User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-25135454-20171011120908/@comment-25135454-20171016113234

Your answer about the time before time being "zero" time does made more sense after I thought about it. But the First Soul's amount of orbs is not affected by that. The universe's age in my book is not in the billions, but in the tens of thousands. Of course I believe that the universe is 13.8 billions years old in real life, but in my book I just preferred it to be about 90,000 years old so I could sorta-kinda tackle all the eons of it (I also don't believe that the Earth is flat, but the worlds in my book ARE flat). With this little time, the First Soul couldn't possibly have it's twenty thousand-ish orbs... But he figured a way around it anyway: Ether transcends time and space themselves because it came before them and made them, so having the Time Slow orb allows one to practice the Ethereal Arts much faster... And having the Time Stop orb is overkill. That's why the First Soul is orders of magnitude older than the universe.

Well, that's entirely a matter of faith. For us, catholics, Jesus was both human and God at the same time, so His revelations aren't from a human being putting it's beliefs on paper, but God himself stating the facts.

Selforge City may be the most brilliantly built utopia I ever came upon because your sheer attention to the details make it believable. But, sadly, it's not possible in this world (at least, not until we somehow get Planeswalking and Absorbing Replication for ourselves u.u). In a past comment, you argued that "if suffering and evil were so necessary to the existence of the world, we wouldn't be dreaming of utopias in the first place" and... Well, I could relate to that. I also dream of utopias and whoever doesn't is... Not a healthy person. That's exactly when I realized something I forgot: evil and suffering weren't necessary. God's plan was for a utopian world far beyond anything we would ever imagine. It was, ultimately, our own free will that separated us from it. Ours and Satan's that is. One of the consequences of free will is that every being gets to shape himself through it's choices and that generates different beings with different worldviews. And that leads to discord. Discord, to me, is the source of all evil. I believe it took only one man in discord with God to plunge us into this descending spiral. And I can't blame him... Although I'm a catholic, I am in discord with God in various points.

The First Soul didn't uplift the sapient beings because he didn't need to play that role, because the Great Guardian himself uplifted them. After the first beings from every race awakened, GG let them discover the world for themselves. After they reached the apex of their civilizations, when there were no needs, only desires to pursue, the Great Guardian revealed himself to them. He teached them about ethics and morals, but mainly about their creation and their purpose in the universe. Meanwhile, his assistant, the First Soul himself, teached them the practice of the Ethereal Arts.

The First Soul could guide the races to peace and happiness but it would, ultimately, not be enough. I think that now is the right moment to tell you the story of his adventures with the Orb of Creation: one time, the First Soul was drifting in the Ether between Worlds and, inspired by the Great Guardian, created a world himself. He created different landscapes, different plants, different animals and also took the oh-so-forbidden step and created a sapient race himself. He gave them bodies, minds and spirits (he couldn't create a body, a mind and a spirit for himself when he was just a soul because at the time, there was no way for him to know that he needed them in the first place) and, for all effects, they were a race just like any other. They woke up, and he teached them the language he designed for them. Then he also let them discover the world for themselves and they also reached the apex of their civilization. They called the First Soul their Father and their God and, in a sense, they were right. But it was only then that the First Soul crossed the Despair Event Horizon: he realized that his race had no souls. They could not practice the Ethereal Arts and could not take part in the Great Travel. If he wanted, he could keep the Great Travellers from his world as long as he wanted. He could just not tell them that there were other worlds and other races in the universe. And they would live forver in the apex of their civilization just fine, but that was not the problem. The problem was that they were eternally separated from the Great Guardian. Their final destination was Heaven. While not a bad destiny by itself, everything compared to the infinite love and happiness that the Great Guardian offered... is a bad destiny. Heaven was a place of waiting for ressurrection or reincarnation. Without souls, they would reincarnate endlessly and the Great Travel would never end. And that was against the Great Guardian's plans. There was an end to the Great Travel: when all the souls he separated from himself united with him in the Great World, leaving the entirety of the Road empty. The First Soul loved his creations so much that he didn't want to destroy them just because their existence was against GG's plans. And that was already a big thing, because the First Soul was extremely loyal to GG. But he realized to destroy them for another reason: leaving them eternally separated from GG, the only way to be truly loved, happy and satisfied was just... Cruel. And then, when the First Soul was ready to quickly and painlessly destroy everything he created... His powers didn't work. For the first time ever. He was confused and terrified. He quickly realized that his powers were being negated by the only one greater than him. The Great Guardian had left him after he teached him everything, and now was on the Great World. So he couldn't talk to him like they talked before... He could only pray to him. And his prayers were answered: the Great Guardian had gave the First Soul's race fragments of his own soul. Now they were part of the Great Travel. That eliminated any arrogance that may had grown in the First Soul because of his powers, and showed him that no matter how powerful he was, there was a limit that only the Great Guardian could surpass. As a price, the Great Guardian asked the First Soul to be the master of Ethereal Arts for all sapient races like I told you before.

Well, I will be fair with you: I still don't know if the First Soul not taking any part in wars is the right thing to do. I mean... Once a war was started by the demons of Hell, and the First Soul finished it all before it even started. He did that because the origin of the war was not in the sapient beings free will. However, when wars were caused exclusively because of their misunderstandings and intolerance, he could take no part. The First Soul is a creation of the Great Guardian like them, and some would argue that being in the same "tier" makes his responsability to do the right thing and save everyone from themselves. But he's also not like them because of his absurd powers so if he did everything he could, then free will would suffer a massive nerf.

Their suffering will be just a very, very distant memory in the eternity of happiness that will follow.

At least there is a reason for all that. We endure everything to get strong. So strong that we can face anything. We don't obey only because we're told to, but because if you think about those things, they were right after all and deserved, more than anything, to be obeyed. And... Well, putting a good show is plainly wrong. A shame and necessity to our world. I think that the most important thing of all is transcending that and being true, no matter the situation, to someday, may be able to smile genuinely smile in the face of adversity. Unbelivably hard, but definetely possible.

Whoa. Is it... Dark-Souls-hard? Or not as much?