and I must go | Glowfic Constellation

"It was similar to creating a magic item, which you don't have the vocabulary for. Boccob's church can teach you."

"Can I make magic items?"

"You can learn how, yes. That will work the same for you as for any spellcaster."

"Where did you come from?"

"In what sense?"

"You said you started out as the god of the sun. How did you start out at all?"

"We accrete, more or less, from the various kinds of magical energy in our world."

"Will this happen here when we've been doing magic of your sort here long enough?"

"I expect so. If we don't help it along it will take hundreds of years, though."

"Should we want that?"

"I don't think we know enough about this world yet to reasonably decide to bring a new god into it. In the long run I suspect it will be for the good, though, for you to have at least a few of your own."

"Why?"

"They'll be more in tune with this world and its people's interests; they'll form around those. And we aren't going away, not unless something drastic happens, and it's difficult for us to interact with mortals so directly - it's badly inefficient compared to the other things I could be doing with this thread of attention - so we'll work better for you if there are gods around who understand you better."

"Why are you going around to us instead of sending us all an email, then?"

"Email isn't any better," he chuckles. "Maybe when I've been here longer it will be, but talking to people who have such a different experience of the world is always hard."

"Well, you could do it all at once, though. At least the first message. How many of us are there?"

"Boccob favored four people, and I'm familiar enough with the type to know better than to expect I'd get fewer questions if I let you see each other's."

"...well, who are the other three -"

"The church can put you in touch with each other if they think it's wise - only one is human."

"...what are the others?"

"Demons. The one I've spoken to already was a perfectly reasonable person."