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02/10/12(Fri)12:02 No.34155974
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Once again you seem to be subscribing to the ethnocentric notion that to be a deity you need to be eternal and possessed of unique powers. This is a fantasy setting, drawing inspiration from pagan mythologies, and the kind of god being spoken of is pagan gods, not the abrahamic transcendant creator-god who is beyond humanity by nature.
It's not a matter of quality, but quantity, as it were. What otherwise needs many, they can do alone. The lives are longer, their bodies larger and stronger, their magic more powerful. What is difficult for others - Twilight having trouble turning one thing into another, or losing control of a simple animation of a wagon - is more effective, more thorough and more casual, as with Luna's cape and spiders. Andthat is just how things were with the gods of celtic, norse and other mythologies; they were simply greater and more powerful humans, in many ways.
And, as mentioned, there is something more primal and mythic about them. They can fall, like angels becoming devils, with an attendant transformation of form and essence. They are linked to their celestial bodies, such that to defeat them banishes them, binding their essence back to the sky, unable to manifest themselves in a form akin to mortals. Twilight might be powerful, as an example, but no matter how powerful she became, I doubt anything would trace her visage into the moon as a side-effect of something else. And their bodies themselves are not entirely flesh and blood; they are part ethereal. It is clear that magic is not merely something they DO, but part of what they ARE.
That makes them divine. |
