Talk:Overlord Volume 10/@comment-66.30.94.139-20161212064234/@comment-27168967-20161218122827

@P04

The Ancient Astronaut theory that stemmed from the carvings of ancient Mayan and the Babylonian? Surprising that you would mention this here but the idea does fit into the setting nicely as their magic understanding did receive a serious boon in the many times Players appear in their world.

Now, remember these three people: Khajiit, Clementine, Erya? Clementine might be an awkward case cause we have no idea of how she really was before she was broken and Erya's merely implied to be from Slane but Khajiit was absolutely not of those believers. Clementine's situation is more like she ditched her belief because of family issues. Erya seemed too self centered to be anything but reliogious... Heck, he reminds me of the blockhead which got skewered in Carne by the Death Knight. Maybe Khajiit was too young back then when the tragedy stroke and he turned his back on Slane.

I believe this is an implication that there might exist a age range where one is officially baptised and inducted into the religion or that only those who actually enter into the service of Slane's Scriptures will be inducted as full while normal worships are nothing more that what we call a weekly sermons though there may be those that take it very seriously, whether they are Slane residents or not. Even if one can be brainwashed thoroughly like you mentioned, the process would still need to start somewhere and any sudden incident would flip the table on the whole thing when the belief hasn't taken root.

However, the main issue is that their fanaticism extends as far as... well, human superiority and the Six have saved humans from extinction in the past but not necessarily the Six are omnipotent just what normal religion fanatics would preach. Maybe it's because the Six had actually fallen to the Eight and yet the ones that had actually saved the NW back then were the Dragon Lords. Makes you wonder why nobody in the NW realizes this fact or they simply don't want to acknowledge this. They might have even preached that the Six had been different beings than the Eight and have been trying to kill Players wherever just to hide this fact from being exposed because how else Nigun would not have thought of Ainz to be possibly a Player? Would make one hell of a scandal if that's the case.

'To put it bluntly, the Theocracy is all about "Everything inside our bubble and everything outside our bubble". '

I would believe that's pretty much their ideal situation alright.