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She falters here - admittedly, she hasn't done very much research on this: she only has vague ideas. 

"Working with local institutions to subsidise scholarships for bright children in the country, with a heavy lean towards the ideals of fairer practice in economics for the kingdom, for a start. Making collectives for the people to stand up for their farming rights under the teachings of Moradin... I will admit that this is as far as I've gotten with thinking about it, because the other nobles are already quite close to wanting my head on a pike. But that's where I would start."

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It's pretty good. 

It's not anything he hasn't heard discussed before. It's harder than you'd think to just train more magicians; clerical seminaries and wizarding academies have a probabilistically implausible habit of exploding in spectacular ways. 

But then, usually these things are highly theoretical exercises in theology. It's another thing entirely to hear them come from a noble of all people. Most probably it's just a political ploy. But the situation is unusual enough, volatile enough, that there's an opportunity for unusual profit -

- and he knows enough of the ways of gods to gamble -

Moradin cannot look into the goodness of men's hearts like Mystra, or their fealty and obedience, like Pelor; but He can see further in some ways, networks of order and of will as they extend now and in the future, and the thing damn fool elves and humans once translated out of Dwarvish as Law.


Is this an honest trade offer? 


Should we proceed as if Raina of Volturgard is trustworthy in Your eyes?


Should we proceed as if this proposal would have results pleasing in Your eyes?

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He doesn't have good Sight of this mortal "Raina" - it's even harder to See than most humans, and most humans are blurry if not incomprehensible. It is more like that than average, but shot through with highly unusual lines of golem-like simple clarity, and the touch of Another is upon it.

It's trying to buy some kind of... world-state for other agents... that it thinks is for sale, somehow, and that wouldn't significantly affect its own trading algorithm but... might have in the past? It's of a class of mortal valuations that aren't coherent enough for gods like Him to See. 

It isn't concealing any hidden drawbacks or anything like that. 


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The mortal has no real understanding of Law or even the catechisms He handed down to His worldly Church. It isn't so shaped as to act Lawfully. 


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His Church no longer possesses the resources to make the world into something He can understand very easily. It no longer possesses the resources to intervene strongly and coherently enough to have predictable effects, never mind predictable long-term consequences. He can only go off the contents of the proposed Regulation changes, which do favour His interests, and which under the circumstances Pelor might not want to pay Him off for. 


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"Well then. We will convey to you our resolution on this matter. Is there aught else you would ask of us?"

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Raina, for once, bows her head with the appropriate deference. "Not at all, Most Holy and High. I simply thank you very much for your consideration, and warn you that our Brother Ophel will be convening with you soon about some... less than pleasant matters back in my homeland."

She darts a glance at Myre, to guage how this might have gone. 

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Her eyes are half-closed, and she's leaning back against the headrest of her throne; she looks tired, and older than her years. 

(She still feels an urge to hide her own mortality, and fallibility, from petitioners; but Khemez isn't wrong that that would be a lie.)

"Gods go with you, child."

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Well. It's as much a blessing as she's going to get. 

She goes. 

 

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