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There are no placebos for gods.
11 months ago
Keep Your Promises, Especially To Yourself.
Random brain thunk.
A god's will makes real or false what they believe, barring exception or competition with reality or other super beings.
What is within their body is very much under their undivided control of will.
So if they believe the pill will work, it will. If they don't it will not. In a strange way all mundane medicine becomes a placebo for the god. Though they could've just willed the effect themselves otherwise, but by same token if they have trouble believing themselves able to heal a pill may be used to focus or confirm their will.
Or course non-mundane ailments and medicines may have their own magical and godly effects that are not dependent one way or the other on the god's will.
Filing this next to my mental frame work 'why do gods sneeze, blush, or blink'. The answer of course being the collective will of all belief that one sneezes when pepper is in the air, with attention the god can cease these activities, but when 'at rest' their body will operate according to whatever rule set is most 'willed' to be. Which without their will involved will be the beliefs of the majority, or of reality, or a mix of the two.
A god's will makes real or false what they believe, barring exception or competition with reality or other super beings.
What is within their body is very much under their undivided control of will.
So if they believe the pill will work, it will. If they don't it will not. In a strange way all mundane medicine becomes a placebo for the god. Though they could've just willed the effect themselves otherwise, but by same token if they have trouble believing themselves able to heal a pill may be used to focus or confirm their will.
Or course non-mundane ailments and medicines may have their own magical and godly effects that are not dependent one way or the other on the god's will.
Filing this next to my mental frame work 'why do gods sneeze, blush, or blink'. The answer of course being the collective will of all belief that one sneezes when pepper is in the air, with attention the god can cease these activities, but when 'at rest' their body will operate according to whatever rule set is most 'willed' to be. Which without their will involved will be the beliefs of the majority, or of reality, or a mix of the two.
Same reason, really, for why he is at his absolute best when aroused, when fucking someone, when in full relentless asshole mood. There is absolutely nothing he can't do in those moments.
I got some of the more clever divines and gods of my verse weaponizing psychological warfare for such things. Destroying a god by brute force, sure, but if you can convince them to utterly believe a particular knife is lethak to them their own will shall make it so. (Yes I canonized the rule of cool)
Through "psychological warfare" some of them in my stories manage to use Killer's own power against him to a degree, but it's a dangerous game. Ultimately, they don't really have the power themselves and once found out, they are screwed.