What is pain to a god? Particularly when it's supposed to have planned the whole thing in advance and knew it was coming up?
Actually, a rather chilling thought just occurred. Did this god - at least within the context of the story - need to experience pain and death because it had no prior knowledge of them and how they feel on a human level? Because if that is supposed to be the case, all those immoral commands to slaughter in the OT just got ratcheted up by several orders of magnitude in the cold-blooded psychokiller league.
Actually, a rather chilling thought just occurred. Did this god - at least within the context of the story - need to experience pain and death because it had no prior knowledge of them and how they feel on a human level? Because if that is supposed to be the case, all those immoral commands to slaughter in the OT just got ratcheted up by several orders of magnitude in the cold-blooded psychokiller league.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
