Volume 20 Page 06
Mar19
on March 19, 2015
at 7:20 pm
Still trying to load pages properly on a Chromebook. It is astounding how huge a step backwards all these little toys are compared to an actual PC. Working on a Chromebook is about as user-friendly as dialup, and trying to do anything on my girlfriend’s tablet is like trying to run OpenOffice on a Speak-and-Spell.
Could the last chain have something to do with the sword?
Smart money says that the last chain requires the sword flood (also “judge”, “punish” and drown) the world of Channaxi. Part of Yamra’s whole deal was tying terrible things happening to the breaking of any chains. Effectively, Okidesha’s prison was guarded by the “hostage” of all the crap that’s fine wrong while trying to free her.
One f the ironies of this is that it means to undo Gurahl’s work (Tamantha) they have to do his work (punish Channaxi, wreak destruction upon Whatsits the dragon city, etc.)
Wait…that doesn’t make sense. If the sword flood would cause the last chain to break…then maresh is shooting himself in the foot. He would be doing the very thing he is trying to prevent. Nobody would have to oppose Maresh to free Okidesha…just evacuate the world and let Maresh give the planet a bath.
Different planet, different sin, different prophecy.
Channaxi is Titan, where all the Maklaks went. A colony world (sort of) where they built their own future and society, and which is doomed to be “judged by The Sword of Gurahl” (aka drowned when the giant magic cloud comes down and floods the planet) because reasons. The reasons (from what I gather) are that the Maklaks are sinful and wicked. Presumably they built their own secular governments and started thinking and philosophizing beyond flinching and psychotic obedience to the the heavy-handed edicts and commandments of the fundamentally psychotic and evil gods. This planned apocalypse was foretold, and in foretelling it tied to Okidesha’s bindings, presumably both because if-then prophecies make binding magic stronger and because it gives the Maklaks a vested interest in keeping Okidesha chained up, since the gods (for all their power) can fail and be killed by the meddling and manipulations of mortals. It also means that in order to break Okidesha’s chain you have to kill a planet full of people, you monster.
Chalt is Earth(ish), the cradle where life springs and where the main action with Anthem and them are. It is full of completely DIFFERENT sinful people and has no particular “judgement” hanging over it. Yamra ruled it (nominally) and didn’t have an apocalypse planned.
Maresh is stealing The Sword from Channaxi’s airspace and pulling it to Chalt, where he will flood most of the planet. The goal is to drown everyone not on the high ground (which he presumably controls and/or has a good chance of controlling) and at the same time make it impossible for Channaxi to be “judged” because The Sword will have fallen elsewhere.
Presumably, even if the water was pulled back later and Channaxi was destroyed by drowning, or any other means, (such as a deathless army of god-flesh-fueled zebra-striped leech monster people) that would still not “count” for the purposes of chain-breaking, so Okidesha would still not have the godly power she needs to break Tamantha. Also Maresh probably intends to kill and eat her, nom nom gods.
End result, Maresh guarantees that Tamantha remains and creates an apocalypse that “cleanses” Chalt (mostly) in one move.
At least, that’s if I’m reading this thing right. Metaphysics is weird. We don’t *know* that the Judgement of Channaxi is the end.
Also, presumably evacuating worlds is really hard. I don’t know how hard since all the Maklak women were murdered in one war (the logistics of true Genocide are surprisingly difficult to reconcile) and it’s possible that people HAVE to die as part of the prophecy/ritual/judging of the planet to make the chain break.
Okay, I see where I got confused at. Still…something seems…off.
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What if the final chain is related to the failure of the prophecy? While you are right that the result of breaking the chain would cause havoc(likely intentionally as you pointed out) it seems out of place for a being that fancied itself a moral authority to take such a simple tact. It would relate to some kind of moral law or idea. The punishment for breaking that idea is the resulting havoc.
Not enough information for me to conjecture further. Without understanding what idea is at the heart of the matter we can’t guess what needs to happen to break the chain and how to avoid the judgement by sword. If avoiding the sword is, indeed, what is needed.