Talk:Campione/@comment-5647122-20160403182848/@comment-10330822-20180402061800

It really seems that Campione need something that make them defy rational logic. As you said, normally a human, mage or not, would never challenge a God. As such, something needs to happen to force them to behave this way, whether it be a lack of self-preservation, some outside assistance, or an external factor forcing their hand. Godou was the latter case.

In truth, Godou only challenged his first two gods to protect Erica, who was duty bound to fight gods from harming humans as a knight. Godou had to help because he had Prometheus, which had a higher chance for defeating a god than Erica did. He recognized that if he didn't help, Erica would die. He tried his best to give himself as much advantage as possible by allying with one of the two gods, which conformed to rational logic on what to do in the situation.

Also, if you look at it from the anime perspective, what Godou did was quite clever. He challenged Verethragna, who's Authority was incomplete due to his White Stallion being in the Prometheus Tablet, which Godou had. We attacked him with this sealed Authority, than used the tarblet to steal Warrior from Verenthragna. The Warrior essentially cancels out Verethragna's advantage as a god, allowing Godou the chance to kill him. In other words, it means that without Erica to force Godou to do something, and the tablet to use against the best person to use it against, Verethragna, Godou wouldn't have beaten the first god and become a Campione.

This is why Pandora stated that Godou was "in essence" created by "the witch", Zola, who gave Godou the tablet. By giving Godou the Prometheus tablet, she gave him the means to defeat Verethragna, and become a Campione. You even see her asking Godou if he met anyone, and after hearing Godou say he met a young boy, i.e. Verethragna, she knew he was coming after the tablet. Not to mention Zola was the one who trapped White Stallion in the tarblet in the first place, meaning it wouldn't have been a tool to defeat Verethragna without doing so.