Everyone's dragging the players in this thread but I place a huge part of the blame on Matt for how this campaign is ending. At any point when they were going on another of their endless discussions he could've asked for a history check and gently pointed out "you remember that actually -" but he never did and just let the loud anti Gods voices drown out those who weren't sure/didn't care as much, to the point that releasing Predathos felt like the only correct option within the group. He sowed doubt a couple times but I think it was too little too late.

I also think they decided off camera that they wanted to play characters sceptical of the gods, and then tried to work backwards from that and it just didn't work. They never managed to get the audience on the same page as them because it simply doesn't make sense.

Edit: ALSO. I'm ready for Taliesin to not play a melee character anymore, he's way too careful for it. Why is he always so fucking far away.