Why are we here? Why were we made? I can't answer that. I can only reason with the information I do have.
What are we? The product of some divine invention? Possibly.
Well, the Gods came from the Time Before Time, before they were Less than Nothing. Undefinable. What I do know is that we are each the centre of our own universe. and the gods are so to their's. We could be a shared dream of the gods, an illusion. Or maybe I am a figment of one of yours imagination's and the rest of us are not real at all. I cannot say for sure on that. But I can say that were are most likely the product of some divine involvement.
Something from nothing, so the gods came, so we came. But if we came from "nothing" then it seems fair that the gods also came from this less than "nothing." so something perhaps precedes them is they are the product if It as well. As so on back, the strings lead to a puppeteer that also has strings and so on repeating the pattern onto apparent infinity.
So don't be angry if you don't like the gods and the positions you have put them in. Surely the gods have some of the same reservations of their creators. Like children angry with the 'rules' imposed by their parents. And we are the 'grandchildren' though shunned, not spoiled, by our grandparents.
So again, why? some gods have a purpose or a niche for their creations, most-every mortal race other than humans has a patron or patron-pantheon to themselves, filling the needs of all of their peoples. But the humans have anything and everything to choose from and some of the more dedicated can worship the gods intended for non-humans. So who created the humans? No one god seems responsible, going by my research. And on the various worlds no one god seems to claim creating humans.
So what if they were all of the above? Created for a purpose to be decided by the individual? No specific god's purview yet all of their responsibilities once all the gods are chosen by various humans? Or perhaps the 'grandparent' is doting on it's children's creations. The ground on which life resides is also a creation of the gods so it too is a 'grandchild.' There are so many variables that it is hard to pin anyone theory down. That's the other thing, there are so many unknowns it seems impossible to have been done on purpose this way.
What if the humans had conquests for world domination and took over the land for themselves? On Faerun they are still picking up the pieces of that lost empire of Netheril. What if the humans greatly erred, nearly brought the destruction of their own world on all of it's inhabitants and the gods intervened before their creations shifted into oblivion, erasing all knowledge of that former time so that it may never happen again? On Giae, it was called the Cataclysm. And since the gods have taken an active role in preventing it from happening again, we have forgotten, but the gods have not. So many variables that there is possibly worlds out there where it's residents have passed to oblivion and Sigil will never see their like.
We are flawed, we mortals, we can bring down complete destruction on ourselves. My research has yet to cover such worlds as Greyhawk, or Oerth as scholar's call it, but no doubt a continent that large has had many ways that they have avoided destruction.
Now, I have many experiments on various topics, I had a very pronounced lab in my home on Giae. Where many theories were tested, some failed, some did not, some produced results, some did not. But both those variables mixed together. Just because something was a failure did not mean that it did not produce results. You see the pattern now? Albeit I have not found the answer, I have only drawn similarities. But there is a definable pattern there that is repeated by myself at home. Though, from what I have seen of gods, a world's destruction takes all their worshipers with it and possibly drag the gods down as well. Though there is most likely gods above them, and if they are so distant there might only be one or a few that travel from realm to realm, checking on their "experiments."
Why would they do this? Well, the purpose of most things is to grow and change and learn. Grow into something more so that they can learn more; change based in what they learn and change to better learn; and learn for the sake of learning. Once survival is well in hand, most things try to learn. When i say most I mean that there are individuals that do not drive to learn, not races as a whole. Even demons want to learn more ways to trap the purer souls. Though things that don't technically 'think' like slimes and oozes probably don't 'learn' in any way we can understand. So would that not drive the gods as well?
They want to learn that their niche has purpose and how to 'push' it better with mortals. Whatever the exact reason the gods do what they do, they broker in information to their diviners for their own purposes. Sometimes all mortal has to go on is what their god told them, or dreamed them or hinted. . .
The gods are chant brokers. They are driven by information and what they can learn. So what do you think the 'grandparents' are driven by?
What they can learn from the gods.
Light and dark, and something and nothing make Anything and Everything. But information is what is universal to everything. And as anyone in the Cage would know, knowledge is power. Even knowing that is worth something. So as long as you can think, you will know and you will have power; the power that drives the Great Wheel of the multiverse round and round. It is ours to have, and the gods to have and their gods to have. So go an experiment and tinker in your own way as the rest of creation has done. Otherwise we have no purpose and will become Less than Nothing.
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