Selûne did not understand what Shar meant at all. She replied with complete conviction, "They actually dared to attack me. Of course they deserved to die!"
She even tilted her head and thought for a moment. "I really wasn't the one who attacked first!
They provoked me first!
Still, when evil forces see a good priest who specializes purely in healing, they never have good intentions to begin with.
All I can say is, they picked the wrong target!"
Even Lathander, whose followers loved charging headlong into adversity, could not help glancing at her at those words... his eyes practically screamed disbelief.
His followers did indeed rush out to eradicate evil even when it had not attacked them first, but at the very least, those evil worshippers really were committing evil acts.
In a place like Toril, even he could not attack someone before they actually did anything.
Toril was hardly a place ruled by justice and fairness... one only had to consider how Tyr had ended up looking like such a decrepit old man.
If disgusting creatures like the Demon Scholars appeared near his Dawn Tower, or somewhere that worshipped him, he would certainly intervene.
But they had been minding their own business in their own remote wilderness... of course, if a Dawn Chosen accidentally entered their territory and was hunted down, Lathander would not consider it wrong to intervene either... but she had deliberately gone looking for trouble, then complained that they had dared attack the Luna Followers?
Even Lathander, who disliked dwelling on causes and consequences and preferred to judge people by what they did, found that a little unbelievable.
He could not help giving Shar a strange look... judging by what he had learned during their time together, the Daughter of Dark Night probably would not