>>2637You're not far off. I am trying to make a motif of my villain building a machine, in some sense literally. His goal to turn humans into his hivemind. My running theory is that divine things simply cannot be active forces in the world as easily as we mortals are. Rather it is the passive existence of such beings that influences us. His influence turns our souls grey, sapping our individuality and reason, the world becomes pained, sinful, and strange; and his cult offers to alleviate these things as their utopia begins to not hit as hard. I would like to make the cult or some part of it his hivemind, his seduction of earth might be easier that way (as well I do not believe divine things require worship to exist). Specifically, though I describe my villain as divine, he is not a proper deity. If the Gods made and maintain the universe, then he is one that did not participate in creation and seeks to redesign what is made. His divinity would be more akin to Lovecraft's odd beings.
I am unsure if he would simply be bored of his awesome existence, greedily adding to his domain, gorging himself on human energies, finds amusement in mortal forms. Maybe a mixture of these things or some other unfathomable goal. If he is aneristic, I think he would seek to purify mortal existence in some sense.
>I wanna put myself in it and play make believe tooI don't see why not.
>>2638I like these ideas and I'll probably use them. I like to joke an origin of our species; that we humans are a colony of space monkeys that crash-landed here eons ago and lost all technology and contact with our elder race in the stars. I'll need to chew it in my head, but I like the funny idea that the first extra-terrestrials we meet ends up being our own species. It would make earthlings more comfortable. Also I believe their tech and close genetics to us would convince the people of earth of anything. Advanced technology, similarity and the right of might mix oddly well, somehow.