"Perhaps not so surprisingly, as we were specifically selected. Though with slightly varying ideas about what their problems are and why it's a solution. I'm least familiar with Norton, so I wouldn't venture to guess, but the rest... perhaps both more and less similar to each other than they might like."
"There are a lot of similar people here. A lot of people used to being the strongest or the smartest or the most needed." A small frown. "It makes doing anything as a group that much harder."
Xie Lian stares into space a moment. "You've never been to the Heavenly Court." And that makes Lark lucky. He returns to the present. "I just don't think there are that many different reasons to murder someone. Not deep down."
"A belief that the individual has the right to punish someone else, and the belief that there's no greater authority who will do it. In varying amounts and combinations."
Xie Lian knows deeply how perception can influence reality, and there are very different groups doing the perceiving. "At home, I'm not a popular god. Among mortals or other gods. With the gods... people make links between misfortune and bad luck and the idea that it might rub off on them to get close." He doesn't hold their dislike against them, it's just a fact.
"Here... I don't know." He laughs a little. "It's a lot more straightforward when you can listen to prayers or curses. I try my best to do my duty as I see it, to protect. People interpret that through their own lens, and have their own opinions on what's right."
He laughs. "Ah, that's very kind of you. I wouldn't say my luck is so bad, now." And he does know how to keep going. "But gods... memories can last a long time."
"Perhaps in part. But, hmm... it's not quite just remembering the bad. There are certain things that are important to a god's being that I don't think is true, at least not in the same way, for mortals."
"Important how?" He has vague notions about faith fueling a god's existence, but nothing concrete. There are no interactive gods where he's from, but who knows? Maybe that's the fault of the faithless.
"We don't exist because people believe we do," he's run into an assumption or two along those lines, so wants to make it clear, "But worship is like payment, perhaps."
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"Here... I don't know." He laughs a little. "It's a lot more straightforward when you can listen to prayers or curses. I try my best to do my duty as I see it, to protect. People interpret that through their own lens, and have their own opinions on what's right."
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