Quanil had been trying to find a way around the whole "jealous gods" question when Miss Arialla went straight to the heart of things, basically.
"Oh, I stayed away from the Barrier when it was up; made you sick if you were near it too long. But... see... well, we had the gods, originally, and then some of the people who could do magic somehow figured out how to make themselves into gods, and they became the New Gods, and the ones we already had are the Old Gods, and they weren't real happy about all of this 'New God' stuff, so... Barrier. To seal the New Gods in. It, uh... sealed a bunch of us in, too, until some people figured out how to bring it down, but that just let the New Gods out again, too, so..."
They shrugged. "It was kind of a mess. But, judging by all of that, I think it's probably safe to say the Old Gods don't want anyone else horning in on their territory."
"Oh, I stayed away from the Barrier when it was up; made you sick if you were near it too long. But... see... well, we had the gods, originally, and then some of the people who could do magic somehow figured out how to make themselves into gods, and they became the New Gods, and the ones we already had are the Old Gods, and they weren't real happy about all of this 'New God' stuff, so... Barrier. To seal the New Gods in. It, uh... sealed a bunch of us in, too, until some people figured out how to bring it down, but that just let the New Gods out again, too, so..."
They shrugged. "It was kind of a mess. But, judging by all of that, I think it's probably safe to say the Old Gods don't want anyone else horning in on their territory."
