I am not sure my own opinion on the matter. I have heard so many sides, so many perspectives, it is still an idea I grapple with. Not that my thoughts hold much weight. The decision was made and carried out the same year as my own birth. Our god lives in a new form, a being of wax and metal named Ydris. How much they are like or unlike Ardric remains to be seen...

[a beat]

From my interactions with them, they are a bit of a bastard.