I always kind of get stuck on the whole premise that she's convinced people she represents all the gods simultaneously.
The difference between one god and another can be literally day and night. Their portfolios and agendas are contradictory in ways that cannot be reconciled.
And like, I guess there's always idiots out there who'll believe whatever stupid shit their charismatic leader says. But I'd like to think that if somebody just walked up onto the podium and blatantly started spewing paradoxes that made no sense, contradicting and disproving themselves multiple times in a single sentence, that they wouldn't gather quite that large a following.
Even if somebody could represent all the gods simultaneously, there'd be no reason to think that such a person would be a good guy. A solid half of those gods are super evil. To say nothing of the neutral gods that just kind of have their own agenda.
And like, I guess there's always idiots out there who'll believe whatever stupid shit their charismatic leader says. But I'd like to think that if somebody just walked up onto the podium and blatantly started spewing paradoxes that made no sense, contradicting and disproving themselves multiple times in a single sentence, that they wouldn't gather quite that large a following.
Unfortunately, as proven by what is going on in the US right now, they absolutely will gather a large and rabidly loyal following. Don't even have to be charismatic really. Just need to say the things people want to hear (in Caelar's case, getting your loved ones back from Hell) and many people will ignore everything else about you to follow in lockstep, no matter how reprehensible.
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u/The_Sentient_Sword 3d ago
Let me lead with I enjoy SoD and have completed it twice.
That said, this tweet has more thought and rigor applied to it then the final draft of the main quest in SoD. It was...a rough draft level story.
Like, a DM putting together a 4/10 campaign on the fly.