Timeline for How can a Dragon keep humanity in check?
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| Jan 19, 2018 at 0:15 | comment | added | wedstrom | @SocraticPhoenix History is written by the living, he has no trouble depopulating continents, he just needs something to fill the void - and a dragon-cult is easy to build in such apocalyptic circumstances | |
| Jan 18, 2018 at 23:03 | comment | added | Socratic Phoenix | @Ellesedil I think the problem with a physical manifestation of a god is that it can be disprove or doubted. People are utterly devoted to gods because they cannot see or disprove them, but rather because they are whatever the people want to believe in. If a fire-breathing sky lizard deemed itself a god, it would likely be considered a demon or false god, or something... Better to serve an abstract god than be god itself... | |
| Jan 18, 2018 at 1:06 | comment | added | Ellesedil | @SocraticPhoenix: I don't know... an incredibly powerful being that can fly and spontaneously light large swaths of land on fire sounds pretty godly to me. I suppose this depends on what the existing religions are for these humans and how entrenched they are. If some random dude in a rural area can convince 30 people that he's god's physical incarnation and to proceed to the next life by drinking poison koolade, I'd like to think a dragon would be A LOT more persuasive. | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 20:56 | comment | added | Deduplicator | @SocraticPhoenix Aye, the freedom to know the plan or be blissfully unaware as the situation demands... | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 20:38 | comment | added | Socratic Phoenix | I feel like this is one of the safest answers, but I'd worry that some groups may claim the dragon is a "false god." It would be safer, I think, to claim to be a divine servant of god, or the tribe's god, rather than the god itself. | |
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| Jan 16, 2018 at 9:36 | history | answered | Laetus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |