"Don't think I haven't considered it. The people who call themselves Deities, though, are far more powerful than I had hoped. At home, it would be a simple matter. Here, my resources are limited."

He's put serious thought into a coup, but he knows now that it would be ineffective at best, and downright idiotic at worst. Revolutionary as he is in some ways, he's also far from stupid, and he knows that the City has a multitude of tricks up its sleeve for dissenters.