Joseph Mallord William Turner  There are numerous powers which observe and rule over the world from on high. The  PRIMEUMATON , PROVIDENCE and DENIAL , is the principle of creation and destruction, ruler of all that is and was; to be made by God is to be of God, and to die is to return to it. The Thunder Over the Mountain  orders the clouds and rain; its crown is the thunderhead, its sword the lightning. The Flesh of Stone  grows hollow organs in the earth; the Blood Stained Dancer reaches her hands into hearts and minds;  Apsinthion , the Bitter Star , brings sickness and health; and the sea, godless, is without order. These many deities, from the almighty First and Last  to the lowly fallen stars, are united by one principle: heaven does not speak, it acts. Who, then, carries down the word of the gods? Their servants, made for this very purpose. For the PRIMEUMATON , these servants are the Saints . (Note: Angels are not servants, but tools. To compare An...

George Frederic Watts THE world and this—whatever other name men have chosen to designate the sky whose vaulted roof encircles the universe, is fitly believed to be a deity, eternal, immeasurable, a being that never began to exist and never will perish. What is outside it does not concern men to explore and is not within the grasp of the human mind to guess. It is sacred, eternal, immeasurable, wholly within the whole, nay rather itself the whole, finite and resembling the infinite, certain of all things and resembling the uncertain, holding in its embrace all things that are without and within, at once the work of nature and nature herself.  — Pliny, Natural History  Some years ago, I started posting about a world I wanted to run and play games in. It turns out, other people liked that, too. So, I posted more: a full array of classes, adventures, monsters, and the like. Simple fact is, I have a lot written down for Morning Stars, and I may as well collect as much as I can in ...