Okranite Theories In Relation To Findings II

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It's no secret that I do not regard the Okranite religion of any value to historical research. But for the sake of theorisation, let's assume that the beginnings of Okranism do coincide with the mass extinction - the First Extinction, as they themselves call it. Scapegoating can be frighteningly easy during times of turmoil, and mixed with religious fanaticism it can be all the more cruel. Let's take Atticus' biological extinction as the reason for the ancient's end. The skeleton, immune to disease and biological attack, would have been the strongest surviving race and perhaps even a subject of envy. The first religious texts originate back to a considerably longer time after the age of the oldest ruins, which suggests a chain of lost misinterpretations combined with this scapegoating. Now let's look at another tragedy of nature: Volcanic eruption, earthquake, flooding... Be it self inflicted destructive force or natural disaster, such huge scale destruction could easily be interpreted as an act of the 'demon'. The skeletons survived the atrocity, perhaps due to a sturdier physical makeup, and thus are associated with this 'demon' as the ones to have carried out her will. -Finch