Well, yes, sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between mental problems and telling the truth without explaining everything. If the truth is bizarre enough, that is. So the stuff Odin says in this strip may be true but we won’t find out until after further events.
Lois Bujold did this in her book Curse of Chalion. Ista was thought by everyone to be mentally unhinged, but the things she said were all correct. It’s just that no one had the background and context to interpret them. Well, until Caz learned a whole lot of new stuff.
I think it’s deeper than that. Odin is still wise, because being wise is an inherent part of his identity. He’s just not consciously wise right now. So, yes, he can totally do things like give out ominous self-fulfilling prophecies that result in all the right people being in just the right place at the right time, while still not realizing that that’s what he’s doing, or even remember it.
Thor does say he has his good days and bad days, so it’s possible that sometimes he is entirely lucid.
And I think Odin was speaking before. He knows of the Snarl, but had to be cryptic. But that was his way of saying “There’s still snarl stuff to do.” Though maybe he was also trying in his semi-lucid state to say that there is more to the Snarl than they thought.
I thought that his vote at the Godsmoot was fairly clear: There’s more going on here than we realize, more than even he realizes, and so we really need to figure out more instead of taking drastic action when we can’t possibly understand all of the implications.
No, there would be several godsmoots per world. They might have an issue to discuss every few decades, and worlds last a few thousand years, so maybe 100 per world.
Yeah, Wrecan said that he’d personally been to several Godsmoots before. And he appeared to be human, and not particularly old, and there’s not even any guarantee that he’s been to all of them since he came of age.
But presumably each world that they ended to prevent the Snarl getting ahold of it required them to reach a consensus about taking the action. Wouldn’t each of those have required a Final Godsmoot?
Certainly, the worlds that ended within minutes didn’t get a chance for a Final Godsmoot. But Thor says that they mostly manage a few thousand years, nowadays (or nowaeons, I guess). With a millennium to watch a world and plan, I’d be surprised if they didn’t get time for Moots.
