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 [[Image:SpearOfLight.jpg|thumb|Spear of Light, archival image (via [[Shaun O'Driscoll]])]]A weapon first forged on [[Earth]] in the depths of time by the [[Powers That Be | Powers that Be]], and reforged in recent times. ([[AWAB]])
 The Spear was originally associated with the [[Michael Power]] or [[Winged Defender, the | Winged Defender]], but later turned to other uses. ([[WAW]]) In Irish myth it was associated with the ancient [[Spear called Luin]], also called the Spear of [[Lugh]] and the [[Spear of Victory]]. The Spear of Light was forged to be a primary vessel of one of the [[Cardinal Virtues]], and as such should itself be considered at the very least sentient.
 There are several tales of the original Forging of the Spear, with some overlap of details: and (as is usual when mythology begins to involve the Powers that Be) they are probably all more or less true.  In [[AWAB]], [[Doris Smyth]] tells [[Callahan, Juanita L. | Nita]] that the Spear was one of the [[Four Great Treasures]] of the [[People of Dana]] of the ancient world, originally created by the [[Smith of Falias]] and brought to [[Earth]] from one of the [[Four Cities]] of Falias, Finias, Gorias and Murias. [[Image:MichaelWithSpear.jpg|thumb|left|Fourth-century late Roman representation of the Archangel Michael with the Spear of Light: one half of an ivory diptych, now in the British Museum]](These may have been the names of other planes of existence: the details here are sketchy).
 In order to win the battle for [[Ireland]] with the [[Lone Power]] in Its [[Balor]] avatar, the Power known as [[Lugh the All-Crafted]] took the Treasures and -- in company with [[Govan]], one of the [[Making Powers]] -- "reforged" the Treasures, ensouling them and investing them with profound and terrible power associated with the four [[physical elements]]. The Spear became the vessel both of the element of Fire and the [[caritas Virtue]], and was directly responsible for the defeat of Balor: the other three Treasures served only to hold off Ireland's destruction until the Spear, in the hands of Lugh, could act.
 In later millennia the original Spear passed out of existence, and had to be reforged to deal with the renewed threat of the returned Balor during the events of [[AWAB]]. [[Biddy O Dalaigh]] was instrumental in the reforging, as was [[Callahan, Dairine | Dairine]] in obtaining the [[ur-matter]] necessary for the physical structure of the Spear. Once this matter was obtained -- in the form of starsteel from the heart of a newly ignited star born shortly after the [[Big Bang]] -- the remade and re-ensouled Spear was given into the care of the very unwilling [[Nolan, Ronan | Ronan Nolan]], who at the time had recently been revealed to be hosting an [[avatar]] of the [[Michael Power]] (with whom the Spear was routinely associated). The spear was used by Ronan in the [[Second Battle of Moytura]]:  there it proved itself a terrible and effective weapon which would roar across the battlefield in a frightening blast of fire at the sight of its enemy, and return when called to the hand that had released it.  Ronan retained the Spear for some time after the events of [[AWAB]] and the return of {{NitaAndKit}} to their homes in the US.
 In [[WAW]], Ronan appears on Nita's doorstep in answer to a summons from [[Rodriguez, Christopher K. | Kit]], and joins the intervention team who are going out in search of the [[Instrumentality]]. In the course of the ensuing search and the struggle against the [[Pullulus]], the Spear changes hands once more, leaving Ronan's possession and passing -- apparently as it was intended to do from the time of its very first forging -- to the [[Hesper]].
 The Spear's present whereabouts (at least as regards any position in the merely physical universe) are unknown. ([[AWAB]], [[WAW]])

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 The Spear was originally associated with the [[Michael Power]] or [[Winged Defender, the | Winged Defender]], but later turned to other uses. ([[WAW]]) In Irish myth it was associated with the ancient [[Spear called Luin]], also called the Spear of [[Lugh]] and the [[Spear of Victory]]. The Spear of Light was forged to be a primary vessel of one of the [[Cardinal Virtues]], and as such should itself be considered at the very least sentient.
-There are several tales of the original Forging of the Spear, with some overlap of details: and (as is usual when mythology begins to involve the Powers that Be) they are probably all more or less true.  In [[AWAB]], [[Doris Smyth]] tells [[Callahan, Juanita L. | Nita]] that the Spear was one of the [[Four Great Treasures]] of the [[People of Dana]] of the ancient world, originally created by the [[Smith of Falias]] and brought to [[Earth]] from the [[Four Cities]] of Falias, Finias, Gorias and Murias. [[Image:MichaelWithSpear.jpg|thumb|left|Fourth-century late Roman representation of the Archangel Michael with the Spear of Light: one half of an ivory diptych, now in the British Museum]](These may have been the names of other planes of existence: the details here are sketchy).
+There are several tales of the original Forging of the Spear, with some overlap of details: and (as is usual when mythology begins to involve the Powers that Be) they are probably all more or less true.  In [[AWAB]], [[Doris Smyth]] tells [[Callahan, Juanita L. | Nita]] that the Spear was one of the [[Four Great Treasures]] of the [[People of Dana]] of the ancient world, originally created by the [[Smith of Falias]] and brought to [[Earth]] from one of the [[Four Cities]] of Falias, Finias, Gorias and Murias. [[Image:MichaelWithSpear.jpg|thumb|left|Fourth-century late Roman representation of the Archangel Michael with the Spear of Light: one half of an ivory diptych, now in the British Museum]](These may have been the names of other planes of existence: the details here are sketchy).
 In order to win the battle for [[Ireland]] with the [[Lone Power]] in Its [[Balor]] avatar, the Power known as [[Lugh the All-Crafted]] took the Treasures and -- in company with [[Govan]], one of the [[Making Powers]] -- "reforged" the Treasures, ensouling them and investing them with profound and terrible power associated with the four [[physical elements]]. The Spear became the vessel both of the element of Fire and the [[caritas Virtue]], and was directly responsible for the defeat of Balor: the other three Treasures served only to hold off Ireland's destruction until the Spear, in the hands of Lugh, could act.

