Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. We are once again joined here to enlighten ourselves and put our psyches to good use seeking out Realmly Knowledge. Today we explore the idea of godhood and the status of the Sacred Children in this. As the incarnations of the Nine Lords of the Xyphokonic Order, are the Sacred Children gods themselves? What is the Xyphoist answer to this? Let us go through this.

When talking about godhood from a Xyphoist perspective, it’s important to understand that there is already a more detailed classification of spiritual beings that exists within the Philosophy. In this classification system, we have deities, angels, spirits, and mortals. From there, we run into subcategories of angels, spirits and mortals, but not deities. When it comes to the divine, the Philosophy only states that ten deities exist and that their combined spirituality is equal to that of the all of the rest of existence; the Philosophy goes on to state that those ten deities cast Elongated Shadows from the Initial Flash of Light to create the rest of existence. We refer to these beings, as a group, as deities.

When it comes to terms such as “gods” or “lords,” the meaning or understanding of the term from a Xyphoist perspective changes. Noticeably, we refer to the nine deities that formed the Xyphokonic Order as “Lords,” but when we talk about their respective Divine Attributes and what parts of existence they rule over, we tend to call them “Gods.” From our perspective, attaching “lord” to someone simply means they are the ruler of something, such as a Xyphozon. God is usually used to denote a powerful being in which something spawns from or has great control over. In this regard, both the term “lord” and “god” aren’t specifically tied to divinity under the Xyphoist Philosophy, only “deity” is.

So, to return to the original question, do we consider the Sacred Children Gods? The answer is as Xyphoist as you’d expect: you can if you want to. The Children are the incarnations of the Lords of the Xyphokonic Order, and through Consenting Spirituality, have shared divine heritage with another Lord. That means that none of the Sacred Children are purely descended or are direct incarnations, but that they are unquestionably divine in nature. They are the only mortals to host Sacred Spirituality, and they hold the power to destroy Deceptuary’s mortal vessels because of it.

So, one could certainly call them gods if they wanted. From the Xyphoist perspective, it’s not common to refer to the Sacred Children as “gods” per say; we recognize them are divine mortals from the Lords, and we revere and celebrate them often times more than the Lords themselves, but we don’t usually refer to them as gods nor do we call them Lords. The Children are not the Lords of the Order, they are the children of the Lords in currently exist in mortal form. And because of this mortality, the Sacred Children can technically die, are fallible to many of the innate flaws of mortal status, all while still holding Sacred Spirituality.

So, to conclude, in general we don’t consider the Sacred Children as “gods” exactly, nor would we refer to them as the “Lords” ever, but we do consider them divine beings who are descended from the actual Lords. One is certainly free to call them gods, but it would simply be a personal view of the term itself. The common Xyphoist perspective is to revere and adore the Sacred Children as Sacred Incarnates of the Lords, but not the Lords themselves. They also don’t specifically rule over us as divine leaders either, so there is no reason to refer to Children as Lords. However, like always, interpretation is free and welcome, as is the nature of the Philosophy in most cases.

—phX