Alda, the God of Law and Fate (『法命神』アルダ),[1][2] formerly known as the God of Light and Law (『光と法の神』),[3][4] is one of the Eleven Founding Gods of Lambda, and the leader of Alda's Faction.[1]
Appearance[]
"He is depicted as an austere-looking, white-haired old man holding a heavy book, a stern-eyed young man holding a large sickle of judgment in his left hand and a torch in his right, or as a shining moon. All of these are Alda’s forms, his symbols."[1]
Personality[]
His personality is conservative, and his principles are old-fashioned. He hates change and believes that people should live each day as they did the day before, under the order that he has created. He believes that this is happiness. However, for his skewed path towards his goals of the unchanging 'past', he subconsciously became mad out of desperation.
He desperately seeks to return Lambda to a time before the arrival of Guduranis and refuses to admit that this is far too risky and expensive to try, if it's even possible, since several of the founding gods were permanently erased by the invading demon king and its armies. This has led to Lambda stagnating, both culturally and technologically, for the past 100,000 years.
In violation of his own principles and edicts, he utterly refuses to accept the existence of the "evil gods" that defected to Lambda's side, and considers Vida working with them and making numerous races that can handle the threat of dungeons and "devil's nests," something the world desperately needed at the time, an act of sheer insanity without a shred of self-awareness.
Nineroad does manage to make him realize that his goal of exterminating all of Vida's races taking priority over dealing with "evil gods" who actually are evil is clearly not working, but this epiphany goes flying out the window when Vandalieu retaliates to death threats from Yupeon's clone in the artifact that was once Mikhail's spear, Ice Edge, and then successfully defends himself from the fanatical war-priest Bormack Gordan, responsible for Darcia's death and who was leading a genocidal crusade against Talosheim, unknowingly aided by vampires under the thrall of Hihiryushukaka.
Despite being the one who hates Rodcorte the most and knowing how utterly untrustworthy the god is, he champions the god of reincarnation against all possible reason, which is another big reason he wants Vida's races eradicated, as they can't be migrated to Rodcorte's cycle of reincarnation, with rare exception.
He sees Vandalieu as the biggest threat to his ultimate goal of a "clean world" free of monsters, dungeons, and any influence from the former demon king and its armies.
Background[]
He stole Vida's Life-Attribute God position to restrict her from improving her transmigration circle. "He was spreading across the world of Lambda the light attribute that he ruled over and the life attribute that he had stolen from Vida. (…) However, in order to take away Vida and her subordinate gods’ divinity and prevent them from being revived, Alda had stolen her authority over the life attribute. Because of this, Alda now had to manage the life attribute that he was not specialized in. His subordinate gods were assisting him with it, but it was not his specialty, so it would not become a significant asset in battle. This would be like requesting the members of a professional football team to produce favorable results as sumo wrestlers without any decrease in skill. Increasing the number of subordinate gods proficient with the life attribute would solve the problem, but those possessing vessels worthy of ascending to godhood did not come by so often, and Alda could not monopolize prodigious individuals for himself. All attributes were suffering, after all."[1]
"The only god of creation still remaining in Lambda excluding the subordinate gods. The god who possessed the most power even including the evil gods. The source of that power lay in the followers and servants who respected him and, most importantly, the number of believers who offered him their prayers. He had suffered deep wounds during the battle against the Demon King and the one against Vida who was supposed to be his ally, but even so, Alda’s power was vast."[1]
"Alda had been worried about many things in the past few tens of thousands of years. What he was worried about, of course, was the future of the world of Lambda that he loved. To be more precise, he had always been worrying. He had contemplated, listened to the voices of the people, thinking about how he could keep the world in the light, how to preserve its order, how to bring about and maintain peace, how to spread these ideals to the people and make them understand them. He was always thinking about these. However, things had not gone favorably in the past few tens of thousands of years."[1]
"Alda’s objective was to destroy the transmigration systems of this world other than Rodcorte’s, bringing ruin to the evil gods, monsters and the races created by Vida. The transmigration system that Rodcorte had created (…) was perfect. However, the other two systems were problematic products. (…) If Alda were to instruct the people to slay their virtuous neighbors simply for being members of races created by Vida, they would criticize him as an unjust god and many would oppose. Alda expected that his followers would be able to make the other people understand, but it was still not a favorable choice."[1]
"(…) he would never have made large changes such as allowing things that he had previously forbidden. Because if he were to make changes to his mistaken doctrine, that would mean that all of his believers who worshipped him had also been mistaken. Most importantly, those who had been victimized up until now would not draw inspiration from such changes. It was also for the sake of those who had been labeled as ‘evil’ and buried that Alda could not change the definition of what was ‘right’."[1]
Chronology[]
Alda and Curatos have begun to realize that Vandalieu is a reincarnated individual and have begun to grow suspicious of Rodcorte.[5]
Due to each of his plans to fail and to see that several of the Gods of his faction go to the side of Life, he forced through a divine message that the Amid Empire go to a Holy War against the Orbaum Kingdom and the Vidal Empire Demon.
