Kytheros wrote:SWM wrote:As Duckk said...
Langhorne was killed along with most of his inner circle when Pei set off a pocket nuclear bomb inside Langhorne's headquarters. That started the War of the Fallen, a fight for succession between the surviving followers of Langhorne. The ones who survived that War continued acting as Archangels for quite a bit longer. They were all getting old when they gave their last benedictions to the people of Safehold. We don't really know who they were, how fanatical they were, what their plans were. We certainly cannot say that they were fanatical enough to do as you suggest; nor can we say they weren't. That's what the speculation is about.
Not quite, we know that Chihiro and Schueler were amongst the (surviving) leaders of the surviving/winning/trucing faction(s).
We know this because the Chihiro and Schueler's books were added afterwards, and the Temple wasn't built until later, and the Key given to the Wylsynn's by Schueler is intended for something under the Temple.
Beyond that, though, we've got very little in the way of evidence.
Yes, we know "Chihiro" and "Schueler". But those are just names. Merlin doesn't know who they were, doesn't know anything about them except what she has heard from Safeholders who regarded them as Archangels. My point is that we don't know who they really were, what they wanted, how fanatical they were about the Langhorne Plan, etc.