Mythology or Not? / Eldor (pt.2)

I've been studying a little more about mythology during this time.

Mythology in this world is treated as a religion, not as a collection of legends.

People believe faithfully in the gods, there seems to be no doubt about their existence.

Well, I'm very skeptical about this, but I don't rule out this idea. Because, in a world where magic exists, the existence of gods wouldn't be that surprising.

From what I read, there was a war whose impacts were in the real world.

The War of Power—that's what they call the battle between the army of the god of Dragons and the god of Thunder.

It is said that the gods do not stay on the material plane, they are on a kind of "Spiritual Plane", where they live in a Divine Land.

The problem is that the gods never interfered in the material world, but the god of Dragons thought this idea was stupid and that the gods should rule over all mortal beings.

In this, the Divine Land was in debt between those who supported the ideas of the god of Dragons, and those who believed that interfering was not something to do, led by the god of Thunder.

It is said that dragons once existed in the world, but thanks to war and hunting, they became extinct.

This was one of the reasons why the god of Dragons was so furious and wanted to subjugate all races.

An intense battle in the Divine Land was fought between the god of Dragons and the god of Thunder.

The battle was so intense that tremors and flashing lights could be heard across the land.

Until, in a deadly attack, the god of Thunder launched one of his rays over the belly of the god of Dragons, causing him to fall from the divine land and reach the Continent of Mountains, creating the Lightning Slit, where people still live today.

I took a map to check, and the Lightning Slit really exists, but I couldn't find any other proof that this battle actually happened.

Well, the god of Dragons is not dead. The gods are immortal, so what he did was ascend to the Divine Land again, but this time he gave up on his plan and continued to live his life isolated from everyone.

It was a very tragic ending for him.

He saw his entire race dying little by little, and when he decided to take action, he was defeated.

After this war, the god of Thunder became the leader of the Divine Land, and everyone considers him the supreme authority of that land.

It's curious how the books treat the god of Thunder as a hero.

I'm not going to give reason to the god of Dragons, because if he won the war, all races would probably be doomed.

But I believe there were better ways for them to resolve this conflict without having to beat each other up.

The Divine Land is the place where the dead go.

Of course, you only go there if you are a good person.

The books don't say what exactly it means to be a good person, so it's up to each person's interpretation.

In this religion, there is also the underworld, where the god of the Underworld rules, which is where bad people go.

Again, we are not told what it means to be a bad person.

Speaking a little more about the world itself, there was a big war a long time ago.

In the past, there were only 3 large empires in the world. They are Skylar's Empire, Voel's Empire, and Grando's Empire.

With this, the Voel Empire decided to form an alliance with the Grando Empire and attack Skylar with the aim of increasing its territory and influence over the world.

It is worth mentioning that Voel is an elven kingdom and Grando is a kingdom of demi-humans.

This caused prejudice and hatred between races to increase.

Skylar's Empire was mostly made up of humans.

Skylar dominated much of the world, from the mountain continent to the desert continent.

Looking for help, Skylar asked for support from the dwarves.

They accepted, however, they placed a condition: Skylar's Empire must leave the mountain continent.

Desperate for help, Skylar accepted the dwarves' proposal. The dwarves weren't good at fighting, but they were good at making weapons.

So the Great War, as it is called, started.

The war lasted for 149 years until a meeting with the leaders of each empire was scheduled.

The destruction and killing of war were no longer worth it, and there were people who were no longer agreeing with the conflict.

Not only that, but the kings who had started the war had already died, making the battle meaningless.

Many cities were planning to claim their independence because they no longer had resources to send to the battlefronts.

The long-awaited meeting between the emperors began.