After confirming Oerst's status as a Chosen, Laira's attitude toward him changed swiftly.
Even if this Elf's Supreme God was still only a Demigod, that Demigod had already established his own Divine Kingdom and stood within the Starry Sky. He might not have been as powerful as the Goddess of Magic, but the gap between Chosen was not measured that way.
A Demigod simply could not create as many Chosen as Mystra, since his divine power could not withstand such waste... But generally speaking, the divine power needed to create a Chosen was about the same. At most, especially favored Chosen might receive a little more divine power.
At most, Oerst was still young, so he was slightly inferior to Mystra's Chosen like them. Yet their upper limits were roughly the same, and only the Chosen themselves truly understood what level of beings they were.
Laira understood that even among the Seven Sisters of the Northlands, who were much stronger than those male Chosen, only Alustriel had received greater benefits.
The others were merely difficult to kill, not impossible to kill... One of the Seven Sisters, Sylune, had been slain by an Elder Red Dragon and could only wander Shadowdale as a ghost.
Chosen could indeed be resurrected by their own Supreme God, but that depended on whether the Supreme God still needed them afterward... Khelben had been resurrected twice, while Sylune had become so immersed in grief that she could only remain a soul forever.
In Toril's hundreds of thousands of years of history, only Mystra had dared to squander power like this, creating more than a dozen Chosen. Other Gods, even those with Greater Divine Power, had at most three or four Chosen.
There was nothing to be done about it. The previous Mystra had been generous with