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[falsehymn]

❝But I tell you, do not swear
an oath at all:
either by Heaven, for it is God’s throne;
or by the earth,
for it is His footstool;
or by Jerusalem, for it is the
city of the Great King.
And do not swear by your head,
for you cannot make even
one hair white
or black.
All you need to say is simply 'Yes' or 'No';
anything beyond this comes from
the evil one.
—Matthew 5:34-37

Comments

[trollophoroi]

Hm, well, I am, if nothing else, a bit of a hobbyist when it comes to menacing gods.

[ Talk about understatement. ]

And this Father is surely as much a Primal as any other I have dealt with.

[impacter]

One of your constructions of faith, correct?

It's too bad faith isn't that easy to break stuck in a place like this. We'd have a much less daunting task ahead of us.

[trollophoroi]

Oh, one hardly needs to break the faith of a primal's followers to deal with one. It was my greatest of inventions, back when I was... me. When I was Amon and only Amon.

A way to contain the god of the dragons.

[impacter]

That was your recognition. Goodness, I don't see why you couldn't have told me.

Was it similar to the stasis you mentioned before?

[trollophoroi]

Why share my original name with a man I found so distasteful? Though I did find it humorous to see my name amongst the demons written across your skin.

[ Anyway. ]

Though yes. Dalamud used similar concepts that were deployed to keep the god I told you of contained.

[impacter]

It's not as though it was some sort of nasty secret. You'd already told me of your cycle of rebirth, and a name is just a name... though I can't deny I'd start to get curious about the similarities. [run fast fandan]

Mm, but anyway. Was that god created in the same way as the others? For the same sort of price?

[trollophoroi]

A name is just a name, a face just a face, and I have had so many of both, but this one is... different. I was born Amon, and I suppose I must still feel strongly about being him.

[ It's complicated. ]

Though how similar I am to your demons, I wonder.

[ why would he run surely solomon wouldn't want a contact with him??? ]

Hm, Bahamut? No. Bahamut was created by the fervent prayer of dragonkind for their father to rise again after we struck him down. It had, of course, all been a ploy to harness what they created for Dalamud, and I did have to seal many of them into it alongside their primal to keep it from fading out... I doubt we would need the same with Father. We would rather he starved of faith, surely.

[impacter]

Mmm... horribly long lived, not entirely fond of humanity, playing around with souls more than the normal person you meet on the street. I have to wonder.

[Is that a joke? Who knows!]

Though it sounds like souls aren't needed for all gods. What was the difference, then, between this god of the dragons and the one you spoke of before?

[trollophoroi]

[ A snort. ]

If that is how they are, then maybe I am.

[ Are the Ascians demons? Angels? Both? Fandaniel doesn't have the context to decide, but from that description alone, who knows? ]

Ah, no. They are not. The two gods created by the original, eternal mankind used sacrifice to form themselves. The main difference is that each one had an individual agree to act as their heart. The ones made after the Sundering lacked that one important part... usually. I believe Lahabrea imparted that little hint to several individuals here and there, but that was never my business.

[impacter]

Is that why that god in particular was the one you were after? Because of that unique seat in their heart for you to fill? [He remembers Fandaniel saying he took someone's place at the heart, yes, but maybe this would explain why he couldn't just grab any god for the same means if they were so common.

He sighs, his mouth thinning as he glances toward Sika.]

If only Father or his creations were so simple like that. But they aren't.