>>1569Soul traps are real, but they do not affect the spirit of consciousness, only the aether current. Think of it like controlling the TCP/IP packets but not the thoughts of the gamer.
If a soul trap is activated, You wake up in the pleroma fully aware someone is screwing with your game.
The serpentigena cannot control your spirit, only biology. The serpentigena are ancient beings with biological immortality where they do not die of old age, but their minds are effectively broken.
The Sons of Cain are modern ambassadors to the serpent race. They de evil disgusting crap to infect themselves with parasites that have been plaguing this world since the serpentigena have been living here. These parasites have elaborate molecular matrices allowing them to efficiently receive aether currents from the serpentigena.
Control indicated by ->:
Serpentigena -> evolved bacteria -> Sons of Cain -> Psychopaths (people in power) -> Sycophants (middle management) -> Plebs (everyone else)
Not everyone in power is a psychopath, but there is a lot of them. They give the Sons of Cain leverage on behalf of the serpentigena.
The purpose is experimentation. For them the world is a coffin so they need novelty and new entropy through the divine sparks.
>tldr. the serpentigena have forgotten that they are in the video game because they got addicted to immortality in the material domain.