The light that emanates from my marvellous bust shall incapacitate my enemies with the fire of a thousand torches. Make peace with your gods, for I come to blind thy prying eyes.
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It's fine to have gods be around in your story if the conflict taking place in it is just not worth their attention, for the most part. Once it becomes a threat to the entire world, the fact that they're sitting on their butts not using that unfathomable power to fix it themselves starts to get a bit frustrating!