Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

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

For us in the materialistic world, such a theory seems unreal because no god has ever revealed His existence in front of us.

So for us, theology is not so much a doctrine related to God, but it is more like a doctrine that analyzes the origin of our own fear of the unknown and the need for faith on the road from ignorance to rationality.

But this is different for Calvin who is now on the other side. In the world where he is now, God is a real existence that has been proven.

Different from the reverence for gods that he had dismissed when he was in the army in the past, in the environment he was in now, paying respect to gods was no longer common sense.

Materialism teaches us that our disbelief in the existence of God does not fundamentally deny the rationality of His existence, but rather because we have indeed failed to see Him or traces of their existence.

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

So there is no doubt about the debate about the existence of gods. Throughout human history:

When they first challenged themselves to the top, humans in the Golden Age were dominated by technology and refused any transformation of 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 entire race's upgrade.

When he challenged 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. When most people, including the Primarchs, had no understanding of the Warp, the Emperor led them on the one hand to launch a mighty expedition to the galaxy to regain the lost lands; , a network technology that can completely get rid of subspace technology and can independently support transportation and communications in the empire's territory, has also made surprising 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 appeared at the end of the Great Crusade and swept across the entire galaxy. The empire at its peak completely lost control and protection of the billions of people within its territory in a short period of time.

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 both civil and martial arts.

He was also the actual helmsman of the Empire's vast armed forces after the Emperor himself returned to Terra to preside over the Webway project in the latter stages of the Great Crusade: the Supreme Warmaster who could nominally command and control all eighteen legions participating in the Great Crusade. : Horus Luperkar.

It was also after the Warmaster, who lost the protection of the Emperor and was surrounded by numerous conspiracies, finally failed to escape the corruption of the Chaos Gods from the warp, that he launched the war that brought the entire empire from its peak. After thousands of years, there was a huge rebellion that failed to restore the country's strength.

This battle ended in a tragic victory for the Human Empire, and Horus was killed by the Emperor's sword. But the Emperor also lost the possibility of walking in the empire. After being seriously injured, he could only sit on the famous golden throne for a long time.

Without the rule of the supreme monarch, the empire's power plummeted from its peak. Then, the empire, which had not yet recovered, experienced continuous attacks from the Beast Wars, the Age of Apostasy, the Dark Crusade, etc., or from the orc aliens, or from the subspace gods, which affected the entire empire. The empire completely lost its ability to restore its former strength. all possibilities of the day.

Since then, the Empire has entered an era without an Emperor, a mortal Empire ruled by a Council of High Lords maintained by a delicate balance between political forces - the post-Emperor era.

In this way, mankind has twice proved two points at the cost of its own blood in 30,000 years: that is, towards the gods of subspace and chaos, whether it is the attitude of ignorance of mankind in the golden age, or the attitude of keeping a distance from the pre-Emperor era , all failed.

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

The Gray Knights, like their cousins ​​the Custodes, all bear a heavy mission: they are not only the strongest and most elite in the Empire's armed forces, but also a template for the future of mankind in a sense by the Emperor.

Therefore, when the Custodes, as the template for humanity's second attempt, were permanently withdrawn from the future options of the human race with the failure of the Emperor, the Gray Knights were humanity's last hope.

It can be seen from the Gray Knights that on the third and third rise path chosen by the Emperor for mankind, he hopes that mankind will no longer arrogantly ignore the power of subspace like the humans of the Golden Age. ;

It will no longer choose to stay at a distance like the empire in the pre-emperor era. Since what is supposed to come will come, escaping will not solve the problem.

So in the eyes of the Emperor, like the Gray Knights, they fight head-on against the subspace, deepen their understanding of the subspace in the constant battle against it, and finally master it and subdue it. Perhaps this is the Emperor's greatest expectation for these children, who, like the Custodes, directly inherit the Emperor's wealth at the genetic level.

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

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

God is real to Calvin in this world. Then the doctrines related to God will no longer be false. Even if the gods of this universe were 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 serious study and understanding. Not that Calvin had any respect for these gods. Only by knowing it, understanding it, and mastering it can we destroy it. This was 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 appeared on it recently.

"Concept is power. The more complete the concept, the more powerful the power."

This was the knowledge that he immediately and naturally perceived in his mind when he saw this flash of light. And this also declares that after 30,000 years, someone in mankind has finally gained initial, groundbreaking, and substantive knowledge on the extraordinary road to the gods.

In his mind at this time, he was facing three different options regarding this original seed that represented his power as the gods: justice, authority and order.

The three options that all seemed 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. In the future development, they may bring him completely different situations.

Needless to say, authority was an option that was ruled out by Calvin at the first opportunity. Ever since he made the deal with the emperor, he understood that his mission was not to be inferior to one person but to be superior to ten thousand people.

So what is justice? What is order? Justice should mean kindness; while order seems to represent something cold and inhumane.

Correspondingly, he was immersed in thoughts about good and evil, and at the same time, he briefly understood some of the powers that the so-called gods might represent.

What is goodness?

What is evil?

In other words, is goodness eternal? Or do you mean that evil is fixed?

Thinking about this was going on at a high speed in Calvin's mind.

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 aspiration and spirit of the law.

What about goodness? Goodness should only be the original aspirational goal of morality, without any specific definition.

Why do you say this? Because in the development of human beings, or in the development of all intelligent races, with the development of productive forces, the standards of morality or goodness have never been fixed, let alone the laws that rely on them.

In primitive society, is plundering and killing evil? No, for people of that era, surviving was the greatest good;

In a slave society, is life-long oppression of others an evil? No, under the laws of the time, this was also a good that must be protected;

In feudal society, is the oppression caused by the annexation of land and personal dependence evil? You must know that in the society at that time, this was also a good thing.

Goodness is like this, raising its own standards with the increase of productivity, just like the evil represented by the gods, at some moments, it was also good.

The establishment of every new standard of good means the renewal of a new standard of evil. Each concept of good is also in opposition 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, while there are countless evils that exist in opposition to it.

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

So what exactly is eternal good? In other words, what is the essence of the power on the other side of chaos?

It's order! Only order is the basis for development, and only order is the possibility for kindness to be born.

After thinking about this, Calvin seemed to understand the goal he was pursuing, as well as some essential truth about the universe:

Those who fight against Chaos, those who can truly resist the authority of the Chaos Gods, are never puny humans like them, or their predecessors, the Eldar race who have been destroyed and the first howl of Salish.

Rather, it is the order they represent as the race continues to develop along with the enlightenment of wisdom and reason.

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