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Depends on the severity of the lie in question and personality of the lyer. May be very casual, may be very hard. I am not sure how to assess Valzira in particular. We need examples of her lying and her telling truth for such assessment.
I will begin with re-asserting my position. She tells you she will screw you over if you release her if you do that. I think, it's a good example of her not caring enough to lie.
Well, we have two ways of assessing character. We either go for specific in-story details or "normal rational way". People be people, after all, no reason to suspect outlandish behavior if its possibility were not established.
And yes, it is being played for laugh, I think.
Regrettably, you've missed the point and read only a setup for it.
The point was - we don't know means from ends. At the moment, we have HIS words to assess the reason behind his actions. No more, no less.
A shabby basis for assessment, don't you think?
As for why demons would help people... Have you ever heard the concept of 'fattening the herd'? Being Warhammer-fag my warp my perspective, but you'd be surprised (if you aren't aware already) by crazy overly elaborated schemes thousands of years in the making some of WH40k demons would invent. Often, just to piss each other off - or even shits and giggles.
Not the best example, perhaps, but what I'm trying to say is that some immortal supernatural entity with inhuman thinking may go for plans that on first glance would make less than no sense for a human. Because:
a) demon's logic may be unlike that of humans, with goals we would consider unreasonable or pointless;
b) demon have supernatural means to achieve their goals humans do not possess - and, therefore, struggle to plan against or take into account altogether;
c) demon can plan ahead for far longer spans of time compared to humans.
Combine all of this and you'll get someone whose plans are very non-transparent.
That is a tangent, of course. A food for thought, less so a proper argument.
Still, not every companion is meant for literal breeding. And while such jealousy and inferiority complex is a possibility, Issa may not even be intended by authors to be viewed in that cohort.
Understandable. Since we already exchanged our opinions on the matter and seemingly exhausted this topic for now, I will conclude it simply. We don't know for sure, since her role in the Cataclysm is yet to be revealed - and I am sure there would be a lot to reveal later on.
Answer to "Why?" is simpler than simplicity itself. People in-story view it this way. We have mostly their perspective - IIRC, supernatural beings are more chill on the subject. Why would people view it as doomsday? That's the upturning of the world their know. It matters less whether or not world would actually end - to them, it won't be that different.
As for The Deer Question - I wholeheartedly salute authors and would wank to the Deerie-Ann just to show my support of their creative liberties. I admire and respect authors who just go ham with little regard to anyone's opinion - not to constructive criticism, just the matter of taste! Constructive criticism still should be taken into consideration, naturally. But creative process should take precedence - even if it entails betailed and behorned ex-zoophile-turned-zoo.
Hard to tell, IMO. Point is - ATM, we saw people morph according to their personalities. Its less of "turned into monsters" and more sort of realization of their... Dreamscape? Its like they turn into dream versions of themselves. Reality thins around Malice and subjective start to overwrite objective.
Which is a concept I've seen in SCP of all places. Reality Anchors work by applying certain objectivity levels to the area. There are, however, areas with denser objectivity, where laws of other world or beings are being uphold instead of Earth laws, and, more importantly, areas with less dense objectivity, where people can just warp things into being. Sidenote: IIRC, infamous Reality Sculptors are just people with higher objectivity density or something like that.
Anyway, I may have warped or missed something, don't take my words for gospel. I just shown how such concept could work.
And yes, taken into extremes, it will fuck reality over into something too unstable to support life.
But will it with Malice? I don't know - maybe, or maybe it will stop at some point. Perhaps, the center of this anomaly, our naga, will at some point suffer its greatest effects and, for example, erase herself just by feeling sad.
Reality warping work in strange, if simple ways.
P.S. Issa is Arabic for Jesus. Take from that what you will, but I doubt it is random choice of name. Especially for a character seemingly dead-set on saving humans.
