The Golden God Eye

What does it mean to be divine? Gods are the things of myth and belief, things only on the very fringes of human understanding. Like teaching a dog the structure of prose is impossible, it was assumed the nature of the divine was beyond the grasp of mortal man, something their feeble yet trying mind would never successfully wrap around. Those who believed did so, on faith and faith alone, and through the miracles produced in the name of their faith, from a plentiful harvest season to divine spells by their most faithful.

Yet people are mistaken. The divine are real, and can be grasped and understood, and not for lack of knowledge on the part of the human, but for lack of the eyes. Like humans can know beyond any degree of doubt that air fills their lungs, it is only their eyes that fail in seeing it pass into and out of their bodies. So too is it with the Gods and Goddesses of the planet. Humans lack the sight to see these divine working in the world around them. All, except, for those with the God Eye, the golden eye gifted to the most doubtful of all, a gift of scrutiny and skepticism. In the end, the only eyes capable of seeing proof of the divine were those belonging to the most unbelieving of us all, who held nothing but contempt for the divine of the world.

Since a young age, Tad Palmer had this gift. Passed onto him from his father before him, he was chosen at birth to carry the eyes that marked him as filled with doubt and scorn for the higher powers of the world. He did not begrudge the duty put on him, though, and worked his entire life at the work of his father and his father before him. However, much as their work had brought forth, the divine remained placated and far from the civilized realms of man. Tad's life was devoid of much purpose. His real purpose. Until they came.