Look, it's an awesome idea and we wanted to try to find a way to make it work if we could, but alas. So it goes.

The gods definitely know it wouldn't work, but a lot of the Travellers doubt them anyway and it is a good idea in theory, so they'd be willing to give it a go if the Travellers insisting on at least trying. Loki would definitely be like "Told you so!" afterwards, I mean, come on, guys. They've been telling you this for actual years now. :'|