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Bloodcount said :
I hope that Menaphos isn't even close to the end of the "Desert," maybe it's getting close to the Kharid-ib phase of the desert. I felt like the Myreque phase needed to end, but not the Morytania line.

It is likely that storywise much of what happens in Menaphos is previous to Do No Evil. The Ozan Double Bill is the only requirement for the first quest to be released, with Icthlarin's Little Helper only being strongly suggested. Heck, the second to last cut scene in Diamond in the Rough takes place in Amascut's/The Wanderer's tent just outside Sophanem. So you're in luck.

As for why Amascut allows Crondis a life of complacent luxury? Well, maybe because Crondis is a fellow apex predator, a killer, a destroyer of lives, and not a peace loving monkey or conflict-averse beetle. Maybe Crondis is better at killing when she is fat and happy rather than lean and only hunting/eating when she feels the need. Think of how many servants and cows and chickens and exotic creatures must be slain to keep Crondis that well fed. Humility is self-destruction, pride is the destruction of all else. And He said, "

Let there be light.

"

And then there were none .

29-Apr-2017 07:54:33 - Last edited on 29-Apr-2017 07:55:36 by Penny Drakis

Penny Drakis said :
As for why Amascut allows Crondis a life of complacent luxury? Well, maybe because Crondis is a fellow apex predator, a killer, a destroyer of lives, and not a peace loving monkey or conflict-averse beetle. Maybe Crondis is better at killing when she is fat and happy rather than lean and only hunting/eating when she feels the need. Think of how many servants and cows and chickens and exotic creatures must be slain to keep Crondis that well fed.

Crondis's entire schtick is resourcefulness and modesty.

Just as Amascut messed with Scabaras by driving his followers into open conflict (rather than their god's advocated isolation) and Apmekan by removing her ability to interact with the desert people (when her job is to spread sociability and friendliness). Amascut may have even twisted Het's powers to cause the plagues in Sophanem (what with him being the god of health after all).

In other words, Crondis is living in the lap of luxury because Amascut has consistently been flipping the normal functions of the minor desert gods (much like she herself flipped from what her job was).

29-Apr-2017 16:20:37 - Last edited on 29-Apr-2017 18:18:28 by Hguoh

Hguoh said :
In other words, Crondis is living in the lap of luxury because Amascuthas consistently been flipping the normal functions of the minor desert gods (much like she herself flipped from what her job was).

All very true, though Amascut herself may say she is not flipping the normal functions of these gods, she is enhancing them (while ignoring certain irrelevant parts )

- Amascut is still the rightful Judge of the Dead and Devourer of Evil Souls, it's just that her eyes have been opened to how evil everyone is and why no one deserves rebirth.
- Apmeken is still the Goddess of Social and Mental Pleasures, it's just that the world has grown so evil that sociability has turned into a vector for mass panics and hateful propaganda.
- Het is still the God of Health and Strength, and he ensures the strength of warriors and their weapons and the shackles of slaves, but he also increases the strength of the plagues which punish the wicked.
- Crondis is still the Goddess of Physical Pleasures and Resourcefulness. Modesty is the enemy of resourcefulness however, so she teaches that we must ignore modesty and that we must do everything to accumulate vast wealth. Hail Capitalism! Hail Crocky Ayn Rand!
- Scabaras is still the God of (Scholarly) Isolation and Wisdom, it is just that wisdom was revealed the world become full of evil loudmouths who must be silenced before a the world is once again quiet and peaceful enough to meditate to gain further wisdom.

This is all perfectly sane reasoning which I fully expect non-Amascutians will find full of contradictions because non-Amascutians are insane. Humility is self-destruction, pride is the destruction of all else. And He said, "

Let there be light.

"

And then there were none .

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