"For instance, the 'Goddess of Love and Beauty' Freya, needs beauty, love, and, well...ehm..."
Upon reading this, Byron also came to understand.
These divine position thieves among the Bayfolk must be using some Deity Masks they had somehow stolen as a medium, combined with believers who carried Bayfolk blood, to successfully achieve Anchoring to the collective subconscious of the Bayfolk.
And for a Divine Son or Goddess who had reached Fourth Order and become a Mythical Creature, they were already qualified to start plotting for a Fifth Order [False God] divine position.
They had acquired their own Deity Masks ahead of time.
Goddess Freya hadn't yet had a chance to use the mask's abilities before she was struck down on the spot. Otherwise, this battle might not have gone so smoothly.
