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Golarion (or Pharasma's Creation, as Chandler corrects him, but fuck corrections).
An unusual multiverse of a common pattern.
Still has a lot of subvariations, of course.
Buss only recently became aware that it exists. Though some variations of this multiverse already have a couple of his Emblems. Well, great, "they do them".
A very close variation has not-exactly-Emblem of Buss manifesting in two mortal bodies at once, one of which is farther from the template than the other. Well, have fun too, doesn't concern him either, especially as that Golarion-variation has a very low level of Metaphysical Significance (what adjacent orthies call "realityfluid").
Anyway, nothing of that matters. Only that in this one variation of Golarion, they accept divine Immigration.
And that's amazing! For the dual reason of "more cooperation with more worlds and their systems means more opportunities and economic growth" and "more people get to hear about how cool Buss is, and worship him, because he deserves it, being that cool and that's clearly a very altruistic goal".
So.
Fine. But if it was AD&D 2, I would totally be "Chaotic Neutral (Good-leaning)".
4? Are you kidding me?!
I am a god of...a lot of stuff.
[Many gods, in Pharasma's Creation and outside it, represent some core concept. The closest thing Buss has to such a concept is "cool stuff". Not that in that he is god of stuff being cool, just the god of the specific things he finds cool.
Note the specific description of domains/estates in the link might not be perfectly accurate for describing this version of Buss.]
I’m a god of cats, and fire and sun, and weapons and fighting. And magic and imagination, which in that specific context are the same thing. And imagination is interpreted broadly enough to also refer to the basic force or process, the metaphysical substrate that sustains existence itself (I did not myself create existence, but I am the god of that creation).
And also I am the patron of…cool stuff? Like, powerful things that have high numbers. But even if the number is low it’s still good, if the effect is very cool, or if it’s a satisfying exploration of the equilibrium.
Do I make sense?
Home of the Grey Cats! It's a...building...portal...dimension...thing. Has outsiders created by me. And in some sense it's already an afterlife.
Maelstrom as my location, the path of least resistance. Would be good for people. We are weird and confusing, but less so than the rest of it. it’s sort of…"Axis, except Chaotic". What’s not to like?
No. Why would I? It will stay in the unplace it is in, we will just make a connection to it from my new zone of jurisdiction in the Maelstrom.
The Grey Cats are already everywhere and nowhere. Like Maelstrom^2. So it's easy to connect to other places that are everywhere and nowhere and also lead everywhere. The Outside, The Furthest Ring, Between-Worldness, Time-River Velira, Sigil, and such. It's not the first time.
Talk to my specialists from the Paradox Department! They have formulas and diagrams and all the terms. They understand it as no one else does, don't worry!
(Reality being complete bullshit that makes no sense doesn't mean there are no people trying to make sense of it. Or that they did not manage to develop a lot of somewhat true/useful models of how some of that complete bullshit works, and made up a lot of specific words to describe the things they don't understand, and the ways in which those things make no sense.
Buss is incredibly glad about establishing the Paradox Department, and equally glad that he has never directly interacted with them since.)
...and of course I would also like to connect my other Realm/the other half of my Realm to Elysium, it would fit with all wilderness but also drive to adventure. But that doesn't seem actively needed, I could just ask some of the local gods to give me a place to do stuff, it doesn't need to be officially enforced–
Oh, Symbol? Easy! My symbol is, and was for long time, a claw mark on an orange, or maybe burning background. Sometimes a stylized claw mark, but simpler forms to draw, including actual claw marks, must work for the purpose too.
You mean Bastet? That’s fine. Divine siblings can share some divine qualities, like we know from Dou-Bral’s example, and I am Bastet’s brother. Well, I am the brother of a Bastet. Well, there is a me who is the brother of a Bastet…
What?! I knew all the relevant deities, how-
Ah, second edition, of course. So Paul Mcgann Adanye doesn’t count.
Well, yeah, she exists, in the same way that sort of everything exists.
But the form of this existence is not one that is real from our perspective, it can’t really affect us in any causal way. Like any of the planets on the material plane that aren’t in Golarion’s system, or specific 8 other planets. They exist, but they don’t matter.
This is not something I am trying to convince you of to win the argument, and otherwise wouldn’t care about. It’s an objective fact that was always true about Pharasma’s Creation, and the way things work even outside of it, just one you (or rather, the minds that you represent, as you yourself, “Contract of Creation”, are not actually a person) are unable to perceive, unlike me. Though some other Nethys entities can.