The Other Gods

A solitary sage mistakes divine silence for fear of his own knowledge in The Other Gods by Unspeakable Tales, from Of Those Who Knew. He climbs Hatheg-Kla determined to force the gods to acknowledge him.

The song’s revelation overturns his boast. The gods have heard him all along, but their silence conceals their own terror: they are hiding from powers above them. The answer that finally reaches the old man comes from the beings whose attention the lesser gods were trying to escape.

The text turns a demand for recognition into exposure to a greater authority. Its final command makes looking higher a punishment for believing the summit was the limit. Read The Other Gods in the Wiki for the story behind this altered revelation.