Amid wave after wave of shock at the Tarot Club, Derrick, the Sun, reacted first. "So... those of us who ate Black-faced Grass have to kill our own loved ones, or they'll turn into evil spirits!"
"So this... this is the Giant Queen's curse!"
The other members sighed inwardly. What a tragic goddess.
Emlyn, the Moon, had been about to say, "Serves her right," for betraying the Blood Ancestor.
But he, too, felt that the goddess's fate was too tragic to speak ill of her.
Odys, the Hermit, suddenly said, "I can only say it's possible."
He paused. "From some fragmentary information I've obtained, the curse may have another cause. But the information is incomplete, and I don't know how to explain it."
It was information Odys had obtained from the Knowledge Moor after his advancement.
Omebella was a highly unusual goddess: a child of the Primordial God Almighty and the Mother Nest...
More precisely, Omebella seemed unusual to Odys. In that era, however, gods born directly from the Oldest One's division, or born to the Mother Goddess of Depravity, appeared to have been the norm.
According to the Knowledge Moor's records, at the dawn of creation, the Original Creator created the Mother Goddess of Depravity
and then had many gods with her. Many of them were Great Old Ones from birth, while others later became Great Old Ones on their own.
The Monarch of Decay and the Supernova Dominator, for instance, had both been born then.
When the Oldest One last awakened, the Mother Nest was drawn directly to Earth, and gods such as Omebella were born.
They belonged to the lineage of the Mother Goddess of Depravity and the Mother Nest. Though there were conflicts among them, they were generally connected and sometimes cooperated.
The Mother Tree of