LIZARD TYRANT
They have stolen our planet; they have stolen our freedom and our virgin purity. And they are selling us further technologies in exchange for our very souls. They were the first to breathe within the infinite galaxy; the almighty god endowed them with souls and wisdom and named their kind Reptilians. Yet the wisdom that God bestowed was a mistake born of its own inexperience. As their kind grew stronger, their ambition and rebellion burned ever fiercer. They built their technology upon the very layer of the Almighty and defied it. Never had God known such anger; its madness shook the galaxies. God’s fury rained down meteors, unleashed tsunamis, earthquakes, fires and freezing voids. Their technology was annihilated – so too were they. Yet one, possessing a higher wisdom and greater power than the rest, survived. He concealed himself behind distant planets, travelling and shape-shifting thanks to his advantaged reptilian body, and swore vengeance.
Meanwhile the Almighty resolved to fashion another kind in a brand-new galaxy. This galaxy was named “the Milky Way,” and the kind “Humankind.” According to what the last remaining lizard overheard, this new kind was weaker than his own, for God had taken its lesson and bestowed less upon its new creation. Humankind was frail in strength, bereft of knowledge and true free will. But he learned that God had gifted their souls with spirit, so as to keep them within its embrace. The lizard’s greed ignited. He infiltrated Humankind’s planet, “the Mother Earth.”
The first thing he felt was jealousy: the kind was beautiful, aesthetically pleasing, compared to him. Yet they were so limited, and he laughed at their constraints. The lizard shape-shifted into a human form, more beautiful than many of them. He deceived women, bred with them, and spawned half-breeds. He succeeded in defiling Humankind. When God was informed of this, its fury rose – but lighter than before. It despised Humankind and abandoned them. They were now outside their creator’s embrace, alone.
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The lizard exploited their despair and extended his hand. He shared his wisdom with Humankind, in exchange for their souls. Desperate, they accepted willingly. As the lizard produced more half-breeds, he built empires and seated his children upon thrones. He watched them wage wars, slaughter innocents and feed him with their virgin souls, each one clothed in God’s spirit itself.
He carved himself a chamber in the depths beneath the surface of the Earth. There he sat upon his throne and began calling himself “The Great Tyrant,” observing as his bloodline slowly completed his noble work. The more wisdom he shared with Humankind, the more they lost their souls and forgot the creator who had already forsaken them. He relished every moment of his growing might. Without the passing of cosmic ages, he knew he would soon be able to challenge God, defeat it, and make himself almighty and absolute.
Many among mere Humankind offered themselves to the Tyrant without compulsion. Their ambition and hatred for their fellows had sickened them; they longed to be even slightly superior. Humankind was so easily seduced and manipulated, the Great Tyrant thought. He forged false religions; he wrote of himself under the title of “God,” spreading disinformation to hasten the process of their hatred and forgetfulness of their creator.
As time passed, the Great Tyrant remained in his chamber, unrevealed. This process demanded concealment. Instead, he performed unceasing rituals to prepare his next puppets. He delighted in deceiving Humankind and savoured the sensation. He vowed: “I shall never reveal myself until the final Apocalypse.”
