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[Lyth]

Amaurot is simply a humanist retelling of the standard creation myths that we're all familiar with. The primary difference is that humanity is the 'higher power' guiding its own creation.

One of the primary goals of such a story is to offer an explanation why we live in an imperfect world. Hesiod's Golden Age is not too dissimilar from the society described in Amaurot. The cracks start to show once you attempt to hold any proposed 'perfect society' up to scrutiny, however, which is what has happened here.

The instant that you portray people as individuals with their own unique wants, needs, and desires, then you create interpersonal clash and the potential for aggression and violence. That is magnified when you give individuals enormous amounts of destructive power. You end up with wonderful paradoxes like a non-violent society in which conflicts are always resolved amicably through debate, except for when Lahabrea murdered his wife Athena in the heat of the moment and concealed the evidence. The storytelling just ends up being inconsistent.

I think the more you attempt to write stories around the actual people of Amaurot, the more you end up converting it into yet another vice-laden human nation, simply with more unwarranted jingoism than the rest. And that's not a particularly compelling story to dwell on in the long run.