04-16-2012, 01:28 AM | #11 | ||
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Seattle
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Re: Shedim of Malphas are just... wow...
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Even Malphas isn't an anarchist, not in practice (I suppose utter anarchy might be an ideal for him). He loves organized religion for the schisms it creates, for example. He also values subtlety (look at his Principality). He knows that dismantling every single relationship between every single being will take time--a lot of time--and isn't going to unleash a town-wrecking Shedite with orders to cause as much damage as possible in a short time.* *Obvious caveat: ...unless that provides an excellent smokescreen for some other plot. Malphas is complicated. Quote:
2) A single traumatic event doesn't always do as much damage to people's lives as the systematic destruction of a human's psyche that leaves him unable to interact meaningfully with any other human for the rest of his life (a Faction of one...), and that leaves a gaping, irreconcilable hole in the lives of everyone with whom he previously interacted. A single event might be destructive enough, but a more complete Shedimization is guaranteed. 3) That's not true, and the key word is "influence". Given how many more humans there are than Corporeally active celestials, and how humans (as social beings [animals, Jordi would say]) 'trend' and prioritize group cohesion, influencing humanity is far more important than changing a human. Put in...other terms, celestials can "hack" a human the way anarchists can take down a website with denial of service attacks, but that's crude and ultimately ineffective--the best celestials are the ones who pump out memes into humanity. Turning a prude into a depraved sex addict makes that human a slave of Lust, but addicting every teenaged male in America to internet porn is a massive gain for Andrealphus--and Hell. Helping one neighborhood band together for protection serves the Word of Stone, but creating the Neighborhood Watch program is a victory for Stone everywhere, and Heaven's win as well. The interesting thing about this is that demonic resonances are much better at blunt force hacking and angelic resonances are much better at meme propagation. This explains why the Demon Princes needed to go with a "more but weaker" strategy in the War.
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