( That truly takes Haelva by surprise; it would take a lot for people to act just based on faith if there was no proof of a god's power in her world, and she snorts in her disbelief. )

Then those that follow any faith in your world are perhaps stronger than those who do in mine. ( Haelva is not a religious woman, though not because of a disbelief in the gods or apathy. More that she knows which god might answer her call if she desired, and she is not about to entertain the thought of making nice with the god of ritual murder. ) It's easy to call on a god when you know they will answer. Or, perhaps, far more cruel when they do not.