It's possible it was a side effect of:
1) Seren's rituals over the ages actually corrupting Mah without her knowing
2) The lack of rituals caused a problem
Seren postulated that the creation of the Mahjerrat, Mahserrat, and others was a plan by Mah.
But it was Seren it had the plan for thee rituals to give energy back to Mah to calm her down, and take it back to procreate, using her little brothers and sisters as little more than fodder to keep mommy satiated.
Perhaps Seren was wrong?
Thousands of years of rituals had a negative effect on an already stunted elder god.
Eventually, someone comes to Freneskae, takes away the other children of Mah. There's no one to perform the rituals to keep her down.
Her core goes through horrible withdrawal symptoms.
irl, how does the human body react to having drugs, alcohol, sugar/caffine, etc added in? consumed for a long period of time? then suddenly removed?
either because of the rituals, or without the rituals, or both, she became undone.
Another possibility is the fact that Seren was near her for so long.
Without Zaros acting as Seren's counter, whatever aura Seren radiated, had a long time to bleed into Mah.
We already know the effect Seren has on the Elves. She couldn't just leave them without killing them.
Zaros had a similar effect for loyalty in others.
Who's to say that Seren's presence for all that time bled into Mah, then when Seren left, she started a process much like she feared would happen to her Elves?
But while an elf would die quickly, Mah would take thousands of years.
By the time Seren returned to Mah, there was little else that could be done. The process could not be undone.
True, Zaros was hovering near Mah for some time. But by then, the decay/dmg was too catastrophic to be fixed by a few years or centuries of Zaros being nearby.
Or could have worked at all as her system had adapted without Zaros being nearby.
(I wish I could point to human biology on this example)
21-Nov-2016 21:43:26
