Thread:AngryLance/@comment-39280634-20200609090822/@comment-28358106-20200623120015

As I see it, there's no reason for there not to be lesser and greater deities. There's countless examples IRL, so there's not anything saying MGE isn't the same. In fact, you already hav distinctions between the "Chief God," the Maou, and every other deity. Otherwise there wouldn't be that label of "Chief."

Victivius is one such being. In his unaltered form, mortals are driven mad or outright killed just by being in his presence. Even when he chooses to interact with mortals in a lesser state, the miasma from just that tiny fraction of his presence is enough to corrupt and destroy. So on the rare occasions when he does, he wills it directly.

The Raven Queen is similar in that the sheer reality-distorting effects of her presence would have ill effects on mortals, so she chooses to communicate through dreams, visions or omens.

I wouldn't exactly call either of those cosmic horror though, as true cosmic horror requires that the beings in question are unknowable in any way. Or at least the poor human is driven mad simply by knowing how insignificant he is by comparison.