Finn watched the aftermath roll through the slideshow in compressed flashes. Gods turned on each other within weeks of the Errant's disappearance, the shock of what they had witnessed spurred a realization that gnawed at their minds, nearly driving them to madness from frenzy.
Faith and authority were separable…
A God could exist and wield power independent of lore and believers. That simple fact had cracked something fundamental in the assumptions they had all built their existence around.
Because every God understood immediately what that meant for them.
Their lore gave them unimaginable power, yes. But it was this same lore that also confined them. Thor could not act outside the nature of Thor — the thunder, the protection, the specific and well-defined personality that centuries of belief had crystallized around him. To step outside it was to destabilize the very faith sustaining him.
