#senki

Országos bemutató: 2025. augusztus 21.

            Újra itt van, és most veszélyesebb, mint bármikor.

            A 2021-es akcióthriller, a Senki óriási sikerét követően az Emmy-díjas Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) visszatér a hajthatatlan Hutch Mansell szerepében ebben a várva várt új fejezetben. 

            A Senki 2 rendezője Timo Tjahjanto (Az éjszaka eljön értünk, The Big 4), az írói pedig Derek Kolstad (John Wick, Senki), Aaron Rabin (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan), Odenkirk és Umair Aleem (Tyler Rake: A kimenekítés). 

            A 2021-ben bemutatott Senki az amerikai sikerlista élén rajtolt, és világviszonylatban több mint 57 millió dollárt hozott, a kritikusok és a közönség részéről is pozitív fogadtatásban részesült.

oho, this is going to be a long one! :) Senki is the biggest religion in the Rāmian Empire. It originated in the Sen valley in the Rāmiq Highlands about 4000 years ago and is based around the divinely-given Annals of Prophecy and a loose collection of gods that varies depending who you ask. It has been deliberately spread around in the past millenium as the empire has grown to try and form a cohesive group identity among the various conquered peoples, so its very prominent and also comes in a lot of variants, since it has syncretized with the local beliefs in so many different places. The Senki denominations that feature in Aros Against Fate are: Norvic Senki, which holds the mythology and in some cases the gods themselves to be allegorical and has a prevalent theme of order versus chaos (based on the original two Norve gods, Alteyr (order) and Manir (chaos), who in broader Senki are watered down to language and weather but are still the most important figures in Norvic Senki), and in which Saints are historical figures but not extant divinities. Gharan Senki, which has the figure of the Artisan of the World (the creator) above any other gods (they don’t consider the Artisan a god- the Artisan is on another level entirely), who are sometimes considered independent beings but sometimes considered aspects of the Artisan, and in which there aren’t really Saints. Dak Senki, which holds the gods and myths to be literal and in which Saints are Resurrected (sometimes the gods bring people back to life) who have fulfilled their divine purpose and ascended, and within Dak Senki: Lowlands Senki, popular in the Rāmiq Lowlands. Saints are popular. Medeis Senki, which reveres magic above all else as a divine gift from the gods. Mages are seen as inherently superior/closer to the divine due to having developed magic naturally, and the study of magic is a holy pursuit. Senask Senki, which is heavily syncretized with pre-Rāmian Se-Naskan beliefs; small gods are everywhere and a common practice is to have little wooden icons as household gods.

Telēso: believes that the dead become part of a greater collective consciousness, and honour and seek guidance from that ancestral collective.

Vatki: There was a being known as the Creator who became the world and everything in it, so Creator and Creation are one and the same, and everything is equally sacred, as the Creator gave herself to bring everything into existence.

Jumalusk: originating in Berysek, this religion worships the Three-Faced God. The Three-Faced God is one god with three aspects: the Maker (a woman), the Scholar (a man), and the Kether (parent, belonging to the Beri third gender of kolman), who each have dominion over different parts of life; roughly speaking the three domains break down into physical, mental, and emotional, and they also represent the trinity of established Beri genders. They believe there are no other true gods.

Sarkjyn religion: There is a closed pantheon of gods, each with domain over their own element. The six elements- one for each cycle of the year- are fire, light, air, water, ice, and earth.

honestly I just threw some letters/syllables together lol. All the religion stuff is a work in progress, and honestly probably will be forever because it’s polytheistic and has lots of different permutations so there isn’t One True Form. As to how much is true… all of it is true and none of it is true. These forces exist- no one denies this; ‘divine’ magic is still pure and concentrated magic even if you’re not inclined to believe it was granted by gods. They manifest how you believe they will manifest. These beings exist, maybe, and if they do maybe you see them as gods or maybe you see them as some other powerful being like very powerful fairies or aliens or demons or whatever.

Copied from my theology document:

School of thought 1- Schrödinger’s cat/Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle gods: Divine entities are both real and not until acted upon by an outside force that causes them to become one or the other.

School of thought 2- Manifestation: Divine entities are all manifestations of the same omnipresent magical force, which presents differently depending on beliefs.

Differing interpretations, differing presentations (more Senki specific): How divine entities act and present is dependent on how they and the actions of the observer/object of divine action are already interpreted by the observer/object of the divine actions and by that person’s particular branch of religion.

It’s like quantum physics, kind of.

The Annals of Prophecy are real, but whether that means that gods predicted thousands of years of existence or that some property of the Annals traps the world into these patterns is debatable; maybe it’s both. Not everyone believes they’re real, because some of the prophecies are quite vague and could be interpreted to mean whatever event actually happened, and hardly anyone can read Ancient Wersenki anymore anyway so how do we know that what they supposedly say is even what they actually say?

this is a great question actually because prophecy is a HUGE thing in the world of Aros Against Fate. (I’m gonna deviate slightly from the exact scope of the questions because I have interesting and related information to share that is maybe slightly to the left of what this question is actually asking.)