Then the First Lord pisses it off some more to make the volcano erupt early, destroying the city but saving lives overall. High Lord Kalare plays Piss Off The Volcano God and rigs it to erupt when he dies, ensuring if an army comes to take his city, they die with him. A character explains that the villagers of his hometown once used to throw people into the nearby volcano - not as sacrifices, but because occasionally someone would return from the experience with ' all their weaknesses burned away.' Either way, a volcanic caldera filled with lava is sure to be very hot, so it might be difficult to simply toss people in the top. The Polynesian ancestors of the Hawaiians did practice Human Sacrifice and regarded not pissing off their volcano as serious business, but at the same time they would have never sacrificed women due to their belief that females were spiritually defiled. How much basis in reality this trope has is debatable. And if the offering is somehow unsuitable, the results can be quite explosive.

And if the hero or the Love Interest gets picked to take a half-gainer into the caldera, the Big Damn Heroes had better get up there quick before things start to heat up.

The volcano god's favorite food? Virgins, of course. With such explosive power on their doorstep, the natives of many of these islands figure that the volcano is home to a fire god, who can be kept safely dormant through proper care and feeding. When that volcano blows its stack, you never know if you're going to get a gentle, easily-avoidable stream of lava, or an apocalyptic explosion. People who live on volcanic islands are frequently living on a ticking timebomb.

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