IN> "The Waters will Rise!" setting: Janus

[William Keith]

>In some ways, Janus is the most elemental of all Superiors. You can 
>extinguish fire. You can dry up water. You can reduce stone to sand. 
But 
>unless you get rid of air entirely - which is difficult, given the 
>nature of the Symphony - you can't stop the wind and make it stay 
>stopped. You can't impress it. You can't kill it. It's relentless. 

Janus is less known for inspiration than Gabriel or Jean, which might 
strike some as strange given that "to inspire" is literally "to take 
in," and refers to an intake of breath.  The breath, pneuma, is a 
mythological synonym for spirit or soul; God breathed life into Adam 
(at least in the second of the Jewish creation myths, the one in 
Genesis 2).

Frankly, it seems mythologically like Janus would make a better 
prophet, or replacement for the Voice, than the Archangel of Fire.  
But, there you are.

William