Powers and Abilities[]
Alda is the God who possessed the most power even including the evil gods. The source of that power lay in the followers and servants who respected him and, most importantly, the number of believers who offered him their prayers.
He had suffered deep wounds during the battle against the Demon King and the one against Vida who was supposed to be his ally, but even so, Alda’s power is vast.
He was originally the god of the Light Attribute, but because he took Vida’s divinity (something that is necessary for Gods to manage and rule over the world), he now also rules over the Life Attribute and is known as the god of law and fate.
Divine Messages[]
Usually, Alda makes his teachings clear and leaves the "specific methods of putting them into practice up to the people. Gods were those who guided the people, not rulers. (…) He had delivered these teachings through a divine message to the more capable individuals among his believers. However, the contents of his divine message had been twisted as it spread from those who received it, and there were many cases where they were not putting his teachings into practice correctly. A recent example of this had occurred in the main Church of Alda in the Amid Empire. The extermination of Vida's races and the knowledge that had been brought from other worlds had been prioritized too much over the extermination of the evil gods and their servants. And the Empire had been utilizing this in their politics too much. Because of this, Hihiryushukaka, the Evil God of Joyful Life, was being allowed to extend his influence from the shadows." He's not omnipotent nor omniscent, so he had hoped the people would adapt his message in a way suitable to them.[1]
"Even if Alda used a divine message to convey his will, he could not meet the people and talk to them directly. Information needed to be reduced so that the people could understand, and even then, his believers who received it would need to translate it into their own words. Only then could the will of a god be conveyed. If a god’s brain was a supercomputer, the brain of an average person was an older-generation handheld console. That was why it was necessary for Alda to choose a powerful individual among the believers when delivering a divine message in order to ensure that he and the believer were on the same wavelength. If he were to choose an unskillful individual, they might not understand the meaning of the divine message at all and could misinterpret it. In some cases, they might not even realize that they had heard a divine message. That was why it was correct to send only short, simple-to-understand divine messages to chosen saints. It would be different if Alda were to descend upon the earth like he did during the age of the gods or welcome the souls of heroes such as Mikhail into the Divine Realm after death."[1]
| “ | The Demon King's shadow stirs once more. It must be found and destroyed | ” |
— Alda to Bormack Gordan[6] | ||
| “ | Divine Message? Ah, ‘Be prepared for disease,’ was it? | ” |
— Schneider to Duke Marme's messenger[7] | ||
Trivia[]
- The ideology that he constantly follows is Extreme Traditionalism against Modernism represented by his sister Vida.
- It represents Blind Justice quite well due to its stubbornness in admitting its mistakes in employing justice.
- Out of frustration that his plans are not working, he is increasingly losing his mind.
- As far as people were aware, Alda was the most powerful god that existed in Lambda.[8]
Appearances[]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Side Chapter 2: The only remaining god of the eleven gods (Web Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 202: A draw? A huge defeat? (Web Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 3: A hikikomori at six months old (Web Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 300: The Mother-Goddess' Declaration (Web Novel)
- ↑ Side Chapter 27: The hero finally faces the Demon King, and suspicions deepen (Web Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 57: The Eclipse King is crowned, and a saint receives a Divine Message (LightnovelBastion)
- ↑ Side Chapter 4: Meanwhile, an S-class adventurer… (Web Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 225: The Demiurge that grows from the ground when summoned (Web Novel)