/vrpg/ — Why did he and his cult care that people will find out that

Because Obsidian are hacks who can’t write.

>>4000683 (OP)
They cared that people might discover the gods were artificially created. Because then they'd realize that they could do something about that. In particular, the Leaden Key was a cult dedicated / obedient to Woedica, who is a personality obsessed with her own authority and control. So the Leaden Key is more like Woedica's personal pet project to protect her own goals, and by extension the secrecy / mystery of the other gods as well. Eothas disagreed with her and attempted to reveal the artificial origins of the gods while also destroying the machinery which they constructed to improve the reincarnation cycle (that's the plot of PoE2 where he continues his efforts and succeeds).

So, no, it was not about whether the gods were "real". No one was trying to say they weren't. What was at stake was the knowledge of their artificial creation because that could result in mortals doing all kinds of shit with that exact same technology. Undermining the gods' authority was what Woedica wanted to avoid, but it's the most trivial and obvious use for animancy. A "hard launch" into transhuman infomorph dissolution is basically what the Engwithans did on purpose. They all vanished in the process, being literally absorbed into gestalt forms which were what continued as the gods known in the modern era. None of the individuality of their original components still survives: it's like a purely blendered soup.

It might be argued that the Engwithans were primitive in their methods just farseeing in their goals. But it is demonstrated through the course of the story that modern era animancers are not more sophisticated and certainly not as wise. So another "hard launch" into an infomorph singularity would hardly have a better result... which would be disastrous for life on the world (look at the itty bitty baby soulstorm biawacs and the destruction they wrought, then imagine that happening all over the world at once).

>>4000683 (OP)
They did the supermath, and decided that society will either become retarded or repeat their experiments and do worse.

Though if they had been smart, they probably would not have done their god creation retardation in teh first place

>>4000700
Ok, fair enough, that makes more sense.

Why didn't they release the game yet?

>>4000719
What do you mean?

These games are so dull. The true crime was apparently ancient fedora techtards ushering in a world so boring, gay, and soulless.

>>4000683 (OP)
Real is not the point, it's "natural".
The ancient retards were blinded by materialist empiricism and assumed that measurement and manipulation means understanding. An epistemological trap where the model of a model is mistaken for reality.

>>4000683 (OP)
What >>4000692 said, and muh hecking semitic semantics

>>4000683 (OP)
he's a cunt
also could have to do with him/engwithans being insecure about the whole let's make gods in case gods don't exist idea, showing unconscious doubts perhaps

the fucko actually sacrificed his own wife to the abomination, didn't he
letting her turn to ash and burning her soul for the insanity

Because it's a major blow to their legitimacy and they know better than assuming most people would just be okay with them being artificial while brutally suppressing the use of the technology that allowed them to become gods?

Did anyone else feel little gravitas while engaging the narrative because "Engwithan" is a dumb name?

>>4000683 (OP)
They are real in the sense that an idea is real, and there's that saying that you can never kill an idea. You can let it fade out of memory, though.

>>4000852
It's full of dumb names. Fucking fampyrs LOL.

>>4000852
Sounds fine for me.

the creator has a bad case of barely suppressed crypto-christianity, manifesting as atheism.