- Location
- England
Okay, maybe i was exaggerating when i said most gods, but for some of them this has to be true.
For the multitude.
Let's say you had a steady job before. The job security was "let's hope a manager doesn't notice me", but you'd managed to hold onto that job for the last few millennia, and you had plans to keep holding it. Sure your workload is endless, and seems to septuple whenever the bosses had a party, but that job also gave you some meaning in your life.
One day you join an initiative to make things better, get rid of your bosses and live free to do what you want. Big improvement right.
But no. the only thing that changes for you is that you've lost your job. Sure everyone else is happier now, but you've gone from a steady stable life doing something, to one where you're a beggar on the streets. Anyone who tells you to be grateful about the change doesn't seem to understand what that's meant for you personally and what you've lost because of it.
When I say most gods would prefer the time before, I meant it as most of them would prefer to go back to a time when they weren't hobos. That the pain they're feeling now would seem a lot clearer than the pain they distantly remember having to endure a few centuries ago. That listening to people who have jobs telling you that this is a great improvement doesn't seem that true to you anymore.
Going from free hobo, back to low level office worker in a large corporation would seem attractive.
One day you join an initiative to make things better, get rid of your bosses and live free to do what you want. Big improvement right.
But no. the only thing that changes for you is that you've lost your job. Sure everyone else is happier now, but you've gone from a steady stable life doing something, to one where you're a beggar on the streets. Anyone who tells you to be grateful about the change doesn't seem to understand what that's meant for you personally and what you've lost because of it.
When I say most gods would prefer the time before, I meant it as most of them would prefer to go back to a time when they weren't hobos. That the pain they're feeling now would seem a lot clearer than the pain they distantly remember having to endure a few centuries ago. That listening to people who have jobs telling you that this is a great improvement doesn't seem that true to you anymore.
Going from free hobo, back to low level office worker in a large corporation would seem attractive.
For the righteous
The laws of Cecylene from before would bar beggar and king alike from sleeping beneath bridges. But they would have been enforced on both beggars and kings. The nature of SHLIHM would mean that any projects no matter how trivial or monstrous, would be run as efficiently as possible. The primordials essentially treated the gods like creations background OS there to facilitate whatever they desired in the quickest way possible, while maintaining the state of creation.
That meant that Yu Shan had to work.
When something happened it would have appropriate resources attached to them with support from all relevant departments to achieve whatever was required. Corruption wouldn't happen on any real scale as that would lead to inefficiencies that would get the entities responsible purged.
For some people living in modern heaven, that wouldn't seem so bad. An environment where things just work again without a hundred brides and favours changing hands. Where you can just do your work without wondering whether being friends with that person would get you fired tomorrow, or that someone will force you to abuse your office just to advance their agenda.
For a righteous soul who just wants heaven to work, and to save creation, the work ethic of the gods in the time of glory may be something they look back on enviously.
You know if they didn't think to hard about the fact that most primordials didn't give the gods enough thought to consider them slaves, more like background noise.
That meant that Yu Shan had to work.
When something happened it would have appropriate resources attached to them with support from all relevant departments to achieve whatever was required. Corruption wouldn't happen on any real scale as that would lead to inefficiencies that would get the entities responsible purged.
For some people living in modern heaven, that wouldn't seem so bad. An environment where things just work again without a hundred brides and favours changing hands. Where you can just do your work without wondering whether being friends with that person would get you fired tomorrow, or that someone will force you to abuse your office just to advance their agenda.
For a righteous soul who just wants heaven to work, and to save creation, the work ethic of the gods in the time of glory may be something they look back on enviously.
You know if they didn't think to hard about the fact that most primordials didn't give the gods enough thought to consider them slaves, more like background noise.
For the compassionate
This one's actually pretty simple. If your portfolio contained something that was purged by the victors of either usurpation, and you cared about it in any way, then you'd be disinclined to back them further. The events involved a lot of things being wiped out in a very short period of time. That could make the comparatively sedate rate of devastation from before the events seem less harsh in comparison, especially as the earlier devastation rarely had any lasting effects.
Moreover, with each cycle of new rulers taking the crown, creation has gotten weaker and smaller. Looking back to the past, and hoping that the old rulers could bring back the plethora of life back to creation, that they could return it to a state where it was better safeguarded from threats that wanted to end its existence, would not be unusual.
The fact that even back then creation was merely being slowly roasted rather than actually on fire, may not register while creation is trying to but out another massive blaze
Moreover, with each cycle of new rulers taking the crown, creation has gotten weaker and smaller. Looking back to the past, and hoping that the old rulers could bring back the plethora of life back to creation, that they could return it to a state where it was better safeguarded from threats that wanted to end its existence, would not be unusual.
The fact that even back then creation was merely being slowly roasted rather than actually on fire, may not register while creation is trying to but out another massive blaze
It should be perfectly reasonable for a god to look at modern creation and say that for them, from their perspective, things used to be better.
The fact that for 99% of creation that not true. The fact that even for them it likely would not be true long term shouldn't matter.
The fact that Yu-Shan has fallen far enough that that could even be a reasonable argument, that that line of thought could sway gods at every level of the heavenly bureaucracy to back the Yozi for reasons beyond greed is a sign of how much glory it has lost.
The fact that whatever benefits that the time of glory could of had on the society of the gods as a side-effect of their subjugation, were completely lost when their old masters became the Yozi makes any who follow this line of thought destined for tragedy.
For while the apathy of those that made them may have brought some relief to them in their chains before, the endless malice they hold for them now makes the return of the Yozi the worst possible fate that could befall the gods.
