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Someone else on Disqus thought of an even more devious and viable idea: the Black Tongues don't have enough data on the Dammakhert to reliably hack it completely, but they do have an entire soul's worth of data on the Etelarche Curse and how it functions, possibly enough to cast the Etelarche with developer's access to the Dammakhert.
Which leads to one question: who is ''the'' stabilizing pillar of the entire country of Alderode? Whose name is plastered across every other book, mounted across every statue? Who is the central figure of Alderode's cult of personality?
Which leads to one question: who is ''the'' stabilizing pillar of the entire country of Alderode? Whose name is plastered across every other book, mounted across every statue? Who is the central figure of Alderode's cult of personality?
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Someone else on Disqus thought of an even more devious and viable idea: the Black Tongues don't have enough data on the Dammakhert to reliably hack it completely, but they do have an entire soul's worth of data on the Etelarche Curse Curse, a HatePlague which causes everyone to instinctually blame all the world's evil on a single person, and how it functions, possibly enough to cast the Etelarche with Curse if they gain developer's access to the Dammakhert.
Which leads to one question:who Who is the perfect target? Who is ''the'' stabilizing pillar of the entire country of Alderode? Whose name is plastered across every other book, mounted across every statue? Who is the central figure of Alderode's cult of personality?personality?
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[[WMG:Alternatively, she'll use the Dammakhert to ''destroy Ssaelism''.]]
Someone else on Disqus thought of an even more devious and viable idea: the Black Tongues don't have enough data on the Dammakhert to reliably hack it completely, but they do have an entire soul's worth of data on the Etelarche Curse and how it functions, possibly enough to cast the Etelarche with developer's access to the Dammakhert.
Which leads to one question: who is ''the'' stabilizing pillar of the entire country of Alderode? Whose name is plastered across every other book, mounted across every statue? Who is the central figure of Alderode's cult of personality?
''Ssael''.
Without his ghost worshiped at all times, hated instead by the power of the curse, the theocracy ''dies''. The survivors will be too disgusted with their previous reverence to resist Cresce's slaughter, or too willing to accept its forced annexation.
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* This seems unlikely, given Ufal's flippant response to the high priestess bemoaning the lack of Tirnasday sacrifice, and how easily Karl turned the nobles against Sonorie. It would also probably have come up by now, given Sonorie's plan seems to heavily involve the dammakhert.
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[[WMG: Sonorie's plan is to destroy the dammakhert.]]
Sonorie refuses to perform an out-and-out genocide against Alderode, but Roger says he is handing her "the unmaking of Alderode". What could possibly warrant that description that isn't mass slaughter?
Sonorie plans to destroy Alderode's ''cultural identity'' by breaking the dammakhert. Without it, there will be no castes, no stings, and no MindControl. The methods its government uses to control its populace will vanish, throwing the country into chaos and making them vulnerable to a counter-invasion or even willing to negotiate a ceasefire.
Moreover, I predict that she will ''succeed'', at least partially, and the fallout from this will form the crux of the next Book.
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[[WMG: [[spoiler:Mikaila]] the Golden Delight becomes the Silver Abomination's next pilot]]
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Her motive: Just hours ago, she set in motion a series of events that have created a multiversal destroyer god. Upon being infested with the Silver Abomination, she gets a glimpse of the truth; that the world isn't just Kasslyne but a countless slew of other continents on other planets in other galaxies in other universes - and she just created a divine being who can simultaneously ruin all of them by [[spoiler:winning the God War to stop the destruction, purification, and reincarnation of the multiverse, only to rape a seventh of it while their partners do the same to their shares]]. The sheer guilt of the incomprehensible lifelong horrors she has just inflicted on ''sextillions'' has made her absolutely desperate to fix her mistake - even if it means murdering and betraying the world she loves in order to create a weapon strong enough to kill [[spoiler:Matty Incubus and his Merry Demiurges]].
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[[WMG: Lemuel will kill Queen Sonorie and then Etelarche all of Cresce to self-destruct]]
In the climactic showdown, Lemuel and his regiment will ambush Sonorie while she's busy fighting off the Inak revolutionaries, stab her before she can direct F.R.E.D. to use the local Dammakhert node to mind-control Alderode, and then, using the knowledge learned as a sleeper agent of the black tongues, redirect the Etelarche Curse order to 'as many Crescians as possible' to hate ''Cresce''. In horror, this works even more effectively than expected, and the entirety of Cresce's patriotic population is driven irrevocably insane, leading to a mass murder-suicide that utterly destroys the country.
