Line #11 WebOriginal/TheocracyEmpiresOfAbominaton


1	[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=279083 "Theocracy: Empires of Abomination"]] is the latest[[note]]as of 2013[[/note]] addition to the [[Literature/SwarmOnTheSomme already]] ''[[Literature/AdAstraPerAspera long]]'' [[Literature/GreenAntarctica list]] of [[{{Dystopia}} dystopic]] timelines featured on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom.
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3	The premise of ''Theocracy'' is that in 2013, the Old Gods worshipped by mankind return... but humanity discovers (to its horror) that the "Old Gods" are in fact {{Eldritch Abomination}}s hell-bent on enslaving, brutalising, and generally making life miserable for their human subjects. The humans fight back valiantly, but by 2056, most of the Earth is under control of the Old Gods, who turn their domains into horrifying {{Crapsack World}}s.
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5	!!This work features examples of:
6	* TheAlliance: The United Nations of Christendom. Also doubles as the ChurchMilitant.
7	* BigBrotherIsWatching: [[Myth/NorseMythology Odin]] turns his slice of Northern Europe into this.
8	* BlackAndGreyMorality: On one side we've got the [[ChurchMilitant United Nations of Christendom,]] who are generally authoritarian, have cults of personality around their leaders, and are disapproving of other religions... But on the other we have the [[GodIsEvil abominations,]] who are petty dictators at best, but usually treat their subjects as disposable resources, and can cannibalize, murder or otherwise inflict campaigns of terror on them for the slightest provocation. Case in point: Odin sends a special forces team to kick down the door of a man who was ''[[DisproportionateRetribution late to work.]]''
9	* CosmicHorrorStory: A rather straight example.
10	* CrapsackWorld: While most of the areas still controlled by humans aren't awful, pretty much anywhere under the thumb of an abomination is hell on Earth. Being assigned to the frontlines between fiefdoms is considered on par with a death sentence.
11	* CrossoverCosmology: Natch.
12	* DarkIsEvil: Odin. And the... [[NothingIsScarier thing...]] in Peshawar.
13	* DealWithTheDevil: The African Union is more willing to make alliances of convenience with the less evil abominations, and is disliked because of this by the UNC.
14	* EldritchAbomination: All of the Old Gods are this, but special mention goes to [[Myth/SlavicMythology Czernobog]], who appears as a "vast lake of necrotic flesh". [[spoiler:The Abrahamic God is also implied to be something truly Lovecraftian.]]
15	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: For a certain measure of [[BlueAndOrangeMorality good,]] anyway. A man living in Midgard becomes aware of the [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm mind-searingly]] powerful [[spoiler:Abrahamic God]], so he attempts to perform a sacrifice to win favor, the way he might with an abomination. To his horror, he realizes [[spoiler:the Abrahamic God]] doesn't care about such rituals.
16	* GodNeedsPrayerBadly: Gods need their followers' devotion to wield power. In fact, they returned because they were starving to death from a lack of worship.
17	** Tengrii in particular was summoned directly by the prayers of Mongolian Soldiers before a battle with a different abomination. Interestingly, Tengrii is among the most benevolent and hands-off of the abominations. [[note]] Which still isn't really saying that much [[/note]]
18	* KnightTemplar: To varying degrees across the UNC. Americans tend to be more secular, satisfied with a few "God bless America"s while the Anglican British frequently use hymns and prayers in their communications. Some of the servants of the abominations can be monomaniacally fanatical as well.
19	* LightIsNotGood: Zeus all the way. A sometimes-humanoid, sometimes-avian, sometimes-insectoid mass of feathers and flesh surrounding a core of lighting. When a gap appears in his feathers, it tends to blast anyone nearby with heat and radiation.
20	* {{Mordor}}: Russia gets turned into this, thanks to Czernobog.
21	* SenseFreak: The followers of Aphrodite are this.

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