We came here to make something. And then, one of our puppets, one of our foolish paper dolls mattered so much to them that they threw us into the pit. You think that my quarrel is with them? No. All of you did something to them. You made them turn their back on us.
-- Asmodeus, EXU Calamity episode 4
The thing is, even allowing for a lot of perspective happening right there accompanied by even more deliberate slant, I don't know that this statement is... factually inaccurate, exactly. I mean, maybe it's just extremely obvious that I've read Small Gods like SO many times, but I feel like there's room in there for some level of... yeah, something changed when mortals got involved, and it changed specifically because of the nature of their belief. I mean, look at Artagan, and that was just one unusually shiny adolescent girl.
(I will also be needing Luis to go ahead and release the absolute fucking full formal dissertation on Zerxus's personal cosmology which I just assume he has in his text history somewhere, along with any GM notes he received thereupon before starting play. MAN there was a lot there, but he was doing such a brilliant job of staying with the character -- Zerxus has this very deep and obsessively complex frame of reference that's second nature to him but has almost never come up in conversation ever in his life. It's incredibly hard to just step back, let a character like that drop absolutely wild conclusions with no explanation whatsoever, and avoid the temptation to make sure everyone understands how clever you are for coming up with it all.)
