>>6294481Re-explaining unclear elements about verticality that (you)/Atë already know:
There are a finite number of worlds spread across infinite verticality. No two worlds on the same verticality are alike (for example, on your parallel plane there is only one earth and only one Atë). However, there are <span class="mu-i">infinite</span> vertical versions of all things, including ones as small and insignificant as a pebble or a single mortal, and things as cosmically large as multi-dimensional entites like the Architect or Devourer. Since infinity is infinity, it's possible for any entity, be it god or mortal, to turn out in any plausible manner, including becoming different gods.
While vertical travel is technically possible, it is invariably unwise; perpendicular realities act in a manner somewhere between poison and matter-antimatter collision: each piece of each reality decays upon interaction, lessening the total divinity, energy, and mass of both planes. Taken to the extremes, two planes could fully annihilate and, unlike matter-antimatter annihilation, there would be no release of energy. In other words, perpendicular travel <span class="mu-i">violates the laws of thermodynamics</span>. Parallel travel— horizontal but not vertical— lacks this drawback. One can travel and consume vertically as much as they are able without incurring the penalties of perpendicularity.
