Thread:Eras of Arda Team/@comment-173.24.156.64-20170717072837/@comment-31996723-20170808111626

Thindithron the Great wrote:

Eras of Arda Team wrote: They do exist or maybe they don't. Who knows - it shall be revealed in time. However, there are several signs of destroyed cities by those who at least claim to be servants of Asis-Ra. Maybe that's just a legend - maybe it is not though. They might be of the Ainur, but at no stretch of lore are they 'gods' comparable with the One, Ilúvatar. Again, this can't really be compared. The Southrons has no knowledge of Eru - they barely know of the Valar. However how they see Ahmôtep is different from how people sees Eru of course, because in people's mind Eru created everything from the universe to the Ainur. Ahmôtep, in the eyes of the Southrons, created the South and all its life and such. So if we compared the things, then yes - Ahmôtep would be less powerful, but if someone came to them and told them of Eru who created EVERYTHING (universe and so on), then they would see it as blasphemy/heresy as that would imply he created Ahmôtep and so on.

How Ahmôtep, Asis-Ra and so on are in comparison to the Valar, Maia and so on - won't be revealed yet. Maybe they are in reality just Ainur, maybe they are something else. But again, for the Southron's those sort of words doesn't really exist and sort of would be heresy/blasphemy. Words like Ainur are just foreign words the Elves far in the west use in the eyes of the Haradrims. Again, they live somewhat isolated on this continent from what's happening in Beleriand, so how they see the world has developed into something different.

-Fish