[Liem attempts to accept the compliment of stately without focusing overmuch on his companion’s obvious disdain for the human race. He wants to protest that his human lineage is far nobler and more respectable than the unliving influence responsible for his inhuman features or graceful bearing, but he doesn’t wish to get into an argument over something so personal and broadly irrelevant as his personal lineage. Instead, he just inclines his head soberly towards him in polite acknowledgement, as he has countless times with gentry and bureaucrats of his own country, and allows the subject to pass without comment.]

It would be stranger to me if there were only one, or none at all.

[Liem knows that such is the case in the worlds of certain residents of Kenos, and the concept seems impossibly foreign to him. He would like to imagine that at least in those worlds there are no religious wars, but unfortunately his knowledge of both history and religion is such that he can’t seriously entertain that idea.]

Abadar is the patron of wealth, so certainly people turn to him in the hopes that he will increase their fortunes. But he is a stern and sensible god, so the frivolous would find it difficult to stay in his favour.

Are you a religious man, Lord Dagoth?