Odyn and Ra-den had both told Dick that the Pantheon's existence meant two completely different things to mortals and Guardians.
Mortals might cheer at gaining true "freedom." That was not to say the mortal races were ungrateful. As creatures who had truly awakened to intelligence, none of them wanted a "Creator" looming over their heads who could destroy them at will. This was the nature of intelligent life, a truth throughout the universe. Thus, while the Pantheon still existed, the Titans had always concealed their existence on the planets where they sowed life.
They did so to avoid interfering with the growth and development of life in those worlds.
But to the Guardians, the Titans' existence carried a more complex meaning. They were not merely Creators, but spiritual symbols in which the Guardians vested their lives, their wills, and even their very existence. It was difficult to say whether the fall of every Guardian in Ulduar had anything to do with the Pantheon's destruction, but there was no doubt that after its destruction, all the Guardians of Azeroth had entered terrible periods of their lives in different ways.
Perhaps they had not even noticed how much more fragile they had become-not in strength, but in will and soul.
Ra-den and Odyn could accept this devastating news because their ranks were higher than those of ordinary Guardians, and their capacity to endure was greater. Protecting the world's continued life and the Star Spirit's safe growth was their most important responsibility, one almost inscribed into the deepest reaches of their souls.
But ordinary Guardians might suffer a collapse of their wills upon learning that the Pantheon had been destroyed... Helya was a striking example. Odyn had preferred to remain sealed for tens of thousands of years rather than tell his adopted daughter