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==Messengers and Servants - The Celestial Bureaucracy==

The Heavenly Host is served and administrated by an otherworldly structure called the Celestial Bureaucracy, the Red and Blue Ministry, the River Unending or any number of other regional and cultural names.  The Celestial Bureaucracy is made up of spirits, messenger beings and other, weirder entities that purport to serve the Younger Gods in ensuring that basic functions of existence continue and that the Youngers' will is carried out.

A large portion of the Celestial Bureaucracy appears to have been absorbed wholesale from the existing network of spirits that the Great Elementals had set to attending the world, lending credence to theological theories that the Younger Gods were themselves empowered by the Great Elementals.  However, some wings of the Bureaucracy come from other, stranger levels of existence, including beings who were completely unknown prior to the point that Younger Gods began to excarnate.  There is an argument that some heavenly attendants are the spiritual equivalent of worldly Servitors, made (possibly subconsciously) to fit the Host's needs and requirements.

Celestial Bureaucrats are known to interact far more with the world than the Youngers ever do, sometimes directly in the service of Younger Gods.  However, even then, encounters with them remain rare in most lands.  They can be more easily accessed with magic by those with the talent and knowledge, but by and large a great deal of worship and reverence of the Youngers are actually directed to petitioning the Bureaucracy on the basis that it is these spirits who functionally do a lot of the Youngers' work.

The Celestial Bureaucracy remains poorly understood by mortals; less remote than the Younger Gods, yet still largely the preserve of folklore and superstition.  Stories often depict Bureaucrats as troublesome due to being, well, bureaucratic, as well as sometimes outright corrupt, but it's hard to tell how much this is a genuine depiction of the workings of the heavens.