Bounded Accuracy

A god of justice and summer has a fallback plan when times are good. A god of only justice, even in its most positive form, has a DIRECT conflict of interest with her followers.

As injustices get fixed, there are fewer things for justice to act on. That’s great for mortals; they’re addressing the root causes of injustice rather than managing the symptoms. But for a god of only-justice, it will kill her.

Give up the dawn, and the only way to survive is as a deity of impotent rage. He’ll point out injustices, and maybe even accurately diagnose them, but he has to steer his followers away from anything that would solve those problems. If a problem requires action, he’ll tell them to stew in their rage at home. If a problem requires thoughtful, measured changes, he’ll tell them to burn it all down. He’ll tell them everything they should be mad about while actively making all their problems worse. There can be no summer, there can be no harvest time, only a treadmill of injustices with no hope of success or rest.

We keep giving the Ratgrinders shit for this powerleveling manuever, but the real dork here is Porter. Yes, I can grant you spells, but you have to notify me about the fight 1-2 business days in advance lmao.

The narrower the focus on war becomes, the harder it gets to fully kill doubt. Not just the deific personification of doubt, but the doubt that exists in people as a direct result of having nothing to fight for.

On top of that, you can’t have war and conquest if your foes are completely destroyed. An over-dedication to war as an end to itself requires opposition. This likely interfered with their attempts to fully destroy Ruvina. Meanwhile, the followers of Ruvina were NOT idolizing war, they were trying to reach the world after the war, so they were able to actually follow through.