She was once a domesticated goddess of loyalty and animal husbandry. Those dog-like creatures were once much larger in the past, but apparently they had been bred to be pets. Much like how wolves over time can be bred to be breeds of housedogs.

However, as you can tell, she eventually went on to side with the gods of nature.

... Lavi-kun. Don't disappoint me by being slow here.

The gods of nature turn on the civilizations. Suddenly, plants, animals... everything from the world of nature is a danger.

How do you think people would view their own pets in that sort of situation?

There's deliberate action being taken by her, you're correct.

However, depending on what the bite does, this situation still may warrant a lower priority than the berserkers and the dragons.

--though there is one thing about this goddess that is interesting.

Doesn't it support your theory about a populace changing what and how a god can be? The people feared her and so they expected her to turn against them, and so they turned against her in belief. And so their own expectations were carried out.

Self-fulfilling prophecy. Successful change of what that goddess was and represented. She hardly seems the goddess of loyalty now, doesn't she? But could that be changed again?

Technically, she was always the goddess of betrayal. For one side of a coin, there has to be another, isn't that right?

Not necessarily. It would depend entirely on the people, wouldn't it?

Order and Chaos are often viewed as separate entities because they are very clearly opposing forces. However, something as tied together as loyalty and betrayal could be within the same entity. Much like how a god or goddess of love could easily hate. Or vice-versa for the two.

Define "Order".

And in order to have a system of any sort, information has to be controlled. The population has to be directed in a particular way in order to make them cooperate and work together as a cohesive force.

Tell me, what form of system tells everyone everything? Especially things like the negative sides of leadership figures--or in our case, gods we have to depend on?

Ygin, you mean?

I'd tread carefully.

Back when there was a confessions sort of thing Ur'ghaste set up, I spoke with someone who said his nightmares were plaguing him and it was because of a god. I have reason to believe that Ygin was the god in question.

Rew?

... ah, that god.

No, no. One thing you will need to learn about gods and anything of divinity or at least super- or preter-natural forces is that there are passive and active types. That Rew god is more the passive sort--all-encompassing and generally does not make appearances. The way this person spoke of it made it out more like someone with a bad stalking habit.

If we're talking nightmares, we're speaking of fears--often ones not consciously acknowledged. Ygin was new at the time this conversation took place, though.

Passive doesn't mean "least dangerous". The Old Man was a passive god but he ate blanks by the hundreds. The Old Woman was a passive goddess but she ate the Old Man with flames.

As for that person, the event ended and I didn't find out who they were. It was something I set aside for later as more things developed.

[so how many threads of events does that make Izaya involved in now...?]

[the busiest~]

It has a higher priority now. If the god whose boon is berserking into dragons is stalking a particular person, it could be tthat person is more dangerous than the berserkers.

Hm...

Simply being a source of entertainment isn't all there is to being favored by a god, though.

It's something to look into.