History Awesome / SmallGods

** Whether it [[{{Fanon}} actually happened]] or not, that one was even more Awesome in RealLife. "E pur si muove."

** Made more awesome when you remember the Omnian Empire accounts for 10 per cent of the Disc's population, going to war against a large alliance of nations, Om and Brutha basically stop a world war which would have lasted, according to the History Monks, a hundred years and would have kickstarted the use of science and industry in warfare with all the implied mass destruction potential.

** Which he does. First by, while in the body of a tortoise, forcing an eagle to carry him to [[spoiler:Brutha]]'s execution and killing [[spoiler:Vorbis]], and later by beating most of the Dunmanifestin pantheon into preventing a war.

-->Vorbis looked up at the sky, just as [[spoiler: two pounds of tortoise, travelling at a rate of three meters per second, hit him directly between the eyes]]. Some of those watching said that his expression ''just'' had time to change before it hit.

* After nearly half a book of Vorbis being an intimidating, unstoppable villain, the Tyrant of Ephebe absolutely steamrolls him in peace negotiations and shoots down his every attempt to gain the moral upper hand.

'''Death''': '''In time, you will learn that it is wrong.'''

--->'''Judgement lies at the end of the desert.'''\\

--> '''Om:''' [[AC: You can't use helplessness as a weapon!]]\\

** Made more awesome when you remember the Omniam Empire accounts for 10 per cent of the Disc population, going to war against a large alliance of nations, Om and Brutha basically stop a world war which would have lasted, according to the History Monks, a hundred years and would have kickstarted the use of science and industry in warfare with all the implied mass destruction potential.
** There is a more subtle one here, Om is capable to do all of this because virtually all of the population of Omnia starts to believe fervently in him again, as mentioned before this represents only the combined faith of just a minor fraction of humankind, channeled into one god through his prophet, yet it manages to beat down the supernatural order of Discworld, the book states human minds could not sustain such faith for long, but is nevertheless impressive to see how strong it is while it lasts.

'''Death''': [[AC:In time, you will learn that it is wrong.]]

--->[[AC:Judgement lies at the end of the desert.]]\\

I. He is Mine.

** Leading to Brutha's SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: When Brutha finds himself in the Afterlife Desert he find Vorbis still huddled, terrified, on his rock (note that this is many ''decades'' later). Death reminds Brutha of who and what Vorbis was, to which Brutha answers: 'I know, he's Vorbis. And I'm me.' Then he takes his would-be nemesis by the hand and together they walk towards whatever awaits beyond the Desert.

'Which end?'

* Simony and the other soldiers working together to dig people out of the wreckage when the storm hits. Despite the fact that they were about to go to war a minute ago. And that they are literally walking with Death.

--> '''Om:''' [[AC: You can't use helplessness as a weapon!]]
--> '''Brutha:''' [[SmiteMeOhMightySmiter It's the only one I have.]]

** Leading to Brutha's CrowningMomentOfAwesome: When Brutha finds himself in the Afterlife Desert he find Vorbis still huddled, terrified, on his rock (note that this is many ''decades'' later). Death reminds Brutha of who and what Vorbis was, to which Brutha answers: 'I know, he's Vorbis. And I'm me.' Then he takes his would-be nemesis by the hand and together they walk towards whatever awaits beyond the Desert.

* CMOHO Dhblah gets a small one by, upon seeing his God reborn and newly ominpotent, going up to him and asking for a business opportunity.

** And Brutha notices "Om was in the throng, standing right behind the Tsortean God of Thunder with a faraway expression on his face. It was noticeable, if only to Brutha, that the Thunder God's right arm disappeared up behind his own back in a way that, if such a thing could be imagined, would suggest that someone was twisting it to the edge of pain."

* CMOHO Dhblah gets a small one by, upon seeing his God reborn and newly ominpotent, going up to him and asking for a business opportunity.

** Fridge Brilliance, too, when you realize that Om learned everything he ever knew about being a leader from a shepherd. That had some downsides, sure (sheep are stupid, and need to be driven), but the book specifically mentions that he was "the kind of shepherd who had hundreds of sheep because he took the time to stop and hunt down one that had gotten lost."

* CMOHO Dhblah gets a small one by, upon seeing his God reborn and newly ominpotent, going up to him and asking for a business opportunity.

* The bit towards the end when Brutha makes ''his own god'', who he acknowledges could kill him at any time, yield to him, through nothing more than the power of his words - by ''pointing out that he had no power''.

* Despite the gratuitous amounts of outright awesome he shows later, Lu Tze's best moments are when he achieves his goals with minimal effort, like in this book where he changes the history of the entire continent by breaking off one lever.
** Not even, he changes history by causing the breaking of one lever.

* Despite the gratuitous amounts of outright awesome he shows later, Lu Tzu's best moments are when he achieves his goals with minimal effort, like in this book where he changes the history of the entire continent by breaking off one lever.

** On top of that, Om did all that while he had only ''fifty-one'' followers. Gods with ''more'' followers (and it's difficult to imagine there weren't any there) couldn't stand up to him. Says a lot about the strength of those followers' belief right then and there.

** Leading to Brutha's CrowningMomentOfAwesome: When Brutha finds himself in the Afterlife Desert he find Vorbis still huddled, terrified, on his rock. Death reminds Brutha of who and what Vorbis was, to which Brutha answers: 'I know, he's Vorbis. And I'm me.' Then he takes his would-be nemesis by the hand and together they walk towards whatever awaits beyond the Desert.

* The bit towards the end when Brutha makes ''his own god'', who he acknowledges could kill him at any time, yield to him, through nothing more than the power of his words.

** Fridge Brilliance, too, when you realize that Om learned everything he ever knew about being a leader from a shepherd. That had some downsides, sure (sheep are stupid, and need to be driven), but the book specifically mentions that he was *the kind of shepherd who had hundreds of sheep because he took the time to stop and hunt down one that had gotten lost."

** And Brutha notices "Om was in the throng, standing right behind the Tsortean God of Thunder with a faraway expression on his face. It was noticeable, if only to Brutha, that the Thunder God’s right arm disappeared up behind his own back in a way that, if such a thing could be imagined, would suggest that someone was twisting it to the edge of pain."

* 'Vorbis looked up at the sky, just as [[spoiler: two pounds of tortoise, traveling at a rate of three meters per second, hit him directly between the eyes]]. Some of those watching said that his expression *just* had time to change before it hit. It was a revelation."

* The Great God Om walks calmly into the dwelling place of the Discworld Pantheon, grabs a weapon, and begins bludgeoning another God in order to save his people, the first time a Discworld God has ever fought for his people rather than vice versa.
* Om ''crashes'' through the Discworld God's pantheon, ''beats up'' all the other "High Gods" and ''FORCES'' them to come down and tell the humans "Life is not a game". The way he made all these formerly too-good-for-you gods his bitches. He even got them reciting the same damn message!

** And he set the whole chain of evens (which the previous two items merely kept on course) by sweeping dung into a pile in just the right place, at just the right time.