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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.
I don't know which of my shards might know enough about my shards to tell whether information about the whole pattern can even be deduced from my shards.
Yeah, my Emblems are a mess too. Though I outsource that sort of recursive complex thinking.
Yeah, I even see him from here! Easy to do, he's pretty close to my Portfolio.
Locally my usual stuff, mostly with other gods who already do that.
But also want to go farther than all the others did, in the direction I was supposed to be defined by.
Ah, well, envy is as good a motivation as any. Do you think you can actually do this?
I am Lord Buss! There is nothing I can't do.
(It just might take another 30 years, and happen somewhere else, and in a different language.)
[The author doesn't share Buss' Hubris optimism about inevitable success]
[You know no one would get the reference, right?]
So what? Incomprehensible in-jokes are par for the course in the glowfic tropes.
[We didn't even do yet the thread where you are introduced to the tropes of glowfic and learn to operate in them!]
[Fair, that's on me.]
Anyway. What should I do if I want to create new spells for people?
Be excited a lot, brainstorm it with me (and those looking from outside), and then go talk with Valmallos. Unfortunately, he’s the one who will have to approve.
–HEY VALMALLOS! [written with the exact same intonation as “hey Obi-Wan” here]
My followers should get a version of Dance of Thousand Cuts that is instead a Dance of Thousands Cats! Can you do that?!
Probably everyone who the-divine-equivalent-of overheard this (and Buss didn’t try to be quiet or subtle. He doesn’t care) reacted with the-divine-equivalent of facepalm.
What Favored Weapon to choose...
Various claw weapons for catfolk are an obvious choice, but they are terrible, and even whey don't, only useful for catfolk (and some very weird monks).
So it should be something sword-like. Then there's the eternal conflict between the standard straight longsword, which is boring, or the curved swords which are more interesting but also less impressive and archetypically heroic the more curved they are.
And the weapon should still be a good weapon. Preferably the best one, but defining best is hard, and also all the best ones that don't really fit.
An exotic weapon would be good, because getting a proficiency with exotic weapons is on average better than a martial one. But some exotic ones are still terrible.
A lot of deities already have longswords. And bastard swords. And scimitars. And katanas. And sawtooth sabres.
The elven blades would be great (the two-handed Curveblade especially!), but only elven gods should have jurisdiction over them...