I agree that my feeling about NFA was that the demon army was primarily there to take down Angel. He had done damage, and they intended to retalliate... but he really didn't change their plans or cause them to rush their plans. Their plans remained intact.
Story-wise, I think for practical purposes, I'm going to need W&H to be against The First manifesting in physical terms. They're willing to humor it with its need to torment and corrupt. They have nothing against that, but let it get too much power, and its damage could actually hurt business, and they really don't want that. For one thing, they do want to be the Big Bad on the block and the first has 'worshippers' and crap like that... and they really could do without superstitious claptrap or a 'destroying the world' thing (because to quote someone somewhere -- the world is where they keep their stuff!)
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Story-wise, I think for practical purposes, I'm going to need W&H to be against The First manifesting in physical terms. They're willing to humor it with its need to torment and corrupt. They have nothing against that, but let it get too much power, and its damage could actually hurt business, and they really don't want that. For one thing, they do want to be the Big Bad on the block and the first has 'worshippers' and crap like that... and they really could do without superstitious claptrap or a 'destroying the world' thing (because to quote someone somewhere -- the world is where they keep their stuff!)