"As I suggested before, you are the god of the Humans. With just a bit of essence, you can clear their minds away from worshiping the Gruen if you so wish. Then organize your men into a proper military, wall of your cities, and otherwise separate yourself from them. Other races have had success not being eaten by trading with them. Maybe you could create a plant who's sap is foul tasting or even venomous, for your humans to wear as an armor, or cloves that make the humans poisonous when eaten, or as the Ocean god had done summon up beasts to defend them. There is plenty that can be done on your end, without intervention from the God of Hunger. You would likely be more successful, and less likely to make an enemy of him, young god."
"I thank you for your words, Fusil, but I cannot take your advice. Firstly, I am already having second thoughts about the limitation on life I gave the Heretics. Vile as they are they are still humans and I care for them and their free will. Bending their very thoughts is taboo for me and I will not partake in it.
Having the many hundreds of thousands of humans strip the landscape of plants poisonous to the Gruen - of which their may be none I shall say - will cause a quick extinction of the plants in the best case scenario. The worst case scenario involves them being poisonous to humans as well. In any case I will not force all my charges to have the indignity of their being forced to wear leaves or sap just to survive.
As for your ideas on beast-making and militaries, well, I have plans.........Yaos makes it so that the 10 - 15 year penalty imposed on the Heretics becomes a mere 5 year penalty.
Yaos also rips out a part of the spirit world and all high clergy, prophets, angels, and particularly devout worshippers of Yaos will go there after death.
((Ninja'd.))
The Gruen serve me and thus those who serve the Gruen also serve me. That applies regardless of how direct or indirect you may perceive it to be. If I wish to take my share and use them in more circuitous ways then that is my decision not yours. Now if you want the Gruen to remove humans from their diet, then by all means make them strong enough that it is not worth my Gruen's time trying to eat them. Until then though, humans are among the most abundant species on the planet and I see no reason why the Gruen should not be able to utilize this ample resource as food.
So be it.My prophet is old and dies a natural death from old age after setting up the clergy and organised worship and whatnot.
A human is born, but it is not a human. It looks like a human to be sure, and will seem as such for a while, but it is not. It is the first angel of Yaos. An archangel. An angel with increased combat ability and an attunement to Universal magic. (7)
He shall grow among humans, all the while knowing what he is, who I am, and of his divine mission. On reaching adulthood, he will make all witness to his power, and announce his angelic nature and that he is the one prophesied by the first prophet of Yaos to free people from the threat of the Gruen. He will make title himself Emperor and unite all humans under his banner, whether by words, by display of power, or by force. When all faithful and unaligned humans are under his banner, he will don an ornate set of golden armour and make war against the Gruen and the Heretics. His ageing will stop at middle-age and will have long, dark brown hair. He is the Angel-Emperor of Mankind.
Yaos also makes a pair of generic angels to serve his whims.
"Fusil, I have a proposition for you. My Emperor requires a weapon. I want either you or one of your angels to make one and give it to him. I am thinking of a large, flaming sword. In return the Emperor will build temples dedicated towards you, and will make owning a weapon mandatory among every human under his power. If you have any other requests you have simply to ask."