One distressing thing that occurs to me concerning this aspect of the Doublet system:
Since Bell invokes it as a reason for Doug not to kill Mara, it evidently will activate -- or at least, the gods believe it will activate -- no matter how a god or demon dies.
But this means that any time a human gets his/her hands on enough power to off a demon -- and attempts to use it -- no matter how righteous the grievance against the demon may be, any gods in the vicinity will pile on the human to stop him/her. Unless those gods use mindwipe a lot, that means there'll be a (slowly) growing pool of humans -- the most magically powerful humans, too -- who've seen gods siding with demons, and therefore regard gods as just as much enemies of humanity as demons are.
And if the gods are enemies of humanity, then their Soldiers and Servitors -- and ordinary clergy, too -- are traitors in the service of a hostile power. How will the gods react when a coalition of mages starts hunting down and killing Servitors for their treason against the human species?
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
Since Bell invokes it as a reason for Doug not to kill Mara, it evidently will activate -- or at least, the gods believe it will activate -- no matter how a god or demon dies.
But this means that any time a human gets his/her hands on enough power to off a demon -- and attempts to use it -- no matter how righteous the grievance against the demon may be, any gods in the vicinity will pile on the human to stop him/her. Unless those gods use mindwipe a lot, that means there'll be a (slowly) growing pool of humans -- the most magically powerful humans, too -- who've seen gods siding with demons, and therefore regard gods as just as much enemies of humanity as demons are.
And if the gods are enemies of humanity, then their Soldiers and Servitors -- and ordinary clergy, too -- are traitors in the service of a hostile power. How will the gods react when a coalition of mages starts hunting down and killing Servitors for their treason against the human species?
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.