! Sure, Renamon knows Alice is related in some way to Takato, but doesn�t she usually back Rika up? Why did she just stand around while her (injured) Best Friend was beaten, insulted, and threatened five feet away?
And, on the topic of Alice being upset, why was Alice so upset even after Takato rescued her in 01? She was uninjured, she�d been fed, and the room she was in was probably nicer then her hotel.
In Gospel 02, the fight between Takato, Taichi, and Takeru ends in a draw because of the �energy Takato wasted and the damage he took�. But they were in the Digital World, meaning none of that should matter, right? So why did it?
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Why did Takato deliberately weaken himself in Gospel 01 (with the self-seal)? He was aware that he was going to fight a War for the Future of Existence Itself. Why would he weaken himself? Isn�t it more logical to be, well, as strong as possible?
What did Mimi think when she learnt about Moloch?
What would have happened if Moloch hadn�t been separated from Mimi before birth?
How did the Deus Mainframe inspire the word �mainframe�?
Can you tell us a bit more about the Nephilim?
Was Ruki always an Incarnation of Lucifer, or did she become one after Takato�s death?
In �The Ruby Ring�, Ruki is said to have sixth, seventh, and eight senses. What are those senses?
In �The Ruby Ring�, you said Supernals don�t always incarnate into humans like themselves, due to the complexities of the future and it�s interactions with human personalities. What happens when this occurs? What happens when, say, Moloch incarnates into a Saint, or Tzadkiel into a murderer, or something like that?
It was stated that before the current �batch� of Universes (is Reality Cluster the word?) the Higher Entity created other Universes. What are those Universes like? I assume they are very different, as they had no Supernal Structures to order them.
Was life able to develop in those Universes?
What about Supernal Entities?
Does Takako have a Human Soul?
To what degree does Gabriel influence Takako�s personality as a whole? It seems to vary from �True Stories� to �The Ruby Ring�.
In the Ruby Ring, why was Takako bothered by hitting her head on her dressing table? I mean, we�ve seen her get hit by Digimon, so that should be nothing. And even if it was something, why didn�t she just stop herself? I mean, she�s fast enough to dodge thousands of different attacks, from different direction, and remain completely unharmed.
Can you tell us about Isaac Tong?
What about Chie? I assume she�s Sophia, but we know Sophia�s in the Higher Realms at that point. Is she some type of possession, or something similar?
In �The Ruby Ring�, Takako thinks this:
�Takako never included Shekinah in that trail of thought. The second wife had always showed an admirable streak of��independence, compared to Lilith and Sophia. Shekinah didn�t cling to Adam the way the other two wives did. She was a voice of reason and responsibility when Sophia lost herself in her own mellow-mellow romantic fantasies. But Lilith would never go as far as to say Shekinah loved Adam the least. She still remembered the incredible aura of fury Shekinah irradiated when she did as little as imply that Shekinah�s love was lacking. That was when Lilith truly understood the whole �three aspects of love� thing the three wives were supposed to represent. Shekinah loved Adam as much as the other two, she only displayed in her own way (a way Lilith couldn�t possibly understand, being the sex kitten she is).�
Can you tell us about the time Lilith questioned Shekinah�s love? Like, when did it happen? And what were everyone�s reactions?
In �The Ruby Ring�, they talked about Sophia�s burden. Are they talking about the Agenda of Suffering?
Speaking of the Agenda of Suffering, it says in the timeline that Sophia took it secretly. Did anyone else eventually learn that she had taken it?
If so, then what did they think?
If not, then what would, say, Adam and Lilith think if they had found out?
Takako said that Lilith had never seen the Central Sphere, whereas Sophia had. Did any of the other Aspects see the sphere? If yes, why only some of them, and not all of them? If no, why not?
Takako said Lilith was aware of Project ADAM in her previous incarnation. Can you tell us about that Incarnation?
Speaking of Project ADAM, well, Takato said it best:
�Where does the Holy War enter this whole deal? How did Supernals get involved?�
What would happen if �Gennai�s� plan had succeeded, and Chaos had been Millenniumon�s Tamer?
Edit 4:
In True Stories Henry and Ryo have the following exchange:
����damn you, Akiyama Ryo.� Henry muttered.
�Hey, I�m just stating a fact!�
����that�s not what I meant.� Henry stated before standing up to take the empty plates to the kitchen.
Could you explain this?
In True Stories 02, it was said the creator of Project Adam (Millenniumon?) was powerful enough to deserve the title �divinity�. Is He a Supernal? If so, what type (the difference between Divinities and Aeternals wasn�t mentioned until later in the Chapter)? I�d assume a Singularity and thus an Aeternal.
Concerning Supernals, how relevant are the �Associations� listed in their profiles (such as Sandalphon�s �The Kabalistic s�fira Malkuth (Shekkinah), mirrors, roses, the Sabbat�)?
As Arisu asked in True Stories 03, is the offspring of an aeternal always an aeternal? Are they more likely to be? Why?
In True Stories 03, Absolutes are listed as beings between level 76 and 99. But Takato is a level 100. Is he still and Absolute? If not, what is he?
Who added the notes in True Stories 03?
How many of the Archangels managed to break the 10000 damage barrier by themselves?
What is BlackTerriermon? A Singularity, digital mutation, or something else?
Did Takako create BlackTerriermon?
Did she arrange for him to meet DC?
In True Stories 05, the topic of Ruki�s love-life while Takato was gone is mentioned in passing. Could you go into more detail?
