Is there a God in the OW universe?

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This may sound wired, but do you believe there is some form of deity in the Overwatch universe?

Personally I feel since we already have characters that can summon dragons and perform magical healing a divine being would not be too far stretched.

I know the Shambali faith have the Iris, but it is implied to be artificial and a form of energy rather than a real god.

On a sidenote, if there is a God in the OW universe would be benevolent or malevolent?

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The Iris from Zenyatta’s POV and the Universe from Sigma’s.

In some faiths, God is everything (omnipresence) and not just one person in heaven.

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the only Overwatch gods are the dev team.

lords of chaos that they are

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Sigma interprets the entire universe itself as a living being?

That is very interesting but it is also the first time I heard about this concept from Sigma.

So Jeff is secretly Tzeentch?

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from hanzo’s recent story, the shimada technology is based on the clan’s weapons, although theoretically more than “religion”, in the case of the japanese characters (especially Kiriko) I would speak of “animism”, a balance with nature. like feng shui, but through animal figures as happens in Native American animism.

The iris is actually a mix of theory, between a technical anomaly generated by a code that gave birth to the omnic consciousness (a bit like RA9 in detroit become humans) and simply… having faith that what happened is a miracle equal to the big bang, a set of causalities that led us to have conscious omnics.

The iris in my opinion has the exact same concept as the Khala, the Protoss connection described in StarCraft (another Blizzard game) in which everyone is connected to each other. In the third chapter of SC2 it is clearer to understand how the Khala is perceived, and I would also associate it with the “connection” that Aurora gave to the omnics in understanding the human side with free will.

PS: put this topic in “Story Discussions”, not in general. :+1: could be interesting.

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i see his insanity less as some cosmic deity and moreso his mind unable to grasp the true manner of things in the universe. “the universe sings to me” (to me at least) sounds more like “i cannot comprehend what my mind is learning about it all”

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Of course there is.
He even has a pub.

He’s called Jeff.

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Can this be interpreted as being the burden of knowing too much?

This is pretty cool lore, though by “causalities” are you referring to the Ominic crisis?

Will do, thanks for the tip :+1:

Does Jeff seek to heal or bring us pain?

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The omnic crisis was caused by GOD programs, which technically is the mystery of the origin of the revolt of Anubis, the AI ​​of the ecosystem balance:

  • he decided that humans were a threat to the planet (you know, they pollute, waste natural resources, etc.) and the logic that was programmed told him that they had to be eliminated?
  • did someone introduce this directive to Anubis?
  • did a real will arise?

the last theory is quite dismissible, since it is Aurora who is considered truly sentient. don’t get confused by the reputation of “gods”, it’s just a technicality to indicate how much they influenced human systems.

I think that the closest thing to a “religion” is precisely Iris, which for various reasons could unite the spontaneous discovery of Aurora to the enlightenment of the Buddhist religion, of which the omnics will surely have taken inspiration by reading the texts in the abandoned temples in Nepal.

However, it should be specified that the “awakening” is seen as a transmission of consciousness that Aurora has finally consumed. This indicates that only robots that have experienced the Awakening (video genesis, part 3) are considered sentient omnics. Orisa and echo in theory are NOT omnics like Zenyatta or Ramattra, since they live on behavioral protocols (Orisa’s novel specifies empathy modules, for example that change her behavior).

Iggy (london calling comic) and Ramattra (origin video) specify that omnics are a unique, unrepeatable, non-replicable generation. They are “eternal” in their being robots but unique in the generation. This therefore implies that their “religion” is based on the union of being part of that generation, of the consciousness that Aurora has spread.

The Shambali seem to want to understand the meaning of Aurora’s life, of how she was the first to learn by herself to be “human” in free will. as i said, they are extremely similar to buddhism in the concept of “search for knowledge of existence”. but at the same time humans find it hard not to equate this thought with “it was a system bug that gave aurora this thought, and it spread it with a copy/paste of the same error file” (like a computer virus, in short).

for Aurora lore, there is nothing better than the “declassified” book, which explains well how Aurora was instrumental in the concept of Humanity unlike Anubis and his revolt. And in some ways, also how the Iris is perceived.

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Juno says “Oh moons” like we might say “oh jesus” / “oh my god”, which implies there is a religion on Mars with moons as the gods :thinking:

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The real God of Mars is the DooM guy/slayer, because he cleansed the planet and its satellites of all demon presence, allowing humanity to colonize Mars safely.

Thank you DooM Slayer for all your work. For Daisy !!!