Thread:AngryLance/@comment-39280634-20200609090822/@comment-27666783-20200622235152

@Lance

They were made liars out of, Eros who loved them as they would love each other, Ares who saw them as her children who ran the crucible of battle in the name of honor and valor, to them humanity had earned the earth. The Chief God burned them all.

What greater betrayal of love to Eros than to bring armageddon to the ones that loved you more than anything else? What greater betrayal of honor to Ares than to purge the victor who proved their strength, because they did what was commanded of them by the very same god? This offense was one not only to humanity, but to the other gods themselves.

Its sort of the theme I'm going for, fire and men. The enhancement process to make you into that next stage of humanity, the 'Forging', a baptism of fire to rise out a newborn again, akin to the phoenix. The fires that had burned away their ancestors cast them. Steely muscles but human hearts, firey energy but yet born from a womb.

'''View not on yourself with thoughts of power, nor flesh and blood and muscle strand, but with the inner eye of fancy. Recall the love that dared you conception, the learning and struggle that framed your being, the perfecting of your art and yet your imperfections regardless, in fulfillment of the words of the sage philosopher:''

''To know what to do is wisdom. To know how to do it is skill. To do the thing as it should be done is service.'''

@Doctor Ibrahim

It really does read like that, the inherent system of limitation to prevent human progress, the infinite energy potential of life yet the limiters placed on mankind. Were humans created in the divine image? Or did they become it?

The humans, from their humanly perspective, call them gods, but really what are they simply other than something beyond our comprehension? The mamono, the powerful ones, hardly call them gods alot of the time, they call the chief god 'her' or even 'the sick lady', in mention of her defeat but I'd like to take it a step further. I think its more than just getting wounded, I think they refer to something else, a sickness of the mind and heart.

Why else would the gods so fervently side with the DL? Are the gods petty enough to simply do it out of a power grab? The god of the sea just relinquishes her powers of the whim of the succubus? The god of the dead... stops the killing of people? These are things that they need a pretty damn good reason to do, and I am imagining its because the Emperor Wears No Clothes.