1.) Rebirth:
It's reasonable to say that the very first gh was either skully, gaiseric or void. If it was void, void was reborn at the downfall of gaiserics kingdom. Except then he would have to get back somehow and if he did that, we'd be back with 6 gh rather than 5. Wrong answer.
Gaiseric? He would've been ruling his kingdom before he was ever reincarnated. Wrong answer.
Skully? Well, if he's gaiseric, we can rule that out. If he's not, he was reborn at the destruction of gaiseric's kingdom and we STILL have no history of what the heck gaiseric is. Almost certainly wrong answer.
2.) First initiation ceremony:
The funny thing about my theory is that it proves void couldn't have been the first gh, because the first one had to be reborn! It was the only one that would've been there early enough. if it was gaiseric in this case, again, not there to rule his kindom, doesn't work. Skully? same reason, doesn't work.
3.) Second initiation ceremony:
Couldn't be void. Skully is almost certainly gaiseric. Gaiseric becomes a god hand, gaiseric is reborn lives for a long time and eventually raises a kingdom, though at a much slower pace than grif, since it is not destroyed until 83 years later. It's destroyed by the wiseman becoming void and sacrificing the kingdom. The whole kingdom? not just a few people? Possible i guess. Gaiseric may or may not have been included in the sacrifice. Either way he has plenty of reason to go after void. Although i expect some strong disagreement that gaiseric was in fact the first gh, this theory checks out!

Elementals:
Gaiseric is first gh, builds a kingdom at an undetermined speed, gets it taken down by some person who summons elementals. The birth of void is accounted for nowhere, could've happened before or after. Also provides no reason for skully going after void.
Maybe i made a math mistake somewhere or missed some important detail, but.... i think i got somethin' here!
Oh, and sorry for the double post, i was just trying to better organize my thoughts/comments.
edit: uh oh... just thought of a problem... if downfall of gaiseric was initiation of void, and the only gh at the time was already reborn, who were these 4/5 angels? Now the elementals one looks about equally is good, but still has a few kinks. One of those last two looks the best. Oh and as for the notion of them boing mozgus or mozgus type angels, the theory's major points remain the same as the elementals theory.
Hmm... now i REALLY wanna know where that 216 quote is

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