[Just those lines. Hydaelyn had many songs to choose from, after all.]
Yet when confronted with this... rather than stop them, Hermes chose to enable them. He sought to strip the memories of all present, including his own. Should mankind be worthy of surviving, he reasoned, it would find a way to defeat this danger, even as he rendered it unknown.
Do realize I am skimming over much of his difficulty. To explain Elpis and his role there would take quite some time, but suffice to say he found some unfounded parallels in his role testing creatures there, and setting mankind itself to the test. He was not a well man. Yet... he was not entirely wrong, either.
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Yet when confronted with this... rather than stop them, Hermes chose to enable them. He sought to strip the memories of all present, including his own. Should mankind be worthy of surviving, he reasoned, it would find a way to defeat this danger, even as he rendered it unknown.
Do realize I am skimming over much of his difficulty. To explain Elpis and his role there would take quite some time, but suffice to say he found some unfounded parallels in his role testing creatures there, and setting mankind itself to the test. He was not a well man. Yet... he was not entirely wrong, either.