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I find it a really interesting decision from a storytelling perspective to introduce such a genuinely evil character in the Old One, a character that I think might actually be the most evil entity we’ve encountered in the spiral up to this point, and then just immediately kill him off.
Everything we learn about him in Lemuria is in the past tense. We learn about his genocides, his experiments on people, the worlds he’s torn apart for his own sick amusement, in the context of the impacts he’s had on the people he’s touched. We never really meet him, and the longer you progress, the more you realize you never would ever want to.
Idk, I’ve never seen a piece of media do that with a villainous character before. Usually when we get memories of a character that’s gone, it’s because they’re being lauded and fondly remembered. It’s in memoriam. With the Old One, everyone who’s been touched by him has been impacted, but it’s all consequences of his narcissism, lack of respect for life, and desire to reunite the first world at all costs. He’s just such an interesting character I could talk about him for hours, and we only get to see him in the flesh for like 3 dialogue lines total
For me the Devil is not the being that corrupts everything and makes everyone to sin with the purpose of stealing their soul and condemning them to hell that has been depicted by Christianity.
He is mainly the destroyer of beliefs, the one that makes you doubt and disprove every idea that was induced by society. He will allow you to stop believing all of the things that hasn't come from personal and rational thinking and to start building your own belief system.
This doesn't necessarily mean that you will reject every moral that comes from society thanks to the Devil's influence, it just means that instead of blindly accepting them you will integrate mindfuly the ones that are needed and fair and reject the irrational ones.