Xar wrote:True, I did want more inter-deity conflict... as I said, for the most part P2 was "everybody against Nor Yekith", and after Nor left, it was pretty much "let's all hug each other and endure the disasters" until Asta came along, and then the World Breaker shook things up. Don't get me wrong, deities getting along are nice, but if everyone plays a good deity, then the player(s) who want(s) to play an evil deity are at a disadvantage because they'd be alone against the whole Pantheon, and would be crushed as soon as immunity ended. Having deities running the whole gamut of personalities allows for more intrigue.
Granted, that is largely correct. However, I fed fuel to the fire by creating
Yekithii. Had I played the game more subtly, like I had intended (mutating most of a continent was a spontaneous action, because I was concerned Nor Yekith was not being malicious enough), I think my god would have lasted longer. Certainly, I had some wonderful wonderful schemes in place . . .
As for the playing an evil god. Well, I have always chosen Malice deliberately for Nor Yekith. Simply because with Mutation, it's a fascinating combination. In
my mind, Nor Yekith is an evil god.
Without doubt. But that's not what matters. The whole point of playing the god is to try and not play him evil, because
philosophically he can't be. It then becomes an issue of semantics, contextual systems, cultural values, and what Nor Yekith loves to argue about, aesthetics. That is,
judgements. In this way, mutation is in reality a philosophical exploration of the value system - or the aesthetics of objects: Malice 'defused' in an entirely subjective system.
That's what I love about playing him - I have to take on board this 'framework' system, and play with language, and at the same time fanatically treat
everything as objective, material goods, useful only for some purposeful
function. If at any moment I sit back and allow Nor Yekith to believe that there is a framework - other value systems - outside of his worldview, then his sense of righteousness falls apart and he is faced seeing himself as somehow evil.
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