Vril and the Mignolaverse

[MajorHoy]

Okay, I'm sure I'll get pounded on for not already knowing this stuff, but not too long ago I re-read Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954 - The Black Sun #1-2, and I'm currently re-reading the tpb collection of Sledgehammer 44.

Anyway, looking into "vril" on a Google search, and the article it turned up for "Vril" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril) touches on so many things that I've already read in Mignolaverse books that it's quite thought-provoking (for me, anyway).
Among other things, it references a 19th century novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton titled The Coming Race with a subterranean world populated by a race called the Vril-ya (who themselves are descendants of a race called the Ana). The Vril-ya have access to a source called "Vril" which had very destructive potential.
Later in the article it talks about a "Vril Society" in 20th century Germany as well as a link to a book called Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity.
Another Wikipedia article on Nazi UFOs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_UFOs) also suggests what we had in Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954 - The Black Sun.

I know the Vril technology played a part in Lobster Johnson: The Iron Prometheus as well as in Sledgehammer 44 and Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954 - The Black Sun, but where else has it played a major part?

[zerodemon]

Plays pretty heavily into a lot of the mythology, and I don’t much want to give too many spoilers. I feel like Middenway did an article on Vril at some point.

Edit: Yep. Spoilers of course.

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/an...-hell-is-vril/

[middenway]

Plays pretty heavily into a lot of the mythology, and I don’t much want to give too many spoilers. I feel like Middenway did an article on Vril at some point.

Edit: Yep. Spoilers of course.

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/an...-hell-is-vril/

I think that article was my very first Hell Notes. It's pretty rough and very out of date...

[MajorHoy]

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/an...-hell-is-vril/

I think that article was my very first Hell Notes. It's pretty rough and very out of date...

Any plans for a revised/updated version in the foreseeable future?

[middenway]

Any plans for a revised/updated version in the foreseeable future?

Not any time soon. These days I don't seem to have much time to write Hell Notes very often.

[Waka Hem]

As far as I can tell there are a few elemental forces that go back to the origins of Mignolaverse mythology that sortof undergird everything else. The ones we know of being Vril, Fire, and the Black Flame. All three have avatars in the current series - the Sledgehammer 44 armor, Liz Sherman, and the various Black Flames (along with the Black Goddess/Ereshkigall), respectively. And we know two directly tie into the origin of the Oghdru Jahad - the Fire that the Watcher used to mold their physical bodies, and the darkness (which I believe correlates to the Black Flame) that entered them later and gave them life and purpose. The Vril to me is still the most mysterious, so I'm interested to see how future stories expand on it.