The place where the gods dwelled was called the Divine Realm, but to the gods, it was far more than an ordinary house.
This supernatural region, elevated above reality, not only provided a place for the gods and their servants to rest, but also served as the cradle in which gods were born—at least, that was true of faith-born gods.
Gods were born within their Divine Realms, and the two shared the purest and most unbreakable of bonds. Therefore, damaging a god's Divine Realm was a highly effective way to harm them.
However, the connection between newly ascended gods like Su and Avalon—who had been "awakened" by the Creator—and their Divine Realms was more complicated. They had once been powerful astral titans, and after the Sentinel Legion helped them cross the threshold into godhood, their Divine Realms had formed naturally, without having to go through a gestation period.
So, to be precise, Su's Divine Realm was more like a special domain built upon his divine core, and was not as closely connected to his true form as the Divine Realms of faith-born gods were.
Perhaps this unique arrangement had come from the Creator's research into the mysteries of divinity in this world, back when he was still around. Using some incomprehensible, high-tech methods, he had simulated the divine cores and domains of the new gods, granting them the formidable strength to fight the Warp and its shadows in the Warp for a thousand years.
Much of the new gods' strength in the Warp came from their "artificial divine cores," which were utterly unlike those of ordinary gods.
You could say this was a cheat the Creator had left to the astral titans. After all, both the old gods and faith-born gods risked being corrupted and falling to the Warp. As