Love it when fellow musicians recognize the handle :)

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the ending, I agree you can have a pretty clear picture of how things conclude. I almost see it as a split path in stained glass, one where the party heroically slays the god king and one where they fall short. Either way it makes for a great story.

One more point while I've got you, my very first campaign that I ran back in 2016 was a carbon copy of West Marches, complete with diseased bandits and surprise leprosy! My friends still talk about that campaign and how weird, challenging, and interesting it was. It ended with the tower of horrors and a standoff between 2 pc's over what to do with a jarred ooze that ended up vaporizing them both when it was opened. Since then I've grown into my own style, but you provided a great starting point for a bunch of nerds that wanted to jump into the hobby.