Maybe it’s not about humans and never has been. Maybe by the time the gods realized how much of an issue humans were, we were already too widespread for them to destroy us without either running out of mana or ruining earth for everything.
Maybe the cancer is a god’s plan, but it’s not working well enough.
Honestly a more theologically consistent explanation of God than whatever the fuck organised religion has been up to for the past 5000 years
Maybe it’s not about humans and never has been. Maybe by the time the gods realized how much of an issue humans were, we were already too widespread for them to destroy us without either running out of mana or ruining earth for everything.
Maybe the cancer is a god’s plan, but it’s not working well enough.