Hill did not know how to answer and could only smile awkwardly.
"Though I knew the Earth Pantheon was swimming in wealth..." Lathander could not help muttering as he watched Hill's reaction.
"Toril's land is not that wealthy." Selûne interrupted him.
There was no longer any need to consider whether Shar's acting was convincing... Vecna, trapped atop that mountain, had no way to evade Purvi's charge.
Fortunately, Shar and Purvi were fairly familiar with each other, so she simply hitched a ride. Otherwise, she could only have stayed far away.
After all, it was an Otherworld Whale, and its body was covered in acceleration arrays... its impact was terrifyingly powerful.
But under such circumstances, no matter what Shar did, Vecna could no longer observe her... He might still have eyes, but they probably could not keep up with Purvi's speed.
That gave Selûne the leisure to come discuss this rather bittersweet subject for Toril's Gods.
The Gods of Toril, especially the Gods around Faerûn, were absolutely the poorest pantheon.
Of course, innate Gods like Selûne and Lathander, who were essentially part of a world-ring pantheon and merely went by different names elsewhere, were actually doing all right... except for Chauntea.
However, those Gods born solely from the war between Selûne and Shar possessed even less wealth than Chauntea.
Even Waukeen was the Goddess of Wealth!
The true Earth Pantheon could compete with the Earth-Element Law Gods over who possessed richer natural resources.
But that could not be helped.
Toril had always been a world born deficient.
Its World Membrane had been shattered from the start, allowing the world to grow at an astonishing rate, with its upper limit reaching the very peak of the universe.
But at the same time, it deprived the world of countless opportunities for its resources