Their exchange was swift.
Hill could tell that after a brief clash, the two had reached a consensus for a temporary truce.
He was not surprised that Lathander had taken this chance to seize Shar's weakness... after all, Hill himself had hinted at Shar's scheme against Lathander.
Hill was rather pleased that Lathander had understood what his attitude meant and seized the opportunity so quickly.
What he could not quite figure out was... what exactly Lathander's words had been emphasizing.
Gods had always used that sort of divine-power entanglement to produce offspring!
The Stone Sheep God and a certain dwarven goddess seemed to have had a child that way... in order to fulfill some so-called sacred duty.
So even if some Gods inexplicably produced a child together, it did not mean they had actually been together.
Of course, the strength of a divine child born that way depended on what its parents had been thinking... if both were merely going through the motions, the child would naturally be rather limited.
Even the divine spells it inherited would be unimpressive.
Wasn't there a most obvious example right on Toril?
Malar was the result of both sides harboring ill intentions.
So the child they produced... his combat strength could not exactly be called poor, but he had almost no intelligence, much less emotions.
So wasn't this perfectly normal?
Although Shadow Wraiths existed much like spiritual and soul bodies, and had little emotion, it was not as though they lacked intelligence.
Shar had always been dissatisfied with her Shadow Wraiths... but the reason they had turned out this way was her own greed!
She wanted them to be completely invisible, intelligent enough to keep up with her pace, able to respond swiftly to her commands, and still retain talents for mental attacks in