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People want war when at peace, and they want peace when at war. The twisted minds of humanity.
I feel blessed that my life isn’t in the either end of the exciting spectrum but I know it won’t last.
Hmm. So people has started commenting on Maou’s rather opaque writing style. Well, not that I write any better.
@Tizzy:
Do demons write? I remember that Antefalken has writen some books (erotica?). There might be more demon writers in Astlan. I wonder, what subject are they writing about?
Yahhhh! Tom with really like to vanish at some point or another. Such a jumble of chaos isn’t really good for a person’s mental health, demon or not. Why does trying to stay out of trouble lead Tom to it?
Tom might need to kick some ass again. Talarius’ would have some followers that would like to save him from Tom’s grip. Which means, maybe, more knights in shining armor. Well, at least, if that happens, boredom wouldn’t be a problem for Tom. Time for him to practice his martial arts skills, doing katas and so.
Being Tom’s master, Lenamare might be gathering rather unpleasant attention from everyone especially the other master wizards. People would like to know more about the demon and would likely drill Lenamare for that. They might even force him to summon the demon. Really, the demon brings more problem than anything else. Poor Lenamare.
Damien and Gastrope might also be also in a great deal of distress. They know Tom/Edwyrd’s secret and seeing how dangerous a demon Tom really is (or so they thought), great deal of imagined punishment would terrorize them for fear of breaking that promise of secrecy.
As for the book, I had a suspicion as I stated in another topic. It is very likely.
There really a lot of interesting things going on with this book. You can read it many times and not be bored. Great book.
@Maou:
That is just your presumption. There are variety of culture around the world and there are variety of ‘relationships’ the people have with their gods.
Many know well the, Christian God and the Greek and Roman gods. The Christian God still being served today and people know how the followers serve the Christian God. There are also similar gods in many culture. They have only one god that had existed for eternity and have made everything. They serve their god with great reverence and respect, often creating temples, churches and altars for their gods.
Many people know less about how the Greek and Roman gods are served. Though they build temples for their major gods (the other gods don’t have any) the general populace don’t actually serve or ‘follow.’ They just visit the gods they seek service from and give offering. So a sailor might visit the temple of Poseidon for a blessing of safe sailing, they would give offering to Hades so that he would accept a love ones soul into the nether realm, etc. Anyone could go to any of the temple they choose. They don’t actually have to follow only one. They just go to give offering to the gods that suit their needs. Many other culture serve their gods like this. Multiple gods which they serve or give offering according to their needs.
There also are gods that are served like how the Rods serve their Tiernon. One god with devoted followers that serve it. But these kind of religious culture usually isn’t large, like the Rods in the book. This culture is associated with cults and many people don’t view them as a valid ‘religion’ as other religious cultures are.
There are those tribal gods that tribal communities (like those Native American Indians long ago) believe in. They don’t actually serve them or become followers to these gods. They just, in a way, use their gods to explain the world and nature. To explain lighting and thunder and rivers and earthquakes. Many of the stories of their gods don’t even give reverence to them, most the gods are mocked and tricked or go from one misadventures to another. Popular of these stories are the trickster stories where the human heroes would trick these gods, usually to avoid punishment.
Then there are also cultures that have ‘living’ gods; usually the ruler of that place. In Ancient China the Emperor is often heralded as a god, an offspring or descendants of dragons. Ancient Egypt is also like this, they have their ‘spiritual’ gods like Ra, but they also worship their Pharaoh as a living god.
Religion is really an interesting subject to study and there are very large number of religions, both dead and living, with variety of gods, to study from.
=d> Maou. You really live up to your name. You are able to make Tizzy flee from you.
@Tizzy:
If you don’t know Maou means Satan/Demon/Demon King in Japanese Language.
That was close! Maou might be a wizard or sorts and like to enslave you.
Still the question is valid, where oh where. I don’t think you put them under your armpits or you had a pouch like a kangaroo.
Now what started here!
@Maou:
Women seeing his bi-pennis sure would lost interest. They don’t have bi-vagina you know. What would they do with the other one?
@Tizzy:
You make a poor liar. Having only Boggy and Antefalken as friends in centuries doesn’t really make you seem like the lovable and friendly type. Not to mention, other demons have the opposite view about you.
Well, Talarius may have experience and skills but it is not unlikely for him not to slip like this. Everyone does. You should know that even the skittish and observant deers would miss the tiger on the bushes. The eye always play tricks on you.
Yeah, oh those so human Greek and Roman Gods. They create more havoc that help.
