One way to approach it is that the gods of the Norrathian pantheon and contemporaneous major characters are depicted doing what they were doing historically, or reacting plausibly to any subtle changes in the history, with the Discordian time-travellers being very careful not to do anything so obvious or overt that it would attract the attention of the pantheon. Rather they act in the shadows, to gently push the timeline in a new direction at key places that would result in Discord's ultimate objectives being met.

At certain times when the majority of the gods are unable to interfere directly for whatever reason, they can afford to be more brazen in their assistance/interference, as in the Plane of Earth arc.

- Raramor



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