[magnetaress]

Imagine being the gods when mortals first started sailing the phlogisten. Imagine how incredibly stupid they must have seemed. And then the mortals learned what was out there and what can happen in that no-place, but the number of ships only continued to increase. They started actively plumbing the darker and forgotten places. Hunting the horrors that roam there for sport. Even attempting to build & settle in the void.

And that's when the gods realized the horrifying truth: the mortals aren't stupid. They're fucking crazy. The mortals aren't trapped in the spheres with gods; the gods are trapped in the spheres with the mortals.