"...That is a very confusing position for an angel to take. OK then. Um. The afterlife situation kind of sucks? Having multiple planes devoted to torturing so-called evildoers seems a little excessive. And terrible. And the torturers leak and that's a pretty awful design feature. Although it just now occurs to me that this plane might have an entirely different afterlife setup in which case I guess I am directing my complaints at an uninvolved party. Though those complaints where what prompted Kanimir to say I should talk to an angel..."

"We have two afterlife planes. One of them is in fact torturous and periodically leaks. God didn't do it, at least not on purpose, and we're trying to fix it."

"...Two? Are they split along the good/evil axis? Where do the neutral people go?"

"Almost everyone goes to Heaven. That's the non-torturous one. Very few people are evil enough to get into Hell, less than one a year."

"Oh, you have managed splendidly by comparison, congratulations. One more point in favor of your world. I don't suppose you have an angle on your hell in mind already? Supposedly the evil afterlives for my plane exist because there are evil gods who desire their continued existence, I am guessing your world with it's - " don't say 'supposedly' - "single good god has different reasons."

"We think it was an unanticipated side-effect of something else but we really don't know for sure. We, ah, do have a plan in motion to some degree, but it's--very odd, to explain from the beginning."

"Odd as in unpleasant or just unusual? I would like to hear your plan, I intend to put an end to my own plane's atrocities and it might be adaptable."

"I don't think so. You see, there's this--room-like--thing in interdimensional space, and certain entities have the ability to access it, and it contains information about different worlds and certain--themes--that crop up across them, and gives the option to add these themes to one's own world. Ability to access the space is not transmissible; we've tried. So these themes are often personalities, and some were rated highly for world improvement, but most were unavailable for some reason, so she picked the likeliest-looking of the lot, which oddly enough was a superposition of personalities already extent here, and instantiated her as a sort of being who subsumes a fraction of God's own power into themself."

"That was not a very good summary and I am feeling rather confused, would you mind giving a longer version?"

"Okay, so one day a few decades ago God encountered something we will for the purposes of this conversation call a room. This room is accessible by at most one person per world, invariably people who are in some way strongly connected to their world."

"So within this room one can, apparently, acquire 'templates,' which are essentially a kind-of-person that one can then cause to come to exist within the world one is connected to. There are reviews available so one can make informed choices."

"...That's weird, but go on..."

"Some of the templates are recommended for improving worlds. Many of those were unavailable for some reason, but one that was available was a sort of--personality composite--of two templates that had unrelatedly spontaneously occurred here."

"...OK this is the part where I interrupt. Unavailable? How? Why? These things spontaneously occur? They spontaneously occur - what, in the same person?"

"I don't understand the nature of the unavailability myself. The two personalities that the templates represent belong to two individuals who came into existence here hundreds of years before God ever ran across the concept."

Gosh who could that possibly be, a pair of centuries-old people with world-changing tendencies. Lotus wonder's if she's on the list.

"So she instantiated her as a sort of divine human."

She follows so far. She thinks.

"And we're seeing how that goes. There have been some improvements so far, and she's only seventeen, so."

"Divine human does what exactly?" is their plan literally just 'make someone powerful and well-intentioned and hope she fixes it' because while that might work it's not much of a plan.

"I have never had to explain this to someone for whom 'the Second Coming of Christ' didn't cover it."

"Well as far as I know it's not like you had reason to expect an extraplanar visitor for whom the phrase 'the Second Coming of Christ' explains nothing. And is in fact actively confusing, this happened before?" If it didn't fix anything then why do they expect it to work this time.

"Yes, two thousand and some years ago."

"Did it help then?"