Thread:NatiChan/@comment-937287-20140223233901/@comment-937287-20140224003333

Yes, I think waiting for more information is not a bad idea.

And as for the "Ill" part of "Ill Ilah", I have quite a few possible derivations:

1) It possibly derives from the Arabic word  إلّ  Ill, meaning "pact,covenant,contract".   إلٰه الإلّ  Ilāh Al-Ill would thus mean "the god of the pact", as if Al-Thamen made an "agreement" or "contract" with that "god" (perhaps referring to its summoning ritual, or maybe some actual agreement).

2a) Another possibility is that it is a corruption of 3illa(t) علّة, meaning "disease/illness", with the "a(t)" ending deleted. إلٰه العلّة‎ Ilāh Al-3illa(t)thus means "god of illness/disease", which can refer to its negative impact on the world once it materializes.

2b)  There is also the possibility that the author misinterpreted the meaning of Ilāh Al-3illa(t) as "the diseased god" or "the defective god", which, if this is in fact the case, could mean that Ilah (the god of Alma Torran) somehow become Ill Ilah (the "father" of Al-Thamen) by some process, perhaps implemented by Al-Thamen. [COINCIDENTLY: Ilah is ill.]

3a) Another correct meaning of the word 3illa(t) is "cause, reason". It is possible that the author took the word as a reference to causality [the actual Arabic word for "causality" is 3ill īya(t)  علّيّة, which is a deriviative of 3illa(t)], which could reference the whole "destiny/fate" issue this series has.

3b) 3illa(t), meaning "cause, reason", has also historically had a semantic shift so that it also includes "excuse" and "pretense" (the logical flow: "reason"-->"explaination"-->"excuse"-->"pretense").  Another derivative of 3illa(t), the word تعلّة ta3illa(t), goes even further down this path and extends it "makeshift" or "substitute" (logic: "pretense"-->"makeshift (from the sense of making up a reason)"-->"substitute (from the idea that the makeshift thing is replacing something)". This could imply that Ill Ilah is either 1) a fake god 2) a created god 3) a "replacement" god.

4)  A fourth possibility is that it is a corruption of the Arabic preposition إلى   ilā, meaning "to/towards/until/as far as/into", with the long a-vowel deleted. It is possible that the author interpreted the Arabic phrase إلى إلٰه‎  ilā Ilāh (literally "to a god") as "approaching God/divinity" or "reaching God/divinity", which could reference that Ill Ilah either is very similar to Ilah (the god of Alma Torran) or that it is actually getting closer and closer to becoming "Ilah" or "God" himself.

.....yea, so there a lot of options for that part.....I'm probably gonna make a discussion about it somewhere.