Devil's Ambrosia

"We wore the flesh of the vexed and the vile, in the hopes that we could transcend the divine and become like the ones before us. We intended to rise, and be rewarded with Ambrosia. Instead of Paradime, God of the Division , or any other Divine Barrier, we were met with a trickster. He bestowed upon my men a sweet fruit, one that looked akin to what the Gods themselves feasted on. My friends, my brothers, they gorged on the food as if it were their salvation. It was their doom,"
 

- Verse from Those Whom Remember, before the sudden end of their metaphysical memoirs.

  Devil's Ambrosia, a fable found across all of Aitso, refers to the idea of an individual being tricked into ascending godhood. This myth had been, ultimately, fabricated by the New Gods in order to scare off anyone from considering the capability of ascending to divine status. In the rare cases that it was needed to ward off those that had either never heard of Devil's Ambrosia, or had simply laughed in the face of this threat, the New Gods had enlisted one of their Holy Thanes, a minor god of False Bargains known as Arys. Arys, a trickster god who usually played as a force that was contradictory to the similarly named 'Ares', was proud of his influence with the New Gods, and had eagerly put down any form of resistance that had bestowed themselves onto the thought of divinity. Arys had appeared in many fables, and true events, too. Ambrosia's most simple form, an apple, was warped and malformed, in his hands. Instead of being smooth and soft, a Devil's ambrosia is spiked, and its seeds lay in clusters in its core.
  The taste of Ambrosia, except for the kind that were grown in Chthonia, had been described as being incredibly sweet, and being incredibly juicy - capable of quenching the thirst of gods that had grown malnourished from the lack of worship and divine amenities. The sweetness had been seen as incapable of being tasted by mortals, unless they were destined for greatness to be matched in the cosmos. Because of this, the fruit had been barred from mortal consumption, as it'd simply be wasted on them. Devil's Ambrosia, in contrast, is reserved for only mortals. Those that live within Divine Realms have little care for this kind of fruit, as they only cause death to mortals. Some myths, such as the Trials of Arfolissius, say that the Devil's Ambrosia is a 'sign of the foolishness of mortals', that their intellect is miniscule, when compared to the gods, as 'they simply cannot tell the difference between a fatal poison, and the meals of their masters'.    It is said that Arys, the trickster god of Divine Usurpers, holds a garden in the sky that holds all of the Devil's Ambrosia that is used by the New Gods, when it comes to the destruction of Divine Usurpers. The garden, whilst not grandiose like other sites that are held by divine beings, is instead known for its density of the strange fruit, despite only being on less than a hundred trees.