Silent Hill is a horror game franchise created by Konami apparently as a direct response to Resident Evil.
However, following Silent Hill 4, it’s been in a consistent death spiral that it has yet not found a way out of.

I should note here that I have no direct experience with Silent Hill, but I’m including it anyway. I’ll play the games at some point. Some point. Point. Oint. Nt.

Being someone obsessed with femininity and women, I naturally had to take a critical look at, arguably, one of the most antagonistic women in fiction: the god from Silent Hill.

However, what I came up with is almost certainly false (I doubt the developers intended it) and has little supporting evidence, but I think it’s neat anyhow. Crack theory time!

My speculah is that the god the Order worships was/is benevolent or at least not malevolent and something went wrong at some point. Now, to be more exact: the god the Order currently worships is malevolent, but the god they originally worshiped was not. Basically, I’m suggesting a switcheroo occurred at some point.
Originally, the god was a benevolent or neutral being^A) and the Order started around her. At some point, for an unknown reason, she stopped communicating with the cult directly…or something otherwise went wrong. This led the cult down an interesting developmental path (it’s possible god fell asleep or ‘died’) and they found a demon, which they assumed was god and who replaced her. This demon then may have been brainwashed by them into thinking it was god^B) or simply realized her position was beneficial.
Then, later, the original god woke up or possibly remained dead, but for the sake of the speculah: let’s say she woke up, took one look at the cult and went “nope”. She then chose to hinder the demon and the cult, possibly subtly helping the characters (maybe she’s the “positive vibes” around the lake?).
Even if she actually did die and disappear, it doesn’t really matter for the speculah.

What evidence is in favor of this? It would explain why the depictions of god seem to be so at odds with what it is actually like: if there was an original benevolent or neutral god, this would make sense.

Something that may also hint at this is the idea that the town and surrounding area in Silent Hill had always been kinda spiritually tuned, which attracted the cultists, who then corrupted it. The god might be a little pissed her home got fucked up.

Alternatively, it’s a few separate gods.

One other thing I came up with – which is related to the above idea – is potentially kinda weird and has zero evidence backing it, so it’s just a bit of fun. What if the original god is the player. Note, not the player character but the player. Their goal is still mostly the same: hinder the cult and prevent the demon god from manifesting.

At the same time, there might be some benevolent or other motivation to her actions as the player: she, as the player, guides the player characters during the game…hopefully towards the morally correct action.
This is also where the morally neutral approach might work, as it varies by player.

A question might be why the god is interfering in Silent Hill 2 though, as that game has little direct occultist references. One possibility is that the god is attempting to rid the town of corruption, or it simply noticed there’s someone who might need guidance. Based on my understanding of the series though, Silent Hill 2 is a game where the endings are not necessarily based around failure or success.
What I mean is that, in Silent Hill 2, most of the endings are determined by moral actions. In Silent Hills 1, 3 and 4 the endings are determined by how much you hamper the cult.
So this could still work with the speculah: god is possibly indifferent towards the fate of the characters, because they aren’t directly involved in the cult.

I’m actually liking this speculah of mine a lot. I think I (accidentally) stumbled onto something potentially quite interesting.

At the very least, both of these could work for a Silent Hill game, no?

• I’ll put something here eventually, don’t worry.