"People who the System sends us are always, always, the sort of people who'll be driven to fix whatever problem we have right now.  And the problem, from our perspective, inside Kekaro, is that we're then left with - a very powerful person who's the sort of person who wants to, fix things, when there's some part of Kekaro that isn't the way they like.  It's said that the first Hero to slay the first chief of gods, I mean, he did kill the giant blob-monster-thing whose name I forget that even the gods couldn't slay, because that was what strong men did, where he came from, kill the most powerful monsters.  And the problem is that, the way he saw the world, the way the world had to be, the strongest man also needed the most beautiful woman."

"The last god we had was named Erastil.  All He ever did was help people farm, He didn't manipulate people, or demand worship from people or lord greater power over them, the way that lots of Summoned Heroes didn't like, which is why Erastil even lasted that long, I guess.  The dragons and the elves and, everybody who wanted there to be any gods left at all, tried so hard to hide Him, His existence was a secret.  He wasn't even helping people farm, anymore, which people didn't need anyways because a Summoned Hero had invented better farm-crops that didn't need any divine help to grow, nobody even profited when Erastil died.  And they say that the Hero who slew Erastil was really sorry and apologetic about that to everybody, but to him, it was just, not allowed, for something bigger and more powerful than the ordinary mortal creatures of Kekaro to exist.  So that Hero tracked down Erastil and slew Erastil and then slew himself as apology, and now Kekaro has no gods at all."

"There's always just, some aspect of our world, that some particular Summoned Hero can't leave alone, because it's too important to them and their alien values."

"I'd ask if you can just not make us any 'afterlives' but I can already guess how you'll answer that.  But I - really wish you wouldn't - and if our world wasn't literally dying in flames, probably more than half the powerful people in the world would try to kill you about it."

"People who the System sends us are always, always, the sort of people who'll be driven to fix whatever problem we have right now.  And the problem, from our perspective, inside Kekaro, is that we're then left with - a very powerful person who's the sort of person who wants to, fix things, when there's some part of Kekaro that isn't the way they like.  It's said that the Hero to slay the first chief of gods, I mean, he did kill the giant blob-monster-thing whose name I forget that even the gods couldn't slay, because that was what strong men did, where he came from, kill the most powerful monsters.  And the problem is that, the way he saw the world, the way the world had to be, the strongest man also needed the most beautiful woman."

"The last god we had was named Erastil.  All He ever did was help people farm, He didn't manipulate people, or demand worship from people or lord greater power over them, the way that lots of Summoned Heroes didn't like, which is why Erastil even lasted that long, I guess.  The dragons and the elves and, everybody who wanted there to be any gods left at all, tried so hard to hide Him, His existence was a secret.  He wasn't even helping people farm, anymore, which people didn't need anyways because a Summoned Hero had invented better farm-crops that didn't need any divine help to grow, nobody even profited when Erastil died.  And they say that the Hero who slew Erastil was really sorry and apologetic about that to everybody, but to him, it was just, not allowed, for something bigger and more powerful than the ordinary mortal creatures of Kekaro to exist.  So that Hero tracked down Erastil and slew Erastil and then slew himself as apology, and now Kekaro has no gods at all."

"There's always just, some aspect of our world, that some particular Summoned Hero can't leave alone, because it's too important to them and their alien values."

"I'd ask if you can just not make us any 'afterlives' but I can already guess how you'll answer that.  But I - really wish you wouldn't - and if our world wasn't literally dying in flames, probably more than half the powerful people in the world would try to kill you about it."

"People who the System sends us are always, always, the sort of people who'll be driven to fix whatever problem we have right now.  And the problem, from our perspective, inside Kekaro, is that we're then left with - a very powerful person who's the sort of person who wants to, fix things, when there's some part of Kekaro that isn't the way they like.  It's said that the Hero to slay the first chief of gods, I mean, he did kill the giant blob-monster-thing whose name I forget that even the gods couldn't slay, because that was what strong men did, where he came from, kill the most powerful monsters.  And the problem is that, the way he saw the world, the way the world had to be, the strongest man also needed the most beautiful woman."

"The last god we had was named Erastil.  All He ever did was help people farm, He didn't manipulate people, or demand worship from people or lord greater power over them, the way that lots of Summoned Heroes didn't like, which is why Erastil even lasted that long, I guess.  The dragons and the elves and, everybody who wanted there to be any gods left at all, tried so hard to hide Him, His existence was a secret.  He wasn't even helping people farm, anymore, which people didn't need anyways because a Summoned Hero had invented better farm-crops that didn't need any divine help to grow, nobody even profited when Erastil died, not even grain-merchants.  And they say that the Hero who slew Erastil was really sorry and apologetic about that to everybody, but to him, it was just, not allowed, for something bigger and more powerful than the ordinary mortal creatures of Kekaro to exist.  So that Hero tracked down Erastil and slew Erastil and then slew himself as apology, and now Kekaro has no gods at all."

"There's always just, some aspect of our world, that some particular Summoned Hero can't leave alone, because it's too important to them and their alien values."

"I'd ask if you can just not make us any 'afterlives' but I can already guess how you'll answer that.  But I - really wish you wouldn't - and if our world wasn't literally dying in flames, probably more than half the powerful people in the world would try to kill you about it."