by Shieba » 04/01/2012 8:48 PM
"I hope we can meet again and you can tell me how it went!" All that talking and scheming had made Rosy pretty excited despite the fact that she didn't even really knew Julian. "But seriously, staying here? This place is creepy! There are monsters here sometimes. Dad just takes me here to teach me how to send the souls of dying creatures to the afterlife." She wasn't sure what a 'Wald' was - a wall, a vault? - but she doubted that anything here was non-creepy. Since she didn't really want to think about these things, talking about family matters was far more preferred. "Not just with Dad and Symona! I have another, little sister, too - Mom and Dad sure are busy! She's still a small child, but totally weird in the head. All she cares about are ducks! My family is way crazy. But I guess I prefer insane children over boring fathers."
Gemas meanwhile was still trying to comprehend how Evelon worked. "If you do not know how it worked, there is no use in speculating about it", he finally decided. If even Julian didn't know how his body got to be the way it had been, there was nothing he could find out. The next question bothered him even more anyway. "Up to fate, you say? Even such important matters are simply random in this world? What about the one who created everything in this realm? Did the creator not decide these things? My sister, she is not happy with being the Master of Life since she feels that we half-mortal gods do not get the acknowledgement the light and dark gods do. But she can talk to the Creator about it. I do not want to imagine a world where gods get their roles at random and no one regulates these things. Those unhappy might try to escape their fate and upset the order." Gemas sighed. "I am sorry if these questions bother you. For someone who was a normal mortal, it must seem unimportant to figure these things out compared to what burden your fate already is. It is just for me, as a godly being, that such things are very interesting."
Gemas frowned. "I do not see how it matters what your friend believed in. There is one belief system that is right and the others who are wrong, correct? Even if she believed in something not existing, she would get judged by the true system. But you are right, emotions are powerful. They are what drive mortals to pick their paths. But still, for them to be powerful enough to break the boundary...that is something I have never heard of, though it might just be my world being different from yours again."
"For you not being able to pass on to the afterlife, though, that is a difficult matter...I am not sure that sending you would fail." Gemas pondered this. "Though this is not my world, my powers still remain and our worlds are different from each other in such a vast way that I might just have the ability to succeed." He sighed. "Would you listen to another long-winded explanation of mine? I might be able to explain to you why I believe I might succeed and then you can give me your opinion on it? I need to start with some irrelevant-seeming knowledge to make you understand, though." There was a slightly horrified noise from Rosy that she tended to always make when he was holding a speech, but he ignored that. "As I told you, the light and dark god of my world are immortal. This is true for all four worlds of the Creator. In the last of the four, the white and dark gods are pacifists who duel through manipulation and subtle means. Both gods sell technology to the humans - the dark god because he believes that the humans will destroy themselves and the world with it. Things look good for him, seemingly, but only because the light god believes that the humans will realize the plan and turn against the darkness. The dark god disguises himself as a human and has a big company, ruling it as the richest man in the world, pulling the strings as the great manipulator from behind the scenes. The white god does the same, but does not have the fame or riches. But because the dark god knows that he cannot die, he reaches for perfection already during the fight, calculating that the Creator does not want Her creation to fall that easily, given the way She set the balance up, which is seemingly frustrating to both gods. It is terrible for the dark beings since they want to destroy the world and return to the perfection of the chaos, but even the try to do so keeps the balance and helps to maintain the world. And it is frustrating for the light beings because they want to save the world, but a victory would mean the destruction through stagnation. Yet it only is seemingly so. The problem of the darkness is that every action they take causes the opposite of what they want to happen. But for the light, this only happens in the case of their victory. But they cannot win at all, since gods cannot die! And because they cannot win...they already won. Do you understand? There will never be an end of the world through stagnation. The dark god can do whatever he wants - as long as that fact holds true, the light is victorious, no matter how much the dark god towers over the white one. The white god wants to keep the world safe and seemingly, so does the Creator - he does not need riches or manipulation, for the Creator alone is his victory. And because of that, he wishes the dark god good luck in his search for perfection, because if he manages to find it, both have won and then the world truly would be perfect."
"But the Creator is fair to all beings in Her creation. This problem is only in regards to the god's immortality. It has never been specified how the darkness should go about in destroying the world. Sure, destroying the other god is the straightforward way, but no one says it is the only one. If the dark god succeeds in his plan to make the humans kill each other and everything else, is that not a 'destroyed world'? If all of the Creator's creation is dead, there is little use for Her in keeping that world around. That is what all dark gods aim for - one in his manipulative way, the others with violence. Even if light and darkness remain at the end, but all humans are in the realm of the dead, it still holds true that such a world, with the creation in ruins, counts as a victory for the darkness, because without human life, the Masters of Life and Death are without use - there would be no more souls to judge and rebirth. And if that system breaks down, so will the world. So the winning conditions for the dark beings are different. They have an actual, working chance to reach their goal. At the same time, the light beings are not allowed to win, but that cannot happen anyway and because of that, they are victorious as long as they keep the darkness in check. The Creator is fair, but in the end, She wants Her creation to remain, otherwise She would not have bothered to create everything in the first place. She loves us, her children, and because of that, She does not allow us all to simply die like that." Gemas made a small break to allow poor Julian to catch up with him, in case the man wasn't completely lost yet. "But there is another reason why the Creator forces the darkness to take the long way around instead of allowing them to kill the white god to make things faster. If the white beings are, right now, victorious, would it not be fair to make the white god mortal? As long as the dark one is immortal, the white one can be content and assured of the victory he has right now in this part of the battle. If the white beings are happy with their opponents being immortal, is it not unfair that the dark ones are unhappy with the same applying to their opponents? The answer is simple - and no, it is not to make the starting conditions the same. It is because the Creator does not want to bind the survival of all mortal beings who do not wish to return to chaos to the survival of a single, other being. The dark beings have to take the long way so that the humans contribute to the battle as well instead of being forced to just watch how a different race fights the battle for them. She forces the darkness to deal with the humans to destroy them. It seems cruel, but it is not - the humans can fight for themselves and they prove it in all worlds and the white gods have trust in them. The humans are important to the Creator; too important to make them simple spectators. And now, we slowly get to where we want to go."
