"What is your 'Law'?"
This was not a question he could casually brush aside.
Horace closed his eyes and began thinking deeply about the essence of "Law."
A Law was a set of rules that a god imposed upon the Elden Ring, using their own will and ideals as its blueprint, which then governed the entire Lands Between.
Marika's "Golden Order," for instance-it prescribed regression, causality, Grace, and the exclusion of Destined Death.
Once that Law was established through the Elden Ring, the entire world had to operate accordingly. The fates of living beings, the destination of the dead, and the source of power were all bound by it.
Yet although gods established Laws, neither the process nor the result of that "establishment" was entirely at their whim.
The Elden Ring itself seemed to possess a stubborn sort of "inertia." Once a Law was inscribed, it would, in turn, profoundly influence and even constrain its "Vessel"-the deity themselves.
Marika was the most vivid example.
The Golden Order was her Law, an expression of her will, yet in the end, she seemed increasingly subject to the system that had grown out of it, trapped by the ideal of "eternal immutability" and burdened by the causality of "returning to the Erdtree," to the point that she eventually conceived the extreme idea of shattering the Elden Ring and starting the game anew.
A so-called deity was merely an "advanced Vessel" for the Elden Ring, not a creator free to do whatever they pleased.
"Then, if I became a god... what sort of world would I want?" Horace asked himself.
The unrealistic fantasy was, of course, to establish a perfect utopia where everyone was equal, without war or harm, full of understanding and goodwill, with resources distributed according to need.
Just as certain ideals