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The light is alive, and malicious, and vast, and encroaching. It buzzes and shines, and everything about it hurts those that are close to it, and destroys those who are within it . . . It is a Smiling God of terrible power and ceaseless appetite.

The Smiling God is a being of terrible power and ceaseless appetite. It is promoted and worshiped by StrexCorp Synernists Incorporated, whose slogan includes the line "believe in a smiling god," and whose employees pray regularly to its "great warmth." It is frequently described as "the unraveling of all things" and "the great glowing coils of the Universe unwinding."

In Desert Bluffs, Night Vale, the surrounding desert, and the other desert that seems to exist in an alternate dimension, the Smiling God takes the form of a living light, brighter than the sun, whose rays seem to turn everything translucent. According to Cecil, it spreads "not always as light at all," but with the same malicious intent, implying that StrexCorp itself is a facet of the entity.

Kevin describes Desert Bluffs' first encounter with the Smiling God as a wonderful experience, though he implies that he and other residents resisted at first.

It is not certain when exactly the Smiling God arrived in the Bluffs. It was either during Kevin's employment as radio host or before he was born or both. Probably both.

The Double

My Faithful Disciple

Kevin Free

And my disciple's double

Azrael

I know you've been busy searching through the city, so let me share the weight...

WtNV

Yes

STORY

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Today's proverb: There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but then, there is also a light at the end of an anglerfish's tendril.