IN> "The Waters will rise" my feeling on AA opinions at this point

[William Keith]

> Did Oannes have any _personal_ attitudes that'd annoy others? There's
> nothing about Lightning that requires a micromanager (though, arguably,
> there's many things about _Elohite_ which does), and Foudre could be
> the Thunderbolt of God as much as the harnessed electricity which
> powers so much modern technology...

I was definitely thinking Jean might be the least welcoming of Oannes' 
comeback, yes.  Ironic, since salt water conducts lightning so well.  
Still, the Waters would make a passionate and vivacious Word, one 
perhaps less concerned with, or even hostile to, the idea of being 
tamed by tools.  Oannes is known for a deep calmness, but this could 
very easily have been the result of a sincere struggle with a temper.  
With enough excuse, this could manifest as some nasty, shipwrecking, 
river-rising, town-flooding storms.  Those character traits would not 
have been particularly bothersome to David, Gabriel, or Janus, but 
could have been quite disturbing to Jean.

Humanity has yet to significantly inhabit the oceans, and some of the 
things we're doing to this enormous part of the Earth could irritate an 
elemental Archangel quite a bit.  It's much easier for us to 
permanently damage waters than it is to damage fire, stone, or wind 
(though, there's something for a canon game: Servitors of Janus dealing 
with air pollution!).  *Fresh* water is also a finite resource, one 
humans fight over.  A lot.

Desalinization, hydropower, aquaculture, tidal energy, and seabed 
mining are all applications of the oceans we're just on the cusp of 
exploring.  Oannes will doubtless have different opinions about the 
utility and ethics of these tools than Jean, who may find the sudden 
opposition to his schedules in this large area of applications 
disturbing.

> ...Definitely something to think about. Are we humans biased to make
> All The Good People like Oannes because he was a hero who required two
> Demon Princes to kill -- and who took one of them down with him?

Of course, dying victorious in combat with Starkest Evil *does* muffle 
quite a lot of feelings of hostility, and very reasonably so, at that.  
;^)

William