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nellasbookplanet · 1 year ago

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The fandom god discussion is interesting, but I feel it’s sometimes hindered by an unwillingness to separate gods from mortal society, or even a sort of over-eagerness to project our own reality onto them, which simply doesn’t work. I've seen the gods referred to as rulers or tyrants demanding worship (which I kinda understand because it’s something Ludinus says in-game, though it’s funny to see fandom corners confidently repeat the inaccurate talking points of the antagonist) but more interestingly I've also seen them referred to as a higher/the highest social class, as colonizers imposing themselves on mortals, the raven queen specifically as new money. Overall these comparisons tend to talk about the gods and their actions regarding Aeor in the past and predathos/the Vanguard in the present less as if they're about saving their own lives and more as if they want to preserve their powerful position.

The gods, by their very nature, are above mortals. They cannot be compared to any mortal ruling class because they didn’t choose or strive for that power and cannot feasibly get rid of it/step down/redistribute it (nor do they actually in any sense rule; killing the raven queen, unlike killing an actual queen, will not end the 'tyranny' of death), they simply have it by virtue of being gods. Saying that’s unfair or unequal and that the gods should be killed because of it is akin to saying it’s unfair a mountain is bigger than you and demanding it be levelled, except the gods, unlike mountains, are living, feeling beings who shouldn’t have to die because some people can’t stand the idea of not always being top dog. Thing is, the gods themselves ultimately understood this power imballance and that they can't help but hurt Exandria the way humans can't help but step on bugs, and thus removed themselves from the equation by creating the divine gate. Saying this isn’t enough and that they're clinging to power is just demanding they line themselves up to be killed.

#critical role #cr3 #downfall #nella talks cr #ultimately all these 'ruling class' comparisons are simply flawed and don’t work when under the slightest bit of scrutiny #gods arent rulers or tyrants bc they don’t rule and can't be deposed #they are representantations and guardians of (mostly natural) concepts #and those concepts won’t go away bc you killed the gods. death and nature and the fucking sun will still remain #they aren’t colonizers of mortals (wtf lmao) who demand they be worshiped and mortals live according to their oppressive rule #again did you watch calamity? not even before the divine gate did the gods demand worship or even respect #they were never less respected than during the age of arcanum and still they were just chilling #(until someone released the betrayers and they had to step in to stop the ultimate destruction of exandria)#technically you could argue they were colonizers against the titans but even that feels like a stretch #the titans to me feel less like people and more like representations of the chaotic and deathly side of nature #being angry they were killed sounds like being angry someone stopped a hurricane just bc the hurricane was there first #I'm sorry but that hurricane would've flattened you. it wouldn’t appreciate your support bc it isn't a person #and 'a higher social class' fucking NEW MONEY? this is just blatant projection #I'm sorry but not everything more powerful than you is a stand in for oppression #sometimes it’s a narrative stand in for nature and i promise nature isn't oppressing you

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