Ex-god

A sound like the screeching blast of a dozen fumaroles split the air as the enraged ex-god countered with a clawing combination of strokes that pushed the demon backward with their ferocity into his own troops.

The Aalim have always been around—after all, there's no escape from the Past, the Present, and the Future, is there?—but for a long time they left the management of things to the gods of the period, the same ex-gods you see here, inefficient deities who didn't always do such a good job.

[…] an ex-god who's now mortal (Kinich); a human who's now a god with no dang clue about her mortality status and is pregnant with the ex-god's baby (that one is me, in case you were wondering); […]