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I suspect that Anilords, Demons and Gods are all a lot more similar than we believe.
Anilords were dreadful beings according to history but no one knows why. I kinda feel like Ramses the Anilord who is an archdemon isn’t too far out of Tom’s league. Tom is just considered a powerful “Animage” though to other humans… so my guess is the reason Anilords were so feared was because they were extremely hard to keep dead once you killed them (which would happen if they were no longer anchored to a corporeal body).
I suspect that Anilords are humans (or similar) who have “shed” their corporeal anchor and are essentially demons, except they didn’t need a wizard to bind them (aka turning them into demons), they were able to do it themselves.
Demons can be any individual, mostly made from “mundane” humans (large amount of class I’s), who have been “helped” along in the process of disconnecting their corporeal anchor and creating a mana body by a more powerful individual, usually a group. The groups and victims belief of what a demon looks like constructs their form. An Anilord believes he looks human or w/e species he was, so his corporeal body wouldn’t change like with a demon.
Gods are Anilords/Demons who have found a higher level through a combination of their own power and the influx of mana and belief from worshipers.
Then again the story goes that gods came first and created the universes, elves, dwarves etc. I’m not so sure to be honest though. If a gods power comes from worshipers, how did they create all the planes and universes which obviously had to be created before they created the first races of man (which is their power base). Me thinks the gods we see today aren’t as old as we make them out to be. :-” Maybe there is/was a [u]G[/u]od and then there are the [u]g[/u]ods. Maybe there are just [u]g[/u]ods and the different races of men as well as the different planes and universes evolved on their own.
It’s not that the cover art is bad, its just not super flashy like a lot of the big popular books are which make make readers pass over it at first glance. Many of my most favorite series have covers like yours, such as Thaumatology and Aneka Jansen series by Niall Teasdale. He makes a lot of artwork for his books featuring the various characters which, as one of his avid readers now, makes it more enjoyable. The only downfall is that I passed over Niall’s books for about 6 months before I realized how much I liked his work.
My opinion is to keep up the cover and other graphics on the website but redesign the cover on Amazon for sales… Like putting better bait on the fishing hook.
Eating Animus isn’t like eating Mana I believe. Mana is universal like refined gasoline while Animus is unique consciousness (like every consciousness vibrates at a unique frequency). The more Animus you “eat” the more the foreign personality mixes with your own… no? Even if you only eat like a small amount… You’d be fundamentally changing your identity. The being that you were before would cease to exist. Hmmm I suppose that would change your True Name too… Maybe that’s the secret…
And yes I realize how pretty much every one of the topics on this forum have gone off on a tangent like the Amazon thread… must be Tizzy’s fault. This post has nothing to do with the next book time frame lol.
