Theological Musings: Is Paramac the new Endric?

When the gods sealed Endric away, one would have expected his power to diminish. Taking the theological framework of H K Hackenbacker as accurate, that being that the gods derive their substance and power from our prayer, then one can make two major assumptions about Endric. Firstly, as people still active know of and believe in Endric he must still hold some substantial power - Hackenbacker states that only active prayer would affect gods, many theologians of his school now posit that thought itself, given sufficient form and context, is enough to affect gods' forms. Secondly, as a significant portion of this belief is that Endric himself is sealed and that his power is locked away, this thought in itself creates its own truth, regardless of the actions of the gods.
However, Endric was once worshipped as an essential part of the pantheon by many peoples and there have been numerous interpretations of him across differrnt times and civilisations. It is far too easy to forget that other understandings of Endric exist beyond the modern Centrelandish theological school and it's branches. 
Endric was once understood as an important bringer of ends to the world. Everything from thoughts to people and objects to civilisations must one day end, this is very much the entropic message which embodies Endric. Modern interpretations of this are that he is an "evil" harbinger of doom, death, destruction and other unsavoury and unpleasant entropic events. However, historically and even still today many people saw Endric as necessary in some regards but even an emobdyment of positive finality. That is to say, Endric brought positive change through abrupt ends. The death of evil people being a very crude example, some civilisations saw him as a righteous judge upon the wicked. A more nunanced approach to this however is the idea that, through faith in Endric, terrible events, times and thoughts or feelings can be ended. A famine or a war, sickness and destitution, all will eventually end by Endric's hand. Even death is not something to be feared if seen as part of this fair and necessary cycle.
Modern Pemblese and those who worship Centrelands-derived religions will recognise many of these arguments as those of "change", and in doing so they will most likely point out this is embodied not by Endric but by Paramac. However, Paramac is traditionally a god of chaos. Paramac's role has been to being about change through chaos whereas Endric was an inevitable and structured end - Endric's traditional role is one of finality and order. I posit that, following then end of Endric worship, Paramac has filled the void of Entropic change to transform from a god of chaos to that of change. 
We need look no further than Paramac's change to an overall god of " change" to see how his role has been reinterpreted to fill the gap left by Endric.
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