>>5448903>>5448904>>5448931>>5448975>>5449000>>5449014>>5449152>>5449167>You have little patience for those unfaithful to you, who would doubt or deny you. What will it take to prove yourself to them, perhaps martyrdom?Something you have to remind yourself of since it's easy to take for granted, but Eindward isn't the only place of humans around these parts. A painful thought there are other such towns out there without your help, and if you shouldn't find your way to them as well? A grim thought as well, that you can count on two hands the number of towns such as Eindward left, and that is all there is for humanity remaining. It makes these struggles of nobles and clergy seem so petty compared to the bigger issue.
But you are not one of those distant gods, nor those that mortals believe to exist but don't seem to have any certain proof of. You walk the world and live side by side with the mortals, not so terribly different from them and that's the way you like it. The cost of course, being that you cannot be everywhere at once. You are here in Eindward currently, and can only do and help what you can, so better to make the best of it.
<span class="mu-r">"I know very well this argument, that gods should be distant and not live among mortals. To sit atop the heavens, for it was what my godly companions, the ones that I dearly miss, preached. I disagreed with them back them, and I still do to this day, it's why I shared so many secrets with you, and all the wonders that you have proven me right."</span>
<span class="mu-s">"If you disagree... then do you not disagree with what it means to be a god, and what the word itself means? If you take God to mean something different, then why use the word? Saint may be as appropriate as any other."</span>
He's a cleverer one than most, this bishop. Also an older man, and austere, so less swayed by your charm. You don't care to get caught up in semantics, but there is the important factor in the difference of culture and language to keep aware of. It occurs to you that the conceptualization of what a god means to the ancient people of Menaj (and yourself), and what it means to the more northerly people and culture of these times, can be and probably are very different things. Although these concerns are based upon the motivation the bishop seeks, of getting you to accept a lesser role to their God... not that this particularly means anything to you, you think, if their God exists beyond this world so has no bearing on you or your actions. As far as it is explained to you, this isn't a particularly rare occurrence either, of re-rendering "heathen" gods as "Saints" of this religion of theirs. A common enough practice in times past, in the old world when their religion became dominant over the land.
