An entire new dimension of the Game—for it's suddenly more plausible that it is a Game—unfolds before Nethys to be explored.
Nethys guesses, swifter than mortal intellect and based on sight of worlds far distant, that the Game exists in part within the tensions between what Keltham and Abrogail and other key characters believe, and reality; how reality is found to visibly differ or invisibly agree with their expectations.