Talk:Gods/@comment-72.233.174.166-20141017162448/@comment-25035274-20141017165838

We don't know the Chief God's motives, so we're forced to make assumptions. Having played games that take place in similar settings, I tend to assume the Chief God is just crackers, until such time as KC releases more detailed information. I don't buy "population control" as a 'real' reason, and KC's suggested on certain pages that the Chief God's motives may not be as pure as the Order tells us.

If "population control" were the 'real' reason, there are a ton of other ways a genuine god could arrange it without requiring countless centuries, or even millenia, of murder, bloodshed, and terror. She could, for instance, rewrite people to change their fertility rate. She is, after all, a real and true god, supposedly. It wouldn't look good for the Demon Lord (who is not yet a god, yet managed to rewrite the genetic makeup of every single monster on the planet) to have greater control over creation than a creator-type entity.

The Demon Lord means well, whether you agree with her methods or not. Hers certainly isn't a perfect solution, but it's a better alternative to the constant genocides brought about by the Chief God.

Any sort of world changing solution, whether in the MGE world or the real world, can only have any real impact if there's some element of force. In our world, the type of force we prefer is legislative, but sometimes military force is required. And so it is in the MGE world. The Monster Lord can only effect the changes she's after by being willing to force the world to fall into place the way she feels it should be.