[Amber Brightwing]

Her primary deity? She landed on the table and scratched her chin while she thought about her answer for a second. The whole religion thing was a big mess as far as she was concerned. Even those that followed the ‘sacred’ three, which was supposed to be the imperial point of view or something, were bickering amongst each other. And still followed the same gods. Church of Faith, Diana versus Carmelya, Aetherians, Planetars, Aeternians… Once you considered the multitude of religions and the views on them, one could wonder if religion was a thing created by Jorel himself. Even if you wanted to follow the ‘right’ path there was no way of telling what it was.

The combination of that, her general dislike for all she had been thought, and a very long time of being alone and thinking things through had made her come up with her own way of looking at things. She had found that the one thing all seemed to have in common was that it was created at some point, but eventually destroyed again. Everything she knew on the surface of Telath followed the circle of life and death. Therefore she considered the two most important gods those that were in charge of life and death, Carmelya and Jalat. All other things could be derived from that, and thus those were the two gods she had the most respect for. She knew that it was possible that she as well was completely wrong, but unless one of the gods would take his or her time to disagree with her on the matter, it wasn’t likely her views would change much.

I’m not a devote follower of any of the gods in particular. I don’t really see the point in doing so, since the gods normally don’t seem to bother much with mortals either.

Mentioning the wrong god at the wrong place or against the wrong person could get you into a lot of trouble, so she decided to keep things a bit open for now. Although Vortex was fairly tolerant in those matters compared to the rest of the empire, she didn’t feel like claiming to faithfully follow any god. Jalat was the patron god of the city and most of those living above the surface followed him, but she knew there were still some followers of Jorel around and from what she had heard, they didn’t like each other that much. It had always puzzled her why though, as from what she had learned in schola, she had always thought the two of them would get along well. They both seemed to have a fond dislike of the Aetherians for example. Still, everyone believed in something, so she felt she had to at least give Aribeal a name when answering.

But if I have to pick one then it probably would be Jalat.

She awaited the reaction of the mer. Even thought she had named a god it was clear she wouldn’t be to bothered with doing things in the name of another one. She was only getting her orders from a mere mortal after all.