Quote Originally Posted by hamishspence View Post
I like the notion of it being more "altering" than creating- especially given the hints that the gods may be telling whoppers about creating a lot of things, in Lords of Madness.

And Elder Evils- where it stressed they helped shape the world, rather than created it- and life- the aboleths- existed on the Material Plane before they started fiddling around.

Having Io "supercharge" the evolution of a single race of relatively unassuming vertebrates is one way of doing it.
I am now imagining Pelor as a Goa'uld.