Why do the Jyoti hate the gods

[xavier c]

why do the Jyoti hate the gods

[Ambrosia Slaad]

Perhaps they see the Positive Energy Plane as a pure source (even a deity/power itself) and wish to keep it undiluted and unpolluted from other "impure" outsiders? Perhaps deities (even the best-intentioned among them) siphoned/stole those energies, or sought to have exclusive control? Perhaps they feel the deities don't do enough to zealously destroy, or at least prevent the creation of undead?

Or maybe the jyoti are just selfish a#%*&#!s? :)

[Tacticslion]

Well, just going on a guess plus observation, gods do allow their followers to channel energy.

Good gods allow their followers to channel positive energy (could be seen as 'stealing' from the Jyoti).

Evil gods allow their followers to channel negative energy (seen as an abomination by the Jyoti).

Either way, they'd hate gods.

[Damon Griffin]

Because the gods persist in travelling at speeds above Warp 5, which causes environmental damage to the Positive Energy Plane.

[Ross Byers]

IIRC, it's because they view the creation of souls as their province, but the Gods have a huge trade in used souls.

[Todd Stewart]

I wouldn't say that they hate them. They just -do not- want them to interfere in what they see as their unique role in the universe to develop and shepherd immature souls (and create them in the first place?) from Positive Energy to the Material Plane. They're chilly to the point of xenophobic, but they're protective to the extreme about what they work with, and they see gods or their servitors as unwanted and out of place in their realm.

Now exactly why they feel this way, who or what if anything granted them the divine mandate (the general term not stating the gods had anything to do with it) to foster immature mortal souls, and if they actually create these souls or what... that's not answered in anything yet in print, and on my end that was intentional. Big questions like that might be served better with no clear answer.

Mind you, nothing I say is canon unless it appears in print.

That said, I'd -love- to explore the jyoti and/or their dark counterparts the scaeduinar at some point in the future. ;)

[darkwarriorkarg]

Ross Byers wrote:

IIRC, it's because they view the creation of souls as their province, but the Gods have a huge trade in used souls.

They exercise their influence through the Birthing Industry Association of Avistan.