I have no real response to the post, but the book recommendation at the end is excellent. To Reign in Hell is a great book, and even people who know Steven Brus

I have no real response to the post, but the book recommendation at the end is excellent. To Reign in Hell is a great book, and even people who know Steven Brust's other work never seem to have read it. (It's a more than slightly idiosyncratic version of the fall of the angels story & back in print within the last few years, I think, after being out of print since the late 80s/early 90s.)