Question What exactly is a Higher Being? (spoilers)

[Anya2012]

I've just finished rewatching season 3. Can somebody explain to me what exactly is a higher being? It was never fully explained what a higher being is or does? Unless I missed something.

 

[SlayerFest]

Someone who decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadow. I really don't know, exactly. They never specified. I assumed that it was similar to an angel, or a member of the PTB. When Cordelia ascended to a higher being, they never explained what the hell that meant. The way that she was able to see all of her friends implied that she was kind of like an angel, I guess.

 

[white avenger]

I always figured that a higher being was, within the scope of the show and the Buffyverse in general, the equivalent of the Christian concept of an angel. That or maybe a Norse Valkyrie, if my knowledge of that mythology is correct. (It's been a long time since college literature classes) A being with superhuman powers who is basically a step or two lower in echelon than the actual Supreme Power, who serves as it's soldier or messenger.

 

[Xin Rong]

I always figured that a higher being was, within the scope of the show and the Buffyverse in general, the equivalent of the Christian concept of an angel. That or maybe a Norse Valkyrie, if my knowledge of that mythology is correct. (It's been a long time since college literature classes) A being with superhuman powers who is basically a step or two lower in echelon than the actual Supreme Power, who serves as it's soldier or messenger.

Thats pretty much the way I saw it.

 

[shadcat]

A question about Cordelia in general... after that whole arc.... (Because I'm really curious)
But this is a spoiler about her...

Spoiler

Is Cordelia a higher being after her death in season 5? Is she what she was at the start of season 4?

 

[SlayerFest]

A question about Cordelia in general... after that whole arc.... (Because I'm really curious)
But this is a spoiler about her...

Spoiler

Is Cordelia a higher being after her death in season 5? Is she what she was at the start of season 4?

Yeah, I think she was.

Spoiler

I read somewhere that they made her one...but that she wasn't powerful enough to help Angel and everyone out with the senior partners ordeal.

 

[Xin Rong]

Yeah, I think she was.

Spoiler

I read somewhere that they made her one...but that she wasn't powerful enough to help Angel and everyone out with the senior partners ordeal.

I never heard that? I thought she stayed in the coma like any normal person. She may have post your welcome, given her appearance in the comics, but prior to that I assumed coma.

 

[SlayerFest]

I never heard that? I thought she stayed in the coma like any normal person. She may have post your welcome, given her appearance in the comics, but prior to that I assumed coma.

Spoiler

Well, she died in You're Welcome...and according to what I read (this was awhile ago) she was made into a higher being, after that episode. I have no idea if this idea or whatever is canon and I don't remember the source

so...yeah haha who knows.