So Shulgi is a neanderthal ubermensch? Makes perfect sense.
Also, Ereshkigal is a woman.... or is she?
Interesting enough, the Gieloth are the opposite of what I expected: They are shards of a immortal. I thought they were immortals 0,5. I think this also explains the hunger (all Gieloth got a bit of the Devourer inside them) and why they started to blend with human forms (No, Sekhenun, YOU ARE THE HUMANS. And then Sekhenun was a hot egyptian science-goddess). Marduk's talk about a bride make me wonder if previous Sekh was Gilgamesh's consort.
Well, I see where Senya's choice is going:
B, we trade our reality for a swift and assured victory here and the destruction of the Masters. Once Senya becomes God, it will be really trivial to tip the balance in favor of Ean, Shulgi, Sekh and Co.
A, the battle will go really bad for our bros. Even with the Devourer-Dragon-Tree-Emperor-Ean dual wieldan Anbar-Shi and Sekblade, Nekkid Shulgi and eighty thousand ships on our side, they're still pumping out countless Vajra Shulas. There will be some/a lot of losses, but this will spare our reality (if we win) and probably allow us to choose who will become the new God. I'm going for Ean, because Shulgi still owes us a drink.
Fuck it, A. We always took the moral high road when it came down to it, sans Dio, I see no need to alter this course now.
Your thought is good.
There's also the fact B seems not to be instantaneous. Go read Gilgamesh/Devourer story. Gilgamesh fought on, but ultimately lost. Yet, he had enough time until the reboot to pull a Senya and convert his people to information, except it seems clear he didn't have some handy-dandy dimension to store them and his method was somewhat more primitive than what Anna and Senya did. Of course, time goes weird on both sides. Time goes faster outside, so by the time the heroes win everyone else is dead.
Then again, the Masters might've installed Faster Cosmic Reboot version 2000.233 Also it would be metagaming for Senya to know that.
There's also the detail ANOTHER cosmic reboot corrupts the universe even more, data is lost, we will probably lose the billions killed by the Gray Death and the universe comes ever to ULTIMATE DOOM.
I'm beginning to think IAE was created like AI Goddesss Yua: The Masters sacrificed their world (or even their universe) somehow and IAE became the Observer. The Observer is their sphere. This also mirrors how the Spheres ascended and got the Observer's attention: Sacrificing worlds in order to turn into Stargods/Terminals of the Observer. Dio's war on the Spheres was probably a attempt to get at IAE and stop those world-sacrificing fucks from fucking with the Great game by flooding worlds with Terasphagos and sacrficing planets and whatnot.
Also, I'm betting the Unseen show up in the final battle and the Ghostapocalypse gets started, because of the nature of Rei's death (it was like a wipe from the Akashic records).
I think the choice on who becomes God will be the last choice on this CYOA. It is clear the multiverse needs a God, a REAL ONE, not passive observer deistic vouyeur "god", and the nature of our choice determines how the next universe will be.
So far we got:
1. Senya
2. Dio
3. Ean (and possibly Sekhenun as well, together with him)
4. Shulgi
5. Adrahasis
(I think Yua would've been a option had she become a AI goddess. Also we lost Rei)
Or maybe Treave surprises us all by having them become a pantheon rather a single god ascending. Ean as Supreme God ruling the pantheon with his mighty Vajra thunderbolts and charismatic honest style, Sekhenun is the mother-goddess (OF SCIENCE!), Senya is the God of Science/Genius, Shulgi is the Trickster/Troller God, Adrahasis is the God of Strategy, etc. Also, Dio becomes Satan/Apophis equivalent or is cast down forever, Cronos-style.
I hope whorever becomes God can also assume humanoid form and ocasionaly smites some fools.
