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That is the typical nature of Shonen generals. I would think the goddess would be the cause of the shifting although why would depend on what we want the goddess to be, machine, god, advanced human etcetera.and if we want her to be evil or not.
Thing is Mand, we haven't decided if they have troops or not, they might have little miniboss guys under each guy's command.