"Only in my company, will you not be a monster"
anywhere than here
It would be a really myopic god that does not tell Solomon to destroy the pillars in the first place. After all, Goetia does say that the historical Solomon is the only Solomon that can defeat it.
Then again, god works in mysterious ways, etc, etc. I want a 4koma about God throwing the rings back into Roman's face.
Why not summon a caster?
Maybe it was a necessary event
The pillars going out of control created Guda, allowed him to befriend every servant, and created a hero that would save the world from the beasts.
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Pretty much every instance of god letting bad thing happen in stories like this, is because preventing it would also prevent necessary or better thing from happening. Saving one would kill ten people down the road. Therefore the one had to suffer, so that more would be saved. The situation would still work out in the end, but something far greater would be created due to the momentary pain.
In a way, God let everyone gain something from this. He fulfilled Solomn's dream of becoming human and let Beast I learn the wonders of human life with mortality AND diretcted events so Beast IV can be defeated. After all, Grand Order sees the defeat of three Beasts in 1 1/2 year.
'Bestial nature' would be better than what you have now. Isn't that what writers normally go for when talking about that kind of thing?
Originally Posted by FSF 5, Chapter 14: Gold and Lions IThough abandoned, forgotten, and scorned as out-of-date dolls, they continue to carry out their mission, unchanged from the time they were designed.
Machines do not lose their worth when a newer model appears.
Their worth (life) ends when humans can no longer bear that purity.
Actually, it's not strange if you compare the Bible and Jewish traditional stories, more notoriously the legend of the Lesser Key that he allegedly made for guides on magic invocations.
The problem comes in the fact that the Old Testament God of the Bible punishes Israeli people for dabbling in magic rituals (and New Testament God still condemns people who knew "Satan's deep secrets"), yet Jewish traditional stories accept Solomon's making of the Lesser Key and Adam meeting Lilith as legit history.
Not dealing with it...
Why even try?
This is golden...
God has infinite prep-time
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Story of Saul who came before David is an example of someone being punished for getting involved in magic or rituals instead of having faith.
http://biblehub.com/niv/1_samuel/28.htm
Gods with more then one function are more likely to become irrational, based on what Enkidu explained. Monotheistic deities must have it tough.
As far as magic goes, before Solomon, only people who were servants of gods could use magecraft. I assume Solomon throwing the rings back in Gods face and deteriorating the AoG had something to do with the whole switch, plus we know Solomon was the one who made a magecraft humans could use.
Biblical Solomon was no perfect saint of God, either. He ended up seduced by some of his many, many, many wives into setting up cults and temples for pagan gods, leading to the destruction of Israel of the upteenth time after Solomon died.
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Originally Posted by FSF 5, Chapter 14: Gold and Lions IThough abandoned, forgotten, and scorned as out-of-date dolls, they continue to carry out their mission, unchanged from the time they were designed.
Machines do not lose their worth when a newer model appears.
Their worth (life) ends when humans can no longer bear that purity.
Who knows. I mean it will be cool if God planned for everything, include the eventual deterioration and end of AoG as a form of trust in humanity, letting them reap what they sowed instead of governing over them.
am still not sure whether Erik can always talk all along eloquently even with ME, or its really just Gunnhildr lifting the ME for him at SOlomon
I know she speaks through him in his interlude but--
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was it ever cleared up which 'God' is talking to Jeanne and Solomon, by the way? Or do we just assume it's Akasha because it's just sitting at the top.
Well, that's embarrassing. Seems that I was so worried in being faithful to the original meaning that I didn't pay enough attention to this kind of double meaning. I'll have that fixed, sorry.
And now I have this mental-image of Goetia suddenly turning into a dragon, or something similar that might appear on Mortal Kombat.
Anyway, if you guys can see any other issues, please feel free to tell me.
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