Watching Hill's little face light up with delight, Liszt felt a little dazed. Of course, he had guessed what kind of thing could possibly catch Hill's attention in a place like this... but he still found it hard to believe Hill's luck could be this outrageous.
Even though past experience told him Hill was capable of this, he still found it unbelievable.
The Tower Spirit believed that whatever had caught Hill's attention might be a special material close to Primordial Power.
Like the material left behind when Shar and Selûne fought atop Aglaia's Floating Castle... even a slight clash of divine power could create special existences containing Primordial Power, things valuable enough that even they themselves would treasure them.
Of course, the conflict between Lathander and Asmodeus was merely one of opposing attributes, fundamentally different from the collision of the primordial twin moons' divine powers.
Those two should have been mutually sustaining beings. Even after they began walking opposite paths, they had not become mutually restraining forces. So when they fought now, apart from the few times they had played divine-power games at Hill's place, they usually went straight for the knives.
There were already enough Gods on Toril... After the Goddess of Magic appeared, even Selûne, who had gained the greatest benefit, had no interest whatsoever in creating another whatever-it-was.
Mystryl had been their most successful and outstanding creation, yet she had also died the earliest.
Talos—not the one replaced by Gruumsh, but the original Lord of Storms—had not actually been that wicked, aside from his somewhat explosive temper and his intense dislike of others reaching into his domain.
Otherwise, Malar was one thing—he never cared how evil the person he followed was, as long as they could not kill him—but Umberlee and Auril, despite each having their own