IN> Grigori Conjecture

[Jonathan Lang]

William Keith wrote:
> Cameron Anderson wrote:
> > Elizabeth McCoy wrote:
> > > Has the Flood shown up in any canon writing for IN yet?
> >
> > I'm fairly sure these events are too recent in IN canon to be the
> > flood but I've always thought it would have made a nice cover for the
> > Legion event or as a metaphor for the Purity crusade (propagated by
> > ethereals of course).
>
> Canonically, the Flood has not shown up.  In a number of places it's
> explicitly mentioned as having *not* happened, and the GMG timeline as
> well as all other sources generally assume an old-Earth chronology of
> Creation.

So far, so good.  Could you cite some references to the Flood _not_
having happened?

> This brings with it the attendant impossibility of a Middle
> Eastern amateur shipbuilder collecting Europes- and Amazons- and
> Australias-full of breeding pairs of Earth's magnificent array of
> species, stuffing them and their nutritional needs in a wooden boat of
> any engineerable design for forty days, and releasing them back into
> the world with their unsustainable store of genetic diversity.

The question was not "is the Biblical account of the Flood
reasonable?"  It's "does In Nomine's timeline include something at all
analogous to the Flood?"  Said Flood would not have had to have been a
global phenomenon in order to inspire myths and legends about a huge
catastrophe that nearly wiped out humanity.

As for the Noah figure, consider the possibilities inherent in divine
support: Jean could have provided "Noah" with the blueprints and
guidance needed to build the thing; and if the Flood was regional,
Jordi could have arranged for samples of the region's animals to
hightail it to the ship before the Flood hit (which was brought on by
Oannes), and then arranged to have most or all of them kept in
Song-induced stasis for the duration of the Flood (which, Biblically,
lasted a year: the "fourty days" is a reference to how long the
downpour lasted; it took a bit longer for the waters to recede - but a
regional flood could have been shorter).  Heck, even a larger Flood
would be doable, if you allow Eli to go into overdrive afterward,
creating genetic diversity in the offspring of the survivors (i.e.,
mutating them).

-- 
Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang