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This chapter discusses the context and originality of Dante's Empyrean, as developed in the Comedy. Its principal characteristics are summarized under three points: (i) In radical distinction from the Empyrean of the Scholastics, the Empyrean of the Comedy is absolutely immaterial and uncreated: it does not exist in space or time; (ii) In the ...
When someone is appointed an Empyrean by the Two Fingers, they have their power sealed inside their eye. Example 1: Queen Marika, The Eternal Marika, an empyrean, in this image, is seen to be closing one of her eyes. Though she is the most powerful, she still seems to be closing her eyes.
Everything we know about Empyreans are as follows: Being Empyrean is a purely physical trait, you must be born (or otherwise created) as an Empyrean. It is not a trait than can be learned or earned. All Empyreans (minus the GEQ and maybe Marika) have been given a half-wolf Shadows by the Two Fingers.
Gerard's question on the empyrean heaven, question 5 of distinction 2, deals with the purpose, luminosity, and influence on the sublunary realm of the tenth heaven, but also its nature.
Unlike statistical analysis, there are few fixed formulas or cookbook recipes to guide the novice. Instead, much depends on an investigator’s own style of rigorous empirical thinking, along with the sufficient presentation of evidence and careful con-sideration of alternative interpretations.
So to me, the Occam’s answer is that our grace is Marika doing exactly what she said she would do. Further evidence from Melina’s recollections of her words supports that Marika was OK with, and actively encouraged both her children and the Tarnished to contend for dominion of the next era.
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OED's earliest evidence for empyrean is from before 1500, in Secreta Secretorum. empyrean is a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin empyreus, ‑an suffix. See etymology.