Chapter 83: Chapter 81: Life can be viewed from many angles, yet through the veil of spirits, it is difficult

The gods themselves may have created the cosmic-system that governs our world. But they are not the ones who maintain it. Like generous sponsors and craftsmen of a local library, they erected the structures. But they do not stay to fill it with books. They do not wander the halls between the shelving, sorting and searching through paper. That is the job of a librarian.

In this way, the system is the same. The gods made it, but they do not maintain it.

This day-to-day work is performed by lower entities, pseudo-deistic creatures that reside in the realms of heaven but are not the masters of it. We call these beings by many names, angels, keepers, administrators. They are the ones who change the system after the catastrophes of every era, adapting and regulating it to better allow our survival in the coming climates.

We see this evidenced in the deactivation of so-called ‘achievements’ in the system, only shortly after their introduction in the prior era. Achievements were unique perks that appeared for people upon achieving odd, highly specific tasks. Now, however, these are lost to us.

In the future, there will be new things added to the system and old things removed.

This is how we know the gods are real.

We live in the garden that they prune to this day.