Set's ultimate goal is to keep the promise he made to Anubis. Without that promise, he would leave his old world to its fate and be on the side of Zenith - except not really, even then. Set's mind is alien and deeply unfathomable, he seeks to destroy as it is in his nature, just as warfare and the act of war is as well; wherever there is conflict, the god of war is there. The battle for the Oracles is as natural a place he could find himself as the battlefields of Earth, and so he sees nothing abnormal about being in Kenos -- in fact, he views Kenos as an extension of his domain. Breaking his goals down into how he views everything and everyone as "his" is, in fact, how to understand what he wants and how he will seek it.
I. Keep his promise to Anubis. To accomplish this, Set knows he must restore his destroyed world, which falls in line with the goals of Meridian. This is the sole reason he is on Meridian's side, despite being an evil god known for disorder and chaos.
II. Defy Osiris. In seeking the rebirth (or new birth!) of his world, he is both actively and subconsciously attempting to resist the curse that Osiris, the god of life, imprinted into him -- that without Osiris, there is no life Set can take and no thing that he can create. Osiris made Set discredit himself. In being shown a vision/warning by the Tree of Life, in which the Lady Yima met Osiris at the Tree, embraced him and offered him the same flower she offered Set, he has found himself revolted by Zenith — viewing the faction as one that would harbor victims alongside their abusers without condemning the cruel and making safe the ones who need it.
II. Combat his own disillusionment and trauma. Not an active thought in his head, but both a subconscious one and one on a meta-level for me. Set has several issues: he is deeply independent and cannot easily connect with others' emotions or thoughts, he has an ingrained sense of weakness and vulnerability that has been repeatedly exacerbated by the curse Osiris's levied upon him, and he can and will gravitate towards sinister, often evil, acts -- reaping souls, using people selfishly for his own needs/desires and surrounding himself with distractions from the pains he feels. He is both intensely human in his qualities, and infinitely unknowable -- one does not argue with or pity a hurricane, after all.
GOALS.
I. Keep his promise to Anubis. To accomplish this, Set knows he must restore his destroyed world, which falls in line with the goals of Meridian. This is the sole reason he is on Meridian's side, despite being an evil god known for disorder and chaos.
II. Defy Osiris. In seeking the rebirth (or new birth!) of his world, he is both actively and subconsciously attempting to resist the curse that Osiris, the god of life, imprinted into him -- that without Osiris, there is no life Set can take and no thing that he can create. Osiris made Set discredit himself. In being shown a vision/warning by the Tree of Life, in which the Lady Yima met Osiris at the Tree, embraced him and offered him the same flower she offered Set, he has found himself revolted by Zenith — viewing the faction as one that would harbor victims alongside their abusers without condemning the cruel and making safe the ones who need it.
II. Combat his own disillusionment and trauma. Not an active thought in his head, but both a subconscious one and one on a meta-level for me. Set has several issues: he is deeply independent and cannot easily connect with others' emotions or thoughts, he has an ingrained sense of weakness and vulnerability that has been repeatedly exacerbated by the curse Osiris's levied upon him, and he can and will gravitate towards sinister, often evil, acts -- reaping souls, using people selfishly for his own needs/desires and surrounding himself with distractions from the pains he feels. He is both intensely human in his qualities, and infinitely unknowable -- one does not argue with or pity a hurricane, after all.