Quote:But then not all dimensions called hell need be analogs, nor all demons.
"Heaven and Hell are less... antagonistic in this world and its parallels than you are perhaps used to.
You've distinguished before between dark gods and true demons, and implied that Lovecraft-style Elder gods are something else again.
Some writers use 'demon' for powerful creatures of the mortal plane, generally unfriendly, often natives of other physical dimensions, but not of the spiritual planes. Doug, presumably, would consider them alien species.
If all the 'demons' in this skein of universes are technically dark gods, if the true demons and Elder Gods have no foothold there, then the eternal war would be a lot quieter.
As for transfictionality, there are people in this world arguing, with some scientific justification, that our world is almost certainly fictional. Nor, considering their general morals, would many gods hesitate to plagiarise.
If sometimes they base universe B on a fiction written in universe A, and universe A on one written in universe B, well, they are gods. Defying causality is their bread and butter.
We can't expect Doug to be familiar with all the philosophical speculation on gods and multiverses though. It would be a poorer story if he was, and his ignorance amuses - as does the rest of the chapter.