#Cyric: Yes? What YOU thought Ao cared about MORALITY??

[y-rhywbeth2]

I feel like this part of the novels is relevant to a character or two in the various Baldur's Gate games:

“You desired godhood, control over your destiny, and great power,” Ao said. “You will have only two of these - godhood and power - to exercise as you will in the Realm of the Dead. And all of the suffering in Toril will be yours as well, to cause and inflict as you wish. But you will never know contentment or happiness again.” “But the thing you have desired most, Lord Cyric, will never come to pass. I am your master now. You serve me… and your worshipers. I believe you will find that you now have less freedom than you had as a child in the alleys of Zhentil Keep.”

That and the thing where everybody's getting mad at the gods, and the mortals think they'd be better and care... No: the rules fundamentally don't allow it, because that isn't how this works or what gods are. You are a cog in the cosmic machine of the universe, or a line of computer script or whatever analogy: do your damn job.