Story Idea (stolen partially from the story of Ragnarok)
The world is exceedingly prosperous, but civilisation is on the decline and the people are under the yoke of increasingly powerful governments.
The sun (female) is destroyed/killed/[sacrificed(?)] and goes to the underworld
The [son of the chief deity(?)] must revive her by [travelling to the underworld(?)]
As a result of her death the world falls into darkness and there is pestilence, famine, and bloody war – social order collapses and there is neither friend nor foe.
The price of breaking taboo (bringing the sun from the dead) is the annihilation of the current world and the beginning of a new one (this is not a result of the bloody war – but rather one of it's outcomes).
While simultaneously waging war the current powers try to suppress the resurrection of the sun and maintain the current order.
This all occurs in a mythological past – but the results are still the same in the modern context of the story.
Annually females are sacrificed – and the world is riddled with war and terror and darkness – but in equilibrium
A particular female is killed and a particular male tries to bring her back from the dead
The fighting intensifies and sides are taken
The female is brought back to life and the sun renewed but at a great price – the earth is destroyed and reborn [the earth is 'reset'?] – very few survive, but life continues.
Grey Morality – I've tried to develop a quandary with two possible outcomes: 1. The being who are alive, many of whom are innocent of corruption, remain alive – but at the price that society remains stagnant and perilous, 2. Destroy everything and start over from scratch. The moral question I propose is which is better, or maybe, which is less worse?
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