A population halved and halved again all for fickle divines... My family has something in common with the Garleans. We are secular ourselves, something that is seen as blasphemous by the orthodox Houses of the Chimer people.

(everyone has a complaint to file.)

But it is because of this ludicrousness, and because knowledge, not worship, is power. The cost of carrying out a god's will always outweighs the reward for their servants.

(voryn turns back to cid, giving him his full attention now.)

Shattering the world into fourteen pieces is a drastic, desperate action, one I question the necessity of... Has the star been split all this time by Hydaelyn? Or are the Source and its thirteen reflections splinters from the whole while the rest of the star remains intact?