Talk:Apophis/@comment-26466323-20150905161422/@comment-71.123.194.162-20151111153913

I'm not sure what to add that hasn't already been said (other than that Apsou seems to have a lot of misconceptions), but it does bear explicitly mentioning that dark mamono realms are not wastelands but full of life and most any monster can live happily in them. They just don't resemble human lands all that much, keeping that kind of landscape around is what bright green mamono realms are for.

As for painting the apophis as this overpowered, all-conquering monster, their desire to conquer is basically a vestige of the former settings. Much as the current settings have removed their desire to kill, and also given them the ability to ignore their original purpose if they find a man before they find a pharaoh, one can presume that eventually the Mamono Lord will be able to free them of their old setting completely.

And regardless they are limited by the fact they have to actually bite and inject venom to get their servants. Plenty of monsters would have ways of avoiding that. Their habitat also doesn't extend beyond the desert region, implying they are not interested in expanding mamono realms beyond that. At worst they will end up as the supreme rulers of the desert region, but that seems unlikely as it would remove the other powers KC has set up there. More likely a eventual balance will be reached between the apophis kingdoms, the pharaoh kingdoms, and the khepri king kingdoms.

Oh, and there is no "Apophis Commander" (not sure why this title keeps getting mentioned) there are just a bunch of apophis that presumably went dormant once their task of destroying the pharaoh kingdoms was accomplished and started to awake when the surviving pharaohs started to. Assuming the god who created the apophis is even still alive, they are no longer under its control, though they still suffer from the instincts they were given when they were created (to oppose pharaohs).