Infernal or Divine?

Individual sagas may differ on whether the site of Babel carries an Infernal or a Divine aura, and storyguides are free to choose the one that best suits their needs. As a place where the will of God was made manifest on Earth, the site of the ancient tower may still be infused with God's own presence. The tower, and by extension all of mankind who were responsible for its construction, continues to be used as an example of God's dominion, and it can be expected that the site of the original tower will bear a powerful marker of this. This is the default assumption made in this chapter.

But the alternative is that God's blessing was removed from the site, that the actions of those who chose to build the tower were driven by pride, greed, and all manner of sins. Such a place, cast aside from God's protection, could become a bastion for evil, with ancient sins infused into the ruins of the tower.

In either case, humanity is free to attempt a new construction, whether at Babel or elsewhere. Humanity has free will and God may choose to intervene, or not, at any point in the project. This free will, combined with God's unknowable intentions, sets up one of the central conflicts inherent to this project.