Praying to the Gods is a fools errand. No matter how devout, no matter how much you have sacrificed, ultimately they do not care. Sure divine intervention has occurred, but only at their behest, not because someone asked. You are better off believing in yourself and ignoring the Gods than expecting their help. But every once in a great while, when boredom or a Divine plan is at play, they do interfere at the behest of a prayer. It's not something anyone can really point to. Usually just a legend of a legend. Someone heard from a guy that a guy once asked a god for help and it happened.
Most of the stories have to do with Trezlan Lorentino. Who does not really pray as he whines, and the gods interfere for him if only because he amuses them more often than not. But there are others who in their moment of need are granted clemency. Though never usually the Fire God. Her indifference to her subjects bordered on cruelty. She didn't even have open worshipers any longer and she cared very little for who remained with her. She viewed those who had given her power as means to an end and their current struggles not worth it.
The last true order of Fire God followers wasn't much. It was a group of no more than sixty who still carried on the martial tradition. But things were about to change for the last order, and in that change something that hadn't happened before was about to happen, and all the universe would feel the repercussions.
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