#Is it really a coincidence that Duma grows afraid of humans and their lust for power

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Feh did something interesting for once with Fallen Rhea's FB, spelling that both humans and dragons can fall to despair because they're not so different in the end...

I generally agree with everything you said, however Archanean dragons are, for some reason because their verse sucks, subject to natural degeneration.

Mila'n'Duma's downfall is explained by two reasons : not being able to agree on "people should be lead with both strength and compassion" and their "natural" degeneration.

Duma, on his "sane" state, never wanted to rule or control humans.

Their guidance isn't wrong per se, it's only because said guidance is twisted by their degeneration and their own hearts growing "cold", but bar chilling in their temples with their faithful, they're not, at least seen or depicted, controlling the human leaders of each nation.

Which makes for an excellent AU, in a Valentia where they're not degenerating, would Alm still pull his "Humanity fuck yeah" narrative ?

Now, regarding Thabes...

We are told Duma destroyed it because he grew afraid of humans growing too powerful.

We are also told, in Thabes, before Duma destroyed it, humans were experimenting with zombies creating artificial life using divine dragon blood which ultimately created Grima, aka the eldritch monster who destroyed the world so bad that with both Naga and Tiki dead, the world's only hope is Lucina time travel shenanigans.

Grima is a threat to the world for both humans and dragons... And he was developed/growing in Thabes... Around the time Duma destroyed the city because humans were growing "too powerful"...

Kusakihara always uses the 1+1+1 = 🙃 equation, so we basically don't know if Duma knew, when he decided to destroy Thabes, knew that humans created a world ending being bent on destruction...

And yet, it's a bit too odd to be a coincidence !

The game tells us Duma BaD for destroying Thabes... Even if it bought humans and dragons (including Naga'n'Tiki !) around 2k years of "Peace" before Grima wakes up to destroy the world.

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't FE15 state that although god's control is removed, there's still evil in mankind's heart that must be vanquished or something along those lines? It kinda makes the whole "humanity f*ck yeah" shtick feel hypocritical doesn't it?

Yep,

Because FE15 couldn't nuke FE2 from its DNA, by virtue of being a remake.

So we have two, contradictory messages in this game : Duma BaD and Gods BaD and must go because BaD and they "make humans do BaD things"...

and you have the "gods might be bad, but humans are still BaD without their influence" message at the end - when the entire game (and the timeline and supplementary materials!!) has been pushing the first message.

So...

In a sea of "Gods BaD" waters coming from the remake, you still have the lone "evil remains in the hearts of men" raft that is, somehow, pushed to the forefront in Part 6 where both Celica AND Alm call Thabes the result of human folly, and the player knowing that Grima - who was originally the RED CAPSLOCK eldritch monstruosity before FEH retcon'd them in a tits'n'ass character to uwu about by stealing Anankos' backstory - was "man-made".

And yet, given how the "last word" about FE15 - as in last material revealed - was the timeline in the Memorial Book, we close FE15's book by "and Duma was BaD".

I mean, look at all those mentions of Rudy being so brave and strong and uwusome -> Duma's degenaration is directly tied to how awesome Rudy needs to be in this calendar.

Rudy is so brave to stand in front of a degenerating Duma? -> Duma was insane!

Rudy is so thoughtful and sticks to his promise to Duma by sealing Mila -> akshually Duma wasn't completely insane because he told him to seal Mila and not to kill her even if I said the inverse 3 lines earlier...