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The theory is sound, and they made a decent choice by all observations. But from their isolation and forgotten past it seems their faith is nothing more than a perversion of what you are. Because they only know of Tanaloa from ancient stories, they believe in a grotesque caricature of you; many times your size with absurdly stressed features, temperament, and male because they assume a destroying sea monster only could be. Many natives shun the dark and bloody faith to this "Tanaloa", based around practices of human sacrifice and strange rituals, but few can deny the effectiveness of the faith... as an avatar of the great sea monster stalks the ocean in these parts, creating great storms and destroying ships to harass invaders on water, and siring unholy monstrous hybrids with women of the faith in order to attack invaders on land. It is an uncomfortable and dark truth the people face, but one that helps them with results.
<span class="mu-s">"This is why the Almighty is superior, you see? One faith, one God, that cannot be corrupted!"</span>
<span class="mu-b">"Isn't your Almighty corrupted by your enemies? And my previous servant believed your Almighty was a corruption of his God."</span>
<span class="mu-s">"Infidel lies, of course!"</span>
In all, this discovery is even more offensive and repulsive to you than it is to Faysal, but it serves as a good lesson and learning experience about the fickle nature of divinity. How faith can have powerful consequences, and how you should want to be careful about how you present yourself to mortals. They created this grotesque distortion of you in your absence, so may be capable of affecting you in your presence.
Now you can understand why you heard them calling out to you in the sea with such devotion, except that their faith is essentially being gobbled up by this darkly mistaken version of you. All show but hardly a fraction of the genuine article.
>Try to correct their faith as it stands, and see them on the correct path... although this will require you to devise your own faith for them to follow, something you have never done before.
>Seek out this unholy counterpart of yourself, and destroy it to end this heresy.
>For now focus on the invaders, your own hostility towards their ships. You can better prepare and gather cursed victims, in order to better deal with this worse threat.
>Rather than get into a messy religious conflict, you prefer the simplest approach. Find some unaffiliated clan to exercise your physical nature, compared to the strictly spiritual nature of the heresy.
>The blasphemy of the natives is so offensive to you... that maybe you'd prefer the invaders? In their own struggle for conquest, they might turn to you if given your assistance. At the very least the natives need to be punished and learn the hard way, before they can earn their way into your graces.
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