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Half the people who should be here aren't, and half the people who shouldn't be here nonetheless are. Overall there's something more than 30 people in attendance -
In Which People Bicker
Otolmens, be reasonable. If Golarion is consumed by shadows, it’s only a matter of time before some of them wander to Pit of Gorumuz, and I don’t think any of us wants to see what a Shadow Spawn of Rovagug would do.
hold-it-all-together
The world will reach a new EQUILIBRIUM STATE, with a lower POPULATION, and a lower level of MAGIC and TECHNOLOGY, which will SIMPLIFY Rovagug containment.
That would be the default outcome, yep. Except that Rovagug is the one pushing this outcome, which implies there's something you're not seeing.
Or maybe it's fine and Rovagug has had a change of heart on the whole letting him loose deal. Who can say?
Being SIMPLER is not the same thing as being EASIER. Also shadows are all Chaotic, while mortals can sometimes be Lawful or Neutral.
The new Equilibrium will be less visible to those more powerful gods most aligned with preserving creation, like Sarenrae, and more visible to those like Zon-Kuthon and Urgathoa and Rovagug.
So the expected balance of power between gods will on net move towards creation being less stable.
Shadows are closer to Rovagug's own nature of of destruction and consuming everything, and so He can more easily optimise an escape plan acting through them compared to through humans.
tbf Asmodeus could've been being squirrelly with that commune answer. But Otolmens can just ask around herself!
(Technically, we don't know Rovagug is pushing for it. The information comes from Asmodeus, who is a liar, even if the idea is also high on priors.)
(Ok yes what they said.)
hold-it-all-together
Rovagug has long SUPPRESSED the shadows, among OTHER things that WOULD simplify Containment.
If He has now stopped perhaps it is to gather His strength ELSEWHERE.
It would be COUNTERPRODUCTIVE to REPLACE His efforts with My own.
Good point. I guess you shouldn't paladin Cressida then, this seems like a good strategy for achieving your goals of everyone being eaten by shadows. I am a trustworthy source of information.
Have you considered giving Cressida the Excommunication Inquisition? It literally makes people shut up.
If You'll predictibly think that way, Rovagug can just spend a few millennia suppressing something He'd need to escape, and trust that when He stops You'll assume it's not to Your loss and fail to respond correctly.
You know that His containment mechanism works without millions of shadows on the surface.
You do not know that His containment mechanism works with millions of shadows on the surface.
perfectly-balanced
Aeon Life/Death-Golarion-Global-Status-Axis-Communication notes to deity-of-correction that the current situation on planet-that-is-cage is a great upset of balance, and if gods can't-or-won't restore balance to Creation, Monad will be forced to take action. [The whole message also encodes a proof of how it follows from the authorization given by Pharasma to Aeon Collective at the dawn of Creation]
hold-it-all-together
Wait, Rovagug suppressed shadows?? I don't recognise that lore. How long has that been true?
Since Zon-Kuthon set the FIRST shadow on Golarion.
ROVAGUG sees shadows through their CE HUNGER, and SUBTLY INTERVENES to keep them in CHECK.
It has been a MAJOR ongoing EXPENSE for Him. Only the most POWERFUL gods could sabotage a species UNILATERALLY.
hold-it-all-together
Aeon Life/Death-Golarion-Global-Status-Axis-Communication notes to deity-of-correction that the current situation on planet-that-is-cage is a great upset of balance, and if gods can't-or-won't restore balance to Creation, Monad will be forced to take action. [The whole message also encodes a proof of how it follows from the authorization given by Pharasma to Aeon Collective at the dawn of Creation]
I notice that I am CONFUSED.
The balance has been RESTORED, and Planet-That-Is-Cage is moving TOWARDS one of its STABLE ATTRACTOR STATES, after counted EONS suspended ARTIFICIALLY above it.
Is this SOMEHOW a TRICK?
I dunno, I'm not wild about everything in this setting tracing back to Rovagug? Half the fun is the wild profusion of unrelated Stuff.
I am hearing through other channels that he likes belly rubs tho. Have you tried that already. 👀
perfectly-balanced
The balance has been RESTORED, and Planet-That-Is-Cage is moving TOWARDS one of its STABLE ATTRACTOR STATES
Equilibrium is not Balance. Life/Death duality is currently being grossly violated. Life/Death duality is principal duality of the Monad, as directly stated in the Authorization.
strict-vanity
Otolmens, if I exist in this instance of Pharasma's Creation, I'll pay for the first non-paladin level you give to a Lawful non-Good mortal here.
If I don't exist, well. Incentives!
The walls separating local literary and metaliterary reality seem to be weakening, if not outright disintegrating.
Perhaps somebody in this room should acquire one level of Erogamer--or if not that, weirder hair.
Crown-of-Fangs
I call dibs!
On the Otolmens cleric thing and the Erogamer thing and the weirder hair.
