"I'm sure ingenuity and inspiration are lovely from a distance, but up close they mostly just look like suffering." Loki looks somewhere between amused and incredulous now. "Please, tell me I'm too sensitive and overly concerned for my countrymen. Tell Thor, as well; he will laugh and laugh."
"I would like to think so. Some sort of hereditary tendency to connect to the energies of Yggdrasil, perhaps. But then there is me, and I am not Aesir, not by blood. Merely adopted and raised among them. So, where then does my power come from?"
He shrugs. "I'll let you know if I find out."
No, he won't.
"I do not know whether belief creates divinity or vice versa, but I know that there is no such thing as a god with no believers at all. If I had never been prayed to, I imagine I would merely be a sorcerer. A good sorcerer, perhaps an extraordinary sorcerer, but not a god."
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"I would like to think so. Some sort of hereditary tendency to connect to the energies of Yggdrasil, perhaps. But then there is me, and I am not Aesir, not by blood. Merely adopted and raised among them. So, where then does my power come from?"
He shrugs. "I'll let you know if I find out."
No, he won't.
"I do not know whether belief creates divinity or vice versa, but I know that there is no such thing as a god with no believers at all. If I had never been prayed to, I imagine I would merely be a sorcerer. A good sorcerer, perhaps an extraordinary sorcerer, but not a god."