"It's cool, I won't spread it around. We have divination, though it's - rather astoundingly cryptic. Though I think some psions can get combat-limited precog? I can divine the weather, that's about it for now. Emes has already tried to look forward on this, but there's some kind of divination-blocking magic involved."

"...State secrets and all, but that sounds pretty similar to what I've heard about witch-based divination, yes."

"Not too surprised, yeah."

Before they move on again, Elanor finds a chance to ask Lirhan in a roundabout way what he thinks about God... She seems to be referring to just one.

"All but a few of them could stand to be doing more. The sister goddesses of the mountains, the hunt, and the sea are the only three leveraging their full power against the Blight - Ostehe's also helping in other ways, she looks out for the lost, but she doesn't have much direct power. Yashna sent an avatar to help with one overwhelming fight, but she doesn't get much direct veneration so isn't as powerful despite her position as Queen of the Restful Dead. Aeirshiy, the sun father, could send an avatar and solve this entirely, but other than answering prayers he's doing jack. Our god of war might as well not exist. Does your world only have the one deity?"

"I was raised in the Catholic faith. Catholics and other Christians, Jews, Orthodox, even Islamic peoples all agree that there is one God, whatever other rules we hold different. Most of the other major religions hold that there are many, but surely when more than half of all people in the world believe in something it will have a ring of truth to it? Having a larger domain and no divine allies, perhaps He is busier than the god - gods - here. For while tales of His miracles are easy to come by and I personally believe He is what grants Witches their magic, He rarely directly answers prayers or sends his servants, the angels, to people in recent times."

"Huh. Ours definitely exist to some extent, it's their true nature that's debated - and not widely, it's mostly theologians arguing. I think there's a sect that thinks the gods are messengers or fragments of something greater? There's also a sect that insists they're all ascended mortals, and that anyone powerful enough could become one, but that sounds... Incredibly unlikely, the gap between a god and even the most powerful of mortals is insurmountable. But the general consensus is that each has existed as long as or longer than their portfolio - either than they came into existence at the same moment, or that they created it - and that gods with overlapping portfolios either share responsibility or are the same deity in different guises."

"Hm. I may want to read religious texts along with literally everything else in your library, now."

"It's certainly a complicated field. The university library has a lot, or the royal library."

"It feels strange and uncomfortable to have... What I believe called into question. The fact that we are in a different world - well, I would like to learn and observe. When there's not an urgent job to do."

"Yeah. I went through that for a while, too. I wouldn't be surprised if different worlds had different deities, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were the same, either. But for now, the gods are largely irrelevant - we're on our own out here, and the Blight won't end itself."

"Faith alone is not enough. Yes. Let's pick up the pace a bit?"

"Certainly."

Ghost makes a map and sarcastically comments on the blasted terrain as they proceed.

Talking in the wind-form is a bit awkward but can be managed. 

The next while is largely uneventful, the landscape still a blasted remnant of its former glory - they pass more destroyed villages and burned out homesteads, most simply dead or empty, which Lirhan and Emes cleanse. After the third village, Tess and Emes summon creatures - Tess a massive number of animals, Emes more unnatural things - to help gather any corpses and bones and take care of any fighting. (Lirhan's of the opinion that the empty villages are due to how relatively close they are to the non-mountain border - the undead attacking have to be from somewhere). 

Witches clean their gear and guns and keep a flying lookout. They're not used to this sort of long slog, short fast dangerous missions before returning to a comfy base were the norm. But they're coping.

The land marches on under them, flying allowing them to bypass most of the wandering monsters - until there's a rumbling roar, and something takes to the skies in the distance.

Lirhan curses. "We might want to speed up, that looks a lot like a bone dragon."

"...Yes, that sounds like something we do not want to fight."

Unfortunately spells like Cheetah's sprint don't stack well, so they just pick up to max speed, zooming along.

The dragon seems about as fast as they are, at least on a sprint.

Worrying. "Bones don't get tired, do they? If we're going to have to fight it, I want to get some altitude. My idea is you guys tie it up for a bit if you can, hold it for a bit, we boom-and-zoom it. If it goes after us in the air we can split up and get the drop on it that way. What all can bone dragons do?"

"That might work. And for abilities - it depends on how it was made. If it's a skeleton, it'll have claws, teeth, and possibly a breath weapon in a line or cone. If it's a dracolich, it's going to have powerful magic and lich abilities - like regenerating after death."

"Bombs should be effective either way, hopefully. Ghost-"

"Yeah, yeah, boss." She turns invisible and peels away, going high and trying to get a look at the "bone dragon".

It is certainly a flying monster made of bones, wisps of a dark purple fire trailing off it. Flames swirl in its empty eye sockets, and it turns its head to track her as she grows closer, apparently contemplating the relative advantages of this little snack versus the group it's trailing. It's well over seventy feet from the nose to the start of the tail, which is easily as long again as the main body.

"...It can see me. Guys. It can see me. Fuck this."

She peels away at high speed.