[[WMG: [[spoiler:Mikaila]] the Golden Delight becomes the Silver Abomination's next pilot]]
As a final, cruel twist of fate for the end of Book One.
Her motive: Just hours ago, she set in motion a series of events that have created a multiversal destroyer god. Upon being infested with the Silver Abomination, she gets a glimpse of the truth; that the world isn't just Kasslyne but a countless slew of other continents on other planets in other galaxies in other universes - and she just created a divine being who can simultaneously ruin all of them by [[spoiler:winning the God War to stop the destruction, purification, and reincarnation of the multiverse, only to rape a seventh of it while their partners do the same to their shares]]. The sheer guilt of the incomprehensible lifelong horrors she has just inflicted on ''sextillions'' has made her absolutely desperate to fix her mistake - even if it means murdering and betraying the world she loves in order to create a weapon strong enough to kill [[spoiler:Matty Incubus and his Merry Demiurges]].
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[[WMG: The Dhammakhert has genetically modified humans with the DNA of Senet Beasts]]
This is the great secret of the artificial Khert. It has, over centuries, slowly altered the genetic composition of its civilians by introducing bits of Senet DNA in the womb. While this may cause a high number of miscarriages and birth defects, it has become the normal for Alderode.
For instance, the Coppers may simply have Illganyag's DNA, collected by Ssael back when they were friends. In irony? The Coppers were the original lower caste of proto-Alderode and given the brunt of genetic surgery, while the process was refined with each succeeding caste until it was perverted into a min-maxing of pymaric ability in the Platinums.
This is also why mixed-caste pairings are persecuted to extremes; the higher-ups don't want enough evidence to show that hybrid castes have certain propensities beyond more than just their lineages. The Dhammakhert might not be fully capable of dealing with mixed-caste properties and might accidentally give them something powerful.
This is the great secret of the artificial Khert. It has, over centuries, slowly altered the genetic composition of its civilians by introducing bits of Senet DNA in the womb. While this may cause a high number of miscarriages and birth defects, it has become the normal for Alderode.
For instance, the Coppers may simply have Illganyag's DNA, collected by Ssael back when they were friends. In irony? The Coppers were the original lower caste of proto-Alderode and given the brunt of genetic surgery, while the process was refined with each succeeding caste until it was perverted into a min-maxing of pymaric ability in the Platinums.
This is also why mixed-caste pairings are persecuted to extremes; the higher-ups don't want enough evidence to show that hybrid castes have certain propensities beyond more than just their lineages. The Dhammakhert might not be fully capable of dealing with mixed-caste properties and might accidentally give them something powerful.
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[[WMG: Matty becomes a supervillain]]
The clusterfuck that was chapter 16 destroyed all of Matty's childhood delusions and revealed [[spoiler:his father sold him and his mother to StateSec]]. The icing on the cake would be that Karma is inversed for Matty; the moment he gives in to his demons and hatred, the whole multiverse seems to bow down to him and give him cosmic power, sending him to another universe in a freak teleportation accident involving the bomb right next to him (instead of, you know, ''killing him''), where he will train with godslayers and become a completely irredeemable world-destroying tyrant.
The clusterfuck that was chapter 16 destroyed all of Matty's childhood delusions and revealed [[spoiler:his father sold him and his mother to StateSec]]. The icing on the cake would be that Karma is inversed for Matty; the moment he gives in to his demons and hatred, the whole multiverse seems to bow down to him and give him cosmic power, sending him to another universe in a freak teleportation accident involving the bomb right next to him (instead of, you know, ''killing him''), where he will train with godslayers and become a completely irredeemable world-destroying tyrant.
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It would be a poetic irony proving that Alderode and Cresce are NotSoDifferent. Cresce's artificial Khert is ALighterShadeOfBlack, but just as inhumane in its manipulation of the populace. It's subtle, it mimics the regular Khert, and most of its functions have negligible differences from the regular Khert. Most. But it runs background programs that seem to be simple propaganda like "long live the Monarch" or "obey the gods", which are actually performing low-level Charm Person spells on the entire populace, just weak enough to ensure the adult Crescians have an opinion (and can be culled), while children in Cresce are indoctrinated their entire lives.
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It would be a poetic irony proving that Alderode and Cresce are NotSoDifferent.aren't that different. Cresce's artificial Khert is ALighterShadeOfBlack, but just as inhumane in its manipulation of the populace. It's subtle, it mimics the regular Khert, and most of its functions have negligible differences from the regular Khert. Most. But it runs background programs that seem to be simple propaganda like "long live the Monarch" or "obey the gods", which are actually performing low-level Charm Person spells on the entire populace, just weak enough to ensure the adult Crescians have an opinion (and can be culled), while children in Cresce are indoctrinated their entire lives.
