"Every ancient god who really got to shape the world, Gozreh, Erastil, Calistria, Asmodeus, all of them got there by having the ability and willingness to destroy Pharasma's Creation, or risk its destruction with some noticeable probability, unless that Creation looked noticeably better than nothingness to them."

"I expect you're not particularly fond of that fact, but on my model - my epistemic model, Carissa, not as a question of values - on my model of how Pharasma's Creation works, that is fundamentally a requirement to be seated at the grownup bargaining table and have opinions that matter about things like Abaddon."

"Especially if you want to have opinions about how Abaddon works across an unknown number of inhabited planets across however many planes, and not just opinions about how the Golarion-adjacent parts of Abaddon work, which is, I suspect, the most that a Wish-based assault would be able to buy you."

"Every ancient god who really got to shape the multiverse, Gozreh, Erastil, Calistria, Asmodeus, all of them got there by having the ability and willingness to destroy Pharasma's Creation, or risk its destruction with some noticeable probability, unless that Creation looked noticeably better than nothingness to them."

"I expect you're not particularly fond of that fact, but on my model - my epistemic model, Carissa, not as a question of values - on my model of how Pharasma's Creation works, that is fundamentally a requirement to be seated at the grownup bargaining table and have opinions that matter about things like Abaddon."

"Especially if you want to have opinions about how Abaddon works across an unknown number of inhabited planets across however many planes, and not just opinions about how the Golarion-adjacent parts of Abaddon work, which is, I suspect, the most that a Wish-based assault would be able to buy you."

"Every ancient god who really got to shape the multiverse, Gozreh, Erastil, Calistria, Asmodeus, all of them got there by having the ability and willingness to destroy Pharasma's Creation, or risk its destruction with some noticeable probability, unless that Creation looked noticeably better than nothingness to them."

"I expect you're not particularly fond of that fact, but on my model - my epistemic model, Carissa, not as a question of values - on my model of how Pharasma's Creation works, that is fundamentally a requirement to be seated at the grownup bargaining table and have opinions that matter about things like Abaddon."

"Especially if you want to have opinions about how Abaddon works across an unknown number of inhabited planets across however many planes, and not just opinions about how the Golarion-adjacent parts of Abaddon work, which is, I suspect, the most that a Wish-based assault would be able to buy you before that got shut down."

"Every ancient god who really got to shape the multiverse, Gozreh, Erastil, Calistria, Asmodeus, all of them got there by having the ability and willingness to destroy Pharasma's Creation, or risk its destruction with some noticeable probability, unless that Creation looked noticeably better than nothingness to them."

"I expect you're not particularly fond of that fact, but on my model - my epistemic model, Carissa, not as a question of values - on my model of how Pharasma's Creation works, that is fundamentally a requirement to be seated at the grownup bargaining table and have opinions that matter about things like Abaddon."

"Especially if you want to have opinions about how Abaddon works across an unknown number of inhabited planets across however many planes, and not just opinions about how the Golarion-adjacent parts of Abaddon work.  Which is, I suspect, the most that a Wish-based assault would be able to buy you before that got shut down."