in war, victory

need to get tortured by someone that adores me

I love how the Elder Scrolls series had a race of hive-minded steampunk elves that were so aggressively anti-theistic that they built a synthetic god to act as an existential negative integer to all creation just to test the hypothesis that it could be cancelled out. But upon powering this synthetic god on, the inherent illogic and irrationality of apotheosis spread through the hive-mind like an atomic blast wave, and these elves who based their entire worldview in logic and rationality could no longer justify their own existence, and so they cancelled themselves out of the universal equation, in part proving their hypothesis in the process.

My favorite thing about this franchise is that this deep lore take coexist with "The Dwarves were smote for the hubristic folly of trying to build God" and "The Dwarves' superweapon backfired and killed them" within the text of the game and franchise. The competing perspectives on historical events and the biases and interpretation is just That Good Fantasy Bullshit