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* As of chapter 7, it's made clear that Duane's soul is housed in the khert at night, not in a pymaric, and as of chapter 10 it seems like his tether is connected directly to his body. Whatever the amulet does, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with Duane's soul.
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** Technically it's true; chapter 16's flashbacks reveal Mikhaila's last act on that bloodied snowbank was to use Pymary to slice up Bastion's back in response to his human experiment on her father, not realizing she interrupted the full resurrection.
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If Tirna was indeed the doctor of the group, then it may cast the attempted poisoning of the world in a new light. Perhaps she viewed it as an infection, or concluded that bringing it to term would kill Yerta, and she sought to treat her sister, making her action out of worry rather than malice.
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If Tirna was indeed the doctor of the group, then it may cast the attempted poisoning of the world in a new light. Perhaps she viewed it as an infection, infection or concluded that bringing it to term would kill Yerta, and she sought to treat her sister, making her action out of worry rather than malice.
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Even if we ascribe to the theory that the caste system works by siphoning lifespan from the commoners to the elites, a 400 year average lifespan extends beyond what would normally be viable with their general lack of understanding in biological medicine. But then, magic in Kessaline works by stealing traits and grafting them where they shouldn't go; what if they discovered a means of grafting extra 'energy' (mitochondria) into humans, thereby allowing their bodies' regeneration to remain in perfect shape, as opposed to the old growing tired as their mitos shut down?
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Even if we ascribe to the theory that the caste system works by siphoning lifespan from the commoners to the elites, a 400 year 400-year average lifespan extends beyond what would normally be viable with their general lack of understanding in biological medicine. But then, magic in Kessaline works by stealing traits and grafting them where they shouldn't go; what if they discovered a means of grafting extra 'energy' (mitochondria) into humans, thereby allowing their bodies' regeneration to remain in perfect shape, as opposed to the old growing tired as their mitos shut down?
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[[WMG: There is a proto-Dhammakhert in Cresce]]
It would be a poetic irony proving that Alderode and Cresce are NotSoDifferent. Cresce's artificial Khert is ALighterShadeOfBlack, but just as inhumane in its manipulation of the populace. It's subtle, it mimics the regular Khert, and most of its functions have negligible differences from the regular Khert. Most. But it runs background programs that seem to be simple propaganda like "long live the Monarch" or "obey the gods", which are actually performing low-level Charm Person spells on the entire populace, just weak enough to ensure the adult Crescians have an opinion (and can be culled), while children in Cresce are indoctrinated their entire lives.
It would be a poetic irony proving that Alderode and Cresce are NotSoDifferent. Cresce's artificial Khert is ALighterShadeOfBlack, but just as inhumane in its manipulation of the populace. It's subtle, it mimics the regular Khert, and most of its functions have negligible differences from the regular Khert. Most. But it runs background programs that seem to be simple propaganda like "long live the Monarch" or "obey the gods", which are actually performing low-level Charm Person spells on the entire populace, just weak enough to ensure the adult Crescians have an opinion (and can be culled), while children in Cresce are indoctrinated their entire lives.
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I can't find the source, but ''way'' back in the Formspring days, Ashley promised that we would never see [[DeaderThanDead soul destruction/denial of afterlife]] in the story, because it's a trope that upsets her. However, she has also said that Kasslynians who die outside the reach of the khert, such as at sea or inside a First Material bubble, cannot have their souls taken by the khert, and that they are as dead as they would be in our world.
The thing is, characters have already suffered this fate in the comic: Most notably Ballanstern and Chorley, who die inside Juste, a First Material bubble cut off from the universal khert. How is this possible without breaking Ashley's earlier promise? Simple: There is no afterlife to miss out on. There is even precedent for this: In-universe, the Black Tongues believe there is no reincarnation or immortal soul; the khert takes your memories but your consciousness does not persist beyond that. They are correct.
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* Given what Prakhuta says in [[https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch10/ch10_150.html 10-150]] ("You were meant to be pliant and incapacitated"), it seems unlikely Bastion planned for Duane to remain sapient after the resurrection. WordOfGod has also confirmed that Bastion hates Duane due to his authoritarian ideals.
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[[WMG:Lemuel's copilot is Mikaila.]]
