The Great Mystery of the Aghart!!, Accursed? Not? (SPOILERS are here) Options

[Rhiannon]

Is the Aghart an Accursed or not? I thought Ledah saying "The Accursed" was just some mistake or something. But the first RiviPSP wallpaper groups the Aghart with the rest of the Accursed up in the top-right corner, and it also has a form as a Dark Progenitor...

But that would be weird. It just seems wrong for it to have been an Accursed. Especially since THEY DIDN'T KNOW the Aghart had already been killed. But they still went on without even mentioning another one. So, what does everyone else think?

[Ebe]

Personally I believe Aghart is a member of the accursed, and I'll try to back this up as well as I can.

The fact Aghart was called the "Holy Beast" doesn't mean much, unless you try to claim the equally sacred Lindwyrm and Archangel were not Accursed. Also if I recall, the japanese refers to the Accursed as "Angels". Throughout mythology, "divine" and "good" are not synonymous. Within Zoroastronism, both the spirit of pure goodness, Ahura Mazdah, and the spirit of pure evil, Angra Mainyu, are equally powerful and divine.

The Accursed were defeated at one time, but will continue to revive because of the existence of their spirits, the "Dark Progenitors". These souls are formed out of the fears of others (The consuming flame of Aghart, the merciless blade of Isher, the destructive hunger of LindWyrm, the pitiless judgement of Archangel, and the inevitable fate of Death). Through this, they give power to demons, the servants of Hades, who is the enemy of the gods. The gods whom people honor in order to protect them from their fears.

Ursula knew that Hector was planning on totally screwing up Riviera and merging with Seth, which obviously is just about the worst possibility for Riviera, the realm she protects. So lets say crazed axe murderers were hacking their way through your establishment, and you had a cage with an equally crazed dog that happened to have a personal vendetta against anyone with an axe. Don't you think that maybe, just MAYBE you'd sic the thing on them? It's a perfectly reasonable response, and sensible for Ursula to have done it.

Aghart is simply a divine monster set in opposition to Asgard. It probably didn't like Ursula in particular, but it DID notice the two Grim Angels, and WOW would it hate them. I mean, 1,000 years ago they killed it. The "backstory" on Aghart is essentially that of Ragnarok itself.