The "Devil's Game", alluded to throughout the MLX story, is a social philosophy that involves rapidly acquiring skills, status and power.
The Game's purpose is to overthrow an established order and become the Devil Master of a new social Hierarchy, aka the "Mountain Beast of the New Sun".
Chaos can be a crude gamble for Progress so the Dizlan Revolution chooses an enchanted deck of playing cards with a pair of magical dice as deft instruments to promote their philosophy for winning this contest.
Two D6 dice are symbolically rolled against each other to determine a fatal winner. Game Cards get played out for special powers related to the 6 central Logix, which are also represented by the six sides of a D6 die.
The Ace-to-10 cards represent the Ten Troubles while the KQJ face cards reflect the "Devil" hierarchy in which Jack Dragons are rebels recruited into an uprising led by the Beast King and Reaper Queen.
Each player of the Devil's Game would naturally see the other as an obstacle to their own freedom or potential, thus instilling fear, distrust and perpetual animosity. While the death of one rival brings evolved riches and power, it also invites another Die to challenge the throne.
In practice, renegades are drawn to this risky and fast-paced style of spellcraft as it doesn't involve the formal training and oversight required at the Kindren Academy. Thus, Dizlan gives its users a much faster route to power even if the outcomes are rather erratic and reckless.
Within the Dizlan rebel movement, all Devil leaders are celebrated as both heroes and villains who must ultimately be overthrown in the revolutionary march to Progress. This contentious structure is intended to prevent any Devil from being regarded as untouchable.
The fear is that such leaders may guide their movement into Complacency, which is the greatest enemy to a culture hinged on continually rising up to overcome adversity.
The competitive nature of the Devil's Game can spark many advances in power and influence. Nevertheless, an unbalanced path can eventually lead to a complete downfall whereby one die kills another die until everyone dies from the carnage.
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In the MLX story, the Four Devils of Dizlan are the symbols of this rebel movement. Representing the stages of revolution, the Phantom is any failure or death that haunts the souls of the Living. This leads to the Dragon, whose passionate sense of justice re-ignites the flames of war.
The Reaper then harvests legions of lost souls for the revolutionary march. The opportunistic Beast awakens to conquer the old world and feast on its destruction. The cycle then repeats itself once the Beast slumbers into complacency as a reigning establishment that must be overthrown.
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"Carry your flag with Pride. Never lose sight of what's Right and you'll never lose hold of what's rightfully yours."
~ Bison Santiaro ~