Exactly so. Zodiark was in fact developed using the concept of 'deity' as a base, and some claim that even without any effort to make it so, the primal had such power as to temper the minds of men.
[Venat does not believe it. But she will at least credit that those who said it believed it, or told themselves they did at the very least.]
A magnificent example of accomplishing something through combined magic that no individual could have done alone. Proof, some have said, of the virtue and glory of our kind, that half our number would willingly and gladly sacrifice themselves to preserve the other half.
[Suddenly, almost violently, she shakes her head, then lifts it.] But that is a path down which dark memories and cold thoughts dwell, and those are less suitable for the present time than they might be at others. I find myself speaking so often of our flaws as a people and society that I neglect to mention how wonderful it all was, for century upon century.
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Date: 2024-07-04 10:14 pm (UTC)[Venat does not believe it. But she will at least credit that those who said it believed it, or told themselves they did at the very least.]
A magnificent example of accomplishing something through combined magic that no individual could have done alone. Proof, some have said, of the virtue and glory of our kind, that half our number would willingly and gladly sacrifice themselves to preserve the other half.
[Suddenly, almost violently, she shakes her head, then lifts it.] But that is a path down which dark memories and cold thoughts dwell, and those are less suitable for the present time than they might be at others. I find myself speaking so often of our flaws as a people and society that I neglect to mention how wonderful it all was, for century upon century.