ThrillingHuman
always be casual, never be careless
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I was reading cheat loli witch (on novelupdates/yado inn+inoveltranslation), and I really liked on part there (which may be a spoiler, but it's not that big honestly)
I really liked this perspective, and couldn't help but imagine a scene that I'd write, where a patron deity would just stay back when humans and others were about to mess up big time with the idea of:
Well, I can't always step in and wipe their asses now, can I? Besides, it's not like they are going to go extinct from it. And it should teach them a lesson of not doing it again... hopefully. I doubt it, honestly, but, again, they aren't going to go exctinct from it anyway. And the aftermath will resolve itself after some short 100 years or so, so whatever.
I am conveying my idea poorly, but I want to read a very passive very powerful observer looking at civilizations and races make mistakes with a kind of sardonic indifference and looking at the super huge picture wherein not to mention personalities, even entire ethnical groups and civilizations are not that important.
Bonus points if the observer in question has a mindset that doesn't put humans or otherwise sapient creatures in the middle of their world and is concerned with something more fundamental, like the heat death of the Universe
or other bigger thing than a bunch of hairless monkeys hurling shit at each other.
She was called God and Satan doesn't count because she just watches. There is no bigger picture for her apart from just watching.
So Chise went to a dwarven town and, under the request of a Goddess, cleared out a mine full of insect monsters and their mother, who was feasting on an Earth vein.
The goddess needed the mother insect killed because if it died from natural causes, it would poison the Earth veins on which it feasted and cause a huge cataclysm.
But when it died, because it was so tightly connected to the Earth vein, the local mana went into a dissarray which made the local fauna slowly wither.
The goddess said that it's just a temporary problem that will go away after some 50-60 years, but for Chise it meant accidentally destroying a town.
It has to be said that it really were the dwarves who began mining out the metals affected by mana that allowed the insect mother to settle down. It's a long story, but it was really kind of interesting.
The goddess needed the mother insect killed because if it died from natural causes, it would poison the Earth veins on which it feasted and cause a huge cataclysm.
But when it died, because it was so tightly connected to the Earth vein, the local mana went into a dissarray which made the local fauna slowly wither.
The goddess said that it's just a temporary problem that will go away after some 50-60 years, but for Chise it meant accidentally destroying a town.
It has to be said that it really were the dwarves who began mining out the metals affected by mana that allowed the insect mother to settle down. It's a long story, but it was really kind of interesting.
Well, I can't always step in and wipe their asses now, can I? Besides, it's not like they are going to go extinct from it. And it should teach them a lesson of not doing it again... hopefully. I doubt it, honestly, but, again, they aren't going to go exctinct from it anyway. And the aftermath will resolve itself after some short 100 years or so, so whatever.
I am conveying my idea poorly, but I want to read a very passive very powerful observer looking at civilizations and races make mistakes with a kind of sardonic indifference and looking at the super huge picture wherein not to mention personalities, even entire ethnical groups and civilizations are not that important.
Bonus points if the observer in question has a mindset that doesn't put humans or otherwise sapient creatures in the middle of their world and is concerned with something more fundamental, like the heat death of the Universe
She was called God and Satan doesn't count because she just watches. There is no bigger picture for her apart from just watching.
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