Divinity isn't what it used to be.
— Haeltuth, formerly the Celestial Hunter, the Scourge of Winds, the Patron of Sailers (currently, baker)
A great many things died with the
End of All Things, including most of the more powerful gods. Among the chaos and the casualties, someone, somehow, slew the concept that
Gods Are Powerful Beyond Mortal Ken. Such a law had been written into the very fabric of reality since time immemorial and though gods had previously died or ascended, this was something different. Powers that were formerly at their beck and call were no longer there, and the slings and stones of mortals suddenly carried real threat to the gods that remained.
Gods are still powerful, but they are no longer so powerful that they don't need to watch their backs.
Divinity Lost
After the End, all gods that remain are in Ithekshem and walk the world in the flesh. Their home planes are destroyed and only fragments remain as meteorites that occasionally pepper Ithekshem. Out of all the creatures cast into the new disorderly world, few are so shellshocked as the previously divine, as they must content and even fight with things that would before have merited little more than a glance and summary destruction. Some are wandering, trying to figure out a way to restore things to the way they used to be, while others remain within congregrations of their followers and try to make the best of things. Many still are trying to figure out
what to do about the afterlife.
Others have been slain or captured, and the corpse of a divine being holds immeasurable value no matter how far it has fallen. It is a dangerous new world for the gods, and the survivors are humbled.
Ok, now I have to ask ... was there a Celestial Bureaucracy? If so, with a pantheon THAT large, I would love to see how they turned out! Also, this world just seems adorably perfect for a trickster god or goddess to be running around just causing ALL sorts of havoc.
If there was, it's been pretty well nuked by the End of All Things - nothing really made it out well. Trickster divinities probably might've made it out better than many, since they areprooobably more used to being out and about.. But I guess we'll have to wait for some more articles to find out! :O
Creator of Araea, Megacorpolis, and many others.