The Nameless, Summer 2025
The Second Tenet is based on the Second Rift of the narrative.
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The Second Tenet
The Second Tenet
Iblis in Iblis is the Door to the Shadow of the Self.
In the Second Rift, Iblis is physically cursed and exiled for having refused the order of divinity to give obeisance or prostration to humanity, required to look into himself, and given his name in order to signify his ensuing condition.
The name, Iblis, means "persist in grief" or "despair"; to look on death.
Instead of forgiveness, Iblis requests respite. This is reprieve, or time until the end of time to vindicate his disdain and prosecute his case against humanity.
Having shown the divine to the divine, himself to himself, Iblis vows to array himself against humanity from every direction, to make humanity see humanity.
Before a veil of divinity, Iblis in Iblis calls humanity to understanding.
