Anyone with half a brain could guess what the Undead would ultimately do.
The key was that neither Amaunator nor the half-Bane behind Thay had enough value to make the great Gods behind the Undead compromise... and that was without even counting Corellon.
But Bane had been the one to find a solution first and swiftly sell out Talona, who had only just aligned herself with him. Hill could not help but be impressed.
Logically speaking, if Amaunator understood even a little about human relations, then after Lathander had given him a hand in this world, and while he could still exchange a few words with Vera despite every favor having been canceled out by his idiotic subordinates, he should have been the first person with a chance to build some sort of relationship with the Undead.
Even if the Undead would not help him, at least they might refrain from dragging him down too much, right?
Hill did not know what Lathander had been thinking when he tried to persuade Amaunator, but he knew perfectly well that the period when Ao had personally arrived was Amaunator's final opportunity.
If he had possessed even a shred of sense then, he could have lowered his head to Shar and made small talk with the Undead... With Ao watching, no matter how many schemes Shar had, she would not have acted too outrageously.
She might not have feared Ao, but she certainly would not want Ao exposing her shortcomings in this place, before these people.
There was a vast difference between something everyone assumed they knew and having it dragged out into the open.
Ao would not have been foolish enough to let the Undead brought by Shar's lover support Amaunator. But if Amaunator merely wanted to establish a little connection and