The Beast wrote:Did you ever notice how normal True Atlanteans have a higher Horror/Awe Factor than Demi-gods?
Maybe its because some one finds out that a person is a True Atlantean and are:
1) Oh crap your from Atlantis, run he's with the slavers.
2) Oh crap your from Atlantis, you freaking escaped the Sploogs and survived to get here?!
3) Oh crap your an Atlantean, your freaking culture all but drained the magic energy from this world... run before he touches our magic crap!
While with the Demi-gods they're all:
1) Wait are you as gullible as Herculeas?
2) So... you really can't do much and require the favor of your parents to do anything... that's worse than a spoiled mortal rich kid.
3) So... Demi-god...? Is that kind of like a demi-cup bra?
Seriously it is because the Atlantean mythology has a lot of blank spaces. They were a powerful culture who's technology "sunk" their continent. Were they gods? Were they super beings? Plato's story really didn't say. While the Demi-gods were depicted as rare, very human in faults often rediculously exagerated in order to prove their humaness, with only one or two, if any, god like qualities.
So yeah, I'd be more scared of something I know was superpowerful, with only their ego and super tech as their "weakness" compared to a slightly gifted being who is bumbling in another fascet of their life... wouldn't you?
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