Curiosity

[abyssbound]

Sender: Asura
To: Everyone
Subject: destruction

Does anyone here know anything about destroying gods? How about stories from your world about spells or artifacts that could strip a god's divinity?

[Yes, that's the entire inquiry. Asura doesn't care for mincing words on this topic.]

Comments

Sender: Emet-Selch

[recreator]

Methods for destroying a god, you say?
It sounds to me as if it's about time you hired yourself a band of heroes.

[Points for being straightforward, Asura. Regrettably, Emet-Selch is not.]

[abyssbound]

And have them do what? Hit it?

[recreator]

Slay it, of course. Certainly no easy feat, and yet I know of at least one Warrior capable of doing so. They've built up quite a reputation for it, in fact.

Either that, or find an even stronger god.

[abyssbound]

If the god in question could be subdued simply by hitting it hard enough, it would already have been destroyed. Unfortunately, it's too persistent for that, and there are no stronger gods in its own world.

[recreator]

[Well, fair enough. At last Emet-Selch sobers and offers something resembling a true answer:]

While I would suggest capturing and keeping it bound, given that you specifically used the word "destroy", I presume that is far from your goal.

Barring that, the obvious choice would be to discover and then to eliminate the source of its power. What manner of god is it?

[abyssbound]

[It's a good thing these journals only transmit written information and Emet-Selch can't hear or see the bitter laugh Asura lets out at that response.]

It's a god of destruction that does not wish to destroy, whose power is too much for even it to control. It's already bound, but its own uncontrollable power causes it constant pain.

Destroying it would be a mercy.

[recreator]

Barring the existence of an even stronger being, or a natural means of disrupting its power, I might then turn my sights to magitek.

There exist technologies capable of keeping supremely powerful beings bound for centuries. If left in a suspended state, it may be possible to disrupt this god's agony while also (in time) putting its power to a better, less destructive use.

[abyssbound]

That would be fine if I wanted to keep it bound, but ideally, I would like to find a way to nullify the power itself so it can have its freedom again. Its pain is as much mental anguish from isolation as it is the physical pain of its own power.

Is there any kind of magitek that is capable of separating a God from its power and then sealing only the power?