Board Thread:Lords of Shadow 2/@comment-24642986-20140819185636/@comment-9249716-20141020171520

Alhazad2003 wrote: That in itself makes me question the wisdom of the LoS God, how many people were killed to achieve this lofty goal? It easily goes up into the millions, counting that grand fiasco Roland led that killed half a million in one night. Satan didn't need to do anything, God caused enough problems on his own with his bad planning. I'd expect such incompetence from people, but not from an omniscient (supposedly) God. Makes you think He really doesn't care about humanity, if he's willing to let millions die for some obscure goal. Sad, it really is.

One thing that needs tobe rememebered is that at the end of Gabriel's prologue Cchapter in Mirror of Fate, the Brotherhood leaders and Pan had gone to Marie and had shown her what Gabriel would become and what would happent o her prior to the events in LOS1. They knew what would happen but they CHOSE to let it play out that way, chose as Marie CHOSE to let herself die. The only one character who was forced to do anything was Gabriel when Zobek controlled him and amde him kill MArie and Claudia. Everything else he did was his choice. So in the end, it's not so much that God needs Satan to be seen as truly good, because Satan made his CHOICE to rebel, just as the brotherhood chose to let Gabriel be manipulated and become Dracula, and then CHOSE to attack him with full force. As far as the battle of prayers, it's not necessarily that God favored Gabriel in that prayer, but that Gabriel was the warrior chosen to receive the power granted to him, but the paladin wasn't. None of that was God's fault, but the brotherhood for lying and deceiving.