Forgive me if there's already a topic about this, but I didn't see it.
In Volume 13, the Godhand go into detail about the sacrifice and causality, most of which is pretty clear in meaning. However, there are two passages from Void that seem incredibly cryptic. Perhaps they're related in principle.
For both of Void's passages I will be refering to Puella's translations.
First Passage - After Slan tells Griffith to sacrifice his men because they will surely forgive him, and to bury them in the ruins of his dream, Griffith repeats this phrase "the ruins of my dream"
Void responds:
"That is the mercy of the God created by man."
Now I understand the concept of the God created by man. Man wanted reasons for suffering, for war, absurd deaths, etc. The Idea of Evil. But when he says that the sacrifice is mercy from God... Does he mean this in the sense that God is allowing him to escape his human fate as a cripple? It seems to. Am I off in this?
Second Passage - After showing Griffith his past and all the people that have died because of him, asking Griffith if the Castle is still what shines brightest in his mind, Void says:
"If it's a principle that fate transcends human intellect and makes playthings of humans... It's causality that humans confront fate with evil."
This is the most cryptic passage, but I read it basically that "Humans can't fathom or control their destinies... So of course they do evil things to fight an inescapable fate." Which in the case of a sacrifice, actually kind of does alter their human destiny at the expense of making them inhuman and evil. Perhaps the mercy of God created by man, or am I reaching too far?
What I'm basically looking for is an interpretation in plain English. Thanks in advance
In Volume 13, the Godhand go into detail about the sacrifice and causality, most of which is pretty clear in meaning. However, there are two passages from Void that seem incredibly cryptic. Perhaps they're related in principle.
For both of Void's passages I will be refering to Puella's translations.
First Passage - After Slan tells Griffith to sacrifice his men because they will surely forgive him, and to bury them in the ruins of his dream, Griffith repeats this phrase "the ruins of my dream"
Void responds:
"That is the mercy of the God created by man."
Now I understand the concept of the God created by man. Man wanted reasons for suffering, for war, absurd deaths, etc. The Idea of Evil. But when he says that the sacrifice is mercy from God... Does he mean this in the sense that God is allowing him to escape his human fate as a cripple? It seems to. Am I off in this?
Second Passage - After showing Griffith his past and all the people that have died because of him, asking Griffith if the Castle is still what shines brightest in his mind, Void says:
"If it's a principle that fate transcends human intellect and makes playthings of humans... It's causality that humans confront fate with evil."
This is the most cryptic passage, but I read it basically that "Humans can't fathom or control their destinies... So of course they do evil things to fight an inescapable fate." Which in the case of a sacrifice, actually kind of does alter their human destiny at the expense of making them inhuman and evil. Perhaps the mercy of God created by man, or am I reaching too far?
What I'm basically looking for is an interpretation in plain English. Thanks in advance