"All right. Endure Elements." He taps himself on the back of the hand with it.

"I used to daydream about a god who didn't do all the awful things gods do, and did - things like that, making people more comfortable, making people younger and healthier and - more like how they wanted to be. They can, they do it for their favorites."

"...healing is a central thing that gods on Golarion do. Even the Evil ones because it is useful for many purposes to have followers on the Material and it's even more important than creating water for getting people to show up, but especially the non-Evil ones, clerics of Good gods have much more flexible healing access." Although it was inconvenient for a while there not to be able to channel negative energy at demons. "If I set up somewhere here I will probably want to build a big room where as many people as possible can be within thirty feet of me and then twice a day I can heal everybody in it if all their injuries. It doesn't work as well on diseases, or deafness, or blindness; those are spells I have to prepare."

"What are you going to want in exchange?"

"...I will need a place to sleep? And if my third circle slot is wanted for things other than creating food I will need food."

"I don’t think that’s normal."

"...sleeping?" This place is confusing enough that he would believe it.

"No, only asking for necessities and not... pets, or jewelry, or for people to kneel whenever they see you."

"...Abadarans have a religious edict to charge money for their services but that's because Abadar is the god of trade, Iomedae doesn't have that."

"That’s weird."

"...Abadarans, or Iomedaeans?"

"Abadarans. Kind of both but I can imagine why someone would want to be a good neighbor and I can’t really understand the money thing."

"I don't understand their arguments especially well but it seems very important to them. They won't necessarily always charge a fixed price, their spells go to waste if they're not used by the next dawn and they'll take something rather than nothing for them, but they won't generally offer them for free."

"Not offering them for free sort of makes sense but money? Why does it have to be money?"

"Abadarans also run pretty much all the banks. They like money."

"...I've heard of a 'bank'. Not on this continent, though."

"They're useful... on Golarion. I don't know if you have any of the problems they solve."

"They seem useful if you have a lot of money and buildings."

"I was assuming this was just a rural area. There aren't towns somewhere?"

"...It gets a little denser in Acarthen. And there used to be cities but not anymore and never near here."

"What happened to the cities?"

"Gods."

"About a hundred years ago a god of Golarion died and this created catastrophic weather problems all over the world and also was involved in opening a portal to the Abyss, but I suspect you are going to tell me that the involved gods are all very much alive."

"Great guess."

"If they hated the cities and had the power to destroy them why were the cities allowed to emerge in the first place?"