Headscratchers / Warlock (1989)

• So, why exactly is God's secret name "Roaisha"? What's the significance of it? Sounds like a girl's name.
  • Don't be sexist, please. Who's to say that God isn't a girl? And besides, there are lots of gender-ambiguous names like Ashleigh, Kim, or Samus. It looked to me as though God's True Name in the book was "Rodney." So saying "Rodney" backwards will blow up the universe? YENDOR! ... Oh, would you look at that, we're still here. Guess Satan and the Warlock's brilliant plan wouldn't have worked after all.
    • "Who's to say that God isn't a girl?" Well... There is a book that makes it clear that God is the Holy Father.
  • Wouldn't God technically be genderless? After all, Adam and Eve were the first man and woman. God existed before Adam and Eve, ergo God existed before the concept of gender. Even if that concept sounds like a load of dingo's kidneys, I'm not sure why the first (and for awhile, only) being in the universe would have or need gender.
  • Besides, all Phelous fans know that God's true name is Winds and Weather ;)

• If speaking God's name backwards will unmake Creation, then how would doing so be to the benefit of either Satan or the Warlock?
  • It's said that doing so will advance the Warlock in the eyes of his father, but how if they're both destroyed along with everything else? Maybe Heaven and Hell will be left intact, but if that's the case, then why doesn't Satan just tell his son the True Name of God instead of sending him on a wild goose chase for a book he himself wrote?
  • Most likely, Satan will be free to create the universe in His image after it's destroyed. Most likely, He either doesn't know the True Name of God, or is forbidden from divulging it. Of course, the whole concept of undoing Creation will most likely spell trouble for the Warlock: he's a human, so his parents and ancestors will be wiped out as well, undoing his existence as well. He's either too evil to care, or foolishly trusts Satan to save him.
    • Seeing how he brushes aside Redfrene's warning, perhaps he's indeed an Unwitting Pawn, failing to realize that he will be wiped out along with everything else.

• What is the point of the mission to assemble the Grand Grimoire? The Warlock assembles it, then asks for the name of the God in order to say it backwards. But, he didn't need the Grimoire for it. He had a direct line to Satan, who supposedly wrote it. Couldn't he just have asked at the beginning what God's name was and then say it backwards? Even if Satan was forbidden to divulge it directly, they could have played 20 Questions until Warlock could have guessed it.

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