Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia. - N. K. Jemisin

It’s all right to need help. All of us have things we can’t do alone.

I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me, I said. I want to be myself.
Don't be a child.
I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. What?
You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I'm tired of your whining.

It was the oldest of tricks, to sow dissension between groups that had common interests. Good for deflecting attention from greater mischief, too.