So here's the deal..
One day this week I accidentally stumble across this name: Noetus.. that sounds a lot like our lunar demi-god Groetus.
Groetus has been a hot topic, what with the release of The Great Beyond, Beyond the Vault Of Souls, and a prominant thread discussing the fate of atheists.. that came out before Beyond the Vault Of Souls.
This thread has othing to do with souls per se, but rather Groetus himself.
And I could be so far off in left field it isn't even funny. I make no pretense that I'm on the right track of anything. So this might all be garbage in the archive one day.
So anyway.. I'm around religion a lot. One day this guy Noetus comes up in conversation.
In the early formation of the Christian church he's this guy, in 230 AD that is trying to reconcile the Trinity. He picks up this concept from Sabellius 15 years early, but he oftens gets all the credit and/he blame.. especially when the excommunications get handed out.
Anyway, Noetus subscribed to a non-trinitarian belief called modalistic monarchianism. Broken down into a simple concept, the followers of Noetus and Sabellius suggest that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are all the same entity.. with different forms. They exist in different modes. No Trinity, just one being with three different masks. Big Heresy back then, especially when they got to the part about how Father died..
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Anyway, enough theology.
What does this have to do with Groetus?
We're often teased about the 'unknown relationship' between Rovagug and Groetus.. sometimes Pharasma.
Groetus is also depicted as a moon. Moons has phases.. and in this context, the words phase and mode are similiar.
My left-field crackpot "just for fun" theory is that Groetus is an aspect of another entity. I am doubting Pharasma very much.. But I wonder if Groetus is an aspect of Rovagug.
Now the fact that Groetus is described as a demigod might work against that.. then again.. maybe that is all of the power that Rovagug can manage to leak out of it's prison.
But how "self-damned and bottled souls" of Pharasma's Boneyard drive it away is something I can't quite factor into this.. at this time.
Oh well! I'm probably a thousand times wrong! But this sort of brainstorming is fun for me.