the power to make truth

I'm reading Ann Leckie's The Raven Tower right now, and finding it VERY thought provoking if a little slow with regard to actual story-stuff happening. The narrator is a god, and gradually from the narrator we learn what that means. Which is interesting, right? The parameters and limitations of divinity.

One thing that characterizes gods is that what they say MUST be true. It's a requirement. Instead of this fact conferring great power, though, the causality works the other way: a god can only...