I'mma be so real with y'all, one of my favorite narrative tropes for fantasy worldbuilding is "Holy does not mean safe"
I love when a story has the proven existence of Holy forces, the true and sincere presence of divine Goodness, and those forces are not corrupt, and not secretly evil— and yet still are capable of doing things that can be unambiguously described as "deeply fucked up".
There's something strangely compelling to me about the concept of a divinity that doesn't have flaws, per se, but has rules and limitations and sometimes those three words are close enough in meaning that the difference ceases to matter.
Supernatural power that's so overwhelmingly potent it can cause harm. Immortality made clumsy by its inability to comprehend the scale of mortal lives, how brief, how fragile. Goodness that fails to comprehend the distress its actions may cause, because it knows with prescient clarity that this is The Best Way, and cannot understand that mortals do not already see the clear path between cause and consequence. A Heaven that will do Good works through you, whether you consent to the necessary sacrifices involved or not. (Or, on the contrary— a Heaven so tightly bound not to violate the autonomy of free will that they are forced to look on in silent witness to atrocity, unless their intervention is specifically and purposefully invoked.)
I will literally never get tired of this sort of thing in fiction. Limited divinity; the way any rules, even the rules of the divine, will inevitably find edge cases or rules-lawyering where they do not function as intended; the inherently alien nature of things that Are Not Human and Do Not Think Like Humanity (even when those things are, objectively speaking, Good and have benevolent intent)
Give me more of that in Every Applicable Genre, please and thank you
