Hill and Lathander both knew Shar well enough. Of course they knew better than to think the Daughter of Dark Night would shift her gaze to other worlds for no reason.
But they also understood what Shar meant. Though she still regarded world destruction as her primary goal, she would no longer waste time on pointless trifles just to vent her rage.
But she could not possibly do nothing at all.
It was simply that, compared to before, she would first see whether there was anything in the outside worlds that could help her achieve her ultimate goal.
William certainly would not help her, but neither would he stop her.
That was what Lathander wanted to ask about... but the Justice God, who steadfastly refused to set foot in Toril, had chosen to bury his head in Telashir and ignore the storms raging outside.
In other words, unless Telashir was affected, William definitely would not restrain Shar's evil deeds.
Of course, Shar's future methods were clearly no longer going to work from the bottom up... the old approach of using mortal strength to create slaughter and trying to trigger qualitative change through sheer quantity would basically disappear.
Now, she was going directly after powerful beings who could be useful to her.
For example, Vecna, the Hidden God.
Though Shar had put it simply, even Lathander could sense the bloodshed and turmoil hidden within those words.
That was why he was so surprised that William had no intention of stopping Shar at all.
Hill glanced at the somewhat dejected Great Peacock... In some ways, Lathander agreed quite strongly with William's way of handling matters, so he did not really want to see William remain completely unmoved by Shar secretly watching other Gods and very likely provoking an interworld war.
But Lathander