And then they just walk right into their hands, huh?
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If gods are existing right there alongside humans, it's probably be to expected they won't be acting anything other than human. All the way down to their wants, desires and goals. It's when you raise them up as something more than that, that's when you run into trouble.
But that's the point, you see. You raise them up, and treat them as something else, another being, and that god simply buries the flaws like a child burying a precious thing under sand and takes that treatment for granted.
If you blow that sand all away, why-! They're exposed for what they really are. In the end...they're just as weak as anything else.
[Are you speaking from experience, Douman.]/small>
[ or depending on the fire emblem route you're on: off the entire string and going feral, or misguided and just a bit sad. ]
Sometimes they have the power to back themselves up, though. Or, that seems to be the fact with the gods I'm thinking of. But even then, they can be defeated because they're a physical presence in the world.
Politics? Choking the power hold of the Church and lessening it so it's not wide reaching? That's up to the leaders to figure out, instead of infighting their way into a country-wide brawl.
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If gods are existing right there alongside humans, it's probably be to expected they won't be acting anything other than human. All the way down to their wants, desires and goals. It's when you raise them up as something more than that, that's when you run into trouble.
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If you blow that sand all away, why-! They're exposed for what they really are. In the end...they're just as weak as anything else.
[Are you speaking from experience, Douman.]/small>
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Sometimes they have the power to back themselves up, though. Or, that seems to be the fact with the gods I'm thinking of. But even then, they can be defeated because they're a physical presence in the world.
[ is... is he? douman? r u ok. ]
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[A...rueful sort of smile?]
Has anyone in your world ever thought about tearing down a god, Yuri?
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Yeah. And the church while they're at it. And the system that society was built on alongside it all.
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Mmmhmm. [A huff.] But its certainly possible. Do you want to see that happen?
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I don't exactly disagree with the finer points of the argument? Just the execution. And what it puts in harm's way.
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Is there any way to turn the course of said war, then? Or do you think its already too late?
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Probably. Something has already shifted, but maybe not in the way everyone would have hoped.
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Is it something you hoped for?
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Mm. Put a pin in that one, I'll get back to you.
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[A smile, as they drink.]
This really must be the chance of a lifetime.
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Who knows what'll come of it. The revolution's a back concern at the end of the day, but if getting involved will stop it sooner then... worth it.
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Best of luck, hm! Though when you said "mine and my own" earlier...your people? Your country?
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[ he looks ... not hugely bothered. ]
I'm not completely on my own, after all.
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