In chapter 16, Lemuel has two copilots. One is clearly a Plat, but the other's hair is completely covered by their cap, leaving their caste ambiguous. Evidence in favor:
# [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch16/ch16_51.html Lemuel and the copilot speak fondly and informally towards one another,]] with Lemuel saying he wouldn't have brought them if he knew how dangerous the mission would become.
# [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch16/ch16_106.html The copilot reacts calmly to a mention of Roger,]] implying they are Gold.
# On the same page, the copilot says that the mission isn't their first fight.
# In chapter 7, Mikaila says she wanted to become a warrior and fight for Ssael. She also admired Lemuel and his vliegeng, so it would make sense she'd join as his copilot.
# The copilot has a blue scarf. Blue was Mikaila's favorite color.
In chapter 16, Lemuel has two copilots. One is clearly a Plat, but the other's hair is completely covered by their cap, leaving their caste ambiguous. Evidence in favor:
# [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch16/ch16_51.html Lemuel and the copilot speak fondly and informally towards one another,]] with Lemuel saying he wouldn't have brought them if he knew how dangerous the mission would become.
# [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch16/ch16_106.html The copilot reacts calmly to a mention of Roger,]] implying they are Gold.
# On the same page, the copilot says that the mission isn't their first fight.
# In chapter 7, Mikaila says she wanted to become a warrior and fight for Ssael. She also admired Lemuel and his vliegeng, so it would make sense she'd join as his copilot.
# The copilot has a blue scarf. Blue was Mikaila's favorite color.
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[[WMG:Also, cancer is not a 'thing' in Kessaline]]
Oh look, your body has begun mutating? Why just steal the mutation aspect with pymary and put it in a [[Series/TheMagicians cancer puppy]]!
Oh look, your body has begun mutating? Why just steal the mutation aspect with pymary and put it in a [[Series/TheMagicians cancer puppy]]!
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[[WMG:Alderode discovered the secret to immortality but refuses to use it beyond extended longevity due to serious consequences]]
Even if we ascribe to the theory that the caste system works by siphoning lifespan from the commoners to the elites, a 400 year average lifespan extends beyond what would normally be viable with their general lack of understanding in biological medicine. But then, magic in Kessaline works by stealing traits and grafting them where they shouldn't go; what if they discovered a means of grafting extra 'energy' (mitochondria) into humans, thereby allowing their bodies' regeneration to remain in perfect shape, as opposed to the old growing tired as their mitos shut down?
Unfortunately, immortality in a theocratic police state has its drawbacks. Primary of which would be the sheer envy of the poor constantly reincarnating while the rich grow exceptionally old, their minds deteriorating while their children wait for a seat on a throne they'll never get. With centuries of wisdom, they've come to appreciate the fact that they can accept oblivion if it means the oppressive dictatorship they rule over will exist forever.
Even if we ascribe to the theory that the caste system works by siphoning lifespan from the commoners to the elites, a 400 year average lifespan extends beyond what would normally be viable with their general lack of understanding in biological medicine. But then, magic in Kessaline works by stealing traits and grafting them where they shouldn't go; what if they discovered a means of grafting extra 'energy' (mitochondria) into humans, thereby allowing their bodies' regeneration to remain in perfect shape, as opposed to the old growing tired as their mitos shut down?
Unfortunately, immortality in a theocratic police state has its drawbacks. Primary of which would be the sheer envy of the poor constantly reincarnating while the rich grow exceptionally old, their minds deteriorating while their children wait for a seat on a throne they'll never get. With centuries of wisdom, they've come to appreciate the fact that they can accept oblivion if it means the oppressive dictatorship they rule over will exist forever.
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Tirna is well known to be associated with both poison and sickness, and what is medicine if not strategic poisoning? It also seems a good mirror to Baelar as a god of tools and crafts. Additionally, humans in Kasslyne don't seem to be very well informed on the matter of health and what actually causes disease, nor have they gotten the hang of using poisons in small amounts to treat infections. Two Toes, however, at least know that bacterial infections aren't ghosts, and they appear to have a connection with Lady Ilganyag, who in turn shares Tirna's color scheme.
If Tirna was indeed the doctor of the group, then it may cast the attempted poisoning of the world in a new light. Perhaps she viewed it as an infection, or concluded that bringing it to term would kill Yerta, and she sought to treat her sister, making her action out of worry rather than malice.
Tirna is well known to be associated with both poison and sickness, and what is medicine if not strategic poisoning? It also seems a good mirror to Baelar as a god of tools and crafts. Additionally, humans in Kasslyne don't seem to be very well informed on the matter of health and what actually causes disease, nor have they gotten the hang of using poisons in small amounts to treat infections. Two Toes, however, at least know that bacterial infections aren't ghosts, and they appear to have a connection with Lady Ilganyag, who in turn shares Tirna's color scheme.
