Post by Cassiel on Mar 2, 2016 3:35:47 GMT
This is in raw form, copied from answers given to questions asked in room. The info is valid, but not at all edited for basic consumption. As that happens, I will move stuff (rewritten to be more clear, most likely) to the FAQ section. I just wanted to get it up here so it's available in some form until it can be properly dealt with.
How did we end up with a "new Death" & how did Castiel become an archangel?
Dean killed Death with his Scythe at the very end of season 10. Death wanted him to kill Sam and allow himself to be taken from the Earth and put where he could never harm anyone because of the Mark again, and Dean was willing to do it, but...changed his mind at the last minute. Unfortunately, a spell that Cas and Sam had cooked up was already being worked, and then Dean was freed of the Mark before it could be stopped. The Mark being eliminated freed the Darkness, a being as old and as powerful (presumably) as God Himself.
Four WA purposes, it was decided that there ALWAYS has to be a Death. All of Creation goes spinning out of balance without one, as well as a few other key players essential for that balance. As such, Death's highest ranking, oldest, most powerful reaper became the next Death. And this one has some serious liking and admiration for Castiel. He watched everything Cas has gone through, and believes Castiel always did what he did because he was trying to do the right thing. He felt Castiel deserved a reward for that.
So, that, plus the fact that Death is trying to help right balances that went out of whack from the debacle of the attempt at jumpstarting the apocalypse by the angels onward, resulted in Death deciding to find a way to both restore a balance AND reward Castiel. (Though, Cas still isn't sure he entirely agrees that it was a reward, and...wasn't really consulted or given a chance to back out of it.) Death went and found Raphael's raw grace – as in the power and grace, but without Raphael's actual essence, what made him HIM attached – and fused it with Castiel's grace.
And, boom. The balance was restored, in that there were always four archangels for a reason – no one, including the archangels themselves, seem to know WHY four, only that God intended it that way – and when Cas destroyed Raphael, that was one more thing out of balance. (I enjoy the irony that the one angel that destroyed Raphael is the one who ended up taking his place, just as a random note.)
More information on the academy and how it formed after the backstory post.
Ah, right. The academy... Well, the backstory thing was mostly just to allow people to know what happened overall in the world, the ones who keep up with the show, so they knew what we were and were not making use of from the show toward the current stuff.
The academy itself actually has almost nothing to do with the backstory, aside from explaining in a very vague way why Castiel isn't quite so attached to the Winchesters as he once was, and kinda split off to do this other thing. Donna and Jody wanted to make a place where the kids like Claire and Alex could be safe, the ones who had lost so much due to brushes (or worse) with the supernatural. Somewhere that kids could either learn to deal with everything they'd been through, without just because thought insane by the rest of the world...or where those determined to become hunters because of it could learn to do so safely, so they would survive and be more effective hunters, both.
They went to Sam and Dean with this idea, and Castiel, due to the fact that he...wasn't handling what he'd been through with being ridden by Lucifer, and everything else he's gone through (taken in part from the fact that he already acts like he's suffering PTSD in the beginning of season 11), was originally drafted to sort of be a go-between with the ladies and the brothers.
Land that used to be part of an old safehouse of Bobby's that got passed along to the boys right outside Lebanon was found and, after Castiel checked it all out, decided upon for the site of the Academy. Money provided by the boys, via money in an old Men of Letters account that Sam found, and the land itself, and...the academy was born.
As it started up, Cas was drawn more and more into helping with it, until he was barely hunting with the boys, and was more dealing with any issues - mundane and supernatural, to a point - that came up. He ended up being as much involved as Donna and Jody, and growing further from the Winchesters. The academy kinda became as much a place and purpose allowing him to heal as it was for the kids it was designed to help.
Were/are monsters other than the Biblical ones involved?
First.
www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Monsters
Second, yes. Biblical monsters/beings didn't really start to seriously come into play until season 4 when the whole angel/apocalypse arc was started, aside from some dealing with demons. Most of what they hunted were folktale/mythological/etc creatures.
How did we end up with a "new Death" & how did Castiel become an archangel?
Dean killed Death with his Scythe at the very end of season 10. Death wanted him to kill Sam and allow himself to be taken from the Earth and put where he could never harm anyone because of the Mark again, and Dean was willing to do it, but...changed his mind at the last minute. Unfortunately, a spell that Cas and Sam had cooked up was already being worked, and then Dean was freed of the Mark before it could be stopped. The Mark being eliminated freed the Darkness, a being as old and as powerful (presumably) as God Himself.
Four WA purposes, it was decided that there ALWAYS has to be a Death. All of Creation goes spinning out of balance without one, as well as a few other key players essential for that balance. As such, Death's highest ranking, oldest, most powerful reaper became the next Death. And this one has some serious liking and admiration for Castiel. He watched everything Cas has gone through, and believes Castiel always did what he did because he was trying to do the right thing. He felt Castiel deserved a reward for that.
So, that, plus the fact that Death is trying to help right balances that went out of whack from the debacle of the attempt at jumpstarting the apocalypse by the angels onward, resulted in Death deciding to find a way to both restore a balance AND reward Castiel. (Though, Cas still isn't sure he entirely agrees that it was a reward, and...wasn't really consulted or given a chance to back out of it.) Death went and found Raphael's raw grace – as in the power and grace, but without Raphael's actual essence, what made him HIM attached – and fused it with Castiel's grace.
And, boom. The balance was restored, in that there were always four archangels for a reason – no one, including the archangels themselves, seem to know WHY four, only that God intended it that way – and when Cas destroyed Raphael, that was one more thing out of balance. (I enjoy the irony that the one angel that destroyed Raphael is the one who ended up taking his place, just as a random note.)
More information on the academy and how it formed after the backstory post.
Ah, right. The academy... Well, the backstory thing was mostly just to allow people to know what happened overall in the world, the ones who keep up with the show, so they knew what we were and were not making use of from the show toward the current stuff.
The academy itself actually has almost nothing to do with the backstory, aside from explaining in a very vague way why Castiel isn't quite so attached to the Winchesters as he once was, and kinda split off to do this other thing. Donna and Jody wanted to make a place where the kids like Claire and Alex could be safe, the ones who had lost so much due to brushes (or worse) with the supernatural. Somewhere that kids could either learn to deal with everything they'd been through, without just because thought insane by the rest of the world...or where those determined to become hunters because of it could learn to do so safely, so they would survive and be more effective hunters, both.
They went to Sam and Dean with this idea, and Castiel, due to the fact that he...wasn't handling what he'd been through with being ridden by Lucifer, and everything else he's gone through (taken in part from the fact that he already acts like he's suffering PTSD in the beginning of season 11), was originally drafted to sort of be a go-between with the ladies and the brothers.
Land that used to be part of an old safehouse of Bobby's that got passed along to the boys right outside Lebanon was found and, after Castiel checked it all out, decided upon for the site of the Academy. Money provided by the boys, via money in an old Men of Letters account that Sam found, and the land itself, and...the academy was born.
As it started up, Cas was drawn more and more into helping with it, until he was barely hunting with the boys, and was more dealing with any issues - mundane and supernatural, to a point - that came up. He ended up being as much involved as Donna and Jody, and growing further from the Winchesters. The academy kinda became as much a place and purpose allowing him to heal as it was for the kids it was designed to help.
Were/are monsters other than the Biblical ones involved?
First.
www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Monsters
Second, yes. Biblical monsters/beings didn't really start to seriously come into play until season 4 when the whole angel/apocalypse arc was started, aside from some dealing with demons. Most of what they hunted were folktale/mythological/etc creatures.