Talk:Chief God/@comment-37028137-20191027043945/@comment-27950421-20191027123006

I don't know stargate so the similarities are purely coincidental.

To make a long story short, within RK lore the world followed much the same path as real world planet formation, biogenesis, and evolution, with the only difference being the inclusion of magic. Before the rise of the Hominids, the only things that could actively use magic were creatures that would later be known as yokai, animals that had lived for normally impossible amounts of time and have achieved both sapient thought and magical abilities due to the build up in their bodies. A Kitsune can become a lesser got in about a thousand years (if I recall correctly), it's not hard to imagine how powerful a being that has lived for a million years has become. This is what gave rise to the "Great Beast Kings" like the Reptile King. Essentially the Reptile King is no different than a common yokai, except he has 300 million years of power build up under his belt, where most yokai are lucky to get a thousand.

Gods, Demons, and Monsters simply didn't exist until after the rise of man. When primitive man came to be, there was much in the world that was mysterious and frightening, natural disasters, the changing of the seasons, ect. Because this, poorly made explanations were made, the idea of gods were formed and thus religion came to be. With mankinds increased intelligence resulting in greater magical acuity, numerous humans all believing in the same thing can result in that belief being made "true" without the humans even realizing that they are casting magic. Thus through religion, gods are born.

This why gods go out of their way to control humans and accumulate worshippers. More humans worshipping them and believing in them strengthens the god, fewer weakens them, and if the number of worshippers dwindle too small, the god will fade away and cease to be. More over, what humans believe also influences the god in question. If their worshippers beliefs shift, then the god shifts with them. If the worshippers believe the god died, then the god will "die" and so on.

This is why the gods need worship and go out of their way to keep humans controlled and why the Reptile King has stated numerous times in the past that while he is as powerful and in many ways functionally similar to a god, he isn't one.