If Tirna was indeed the doctor of the group, then it may cast the attempted poisoning of the world in a new light. Perhaps she viewed it as an infection, or concluded that bringing it to term would kill Yerta, and she sought to treat her sister, making her action out of worry rather than malice.
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[[WMG:Sette is originally the daughter of Lady Ilganyag and Ssael.]]
We see Sette as a small child with Lady Ilganyag in one of her memories. Lady Ilganyag seems protective of her and appears to miss Ssael greatly. Also, Minnow's perplexity at Duane's mention of Ssael followed by her asking about Sette suggests she knows about a connection that Duane doesn't.
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But what of Issa? She was only briefly mentioned in "Songs of Ssael", possibly as Ssael's mortal lover. However, there has also been some evidence (and some Ssaelit even believe this) that Ssael fell in love with Sister Tirna and her defiance of her siblings and spared her life. Jilted, Issa became this heartbroken amalgamation of memories, waiting for the day that Ssael will break free from his madness and return to her. Illganyag Ilganyag herself even says that she has been "wronged" and is "in wait of her love".
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* {{Jossed}}. Ilganyag has "[[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch10/ch10_70.html watched [this] world since its inception]]", so she couldn't have been a human originally. Ssael was quite recent in the grand scheme of things, remember.
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In chapter 10 Delicieu says Bastion is responsible for all of "this" -- the most obvious conclusion is the silver monster, but that seems to be Delicieu's creation. The other part of the plan was to smuggle Duane into Alderode, and we now have confirmation that Bastion was responsible for Duane's creation. That sounded sinister at first, but now... Bastion doesn't actually seem like a bad guy. Maybe he underestimated how badly Duane would be messed up by the events... or maybe Lemuel was supposed to take him back to the Adeliers, but betrayed Bastion for his own purposes. It's possible that Duane fleeing Alderode was not planned. Bastion could be naive enough that he really thinks dragging Duane to Leysa's doorstep and being all "Look I resurrected your husband isn't this great??? :D :D :D" would fix everything.
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In chapter 10 Delicieu says Bastion is responsible for all of "this" -- the most obvious conclusion is the silver monster, but that seems to be Delicieu's creation. The other part of the plan was to smuggle Duane into Alderode, and as of chapter 11 we now have confirmation that Bastion was responsible for Duane's creation. That sounded sinister at first, but now... Bastion doesn't actually seem like a bad guy. Maybe he underestimated how badly Duane would be messed up by the events... or maybe Lemuel was supposed to take him back to the Adeliers, but betrayed Bastion for his own purposes. It's possible that Duane fleeing Alderode was not planned. Bastion could be naive enough that he really thinks dragging Duane to Leysa's doorstep and being all "Look I resurrected your husband isn't this great??? :D :D :D" would fix everything.everything.
[[WMG:Ssael never walked the khert. He was an ordinary man who dissolved when he died like everyone else.]]
Lady Ilganyag seems to have great contempt for Ssael, [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch10/ch10_68.html dismissing him as a "paper god" when revealing herself to Duane for the first time.]] And now as of the end of chapter 11, [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch11/ch11_92.html she repeats the phrase with some additional information:]] "Again and again [humans] see gods in themselves and capture them on paper." Ilganyag has been around since the creation of the world, so she'd know better than anyone whether Ssael really ascended to godhood... but she doesn't seem very impressed by him, and that last line implies she's seen something similar happen over and over throughout the ages.
As a corollary to this, it's possible that not even the Gefendur gods are real, or if they are, that the scriptures are wildly inaccurate.
[[WMG:Ssael never walked the khert. He was an ordinary man who dissolved when he died like everyone else.]]
Lady Ilganyag seems to have great contempt for Ssael, [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch10/ch10_68.html dismissing him as a "paper god" when revealing herself to Duane for the first time.]] And now as of the end of chapter 11, [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch11/ch11_92.html she repeats the phrase with some additional information:]] "Again and again [humans] see gods in themselves and capture them on paper." Ilganyag has been around since the creation of the world, so she'd know better than anyone whether Ssael really ascended to godhood... but she doesn't seem very impressed by him, and that last line implies she's seen something similar happen over and over throughout the ages.
As a corollary to this, it's possible that not even the Gefendur gods are real, or if they are, that the scriptures are wildly inaccurate.