I really wonder why Gods have sex or need to procreate. Well, according to science/evolution creatures need to have sex because they eventually die. Sex is a mechanism to pass genes so that they (the genes) have virtual immortality. A lot more complex than that but you’ll get the picture.
The shorter the life a creature have, the more ‘sexual’ they are and the more they breed. Almost all insects, and many small animals like frogs, and rats have sexual orgies very often. Males breed with as much females as they can, and females breed with as much males as they can.
The longer the life span, the less primitive the sexual behaviors become and the less they breed. Birds do the dance things, humans date, and wolves creates packs.
So, gods being immortal; sex and procreation is just unnecessary and may even be a hindrance.
Did you know, some scientist even postulate that humans would not have sexual organs in the future as they are able to unlock the secret of immortality or instead uses genetics manipulation and technology to increase their number?
Not to mention, gods are immortal. If they breed, their offspring would be immortal too. These offspring would breed too and create more gods. By simple logic and mathematics soon the world would be overpopulated by gods.
Isn’t a god plague more sinister than a mouse plague:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOwinLWrEIw
The mice might even take over the world:
http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/secret_agent/entry.php?challenger=17853
Still mice are better, I think. At least they can be killed. A god plague would be far worse a nightmare. They would just became immortal pests.
Korwin. Tizzy just yelled that they don’t die at all. They are perfect immortals. And if you read about those Greek and Roman gods you know that they are immortals as well. You can’t kill them.
And are you implying that gods doesn’t breed with other gods? You know that doesn’t really make sense right?
And even if gods don’t breed as quickly as mice, their immortality would make up for it. Even if there is a low birthrate, say there is a god born every ten years, that would mean in a thousand years there are a hundred gods born. Then the birthrate isn’t going to stay that low. These new gods would then proceed to breed themselves. The number of gods, the number of gods born, the birthrate would grow up exponentially. Soon, the world would be overrun with gods. Really this is just a simple logic and math.
And even if they can be killed. Would the mortality rate be enough to keep their numbers low? As you say they are very, very difficult to kill. Say lets give a mortality rate of 1 god death every 500 years, would that be enough to control the population?
Maou you have such intricate ideas. Tizzy would be mind boggled. And as for corruption, there is that one priest who summons a demon and who got Tom instead. Demons don’t seem to do that much to corrupt them. They do it themselves.
This is getting out of hand!!!!
I just want to ask the author about the minor characters because they are quite interesting in this book. In other books minor characters are very much like props with very little discernible history, character, future or so.
Please everyone settle down.
Wah! That sucks. Names has such a strong hold ain’t it?
Well, if the demon’s name enable such a strong control over the demon, is such thing the same to other creatures? Will it work on wizards for example? You know compel them. Or maybe it isn’t done (that much) because it is bad manners and all? You can do that to a demon but not your fellow wizards.
@ The Author Guy
Many books has large enough number of views, ratings and reviews so there are enough information to help make a clearer picture.
When, the book has few views/ratings, then time to look deeper. Read reviews, look at publishing date, publisher and such. There might just be a clue as to why it has so little who read. Maybe it is just bad writing (often), lack of exposure (sometimes), or a niche book (rare).
@ Tizzy and Grant
Had been puzzling over this matter too. There are lot of circumstantial evidence that Tom is a fifth order demon. There are also some indication that Bess was not there.
Still, the possibility that Tom is an Archdemon and is one of the blue lights is substantial.
One possibility is that Tom is of an order higher that five. It could explain the missing Tom. Human eyes aren’t very sensitive to violets and indigos and with hundreds of reds and oranges that could cover them up by being analogous in color, and the blue from being too striking (the eyes is sensitive to blue), missing a violet or indigo among them even if viewed multiple times is likely. A simple graphic to illustrate:
[img=http://i.imgbox.com/PSjWdKVv.jpeg]Lots of dots[/img]
There are two colors of the violet and indigo range here. Note how the blues, green and yellows stand out. Still, this possibility is unlikely as implied by Tizzy.
The other is Tom somehow doesn’t appear in the mirror in some way. We don’t really know how the mirror work so Tom might have been doing something that make it miss him or something is covering him from the mirror’s view.
The other is that he is just a low order demon really. A three or so. That would make him just blend in with the others. Still, quite wrong because there are a lot of indication that Tom isn’t three or lower.
There are still more that I had cooked up. Lot of possibilities.
Well, gotta look it up in the next book. explanation is there, probably.
