The Blessed Radiance and the God War

• Shepherds of Rad: priestlike mages in Glantri, the shepherds of Rad are the keepers of the Blessed Radiance, if we could talk to high up members in their echelon it may help ... It's fairly clear they worship Rad, whether intentionally or not. This may be a perversion with time of their original purpose which might have been to maintain the knowledge of how to use the Blessed Radiance.
• If the Blessed Radiance is originally part of the Home System sun or a device which can focus the power of the sun, it is a very powerful power source.
• Powers may be deities, it's not clear, they may be more primitive things. Rad is a power not a deity. Perhaps the Shepherds of Rad created this power by their original purpose evolving into a worship of the Blessed Radiance.
• Darkness vs. light has similar parallels to the last god war in the faerie eyes - death vs. life. The Home System war was fire vs. air. How does this all fit in? What about order vs. chaos such as in the Cage?
• I suspect some deities want Alphatia and Glantri to try harder and harder to destroy each other, eventually resulting in Glantri using the Blessed Radiance to cause massive destruction. I wonder if this is the plan of the Brotherhood of the Radiance, it's certainly not the plan of the current order. If neither, then someone else wants destruction - enter Alphaks.
• Soul crystals seem to be a way to avoid the normal distribution of souls, hence possibly why many other deities dislike Rafiel. Rad may do something similar, considering no other religions are allowed in Glantri. Alternatively, Glantri forbids priests to prevent priests being able to get near the Blessed Radiance and act as a conduit for their deity using that.
• The purpose of the Brotherhood of the Radiance may be to bring light to everywhere, possibly using whatever the Glantrian refugees brought through with them - possibly condensed power from the Home System sun which has now vanished. The aims of the two opposed sides may be to bring light and to bring darkness - this has strong parallels with the idea of balance between life and darkness which the faerie mentioned. This would make sense if Rafiel was trying to bring light to his people so they could have forests underground.
• Hel could be a member of the Brotherhood, but this seems unlikely if the aim is to bring light to all of Mystara, as Niflheim was mostly pitch dark. I wonder if Hel just wants the Brotherhood of the Radiance and their opposition to make a mess, resulting in lots of deaths, which presumably is to Hel's benefit. Hel may be trying to do things covertly, without the other Northern Reaches deities knowing. Loki presumably is doing likewise. The idea of Hel playing behind the scenes to try and cause more deaths makes more sense in this light. Keep the facade of staying neutral. Torture a priest of Nyx who found something out to ensure they didn't know too much about Hel's plans. Makes more sense if Hel was from the sphere of death, more death is to her benefit.
• Could the god war conflict be being pushed by forces other than the Brotherhood of the Radiance and the opposition? Perhaps this was why Hel was working behind the scenes, torturing a priest of Nyx. Perhaps others stand to profit from a different order, or will make gains in the war which results.
• Hel went to Pandas on an important meeting. Now Pandas sounds very similar to Pandemonium - where demons live. Maybe it is one of the major cities there. Could Hel be working with Alphaks or others keen on destruction to do major damage in general? Cause lots of death? Demogorgon is also into destruction. Are there other deities as well?
• Is the Blessed Radiance what the Brotherhood of the Radiance intends for the mortals to use to swing the balance in the god war?