In the same Chapter, Takako says:
Takako chuckled. �Okay. Not that I�d have wanted to be the mother.�
Could you explain this? Did something happen during the course of Rika pregnancy?
What does Takako think of Chaos?
What is your favorite Dual Force, Daneel?
Did Cain and Abel exist in Gospel?
What�s an O/R Chamber (it was stated that Rika was in one in True Stories 06)?
Can you tell us a bit more about Reality Protocols?
Can you give us some examples of Takato�s, Takako�s, and Moloch�s?
What are the Pnakotic Manuscripts?
In True Stories 06, it was said that Innate Format Algorithms was the official name for Digimon Techniques, but doesn�t mention Supernals. Am I correct in assuming it applies to their techniques as well?
On the same note, it says �they only can either inflict harm or protect from it�. Am I correct in assuming that, despite this, Healing and Support techniques are also Innate Format Algorithms?
It says that Introspective Resonance Pseudo-Protocols are unique to the Archangels. Can you explain why?
It was stated that MagnaAngemon�s Excalibur was a weaker version of the actual Excalibur (which belongs to Ken, I believe). Does the same apply to Gallantmon Gram and Aegis, Crimson Modes Gungnir and Bluntgang, and other Digimon weapons?
Given the amount of Energy required to use them, how long can Sophia, Lilith, and Moloch maintain their Reality Scripts?
What are the purposes of the different �G-Teams�?
What relationship did Lilith have with Micael?
What do the colors of Takato�s and Takako�s eyes indicate?
Why does Takato dislike Takako�s telepathy?
Why does Arisu prefer not to invite her friends to her house?
Is a Divinities power determined by its Agenda�s, its worship, or both? I know a Divinity is weak without worship, but can it be stronger then its Agenda�s would allow if it had enough worship?
True Stories 09 says Taichi has five Agenda�s (Beauty, Harmony, Healing, Life, and Retribution). The write-up on the wiki adds three more (Happiness, Health, and Satisfaction). Did you decide to add them later on, Daneel?
This one is a continuation of a previous question (About how strong (�ie. what level would a Supernal who only had that one be) are some Agenda's? For example, Boundaries, Reality, Conflict, Love, Unity, etc.�). What rating would you give these Agenda�s from True Stories 09?
�The most powerful Agenda is Supremacy. The definition of �the best of the best� itself possesses the greatest power. Adam Kadmon possesses the Agenda of Supremacy.�
(�After that come the fundamental concepts of reality: Divinity, Mortality, Existence, Inexistence, Time, Space, *Reality*, *Unity*, Duality, Multiplicity, Numbers, Probability, you catch my drift.�
�Then we�d have some more��let�s say���tangible� Agendas: Life, Death and *Matter*.�
�Emotions also make powerful Agendas: *Love*, Hate, Kindness, Anger, Fury, Envy, Desire, Lust���
�We also have positive and negative attributes: Wisdom, Understanding, Splendor, Patience, Brightness, Ignorance���)
I marked off the ones you commented on already.
How strong would the Agenda of Entropy be?
What about Beginnings and Endings?
Micael has the Agenda of Consecration, which I didn�t understand as powerful until some thought. But that train of thought brought me to this: How strong would the Agenda of Desecration be?
What is with Astaroth? She was in the Digital World with Takato, and then she had a room in the Nonaka Complex, and then she helped Takako name those cities.
Can you explain the names of the UN Cities? Especially, Ora?de Meucopii.
What type of things does Takako lecture about at UN Tokyo University?
Takato�s Insignia is �Bounded Field�. Metatron�s are �Dictums�. What are Adam�s?
What about Sophia�s?
What about the Archangels (minus Taichi�s Mantras)?
The Archdemons?
What is your favorite Insignia, Daneel?
In True Stories 11, it was stated that Shinobu was the third oldest Omnivice. How can that be, when she was born fifth?
Everyone knows that Takako can dance her way through pretty much any type of attack that has even the slightest room to dodge within. As such, why do people keep banging their heads against the wall of futility that is using such attacks on her, and not just use solid waves of whatever they use to attack (or at least not leave human sized gaps)? Sure, that plan will just run into her shield and die a horrible death, but still. It at least means she can�t ignore you utterly.
When did the people with Reality Scripts (Lilith, Sophia, Adam, Nitocris, and Moloch) develop them (I�m excluding Taichi, as he didn�t consciously create his, from what I understand)?
Can you tell us about Lilith�s and Sophia�s first meeting in the Supernal Realms?
What about in the Lower Realms?
What were Moloch�s plans for Carthage?
How often do Sophia�s demonic children catch up to her while she�s incarnated?
What would have happened if Adam had been chosen as the Arbiter of the Last Holy War?
What are the characteristics of Divine Arts?
Demon Arts?
Forbidden Arts?
Seals?
What are Ea and the Gates of Atziluth made of?
Sophia summoned two Supernal Structures in True Stories 14, and we saw what they looked like. What do the others look like?
Can you tell us about Sophia and Lilith�s first fight? We know Sophia won, but nothing else.
(At Daneel) It�s not on the timeline. Is there any particular reason? Is it simply not important enough?
Why does Shekinah Reality Script render a re-sealing unnecessary?
How powerful are Kyuubi and Nibi in Gospel?
Why did Lilith take an insult from Nibi in True Stories 15? I would have thought she�d smite her, or at least electrocute her like she did Taichi in Gospel 01.
Who were the Arbiters of the previous Holy Wars?
Why does the lifespan of Lilith�s Incarnation�s keep getting longer?
