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7th rise of the phoenix ஜ Voice / Action for Spades

[His voice is heavy and a bit hoarse but still easy to understand. He has yet to hit the bottle today, but it won't take him much longer to do so.]

Soon it will be September again. Hn, when people started to vanish I thought there would be only a few of us left to see a second autumn in this world.

[Of course, that refers only to those who were the first to arrive to this world. Unfortunately he never doubted that there would still be a lot of people trapped, just... Not the same people for so long.]

Have any of you changed since you arrived here? No matter how long you have been here... Ever wonder what your people would think of you if they saw you here?

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It would be wise to prefer neither. The moral rulers tend to cause as much destruction and death as they can in a short time frame. Some even strive to become gods and manage to nearly wipe out whole races in the process.

But nothing lasts forever, not even gods. I learned that before I arrived here.

Indeed, though the gods of my world seem to forget that. Or it was a combination of arrogance and millenniums of being unchallenged, together with how vital they think they are for the universe.

That makes sense I suppose. Those who go unchallenged often get cocky about themselves and their power.

Edited 2014-09-02 21:40 (UTC)

Indeed. Athena always challenged those gods who abused their power and aimed to harm humanity, but as a Goddess that doesn't aim for destruction she always held back and her Saints never were able to kill the gods. They were sealed at most and only temporarily, not sure why.

It wasn't until my generation that Athena finally said "fuck you all" and aimed to kill one of the main gods.

[He's not really sure why such a different treatment between Poseidon and Hades, but his guess is that Poseidon, albeit an asshole, didn't want to just destroy the world and kill everything. Sure, he wanted to kill a lot of humans and succeeded in that, but he didn't aim for their extermination as much as Hades who wanted to even kill plants.]

She could have her own reasons for not having them killed up until now. Perhaps she had hoped that they would learn their lesson if they were sealed away, like a prison sentence.

Hers is a war more of shields than of swords, she didn't want to kill anyone, or so the stories say. Or maybe she just didn't dare to actually kill another god as it would change the world, and probably make other gods stand up in arms.

Either way, it hardly matters. We have already killed a god and changed the world greatly, and now we're even aiming for more.

How has your world changed due to the death of a god?

[She's curious since she is not sure how her world is fairing now due the destruction of a god.]

Since we killed Hades, the God of Death who ruled in the after-life and had created both Hell and Heaven... All that was destroyed. We barely managed to escape from Heaven's grounds as it vanished into nothingness.

I don't know what happened with the countless souls that were in Hell at the time, or what will happen to those who die from now on, but even if they are condemned to an eternal nothingness it's better than what they had. Hades' rules for the after-life weren't exactly fair, even just for stepping on an ant or picking up a flower you would be accused of murder and thrown into Hell, no matter what great deeds you did while alive.

I sounds like just experiencing life would have been enough to be sent to Hell. I suppose that meant Heaven was empty?

No, it was inhabited by Hades' body which was to be preserved because he didn't want for it to be ever wounded, two gods who served him and a plethora of nymphs that catered to their whims. Though if you were asking about souls of dead people being there, the answer is "no", there were none. I still remember the nymphs screaming because people other than those two gods and Hades were appearing there when we assaulted the place.

[Had he not been in a rush with better things to do he would have punched a nymph or two. Or scared them off even more.]

I was referring to the souls.

It sounds more like this Heaven was Hades' palace than a possible place for spirits to go.

Officially it was a place for the purest spirits to go, but since Hades was the one to decide how to judge spirits' purity he could play it however he wanted to ensure no one ever went to Heaven. He was the absolute ruler of the Underworld, no other god had a say on what happened there, not even the leader of them all.

Hades was the brother of Zeus and Poseidon, between the three of them they divided the world. Zeus would rule the heavens and the gods, Poseidon would rule the sea, and Hades was left with the Underworld. I suppose that because of that hated everything that was alive, he wanted to kill everything on the world, from humans to plants, that way the world of the dead would expand and he would be able to take control of the world without really breaking the agreement he had with his brothers.

[Poseidon wanted the same, he tried to expand the seas in order to gain control of the world, he would leave some beings alive but still thousands would die in the process so it wasn't acceptable either.]

A god of death and destruction...

[That sounded familiar. Though, fortunately the Virage Embryo never became whole, so no one will ever know what it would have been like personality wise. Probably full of rage and hatred like the Virage that were connected to it.]

He sounds exactly like a warlord trying to gain more power and territory without breaking any of the terms in treaties he may have. The only difference is that he had countless of lifetimes to work on it.

You say that as if you expected gods to be very different from humans. In my world, all the religions dictate that deities either were humans themselves first, or that they created humans following their own appearance and character. So them not being different from humans with lots of power isn't that strange.

The gods of my world are not like humans. Probably because humans are not the only race that live on Endiness.

What other races are there then?

[One can't help to be curious.]

There are the Gigantos, the Minintos, the Merfolk, and the Winglies. Though I have not seen any of the Merfolk for a long time, as they retreated deeper into the sea, and the Gigantos are nearly extinct.

Edited 2014-09-15 17:21 (UTC)

I think I can picture most of those, our myths and legends have them as well and probably there was a time when they existed but by now they are extinct. I can't picture how Winglies would look, though, the name doesn't ring any bells.

I am afraid most of them are near extinction on my world as well. There are not that many Gigantos or Minintos around anymore, and the Merfolk retreated deeper into the sea and I have not seen one in years.

As for Winglies, they look human, except their eyes are as red as blood and their hair ranges from white to silver in color. They are also able to summon wings of energy in order to fly, thus their name.

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