Human beings have always yearned for change.
Conquering and dangerous, they are among those beings that have been seen destroying one another. But many things are now a thing of the past.
Since Creation, if one may call it that, humankind was born into a vast and incomprehensible world. Throughout its existence, it has sought to understand it, through religion or through science, each attempting to grasp or channel this immense and indifferent mystery. This mystery did not await the coming of man to be what it was, and it will doubtless cease no less to be what it is upon the disappearance of humanity.
A physical part exists, just as a mystical part does. In a distant age, a human named Niyus faced the god of destruction. He paid the price: his spiritual and physical health, and sometimes even an existential death.
He was saved by an incomprehensible part of the world: a goddess, Mü Thanatos, now imprisoned in the bottomless abyss. She helped this human and killed gods. Yet gods are not supposed to proclaim themselves or wage war upon one another.
The most powerful gods are superior to the weakest. No god is above all, except the Father God, whose laws and concepts, as they are known to all divinities, impose themselves and transcend the order of the gods. The other gods are, moreover, merely fragments of him.
The order of the gods is absolute, but that of the Father God is even more so. It surpasses the order that engenders laws and concepts, influences it and can modify it, whereas divine orders are fulfilled by juryokus through states of existence.
Let us now turn to the essential matter.
Niyus and his band changed the gods' view of humans. Until then, they felt only indifference toward them: to them, the human was merely a fragile being, capable of abandoning aspects of its existence to become something other than what it is.
Yet the human being can become terribly dangerous.
To prevent such an accident, Zeus ordered all the gods to no longer interact with humans.
In this strange battle, Mü Thanatos dared to defend humans rather than her own kind. She killed gods and lost her fallen angel for eternity.
The Father God is a Good Being, who sees and knows all. He did not punish his own daughter: it was the other divinities who chastised her.
The children of the goddess...
They were all imprisoned and sealed within human bodies, hated by the others.
They are called the Satsujin Otoko. They are represented by Niyus, his wife, and their children.
But that is not all. In the past, they formed an entire people, isolated, far from the other civilizations. Far from everyone, they faced the mutants who decimated a large part of humanity.
After a few phenomena, not many of them remain, but a few still endure.
This family is now hated by all, humans and mutants alike. It is also the most scrutinized of the mythic lineages, for it is from it that Niyus was born, the human of whom the most has been spoken since Adam, father of all humankind.
Was everything that occurred throughout time our fault, the fault of the gods?
Of all the existing species, humans were always, in our eyes, the least dangerous. Yet, without our expecting it, a human managed to turn an all-powerful goddess against us.
It is inconceivable, and yet it happened. It happened once: therefore, it can happen again.
I still do not know why Mü Thanatos defended this human, but this betrayal earned her isolation, until her ideas became clearer again.
Although time has passed, the name of the killer has evolved into the one spoken today: the Satsujin Otoko.
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Such was the viewpoint of a somewhat carried-away god.
But the truth is that things far more inconceivable than anything one can imagine exist. They may already be among us, and nothing could detect them unless they revealed themselves. And some beings live as though they were other than what they truly are, until the truth reveals itself and they recognize themselves.