It is a lot of power to have an accident with, but bringing all of our souls here and installing some of us in the places of gods -- no insult intended, but you are not the real Athena, and neither was your predecessor -- must take a lot of power, too. We know someone's interfering with those forces. If they tried to change something, or their control isn't perfect...
[He trails off, and says, after a moment:] I can't prove anything.
There didn't seem to be anything about the temple that would explain why they focused on it, except that the parade is a normal part of the festival proceedings, and they followed the normal route.
Excuse me, I'm just thinking out loud: how could it have happened if it were an accident? We were all sent to the festival well before the parade began. I think we can discount coincidence there. Either the Heavens knew something strange was occurring in advance, or it was our presence all together that triggered the event. Once the event began, in that place on that day, in the middle of an existing religious ritual, could the souls have been caught up in enacting the parade to its end, and only set free to cause mayhem when it was complete?
[He doesn't know enough about magic to judge which of those guesses is plausible and which isn't, but gods' power comes from belief and ritual -- that much he knows. Magic based on those things can even control gods against their will. It had happened to Gojyo. Surely it could compel mortal souls.]
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[He trails off, and says, after a moment:] I can't prove anything.
There didn't seem to be anything about the temple that would explain why they focused on it, except that the parade is a normal part of the festival proceedings, and they followed the normal route.
Excuse me, I'm just thinking out loud: how could it have happened if it were an accident? We were all sent to the festival well before the parade began. I think we can discount coincidence there. Either the Heavens knew something strange was occurring in advance, or it was our presence all together that triggered the event. Once the event began, in that place on that day, in the middle of an existing religious ritual, could the souls have been caught up in enacting the parade to its end, and only set free to cause mayhem when it was complete?
[He doesn't know enough about magic to judge which of those guesses is plausible and which isn't, but gods' power comes from belief and ritual -- that much he knows. Magic based on those things can even control gods against their will. It had happened to Gojyo. Surely it could compel mortal souls.]