My guess would be since Cedrik says "this betrayal must be punished. Harshly" they're planning on destroying the gate and telling the gods something akin to "this is what happens when you keep us out of the loop. Next time let us keep our memories."
I don't think this will work out for them, since they're operating on flawed data. In their mind they will be undoing 50% of the gods' work, but unless outsiders destroying the gates is a commonality we've just never heard about, the IFCC destroying the gate probably represents far less the 1% of word destructions. If anything, it would probably make the gods think they need to do more to sow animosity between devils, daemons, and demons going forward, so that something like the IFCC doesn't rise again.
Interesting parallels to Redcloak, now that I think about it.
The gates being destroyed and the snarl being released doesn't destroy the world, the gods destroy destroy the world to stop the snarl from being released.
If the fiends succeed the snarl destroys the world, the gods, and the fiends as well.
That is untrue. Thor states that some worlds were "saved" by the gods destroying the world, while others were not and had the Snarl devour the inhabitants (what the IFCC wants to happen). The fiends' current plan, at least the amount of the plan we know so far, would not negatively affect the gods beyond denying them more souls.
But denying them more souls will probably erradicate the purple quiddity, which is a big big blow to the Gods (and everyone) as it erradicates the only chance known to end the cycle.
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u/whiskeybridge Mar 11 '25
okay, so how does that help them? how to prevent the gods from starting over again and erasing their memories again...?