Many people easily misunderstood one thing: just how kind—or devout—Legendary Priests were.
First, was a Legendary Priest devout?
The correct answer was—most Legendary Priests were not devout at all. Strictly speaking, eighty percent of Legendary Priests did not even count as believers. Moreover, the vast majority of ordinary gods simply could not bear the immense faith of a Legendary powerhouse. Thus, all gods required of Legendary Priests was the most basic attitude of friendly cooperation. If a Legendary Priest suddenly became devout, that would be the truly troublesome headache for a god.
With that foundation of "non-devotion," the answer to the second question was naturally not difficult to obtain—were the Legendary Priests of the Good alignment kind?
The correct answer was—most of them were not kind at all!
Just as the evil demanded by Evil alignment divine offices was excessively strict, the kindness demanded by Good alignment divine offices was often overly harsh as well. Aside from extremely devout believers, most of the rules written into the scriptures by divine offices could even make gods nauseated. While a god constantly monitored by its own divine office had no choice but to personally practice those alignment-related clauses, most priests only needed basic pretense to maintain an adequately acceptable alignment image and satisfy their divine office's demands. After all, divine offices were shackles belonging exclusively to gods; they had no leisure to monitor a priest's every action.
With such a tangled and roundabout relationship between divine offices, gods, and priests—something like "my subordinate's subordinate is not my subordinate"—the hypocrisy of many self-proclaimed kind Legendary Priests was not difficult to explain.
In fact, precisely because Legendary Priests only needed to keep up appearances and need not fear punishment from their divine offices, so many gods eagerly sought Legendary Priests capable of properly grasping