"Someone was looking for you," a drunk, muscular man applying some paint to his fingernails says to Belmarniss as she walks by. "Drow girl."
"I don't know how to describe it but there's a feeling associated with using the cleric ability to channel energy and it feels like that."
"There are madpeople who say the gods talk to them but I have never heard of a cleric who couldn't tell the difference."
"The obvious use case'd be someone out of their alignment zone nevertheless with a compatible outlook on some narrower topic."
"Yeah. I don't know much about - so there are obviously some agreements among the gods about when they'll directly intervene in the world, and I know almost nothing about those."
"Presumably all the important people in Osirion talk to Abadar all the time anyway and don't need prompting."
"Any cleric who has a good track record of service to the church is eligible for an appointment - ah, any male cleric, at least. In practice if you never picked up a level past your first that'll probably be prohibitive, but fifth, sixth, that's not very notable, and only a few of them are ninth or tenth. There aren't very many clerics of eighth level or higher. Seventy clerics of Abadar in Osirion are eighth level or higher, last I heard, and some of them are women or retired. It'd be very restrictive if you had to pick all twelve bishops and four archbishops from that."
"I suppose the fact that I do not find running Saint Hadassah's appealing is not useful market research about how the people who wind up doing it feel."