Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Chapter 50 Theological Authority and Order

Theology, as the name suggests, is related to the gods, or the doctrine of rationality related to the gods.

For us in the materialistic world, such a theory is not real enough because no god has ever revealed his existence in front of us.

Therefore, for us, theology is not so much a theory related to God, but rather it is more like a theory for analyzing the origin of our own fear of the unknown and the need for faith as we humans move from ignorance to rationality.

But this is different for Calvin who is now in the other side. In his current world, the gods have been proven to be real.

In the past, when he was in the army, he was dismissive of the awe of the gods. In the environment he is in now, respect for the gods is no longer common sense.

Materialism teaches us that our disbelief in the existence of God is not fundamentally negating the rationality of his existence, but because we have indeed not seen him or traces of their existence.

The situation that Calvin is now facing is that when a god or multiple gods have actually appeared, and when the human race has challenged itself to its peak twice, it has been hit head-on by these superior gods.

Then there is no doubt about the existence of gods or not.Throughout human history:

When they challenged the peak for the first time, humans in the golden age were dominated by technology and refused any transformation about themselves.The golden humans at their peak are said to have ruled the entire galaxy, and even time has become a tool in their hands.But they still fell in the huge subspace storm on the eve of the ascension of the entire race.

When challenging the pinnacle for the second time, the emperor led the entire human empire.Under the leadership of the Emperor, they no longer blindly believed in science, but chose to stay away from the warp.Under the circumstances that the vast majority of people, including the Primarch, had no understanding of the Warp, the Emperor led them on the one hand to launch the mighty expedition to the Milky Way to regain the lost ground; on the other hand , a network lane technology that can completely get rid of the subspace technology and can independently support the transportation and communication in the empire's territory, has also made amazing progress under the emperor's highly confidential research and development.

Everything seems to be going well, but human beings still cannot escape the fate of failure.

Soon, another subspace storm that appeared at the end of the Great Crusade and swept across the entire galaxy caused the empire at its peak to completely lose control and protection of the billions of people in its territory in a short period of time.

And the Chaos Apostles headed by Erebus, under the careful arrangement of the warp gods, approached the emperor's most beloved child step by step.Among the 19 demigod-like Primarchs, the child who was closest to the Emperor himself in martial arts and martial arts.

He is also the actual helm of the empire's huge armed forces after the Emperor himself returned to Terra to preside over the Webway project in the later period of the Great Crusade: the Supreme Warlord who can nominally command and dominate all eighteen legions participating in the Great Crusade : Horus Lupekar.

It was also because of the loss of the emperor's blessing that the Warmaster, who was surrounded by many conspiracies, finally failed to escape the corruption of the Chaos Gods from the subspace, launched the war that caused the entire empire to fall from its peak. A huge rebellion that failed to restore the country's strength even after tens of thousands of years.

This battle finally ended with the tragic victory of the human empire, and Horus was crushed under the sword of the emperor.But the emperor also lost the possibility of walking in the empire, and under serious injuries, he could only sit on the famous golden throne for a long time.

The power of the empire, which lost the rule of the supreme monarch, has plummeted from its peak.And then, the empire that has not yet recovered, after experiencing the beast war, the era of apostasy, the dark expedition, etc., or from the orc aliens, or from the gods of the subspace, after continuous blows that affected the entire empire, the empire completely lost its former strength. all possibilities of the day.

Since then, the empire has entered an era without emperors, an empire of mortals ruled by a council of high lords maintained by a delicate balance of political forces - the post-emperor era.

In this way, human beings have used their own blood twice in the past 3 years to prove two points: that is, towards the subspace and the gods of chaos, whether it is the attitude of ignoring human beings in the golden age, or the attitude of keeping a respectful distance in the pre-emperor era , all fail.

For a race, failure is not terrible, but losing the chance to make a comeback is terrible.Before the Emperor's wounds aggravated and he sat on the Golden Throne, he, having seen the end come to pass, made a third and final attempt for humanity: the Gray Knights.

The Gray Knights, like their kinsmen, have a heavy mission: they are not only the strongest and most elite people in the empire's armed sequence, but also a template for the emperor's actions for mankind in a certain sense.

Therefore, when the Custodian Army, as the template for the second attempt of mankind, has permanently withdrawn from the options for the future selection of the human race with the failure of the Emperor, the Gray Knights are the last hope of mankind.

It can be seen from the Gray Knight that on the third and third path of rise chosen by the Emperor for mankind, the mankind he hopes will no longer arrogantly ignore the power of the warp like the humans in the golden age ;
It will no longer be like the empire of the former emperor era, choosing to stay at a respectful distance.Since what should come will come, escaping will not solve the problem.

