By which Mixabokes means “a goat-widener who is unclean,” not “a widener of unclean goats.”
Wouldn’t want anyone getting confused.
The mistreatment suffered by small gods in WPK is no doubt due to my fondness for The Maxx. In both its comic and TV show incarnations, it featured the isz, squishy little monsters that the titular character (and almost everyone else) splattered with a disregard simultaneously callous and gleeful.
Vish has a godbody, why do I suspect this path is similar to how Yamra became the monstrous tyrant god-king?
boring7, maybe because Vish has worried in the past about “falling” like Yamra by trying/being able to influence the world actively? Temptations of power, perhaps–
“It is a quiet thing, to fall, but far more terrible is to admit it.”
What I find fascinating is that there are conflicting ethical systems as regards “fallenness” — partly between Eastern and Western theologies, but equally within them. To an Ophite or a an Amidist, a spirit’s “fall” might well count as ascending, depending. And perhaps I’m wrong, but I can’t imagine either Yamra or the Rectifier of Tectravic being the sorts of beings to fling their immortal lives on the line to save a virtual stranger, even before they fell, to flesh or tyranny. In Gnosticism, embodiment itself is fallenness, but the fiery spirit in Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom chronicles is redeemed by learning the value of material existence — but if it were simple it wouldn’t be interesting would it?