Gemas started to pace up and down; he was obviously used to hold something that was close to lectures and from the look Rosy threw him every now and then, it was pretty clear that she tended to be at the recieving end of them. "As I said, the dark god of that particular world poses as a human and tries to reach perfection by studying them. From what I told you, you might guess that it is because humans are light and darkness at once and therefore closer to chaos and the perfection it brings. But that also means that they are part darkness like him. Why is he not studying the white god? In this case, he would be the part the dark one is missing: The light. As they are pacifists, they worked together before. The reason is that it is not about the light. It is because humans have something that neither god has - the choice of picking their own path. This is something no other god but the Creator has. Because of that and not because of his plan for destruction the dark god disguises himself as a human; wears human clothing instead of creating them, allows the humans to interact with him like if he would be one of their own, allows it that the humans do not even know about his true existance and pray to other, false gods - and it is the same for the white one. They want to understand what they do not have. But the dark god is so very proud about how close he is to perfection and about his vast knowledge - and still he does not deem it degrading to pose as a human. And the reason why he does it and why he does not feel like it is degrading is the fact that I want to show you. Look at what I told you about the Masters of Life and Death. They are gods and yet not, because they are mortal despite their power. And they are humans and yet not because despite being neutral, they do not have the free choice you humans have since they are opposites as well and bound to their positions. They are both and yet none, because if they would be both, they would be perfection!"
Gemas looked straight at Julian. "You humans pick your own path and get the result at the end of your life, but you do not have godly powers to really influence the fate of the world. The light and dark gods have that power, but no choice of what to do with it. And the Masters of Life and Death have a half of both and end with the same sum as the others. The humans are important to the Creator and that exactly as much as the gods! The Masters of Life and Death are also not weaker, less important gods, like you might believe. The Creator has both those things that She has Herself, power and free choice, divided up between humans and gods while having both fully Herself means that She is perfection. And none is better than the other. You as a human have something that the gods are missing and the gods have something that you are missing. Gods and humans are absolutely equal! Both have one half of perfection!" He sighed. "But of course it is alright that humans pray to gods. Because if we look at my world and the way it works, then the humans have seemingly gotten the worse deal. Their lives are so short that they cannot use as much of their half of perfection as the gods can. And that is why the light god shares with them. He uses his powers to stop human souls from returning to chaos after death. Instead, he built the realms of the dead in which they get a bit what they are missing - a part of immortality, as long as the worlds exist, and a bit of power to create a body for their souls again and whatever else they desire, at least in Prahna. That is also why there is Rarohenga, since he only want to share with those who are worthy. Sadly, it does not work the other way round; humans cannot share the gift of free choice with the light beings. All religions there are in the worlds revolve around death and the afterlife because it is there where humans notice what they are missing and what a god can give them. And this is why it is completely alright that there is a hierarchy in the world. However - the Creator lives outside of Her worlds. For Her, this hierarchy does not exist. For Her, both is equal. And this is why for Her, you would not be 'just a human'. You are not worse or weaker than my Master or even the light or dark gods. You are different since the parts of perfection are differently distributed in you than in them. A human has the same value for the Creator as a god, which is why She forces the gods to deal with them since they deserve the same chance as the gods to defend or destroy the world because of that."
"And this is what I want to tell you: In my world you are not worse than a god, just different. A human has the same rights as a god in my world and my Master - and with that, me - considers himself a servant to the humans anyway since he sorts and sends souls. In this world, it seems that humans are inferior to gods, with gods punishing them as they see fit. But my powers were given to me by the Creator who puts humans and gods on equal value and because of that, I might just be able to send you. Do you understand?" Gemas sat back down and looked at Julian, waiting to see if the poor man had managed to comprehend everything.
Rosy had stared at her father and now that he had finally shut up turned back to Valdemar. "Are you sure Julian is fine? I think my ears are bleeding by now and that without me really listening. You're totally right - let's get out of here as long as Dad is busy with breaking Julian's brain. I'm not sure if your friend will be sane afterwards, though." The idea to leave this cursed place appealed to Rosy a lot. "The weather is so nice, let's go back outside. And I'd love to meet your people! I can teleport anyway, so it's all good. Really, teleportation is the only good power I got from Dad, even though he uses it freely himself to suddenly appear behind me and attack me with an avalance of one million words. Think your people could survive that, too? I'd find it fun if Dad would suddenly appear in their midst and everyone would prank him then, though!" The thought of that was simply hilarious. "In this case, you should totally borrow a camera so that you can also take pictures of my Dad then, haha!" She slowly turned into the direction of the entrance and started to walk, hoping that no one would catch her and Valdemar.
I know my dreams are made of you
Of you and only for you
Your ocean pulls me under
Your voice tears me asunder
Love me before the last petal fallsHowever cold the wind and rain
I'll be there to ease your pain
However cruel the mirrors of sin
Remember beauty is found within