To be fair, it does tend to the obscure, at least in the past millennia and a half... Humanity and their religions are quite interesting, but they also tend towards rather intense rivalries. As forces opposed, pleroma and kenoma were more the conception of the Gnostic Valentinus. When his works were declared heresy, well. It goes without saying that I am quite glad I was able to read his original writings.
[ Sebastian shrugs casually, and there's not a hint of bragging in his tone as he explains. There's no need to with another demon, since traditionally, it would just be a known and not all that impressive idea that Sebastian had been alive nearly two thousand years ago and still remembered what he had read. Not all demons had the interest in humanity and its works that Sebastian did, but he had considered it a necessary part of his business. Human desire came in many forms, and a desire for knowledge was of course included. ]
So it may mean nothing, of course. Valentinus's work was interesting, certainly, as it applied Platonic conceptions to early Christianity, but for it to be accurate... That would seem a stretch. I simply find it interesting that the names match up so well. It at least means that whoever picked the terms thought them apt enough metaphors, and so some meaning can be teased out. It is why the term of rulership that comes with implication of absence caught my ear. And who knows? Perhaps the absence does not even matter. The Throne may have been abandoned so long ago as to be irrelevant.
[ Yet with all of that said... There's one detail in particular that stands out the most in what Makoto said. It's not related at all to anything else, but it comes last and it comes casually. ]
And of a similar note... It does strike me that perhaps I have made an assumption, considering your familiarity with contracts. You were human once?
[ That's not quite his question, just leading up to it, since he cants his head with an easy smile. There's no more intensity to his attention, but he's quite intrigued by Makoto himself. ]
Was it something you abandoned, or was it taken from you?
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[ Sebastian shrugs casually, and there's not a hint of bragging in his tone as he explains. There's no need to with another demon, since traditionally, it would just be a known and not all that impressive idea that Sebastian had been alive nearly two thousand years ago and still remembered what he had read. Not all demons had the interest in humanity and its works that Sebastian did, but he had considered it a necessary part of his business. Human desire came in many forms, and a desire for knowledge was of course included. ]
So it may mean nothing, of course. Valentinus's work was interesting, certainly, as it applied Platonic conceptions to early Christianity, but for it to be accurate... That would seem a stretch. I simply find it interesting that the names match up so well. It at least means that whoever picked the terms thought them apt enough metaphors, and so some meaning can be teased out. It is why the term of rulership that comes with implication of absence caught my ear. And who knows? Perhaps the absence does not even matter. The Throne may have been abandoned so long ago as to be irrelevant.
[ Yet with all of that said... There's one detail in particular that stands out the most in what Makoto said. It's not related at all to anything else, but it comes last and it comes casually. ]
And of a similar note... It does strike me that perhaps I have made an assumption, considering your familiarity with contracts. You were human once?
[ That's not quite his question, just leading up to it, since he cants his head with an easy smile. There's no more intensity to his attention, but he's quite intrigued by Makoto himself. ]
Was it something you abandoned, or was it taken from you?