Coup against Urizen
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The coup against Urizen (PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"]) was the event which led to Urizen losing his status as uncontested ruler of the Morning Star. According to Olivia Kagg Waldermein, it was "much-mythologised" and was the "bridge" between the founding era of the planet's history and its modern age. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])
Declaring "God", alias Urizen, "unfit for command", his "angels" deposed him. Because he was immortal, they did not kill but simply "cleaved" his "eternal spirit" from his "undying flesh". The former was then "buried beneath the Cathedral like a dirty secret". There, (PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"]) within the caldera, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"]) "Urizen's disembodied mind" led the spirits of other dead Elementals - his "angels" - to use "their own mental powers to generate a simulated block-transfer environment within the anomalous void", a "self-sustaining virtual afterlife" corresponding to (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"]) the virtual reality within the Matrix. (TV: The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"]) Meanwhile, an "anonymous line of figureheads" replaced Urizen as Supreme Beings. (PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"])
