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The hero problem
Colin isn't one. Events have developed a worrying disregard for his qualifications.
A halfling. A pantheon. A statistically irresponsible amount of luck.
Colin is an eighteen-year-old halfling. He is not particularly heroic, dangerous or important. Unfortunately, nobody appears to have explained that to the gods.
Varidia is a world where gods are real, belief has consequences and organised religion has had thousands of years to turn that into institutions, traditions, arguments and paperwork.
Colin isn't one. Events have developed a worrying disregard for his qualifications.
The gods are real. Their followers are real. Their institutions are real. None of this means anybody knows what they're doing.
Colin has rather more of it than seems reasonable. Whether that's actually a good thing remains extremely fucking debatable.
Eventually. First they have to survive being written, contradicted, picked apart and grudgingly repaired.
Plot holes. Spoilers. Half-formed ideas. Things that seemed clever at 1am. If you've been given a password, congratulations. Standards have clearly slipped.
Enter the Back Room