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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8817891" data-attributes="member: 22779">Let's back up a second and try to refocus.The people supported the Kingpriest.  It's not like he was some fascist dictator that held the people under his thumb.  The people loved him.  Loved him for generations - nearly a century.  Loved him so much that they committed numerous atrocities and genocides (attempting to kill all non-humans, all wizards) over the decades and no one so much as batted an eye.  They loved him so much that they actually literally worshipped him to the point where he was a step away from becoming a god.These are the people that you're saying are innocent.  At any point in that century, they could have walked away. They could have stopped.  Someone could have stepped up and said, "Hey, y'know what?  We're the baddies."  But no one did.  Everyone deliberately, intentionally and with free will followed the Kingpriest.  And not just a few people in a single city.  No... the entire population of Ansalon supported the Kingpriest.  At least the human population anyway.  Now, [USER=6915329]@Faolyn[/USER] apparently thinks that Krynn gods can just Thanos Snap the problem away.  Wish all the bad people gone and everything is right in the world again.  Except that's not what the text actually says.  For one, the gods in Krynn cannot manifest in the setting - they can send avatars, but, not the gods themselves, so, they are limited as to what they can do.  As well, the gods in the setting do not directly interfere.  There are no god-kings in this setting.  The gods are fairly hands off, most of the time.  It wasn't that the Kingpriest turned against the gods that caused the Cataclysm, it's that EVERYONE turned against the gods to worship the Kingpriest that caused the Cataclysm.  Had the gods simply Thanos Snapped the problem away, nearly the same number of people would die, and then the exact same number of people would die because all the people who take care of those that remained would be gone and all those children starve to death because their parents, aunts, uncles and older siblings all just vanished overnight.Simply killing the Kingpriest wouldn't have changed anything.  If anything it would make him a martyr and probably elevated him to godhood even faster.  I know it's a hard thing to accept, but, even good gods do horrible things.  Good does not equal nice.</blockquote>

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