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 [[Image:SpearOfLight.jpg|thumb|Spear of Light, archival image (via [[Shaun O'Driscoll]])]]A weapon first forged on [[Earth]] in the depths of time by the [[Powers That Be | Powers that Be]], and reforged in recent times. ([[AWAB]])
-The Spear was originally associated with the [[Michael Power]] or [[Winged Defender]], but later turned to other uses. ([[WAW]]) In Irish myth it was associated with the ancient [[Spear called Luin]], also called the Spear of [[Lugh]] and the [[Spear of Victory]]. The Spear of Light was forged to be a primary vessel of one of the [[Cardinal Virtues]], and as such should itself be considered at the very least sentient.
+The Spear was originally associated with the [[Michael Power]] or [[Winged Defender, the | Winged Defender]], but later turned to other uses. ([[WAW]]) In Irish myth it was associated with the ancient [[Spear called Luin]], also called the Spear of [[Lugh]] and the [[Spear of Victory]]. The Spear of Light was forged to be a primary vessel of one of the [[Cardinal Virtues]], and as such should itself be considered at the very least sentient.
 There are several tales of the original Forging of the Spear, with some overlap of details: and (as is usual when mythology begins to involve the Powers that Be) they are probably all more or less true.  In [[AWAB]], [[Doris Smyth]] tells [[Callahan, Juanita L. | Nita]] that the Spear was one of the [[Four Great Treasures]] of the [[People of Dana]] of the ancient world, originally created by the [[Smith of Falias]] and brought to [[Earth]] from the [[Four Cities]] of Falias, Finias, Gorias and Murias. [[Image:MichaelWithSpear.jpg|thumb|left|Fourth-century late Roman representation of the Archangel Michael with the Spear of Light: one half of an ivory diptych, now in the British Museum]](These may have been the names of other planes of existence: the details here are sketchy).

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	In [[WAW]], Ronan appears on Nita's doorstep in answer to a summons from [[Rodriguez, Christopher K. \| Kit]], and joins the intervention team who are going out in search of the [[Instrumentality]]. In the course of the ensuing search and the struggle against the [[Pullulus]], the Spear changes hands once more, leaving Ronan's possession and passing -- apparently as it was intended to do from the time of its very first forging -- to the [[Hesper]].		In [[WAW]], Ronan appears on Nita's doorstep in answer to a summons from [[Rodriguez, Christopher K. \| Kit]], and joins the intervention team who are going out in search of the [[Instrumentality]]. In the course of the ensuing search and the struggle against the [[Pullulus]], the Spear changes hands once more, leaving Ronan's possession and passing -- apparently as it was intended to do from the time of its very first forging -- to the [[Hesper]].

−	The Spear's present whereabouts (at least as regards any position in the merely physical universe) are unknown. ([[AWAB,]] [[WAW]] ~~'' et seq.''~~)	+	The Spear's present whereabouts (at least as regards any position in the merely physical universe) are unknown. ([[AWAB]], [[WAW]])

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	In [[WAW]], Ronan appears on Nita's doorstep in answer to a summons from [[Rodriguez, Christopher K. \| Kit]], and joins the intervention team who are going out in search of the [[Instrumentality]]. In the course of the ensuing search and the struggle against the [[Pullulus]], the Spear changes hands once more, leaving Ronan's possession and passing -- apparently as it was intended to do from the time of its very first forging -- to the [[Hesper]].		In [[WAW]], Ronan appears on Nita's doorstep in answer to a summons from [[Rodriguez, Christopher K. \| Kit]], and joins the intervention team who are going out in search of the [[Instrumentality]]. In the course of the ensuing search and the struggle against the [[Pullulus]], the Spear changes hands once more, leaving Ronan's possession and passing -- apparently as it was intended to do from the time of its very first forging -- to the [[Hesper]].

−	The Spear's present whereabouts (at least as regards any position in the merely physical universe) are unknown.	+	The Spear's present whereabouts (at least as regards any position in the merely physical universe) are unknown. ([[AWAB,]] [[WAW]] '' et seq.'')
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