And of course we can't forget there were dolls of those who'd left the Far Shore, too. You all remember when we found them on the boats, right? And those dolls had all been mangled in some way...
Is it possible that the cult has been using the dolls against us all along, and that they're directly to blame for the disappearances of those gods and shinki? In which case we can't take the presence of the dolls for people who are still here as some kind of missed opportunity...it's more like they simply haven't gotten around to using those against us yet. Maybe it's not easy to use them against us - it might take a ritual of some kind - or maybe they're deliberately picking us off piecemeal. But if we assume the destroyed dolls and the disappearances as linked pieces of successful exterminations...then the dolls are a lot more than either evidence for their knowledge or sources of it. They're an active threat, wouldn't you say?
Anyway, if we take that as a working hypothesis...then it's even more likely that any traitor in the heavens is from the ranks of the old gods, or their shinki. After all, only the new gods and shinki have been targeted by the cult for these disappearances. So either the enmity of the cult is oddly specific, and aimed primarily at the people one assumes they're responsible for bringing to the heavens in the first place...or perhaps they're working with someone from the heavens who is dictating their targets. Someone who'd rather they not target the old gods or their shinki, but who isn't particularly concerned with what happens to any of us.
That describes the old guard pretty well, doesn't it?
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Is it possible that the cult has been using the dolls against us all along, and that they're directly to blame for the disappearances of those gods and shinki? In which case we can't take the presence of the dolls for people who are still here as some kind of missed opportunity...it's more like they simply haven't gotten around to using those against us yet. Maybe it's not easy to use them against us - it might take a ritual of some kind - or maybe they're deliberately picking us off piecemeal. But if we assume the destroyed dolls and the disappearances as linked pieces of successful exterminations...then the dolls are a lot more than either evidence for their knowledge or sources of it. They're an active threat, wouldn't you say?
Anyway, if we take that as a working hypothesis...then it's even more likely that any traitor in the heavens is from the ranks of the old gods, or their shinki. After all, only the new gods and shinki have been targeted by the cult for these disappearances. So either the enmity of the cult is oddly specific, and aimed primarily at the people one assumes they're responsible for bringing to the heavens in the first place...or perhaps they're working with someone from the heavens who is dictating their targets. Someone who'd rather they not target the old gods or their shinki, but who isn't particularly concerned with what happens to any of us.
That describes the old guard pretty well, doesn't it?