Originally Posted by
Arbitrarity
Well, it's a somewhat different story, being an alternate timeline, but it does look fun.
I was going to question "3000 years" but then remembered "AC" is "After Cataclysm". Fitting. It's hard to speculate that far out. On the one hand, I feel like given even a few hundred years, Erik would have progressed about as far as we're shown. The scale (floating islands!) is impressive, but seems like a decade-long problem, not century-long. I can imagine shrinking all the timescales by a factor of 10, and things would work roughly the same, except for the progression of culture (which is relevant, i.e. Amakusa Shirou's issues with Fatebinding).
On the other hand, you've explicitly mentioned humanity being weakened (and a general loss of faith) affecting the power of divinity, so that would be relevant. Plus, he was hindered by active attacks for the first couple thousand years, and I can probably assume he's keeping a lot of the good stuff for himself, so we aren't going to see it until it's needed. Paranoia is a fun purview.
For the relatively light level of detail and massive time-skips, this does a good job of portraying the feeling of slow, inevitable decline. The lava fields are an evocative symbol, and it continues to capture the Dark Souls aesthetic. That said, some of the language choices are a bit rough, but if you've been rewriting this for a year and a half, I can imagine wanting to ship it. Looking forward to seeing what three thousand years of preparation by a God of Paranoia yields.