At first you be like “wow, this girl is incompetent. Trying to figure out how to rewrite what she’s told to best benefit herself probably!” and then you find out what’s going on and it’s just worse-
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At first you be like “wow, this girl is incompetent. Trying to figure out how to rewrite what she’s told to best benefit herself probably!” and then you find out what’s going on and it’s just worse-
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You ain’t seen nothing yet, Keilie. Imagine how your divine patron will look when he hears about this.
Unless the deity in question is really prone to metaphor and imagery, the notion you have to interpret their exact given words is a STAGGERING show of arrogance. Worse, in this case it appears to be unthinking arrogance.
I wonder if the newest ‘oracle’ is at least in part him telling her to cut out the interpreting and get to straight sharing. Or else.
He’s not very good at what he does, so he may not have caught on to what his followers have been doing – yet.
If I understand it Correndel has either been very vague and symbolic with his oracles, or he has been direct but his clerics are like ‘but what did he REALLY mean’ and end up twisting it out of shape. With any follow up oracles to correct it getting the same treatment and making it worse.
Part of the latest oracle would include ‘Stop being such prudes’ (per https://www.artificialincident.com/comic/wandering-home-11/ ). I wonder if he mentioned something about running into a dark elven adventurer, and telling his followers to ‘kiss and make up’ with her to avoid further trouble.
That would explain last page’s flustered reaction and blushing if she is to take it literal.
I figure he was direct, but the high elves reinterpreted what he said to fit with their inflated egos and self-image, which are partially tied up in their tribal divine patron being ‘best god’.
Would not be surprised if this behavior by the High Elf priests bites them hard. When a god tells you “don’t make me come down there!” you better take it serious!