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7/9/2025, 5:35:14 AM
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It basically sounds like he's taking the man out of the gods.
Instead of the Lands Between operating under Greek or Norse or Japanese rules where the gods are basically people that do stuff and have personalities and identities more than they're embodiments of elements or the like, things will become more focused on the gods working as natural forces and parts of the system. Like Radahn (if he's alive) would be the God of Gravity and War, who embodies the concept of gravity in a metaphysical sense, rather than being Radahn the person that has relationships with people and is just a guy.
It also works to harmonize everything so that there's less dogmatic division, Goldmask disliked anti-heresy forces who became mere sadists and marauders who started hunting everything they disliked. Instead, he doubted the holistic breadth of the Golden Order and believed that it was incomplete. But he also held that all things are sourced from the same place (law of regression).
Goldmask's stumbling block in life was dealing with Marika and Radagon. Two people in one body who share control over the same body while being distinct from one another but also truly being one another.
This is illogical and basically impossible to rationalize clearly and his system requred a single impersonal and unitary god to work. And he couldn't figure out a way to handle that in his Age of Order and it broke him.
We solve it by killing Radagon ourselves, leaving just Marika behind.
One thing to compare Goldmask to IRL are the pseudo-monotheistic Greek and Roman Platonist philosophers.
A lot of Goldmask's philosophy and treatment of religion seem directly borrowed from Platonist writings about religion. Many of whom thought that all the traditional stories about the gods were bullshit because they were basically about people, instead of natural forces and metaphorical representations of natural forces.
It basically sounds like he's taking the man out of the gods.
Instead of the Lands Between operating under Greek or Norse or Japanese rules where the gods are basically people that do stuff and have personalities and identities more than they're embodiments of elements or the like, things will become more focused on the gods working as natural forces and parts of the system. Like Radahn (if he's alive) would be the God of Gravity and War, who embodies the concept of gravity in a metaphysical sense, rather than being Radahn the person that has relationships with people and is just a guy.
It also works to harmonize everything so that there's less dogmatic division, Goldmask disliked anti-heresy forces who became mere sadists and marauders who started hunting everything they disliked. Instead, he doubted the holistic breadth of the Golden Order and believed that it was incomplete. But he also held that all things are sourced from the same place (law of regression).
Goldmask's stumbling block in life was dealing with Marika and Radagon. Two people in one body who share control over the same body while being distinct from one another but also truly being one another.
This is illogical and basically impossible to rationalize clearly and his system requred a single impersonal and unitary god to work. And he couldn't figure out a way to handle that in his Age of Order and it broke him.
We solve it by killing Radagon ourselves, leaving just Marika behind.
One thing to compare Goldmask to IRL are the pseudo-monotheistic Greek and Roman Platonist philosophers.
A lot of Goldmask's philosophy and treatment of religion seem directly borrowed from Platonist writings about religion. Many of whom thought that all the traditional stories about the gods were bullshit because they were basically about people, instead of natural forces and metaphorical representations of natural forces.
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