Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4698889-20180724122634/@comment-26174543-20180829070755

I'm not so sure we can take the comment about there being "no gods" literally just yet. especially since it wouldn't be the first time a character has something along those lines despite the actual gods existing.

To be frank, a universe without the god's influence could not reach the same point that evillious came to at the end of the heavenly novel, which would mean that there couldn't be a cycle. evillious as we know it would not happen in that senario. there wouldn't be levia, who was a strong influence in much of the series as elluka, one of the main coponents in the creation of ma, and, well, everything in the wrath novel.

and honestly, if there weren't any gods at all, not just familiar faces in the main timeline, then could the characters from the second period exist at all? seth twiright would at least have to not exist, since he was the catylist for the second period making contact with the first and what ultimately allowed them to become gods in the first place. which in turn would elimate meta. and without meta there likely wouldn't have been hansel and gretel. successful candidates sure, but those exact souls with their exact personalities who go through those exact circumstances? probably not. and without hansel and gretel there would be no riliane and allen (or ney for that matter) as they wouldn't be destined to be reborn. I'm not sure the demons of sin could even exist at all, and if they were there'd be nothing to break them out. unless either irina or eve did so. but then would eve still become the demon of sloth? would adam still be in the key? would adam have to be the only character in the key?

and well, I think that's enough to get my point across.

I'm not saying that mothy couldn't or won't go in this direction, but I am saying that I don't think we should assume that that is what's happening here from that comment alone, especially with mothy's track record of contradicting album booklets when he sees fit