Domain

[aestrix]

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.

Comments

[alicornucopia]

"Why not?"

[aestrix]

"Acolytes are able to usurp me. If given the chance, many would jump at the chance for divinity, even if it meant my death."

[alicornucopia]

"Is being a god so great?" wonders Cricket skeptically. "Now, if they could become cats, that would be something."

[aestrix]

"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."

[alicornucopia]

"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."

[aestrix]

"That sounds agreeable. It's likely that having a domain is more work, but I find it's worth the effort."

[alicornucopia]

"What for?"

[aestrix]

"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."

[alicornucopia]

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."

[aestrix]

"That makes sense. I would be be hard to satisfy if I were not a god, I think. But I am."

[alicornucopia]

"Have you always been a god?"

[aestrix]

"Yes."

[alicornucopia]

"I was a spirit cat instead of a real cat once. It was not as nice."

[aestrix]

"I am sorry. When I was a young god, my domain was pathetically small and it was like I was trapped and suffocating. It was unpleasant."

[alicornucopia]

"How did it get bigger?"

[aestrix]

"I made it known what type of god I was, and realized very quickly that a neighboring domain advocated slavery. I took offense to it. Most of her followers defected - especially the former slaves - and she died a few centuries later."

[alicornucopia]

"There is no slavery in this country but there are canals."

[aestrix]

"Yes. I would be offended by them, if they were in my domain, but they are not."

[alicornucopia]

"Some binders are not nice to their familiars," muses Cricket. "It is a little like slavery. Iobel is working on it. She is good."

[aestrix]

"Good. I have known Iobel's other, Ayabel, for some time. Idania has chosen her friend well."

[alicornucopia]

"Anyone who likes Iobel or her alts has good taste," pronounces Cricket, "at least some of the time."

[aestrix]

"Thank you."

[alicornucopia]

"You are welcome," Cricket says magnanimously.

[aestrix]

"You don't speak as if you're afraid I will smite you where you stand, and say whatever you like with no regards for my opinion. This is an admirable quality."

[alicornucopia]

"I have no regard for most opinions," says Cricket, licking one of his forepaws. "Most opinions are terrible and even the ones that are not are not particularly important usually."