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Divine Nihilism

Commander Gwyneth Balassar, when she at last exited the cathedral, was entirely matted with blood and fibrous tissue, so much so that you could not reckon where her dark leathers ended and bronzed skin began. Her face was measured, deliberately constructed in its apathy in such a way as to brook no questioning. So it was only I who had the courage to ask if her god had acquiesced.

Said she in mulled response, No. He said that we are not a world worth divine aid and that if we are so inclined, perhaps we might save ourselves.
Journal of Radden Orriester, 1294

Tenets within the Law


Divine Intervention is Ultimately Futile

Futility of the relationship between gods and men
The gods believe that divine intervention in all its forms is both thankless and destructive. Each time they have intervened with humanity's natural course, at best it has proved meaningless—at worst, calamitous for both mortals and themselves. Thus it stands to reason, why interfere at all when it can only further destroy the world?

Human and Divine Nature are Irreconcilable

Futility of gods and men individually
The Last Godstorm showed that both the gods and mortals are innately self-destructive and hostile toward their own kinds. Because of this, they are bound to make a living hell of both the mortal and immortal realms, and so any effort to improve the world and/or prevent this inevitability—from either side—is worthless.

The Traitor and the Harbinger
Though most of the gods are guided by this idea, there are a few stark exceptions. Some of the younger minor deities hold more nuanced beliefs, however the sworn agreement within the pantheon compells them to still follow by the two main tenets. While there have been several occassions since the Last Godstorm and Rape of the Imperium on which these tenets have been broken, the majority of instances are attributed to the minor gods of war and strife.

In the current age Ulfur and Xaltra are the main proponents of divine intervention. This is not to say that they do, in practice, interfere with the course of humankind; it only means that, in theory, they may be willing should the right circumstances arise.

Origin of the Law

The Last Godstorm (1261)

The Last Godstorm ended with the arcanic and other minor deities inadvertently killing the three major gods—Casper, Axen, and Beatrix. Thus Eava (and the arcanic deities) made the rest of the pantheon swear never to directly interfere with the lives of mortals ever again. At this point, however, humankind itself had no notion of the gods' agreement nor their new philosophy, and many of the gods themselves were still somewhat conflicted on the agreement.

Rape of the Imperium (1294)

Within a century of that final godstorm, Ethananian troops under the rule of King Minos Tiergarn committed monstrous atrocities which then instigated a series of successive vile acts taken on by several dissentients. The initial wave of horror at the hands of the Ethanians was done under the name of contrapasso—a concept brought to humanity by Pyramism. In the wake of this calamity was the gods' transition from hesitancy to absolute refusal toward aiding humanity.

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