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starslayer · 08-17-2017, 05:08 PM

The Abyss- expansion

The thing about the abyss is that, it's not a unified government, its not a singular body. Demon's don't like each other, and the only reason they follow another is because they have been dominated, curtailed, or fear such again.

As such there are almost as many demons attempting to retard the spread of the abyss as there are those trying to spread it. Make no mistake, very few of these demons are 'noble', 'good' or even 'not sociopath mass murderers'; what they are is SELFISH- the longer they can keep a world from falling apart the longer they can get exclusive or semi-exclusive 'feeding rights'.

Even the demon lords don't act in concert, there warped natures prevents them from directly visiting worlds until they are more abyss than separate world-line- and they are forever hatching schemes to have followers on those worlds enact great rituals that transform the world enough to admit them (and only THEM not the other demon lords).

It is the damage from those attempts and scheming and kidnapping missions to feed the various demon lords that eventually plummets a world into the abyss. Even with the eventuality of getting SOME of the souls once the world falls, demon lords will routinely work to 'shore up' a world that they have a strong presence in to keep it more exclusively in their domain.

Thus while it can be argued that it is an eventuality that every world will eventually fall to the abyss, it is more practically like talking about the heat death or cold death of a universe.

Ironically worlds with low manna, or no manna (which the demons arrive to via other means) are generally plummeted to the abyss sooner, as the difficulty of operating there tends to lead to a 'feeding frenzy' by whoever found it first, and without ambient manna the demons cannot 'shore up' the world.

08-17-2017, 05:08 PM	#188
starslayer Join Date: Dec 2006	Re: Alternate Crosstime Organizations The Abyss- expansion The thing about the abyss is that, it's not a unified government, its not a singular body. Demon's don't like each other, and the only reason they follow another is because they have been dominated, curtailed, or fear such again. As such there are almost as many demons attempting to retard the spread of the abyss as there are those trying to spread it. Make no mistake, very few of these demons are 'noble', 'good' or even 'not sociopath mass murderers'; what they are is SELFISH- the longer they can keep a world from falling apart the longer they can get exclusive or semi-exclusive 'feeding rights'. Even the demon lords don't act in concert, there warped natures prevents them from directly visiting worlds until they are more abyss than separate world-line- and they are forever hatching schemes to have followers on those worlds enact great rituals that transform the world enough to admit them (and only THEM not the other demon lords). It is the damage from those attempts and scheming and kidnapping missions to feed the various demon lords that eventually plummets a world into the abyss. Even with the eventuality of getting SOME of the souls once the world falls, demon lords will routinely work to 'shore up' a world that they have a strong presence in to keep it more exclusively in their domain. Thus while it can be argued that it is an eventuality that every world will eventually fall to the abyss, it is more practically like talking about the heat death or cold death of a universe. Ironically worlds with low manna, or no manna (which the demons arrive to via other means) are generally plummeted to the abyss sooner, as the difficulty of operating there tends to lead to a 'feeding frenzy' by whoever found it first, and without ambient manna the demons cannot 'shore up' the world.