"I did not understand that when Nethys tried to tell Us about it, and I would advise against you asking Him even if He could answer in mortal speech."
"One aspect I did understand is that the metaphorical book-readers - the Things that watch us, who are probably watching us right now and here - are responsible for making the novel-game real; or rather, the novel-game would be real to some tiny degree no matter what, but the Things watching over Pharasma's Creation make it more real. In one sense, the answer to any question that asks why we're here, why we find ourselves here, gods and mortals alike, is that it's a kind of event that's interesting to Things who in observing those events make them more real."