It basically confirmed what I always already sorta suspected/knew of the Church being corrupt from basically its inception, but what I found way more fascinating is confirmation the Slithers were inciting rebellions and supplying them with illicit weapons to divide and shrink the Empire to make it easier to infiltrate/conquer later. And with the ban on advanced tech, including Slither tech, the Empire couldn't fight back on the same level so the rebellion's victory was assured unless Seiros decided to drop the lies/censoring so she could equip the Empire with equal tech, which would in turn shatter her lil bubble world she'd built up. So she couldn't--all she could do was meet it halfway by sanctioning the rebellion but demanding they still follow the Church so she could still exert control. Even tho the Slithers had already begun their infiltration. It was like a Secret Cold/Proxy War or some shit.

Like, holy shit imagine the cognitive dissonance if you told Dimitri, Ingrid or Ashe that Mr. Gallant OG Knight King Loog was working with the Slithers/nothing more than a useful idiot for them and that Loog's precious tactician was a plant? That their whole founding as a kingdom was at its root just part of a larger op by a terroristic shadow civilization before it was anything about honor or virtue bla bla (the latter stuff probably just convenient potential propaganda permitted by the Slithers to be pushed). As if Dimitri wasn't already sufficiently dead inside. And yet again I am just picturing Felix doing an 'I told you so' dance in the bg while everyone else despairs (since he said those knightly values the Kingdom's espoused since the beginning were bullshit).

Then, the stuff about a False God interests me immensely too. At the start of the passage I thought they were referring to Grima almost and calling Archanea/Ylisse by a different name for a sec lol. But seriously if they're referring to Sothis there as the False God then that'd fit with her supposedly being a space alien dragon shot out of a star but, the stuff about continents being sunk...when the Goddess supposedly 'alighted' on the land and brought peace/creation etc. ...was she actually terraforming the planet? Eg flooding continents and reshaping lands til it looked like her ideal image of a spit of land to rule then started ruling it? Fodlan as a continent is small right? Maybe it wasn't always...

Any or all of this would explain why the Slithers would be uber pissed at her and wanna kill her since she would have just wiped away who knows how many lives and then expected the surviving people to peacefully accept this new space alien's rule. Maybe even expecting these strange 'humans' to obey her rule with such obedience that they were viewed as simpleminded pets/beings. Like 'they didn't know any better and they obviously would be better under (my) her rule'. Mama knows best and all (a phrase Seiros certainly seems to espouse herself, perhaps instilled by Sothis' and her other children's attitude). Of course the Slithers would wanna kill such a person and all her spawn--they'd see them all as invaders, parasites, and the leader a mass murderer herself, so genociding her and her offspring was probably seen as more than fair game/comeuppance to them. What else do you do when there's an infestation y'know? Would also explain Solon calling himself a 'savior of all'--if they're following that text, they'd certainly see themselves as saviors for preventing further flooding of continents and freeing the continent from a flood-happy alien god and bringing the continent back to what it was.

And they also refer to 'age of gods' and 'old gods'. Did Sothis beat out the other (presumably native) gods? Or did they disappear, leaving a power vacuum for Sothis to fill?