Selûne and Shar's hints were clear enough to Hill... Azuth couldn't possibly be unaware of what was happening, but he had chosen to remain silent and let Edna walk such a dangerous path.
But Hill also understood that even if Azuth knew his descendant had become part of the Path of Fate, he had no power to stop it.
Getting Edna's father to send a few scapegoats in his name was all the Lord of Mages could do to resist.
Only Selûne and Shar could truly overturn the board once the Path of Fate had begun... Lathander might have been able to as well, but he wasn't clever enough.
The Fate Tablet didn't particularly want to use Lathander. After all, Ao only wanted to stir up trouble, not destroy the world... Rebuilding it would cost Ao his own divine power!
Ao liked experimenting on others, not himself.
That was why he so clearly favored Cyric as a tool... Everything the Prince of Lies had done was within Ao's expectations. It looked momentous, but it was all under control.
The Lord of Dawn, on the other hand, kept jumping in of his own accord... and the tablet had to go to great lengths to clean up after him.
Lathander should have left a deep mark on history, yet even after he had been away from Toril for so long, Ao had done nothing to bring him back.
Selûne suddenly asked Shar in earnest, "Does that serpent still have the eyeball? Can you be sure what he's doing now is for you, not himself?"
Shar was silent for a few seconds before answering. "Hydra has already sacrificed the eyeball to me. What he's carrying now is Gulekulust's Death Staff."
Shar probably didn't know what to make of her sister's sudden concern... It