Then in the eyes of the emperor, like the Gray Knights, they are fighting against the subspace head-on, deepening their understanding of the subspace in the continuous battle against it, and finally mastering it and subduing it.Perhaps this is the Emperor's greatest expectation for these children who, like the Forbidden Army, directly inherited the Emperor's wealth from the genetic level.

Perhaps only warriors like the Gray Knights, as time goes by, can become more and more in the empire, and eventually become the dominant force of the empire's armed forces, can the human empire decide to face the forces of the subspace head-on after learning from the pain. The core strength needed for the third rise.

And such a burden now falls on the shoulders of our protagonist, Calvin.

The gods are real to Calvin in this world.Then the doctrine concerning God is no longer false.Even if the gods of this universe are not created by humans and do not serve humans; even if the gods of this universe are naturally full of malice towards humans.

But the knowledge related to God is still worthy of Calvin's earnest study and understanding.It is not that Calvin had reverence for these gods.Only by knowing it, understanding it, and mastering it can we destroy it.This is Calvin's attitude towards them as a materialist, or in other words, a pragmatist.

Calvin carefully observed the sphere in his hand that represented his soul, and the tiny golden flash that had appeared on it recently.

"Concept is power, the more complete the concept, the stronger the power."

This is the knowledge that he immediately and naturally perceived in his mind when he saw the flash.And this also declares that after 3 years, human beings have finally obtained the initial, pioneering, and substantive knowledge on the extraordinary road to the gods.

In his mind at this time, he is facing three different options regarding this initial seed that represents his god-like power: justice, authority, and order.

The three options that seem to represent positive abilities made Calvin quite entangled at this time: these three options may be directly related to what kind of power he initially obtained from the authority represented by this power.

And these three concepts represent the initial seeds of different power systems, which may bring him completely different situations in the future development.

Needless to say, authority, this option was immediately ruled out by Calvin. Ever since he reached the deal with the emperor, he knew that his mission was never to be subordinate to one person but above all others.

So what is justice?What is order again?Justice should be kindness; but order seems to represent a somewhat cruel and inhuman meaning.

Correspondingly, the thinking about good and evil also made him immersed in it, and at the same time, he briefly understood the power that some so-called gods might represent.

What is goodness?
What is evil?
In other words, is goodness eternal?Or is evil fixed?

In Calvin's mind, there are such thoughts going on at a high speed.

What is goodness?Is it moral?What is morality?Is it the law?

No, the law is the bottom line for maintaining rules and order, and morality is the yearning and spirit of the law.

good?Goodness should only be the original goal of morality, without a specific definition.

Why do you say that?Because in the development of human beings, or in other words, the development of all intelligent races, along with the development of productive forces, the moral or good standards have never been fixed, let alone the laws that depend on them.

In primitive society, is plunder and killing evil?No, for the people of that era, survival was the greatest good;
Is lifelong oppression of others an evil in a slave society?No, in the law of the time, it was also a good that had to be protected;
In feudal society, is the oppression resulting from land annexation and personal attachment evil?We must know that in the society at that time, this was also good.

This is the case with goodness, which raises its own standard with the increase of productivity, just like the gods, the evil they represent was once good at certain moments.

The establishment of every new standard of good means the renewal of a new standard of evil, and every concept of good is also opposed to and unified with its predecessors, the good at that time, and the evil now.

In this way, the simple definition of good and justice will always be much less than the accumulated evil.There is often only one definition of justice in a certain direction at the same time, but there are as many evils as the opposite of it.

Even Calvin has seen his own future at this moment. If he easily takes over the power of goodness and justice represented in front of him, he will eventually become a member of evil at a certain point in the long time to come. .

So what exactly is the eternal good?Or, what exactly is the essence of the power at the other end corresponding to chaos?

It is order!Only order is the foundation of development, and only order is the possibility of the birth of goodness.

Thinking of this, Calvin seemed to understand the goal he was pursuing, and also understood some essential truth of the universe:
Those who struggle against Chaos, those who can truly fight against the authority of the Chaos Gods, are never these small humans, or their predecessors, the Eldar who had already destroyed Shalushi's first howl.

It is the order they represent when the race continues to develop along with the enlightenment of wisdom and reason.

　A wave of PY, a friend's book:

　　"My childhood sweetheart's bad sister lives in my house"

　　Her childhood sweetheart's older sister, Linge, whom she hadn't seen for ten years, suddenly came to Haicheng, and she also wanted to settle down and start a business in Haicheng.

　　After one dinner, Yang Fan was sold by his mother, and Linge lived in the small house he bought himself.

　　How should Yang Fan drive this sister out...

　　(This is probably an entrepreneurial essay with the title of love essay)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)