Happy endings are a luxury of fiction
Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.
He had given her too much. He had given her everything.
The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.