"There will always be some debate on the matter, even among those who hear the voices of the gods themselves. For myself... I have always believed that all things are known to them, and that they reveal as much as we are capable of understanding. The rest? We are not designed to know it, being as we are simple mortal creatures of flesh and blood. To see the future as the past, all paths, all possibilities and purposes? Such things would drive us mad."

She shakes her head, pulling the fabric of her shawl tightly around her body.

"But you, and all the others brought here, are exactly where you are meant to be. Just as all in Solvunn, and the Free Cities, and even Thorne are. It may be difficult to see why things are as they are, but eventually all things come together as they must. Can you accept this answer for now, Estinien?"