Talk:Goddess Ilias/@comment-5299683-20121115021518/@comment-5672532-20121115214839

Couldn't agree more - if you were to take most of Ilias' scenes and remove her power and authority, the results would be sad, perhaps even lonely. My own guess is that she has long had the interest in her creations/followers at heart, but is so twisted by loneliness and time at the top that what exactly those interests are and what they appear to be to her are two different things entirely. Have you ever read about/heard of Gnosticism? To my mind, Ilias somewhat resembles the Demiurge of that theology.

There's something attractive about someone so powerful, who nevertheless has so many flaws. At some point, when I'm not supposedly on lunch break, I would be interested in hearing your interpretation of what said flaws and motivations are. Should probably throw out that I'm not anti-monster either. We're here, after all!

Finally - perhaps most importantly - I'd like to raise some rather odd theory I thought of recently. We've all pondered what Commandment #4 might be; I'd like to take a guess that it's 'Honor thy mother and father.'

My reasoning is based on a random bit of logical reasoning that is quite unlikely and has to do with thinking too hard about Luka being half-angel, jealousy, Heinrichs' sealing, and the whole Lukafer =/= favored son joke/theory. It's just crazy enough to be false.