The most crucial aspect of a scheme was to convince the target or targets to believe that it wasn't one.
Having lived for as long as they had, the Seven Gods' wealth of knowledge was vast, so unless one could take advantage of an informational difference, the only way for them to fall for a scheme was to convince them that the information they knew was correct, forcing them to draw a subjective conclusion.
Case in point, other than Negary who Mequik had informed of this information, the others shouldn't have realized that anything was wrong. Everything so far had progressed sensibly and appropriately, everything that could be predicted had also gone as predicted.
