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It's not common, for a god to leave their domain. The risk of losing a manifested form, while recoverable, is annoying, and a significant drawback. But it has been known, rarely, to happen. Sometimes, gods need to be do something important outside of their domain, and there are no acolytes or priests capable. Sometimes, a god is desperate enough to act as their own missionary. Sometimes, a god has no acolytes, and must accomplish all of the duties an acolyte would by themselves.
Raezenoth? Is bored. He has run out of things to do, and Idania is busy. With her boyfriend. Again. He would damn him, if he did not make her so happy.
He decides to go through a portal an explore. It's not without forethought, he's not stupid, he avoids the witch's world with its 'soul-pets' and the worlds where he could potentially be under threat, or expected to hide. That leaves, quite neatly, exactly one. Medallion and the daeva's set of worlds are dangerous and flying in public is considered abnormal. Spellbinders take time to charge their spells, and so he has time to react to them. The same is not true of Prime's world, though that's his second option. The world with spellbinders is his first.
That is why Katydid and Rain get a divine visitor.
"Hello," he says, as if his behavior is utterly normal.
Rae nods, and then picks up the cat. As requested, there is no fur pulling.
"Do you have any fear of heights?"
"Do you have any fear of heights?"
"Good. I have no reason to drop you, and was not planning to."
And then Rae flies out of the window, quite casually. The winds are wonderfully helpful and non-fur tangling, and the view is very nice.
And then Rae flies out of the window, quite casually. The winds are wonderfully helpful and non-fur tangling, and the view is very nice.
Cricket peers curiously at the view. "The canals look more unnecessarily numerous this way. Canals are an uncivilized way to travel," he opines.
"Flight is better," agrees Raezenoth. "Faster. Better view. No annoying water." He says the word like it's a curse. A godly, disdainful curse.
"Iobel has cast her flying spell on me before but it does not last very long and I have not looked at canals with it. Water is for drinking and for fish to be in and it should not be for persons to be in."
"Yes. Large bodies of it should not be trusted. Storms are fickle things, as are the gods that rule over them. Drinking and fish acquisition are both quite sensible. Swimming or sailing are not."
"That makes sense. I would have all of the world fly, if possible, and avoid such uncivilized travel as boats, but I cannot make everyone my acolyte."
"Acolytes are able to usurp me. If given the chance, many would jump at the chance for divinity, even if it meant my death."
"Is being a god so great?" wonders Cricket skeptically. "Now, if they could become cats, that would be something."
"I enjoy it. I may make changes to my domain to suit me, and never have to suffer through mortals that annoy me. I simply make it known that they are not welcome, and they leave. Or die. Either. But then, I have never been a cat."
"Having a domain sounds like much more work than being a cat," says Cricket. "My Iobel feeds me and listens to my opinions on things and pets me, and I sleep in the sunshine and chase things when I feel like it."
"That sounds agreeable. It's likely that having a domain is more work, but I find it's worth the effort."
"It is having a place that is entirely suited for me, in every way, where ever I go. Mortals that I don't like rapidly make themselves scarce in one way or another, mortals I do like stay. I have the ones I like do much of the annoying parts, I don't have to deal with those."
Cricket yawns. "Iobel thinks that I am unsatisfiable but that is not quite true, I think. But a satisfying place for me cannot be very big or I will find fault with it, so she makes a small place for me instead."