When you have the Resurrection Ritual and Narinder asks you to resurrect someone, something about his line after finishing the quest caught my curiosity:
[ID: Narinder saying “Ha! Hahahaha! I cannot begrudge supplantation by one such as yourself. Why contain death? And with none to stand in your way. You are, after all, the last God left in the Lands of the Old Faith.”]
That’s what got my curiosity. When he said, “Why contain death?”
Then Haro told Lambert:
“He was unalike the rest of his kin. While others dealt with flux; chaos, famine, pestilence, war. Things in which their constancy must transpose. And yet he was the inevitable; the obstinate and irresistible. The one who waits.
Truly peculiar, ‘twould then seem, has appetency to invite the novel and the new, break ancient vow and primordial bond alike. Traditions stagnate and appetites augment, nonetheless. Doubt tears faith asunder.”
When Narinder got bored, he created the Resurrection ritual that broke “ancient vow and primordial bond alike.”
Why contain death? If a god could resurrect, it spells bad to the other gods. Sacrifices are no longer sacred and death as punishment is no longer consequential when pledging yourself to another god could bring them back.
As one of the characters has said, a god is nothing without their flock.
But did Narinder care? No. If that meant he would be the last God left in the Lands of the Old Faith, then so be it. If the crowns of his siblings starve and die, it will be fine because his siblings would still be alive (like what happened to Haro’s crown).
Maybe, as far as Narinder was concerned, he had thought it through with his siblings in mind.
But Shamura had to choose between Narinder and their godhoods because power isn’t something you just let go of. And so the strife between Narinder and his siblings began.
And I like to think, in a complicated way, it’s one of the reasons why Narinder would have let go of his grudge after you complete the Resurrection ritual quest. Because finally, someone understood.
