This is not the response of a man who is proud of his actions, but a man who is desperately trying to avoid thinking about them. When asked if he tortured his own family, rather than own up to it he immediately retorts: This is the moment where the man who was once a nameless member of House Nerat became the flaming masked abomination in truth, and for all our flattery it's clear this is something our resident psychopath has still not gotten completely over. Let's take a look at his backstory again. In practice, Nerat lost himself the minute he started serving Kyros. In theory, Nerat should be the guy benefiting the most from having all of these privileges because he gets to do what we've seen him do all game and get a license to put people on spikes while laughing maniacally when they crap themselves. These are all lies, and none of the Archons are happy. Graven Ashe gets to keep the Disfavored legion and serve with honor. Nerat gets an endless parade of petty and sadistic amusement. Tunon gets to deliver justice under the benevolent eye of Kyros, and ensure no one goes hungry and there is no war. Over these two playthroughs we've seen enough of the Archons - who, on paper, have great privileges and get what their heart ostensibly desired. The poem chronicles Satan's attempts to fight back against God and seize ultimate power for himself, and at the end he accomplishes nothing lasting (God immediately prepares Jesus to go down to Earth and undo Original Sin) and gets himself and his followers all transformed into snakes for his troubles. This is Satan's actual goal, gunning down all of his enemies and seizing power for himself. It's a worldview entirely consistent with what the angel tells Adam and Eve of the rebellion, where Satan and the devils tried to storm Heaven in cannon fire. Whom reason hath equald, force hath made supreamĪgain, to Satan, what sets rulers above is solely force. What shall be right: fardest from him is best That we must change for Heavn, this mournful gloomįor that celestial light? Be it so, since hee Said then the lost Arch Angel, this the seat Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, As the poem opens, Satan and his followers are cast into hell entirely because of their own violent and ambitious actions. There's an interpretation of Satan as a defiant hero standing up to mean ol' God, and in my reading it doesn't work out. There are a lot of authoritarian archetypes in fiction and literature, from Sauron to Ahab and everything in between, but a lot of these - in Western traditions anyway - are drawing on Milton's Satan from Paradise Lost. Those of us who have been paying attention should realize that, much like everything else in Kyros' Empire, this fantasy is a complete lie sold by the self-deluded to justify the terrible things they've done in the name of the system. However, the classic appeal of tyranny is that people get to be the tyrant on top, get everything they ever wanted, impress sexual partners, have a cool castle and elite guard force that loves and salutes them, and they can destroy all your enemies forever and everyone wants to be them. This is most notable on the player side, as on every route you will be pushed into compromises with various unsavory individuals that all end with the player forced to assume the mantle of either a tyrant or one last compromise that keeps the system running. Tyranny spends a lot of time looking at the psychology of evil. Part 82: Interlude: The Triumph of Evil Interlude: The Triumph of Evil
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