Had Phrobus gone back in tme to try and change things in the event things went badly for him, he would still be battling Tomanak. AAMoF, the universes would never have been created. Both sides would have gone back in time and tried to reshape events prior to the creation. Tomanak to prevent the horrors Phrobus would unleash had he won the Final Struggle. Phrobus to take one last chance at staying alive had Tomanak won.
The universe as we are seeing it would never have been allowed to exist as both sides would have gone back in time to try and change things before it was created. Think about the Zorastrian myth of Marduk and Tiamat's eternal battle, but happening prior to creation if both sides could refight that battle.
I think that Orr imbued his creation with some portion of his absolute sovereignty over everything to save the life of his 7th child. The purpose of this was his hope that even Phrobus may be redeamed somehow. This may or may not be possible as both the side of light and the side of darkness must learn something important before it becomes possible.
Skia wrote:runsforcelery wrote:(2) The gods have never said that changing the past is impossible for them. What Tomanak has said more than once is that the gods will not change the past. It's a hard and fast rule they won't break (in that since, it is a case of "can't" be changed, but only because the rule is unbreakable) because there would be no way to control where it all ended if they started mucking around with time. It's sort of like Mutually Assured Destruction --- the same reason the gods don't casually go around intervening so powerfully in any given universe that they might destroy it. Don't forget that they are as captive to time as mortals now, and that even they have no way of knowing how many of the fractured universes resulting from Orr's splintered creation can be destroyed before the entire thing falls apart forever as unhealable.
I was thinking about RFC's point 2 a bit and right now I wondering what will prevent the Dark God's from doing this?
Let us say that the war between Kontovar and Norfressa goes on and Kontovar is on the brink of losing. We've already seen that this world is a major focal point with many worlds hanging in the balance. It has already been mentioned that the dark gods (some at least) hate the gods of light and hate mortals.
So if they go back and start changing the past, at best they change things around so they win. At worst they destroy the universe and those that they hate along with themselves. So what is to prevent them from doing this?