[ Thancred pulls a face at that description, eyes narrowing and mouth twisting to one side in distaste. Perhaps it is merely entertainment and no one is actually being harmed in the productions, but it does unsettle him that someone would want to watch such a thing in their leisure time.

Perhaps the man is right, and it is because the viewers believe they won't ever experience something so gruesome in reality. ]

You may be right.

[ He glances back to the altar where it all happened, where Josselyn's head had sat when it was done. ]

I suspect it's also a means of showing people their place. These old gods are not merely stories and scripture. We saw it with our own eyes.

[ And he does not think that was some stage illusion. ]