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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8210077" data-attributes="member: 6802378">I was thinking about my own reboot of Yagno Petrovna, darklord of G'henna. He started as a mixture of Martin Luther and Robin Hood, a rebel against authority, but Nietsche warned: "Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster...for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you". Zhakata is was a keyname found in the wall of a cave but..... the truth is more complex. Really there was a god Provider/Devourer, but his existence was erasured almost totally from space-time continium, as when time-travelers avoid somebody's birth. Yagno is the "heir" of the remainers of the divine spark, not really a reincarnation but close. The <s>church</s> lodge of Zhakata isn't a mockery of the Vatican, becuase I dislike characters as the bishop of Aquila (Ladyhawke) or the archdeacon Claud Frollo (the hunchback of Notre-Dame), but an allegory of the Ukranian Holodomor and the hunger caused by the Mao's Great Leap Forward. This new <s>religion</s> spiritual philosophy doesn't promote the death by starvation (this is really ridiculous!!), but the fasting as a way to learn better self-control against the sinful appetites, and wrong beauty model falling grazing the anorexia (beause the obestiy was a sign of wealth by the "popolo grosso" or fat people, the oppresive noble houses, and then hated by the ordinary people who suffered scarcity). The dark powers are tricking Yagno Petrovna with the eternal doubts to avoid the return or rebirth of that ancient enemy, a intetionally forgotten Barovian "pagan" deity, the provider/devourer. The tragic part is Yagno with that piece of divine spark could become into a benebolent demigod, the provider (and also the devourer, but as a sin-eater, purifier by means of penance), helping people with his gifts, but he is blinded by the proud, rancour and selfishness. <h3></h3>* The dark powers want to be as a "franchise chain opening new stores" in the material plane. This means to create dread domains but next to the material plane close than the Shadowfell, something like the <a href="https://silenthill.fandom.com/wiki/Otherworld" target="_blank">Otherworld from Silent Hills videogames</a> or the <a href="https://theevilwithin.fandom.com/wiki/STEM" target="_blank">STEM mindscape from Evil Within</a>. This means for example if a group of children go to a haunted house, and this is controlled by the dark powers, the children aren't in the demiplane of the dread, still keep in the original material plane, or in a pocket universe within the astral plane, but come back to home is easy with only exit the building.</blockquote>

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