IN> Heavenly Skies

[William Keith]

> Rollercoaster is outright perfect for Janus, but Canopy?  Is there 
> some canon I haven't read?  He seems to me more the canopy of cumulus 
> clouds rather than the rainforest treetops, but that's just a personal 
> opinion.  YMMV.

I would agree, but canon has it in the various descriptions of 
Archangels' Cathedrals that Janus' angels disport themselves among the 
treetops of Michael's Grove rather than in the Heavenly skies, which 
aren't mentioned at all.

Which has always struck me as a great loss, in fact.  There are several 
important features that could be brought into play by an examination of 
the skies.  Janus has a weather-related Choir Attunement; Jean and 
Gabriel (the latter via her Sun Tether) both have significant roles to 
play in weather development; Novalis and Jordi both oversee species 
that probably find particular weather patterns commodious, e.g., desert 
species that need long stretches of dryness followed by brief 
torrential rains.

It may be the case that Heaven's weather is always calm, clear skies, 
suffused with an undifferentiated light that any species or temperament 
finds comfortable, and that part of this is due to the loss of the 
Archangel of the Waters.  Likewise, while the Muslim calendar is lunar, 
based on moon sightings, and an investigation of apparent night and 
some sort of astronomical or astrological events in Heaven would be 
most interesting (what *would* a comet in Heaven represent?), these 
phenomena may have been stunted due to the loss of the Archangel that 
would have overseen the division between the greater and the lesser 
lights.

William