re: #127 Varek Raith

Serious question. Why’d he do that?

The people have joined together and are building a tower to ‘reach to the heavens’. God expresses concern that if they succeed, ‘nothing will be impossible for them’.

It’s probably a very old story—it’s one of the sections of Genesis where God mysteriously starts speaking in the plural. “Let us go down”. I don’t fully understand why the people are scattered, but I suspect that in the earliest versions, they might have been seen as posing some sort of threat or challenge to the gods.

Short answer—I dunno. This is not a story I know much about.