Once again, Az, this is some stellar work. This is a really neat and insightful way of looking at the elder gods. Certainly, our thinking of applying past, present and future is in this more experiential way (rather than knowing the future), hence progression rather than premonition. This also fits in terms of the pecking order, with Jas, Ful and Wen on one side, and Bik and Mah on the other.
My thought is that, if Mah had not been stillborn, the result would have been no mortal life. Mah would understand the potential for life to become conscious, and would have suppressed it in previous cycles (whether instinctively or knowingly).
This might suggest the dragonkin homeworld was the last one created before Freneskae, and should have set off alarm bells that whatever led to Mah's current condition actually started back then. It's got me thinking about links between the dragonkin homeworld and Iaia.
I also really like the thought that Mah always carries a sense of childlike wonder, all the way up to Jas as the font of wisdom and experience, and what Mah's corruption actually caused was predominantly the loss of memory. It gives each of the elder gods a place and a reason for being, each of them contributing to creation and revision in different ways, and not just being slightly weaker versions of Jas.
02-Apr-2014 16:58:09
