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aberrantangelsAnd so it begins...
Great oaks from little acorns grow. And the next item is another example of that.
The counterculture event was starting to go mainstream by that point in TU history, but it hadn't quite been subsumed yet. Gundolfsson (né Letift Morgaanstern) and Petford met up in an orgy tent, shared "a few women and a lot of drugs," and went out into the desert to drop acid (six tabs each).
Gundolfsson, the relatively new jarl of Hagalz Hall (center of Norway's death-metal scene), saw the world consumed by fire, with demons flying everywhere. Five of those demons grabbed him, then beheaded and quartered him. When his blood struck the ground, it boiled into steam, steam that lifted his dismembered body higher.
Petford, the elfishly pale mystic and Lovecraftian, saw himself turn into a dark, towering figure, like Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos, howling with mad joy at the capering hordes beneath him. He saw himself delivering Earth into the hands of the Great Old Ones whose soul and messenger he had become.
When Gundolfsson returned to Norway, the two stayed in touch via email. A few months later, at almost exactly the same time, the visions came back to them, bringing eruption. Belial's "mystic" powers developed greatly, but he'd rather use his inhuman persuasive powers than call down lightning bolts. His vision was simply a repetition of his role as the Crawling Chaos, the ultimate Tempter.
Gundolfsson's second vision was more dramatic, continuing from where his experience at Burning Man had left off. This time, his severed head and separated limbs drifted in five directions, and (as Aberrant: ReignofEvil.com relates)
In that shamanic moment, Thor Gundolfsson was reborn as Astaroth, Body of the Beast. Belial became the Mind of the Beast. The Voice, the Might, and the Heart will follow.
1999
[Aberrant] [Pedro] Santiago, [Raoul] Orzaiz, and new recruits Marcel Delorimier (a French ultra-nationalist convinced of nova supremacy) and Caroline Fong (an Oxford-educated philosopher and business consultant) gather in Santiago, Chile. They will continue to meet every quarter or so for the next several years, joined by a few more like-minded novas every little while.
Great oaks from little acorns grow. And the next item is another example of that.
2000
[Aberrant] Thor Gundolfsson and Brian "Belial" Petford meet at Burning Man.
The counterculture event was starting to go mainstream by that point in TU history, but it hadn't quite been subsumed yet. Gundolfsson (né Letift Morgaanstern) and Petford met up in an orgy tent, shared "a few women and a lot of drugs," and went out into the desert to drop acid (six tabs each).
Gundolfsson, the relatively new jarl of Hagalz Hall (center of Norway's death-metal scene), saw the world consumed by fire, with demons flying everywhere. Five of those demons grabbed him, then beheaded and quartered him. When his blood struck the ground, it boiled into steam, steam that lifted his dismembered body higher.
Petford, the elfishly pale mystic and Lovecraftian, saw himself turn into a dark, towering figure, like Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos, howling with mad joy at the capering hordes beneath him. He saw himself delivering Earth into the hands of the Great Old Ones whose soul and messenger he had become.
When Gundolfsson returned to Norway, the two stayed in touch via email. A few months later, at almost exactly the same time, the visions came back to them, bringing eruption. Belial's "mystic" powers developed greatly, but he'd rather use his inhuman persuasive powers than call down lightning bolts. His vision was simply a repetition of his role as the Crawling Chaos, the ultimate Tempter.
Gundolfsson's second vision was more dramatic, continuing from where his experience at Burning Man had left off. This time, his severed head and separated limbs drifted in five directions, and (as Aberrant: ReignofEvil.com relates)
each one encountered a titanic gate of black iron. A disembodied voice asked him what he would renounce as he passed through the gates, and he replied (with an equally disembodied voice) "god," "friendship", "family," "humanity" and finally "life." The gates opened, the body parts entered, and gaping pits of flame swallowed them. After a burning eternity, the five parts came together. Gundolfsson emerged, dripping fire, from a gargantuan pool. Again, the voice boomed across the red sky: "I seal thee Astaroth, King of Misrule, Five made One and that One made Whole."
In that shamanic moment, Thor Gundolfsson was reborn as Astaroth, Body of the Beast. Belial became the Mind of the Beast. The Voice, the Might, and the Heart will follow.
