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

[abyssbound]

[Sadly, it seems bureaucracy is one of those things that's universal in every society that has a governing class.]

That depends; there's a few different "classes" of gods in that world. In the human world, there are countless lesser gods who are sometimes born as spirits who have absorbed enough energy from human worship to elevate them. Humans can sometimes become gods after death too in the same way. Gods who are created this way are relatively weak, though.

The gods of Takamagahara are closer to a pantheon, and are born into godhood. They're the aforementioned useless bureaucracy.

But the god of destruction is different since its power is alien. Before it became a god, it consumed the power of a god of another world in order to change the course of fate, taking on all of the sins and evil thoughts and desires of the corrupted god it consumed as the price it had to pay in exchange. After that, it voluntarily sealed itself away to prevent the destructive power it had absorbed from leaking out and shattering the world.

In order to leave its prison and gain back its freedom, its power would first have to be nullified somehow.

[disdelusioned]

[Diluc absorbs the information. It doesn't sound too terribly different from how the gods are in Teyvat, up to and including mortal ascension to godhood. That's promising, at least for his own purposes.

As far as Asura's actual problem, however, it presents a quandary.]

What you're seeking is a means of purification, then? Or for this god of destruction to simply abdicate godhood altogether?

[abyssbound]

Yes.

[In essence, yes, that is what he's looking for.]

[disdelusioned]

I don't have direct experience with that, but I know people who do. Let me ask around.

[abyssbound]

Thanks, I appreciate it.