"I suppose I can't rule out that your armor is made out of parts that are in some sense duplicable and that they make on distant planets."

"But is any of that the sort of thing where -- we could here and now run a test, and figure out whether it was all true or an [Outer God]'s casual piling of falsehoods on falsehoods?  Forge one wheel, and verify that it behaves as a wheel should, in a cart, with no further enchantment of it required?"

"I suppose I can't rule out that your armor is made out of parts that are in some sense duplicable and that they make on distant planets.  If armor like that could exist, it would be invented somewhere -- though not without any magic in it -- and the [Outer God] could pick up the design from there."

"But is any of that the sort of thing where -- we could here and now run a test, and figure out whether it was all true or an [Outer God]'s casual piling of falsehoods on falsehoods?  Forge one wheel, and verify that it behaves as a wheel should, in a cart, with no further enchantment of it required?"

"I suppose I can't rule out that your armor is made out of parts that are in some sense duplicable and that they make on distant planets.  If armor like that could exist, it would be invented somewhere -- though not without any magic in it -- and the [Outer God] could pick up the design from there."

"But is any of that the sort of thing where -- we could here and now run a test, and figure out whether it was all true or an [Outer God]'s casual piling of falsehoods on falsehoods?  Do the equivalent of forging one wheel, and verify that it behaves as a wheel should behave in a cart, with no further enchantment of it required?"