11/6/2023 0 Comments I survived out of the abyss(“It was the stories that tamed her, our stories.”) So from now on, the recently dead will pass through that land, where they will tell the true tales of their life (liars would not be able to pass) to the harpies, who learned from Lyra that stories are much more nourishing to them than the torment they’ve been meting out for centuries. A beautiful solution. The harpy Lyra named “Gracious Wings” had saved her from falling into the abyss because of the memories Lyra had shared about her childhood with Roger and travels with Lee and Iorek. As each stepped through, they were freed from torment, their atoms dissipated and became one with the living world once again. Will cut an escape window out of the Land of the Dead into another world through which the ghosts could pass to freedom. Lyra and Will ended that purgatory by staging what Asriel proudly described as a “prison break”. It was an infinite, cruel nothingness – unending purgatory. Really, everybody who died under Metatron’s reign ended up imprisoned in the Land of the Dead, existing as a ghost of their living selves and tormented by harpies who preyed on their worst memories and inner thoughts. Those concepts were a lie designed to control the worlds. His religious institutions spread the idea that suffering and piety led to a reward in the afterlife while rebellion and sin led to punishment. Metatron (the archangel who ruled in the ailing Authority’s stead in the Kingdom of Heaven) wanted control over the lives of mortals, and achieved it in part through fear, by controlling their deaths. Ending Metatron’s Purgatory in the Land of the Dead
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