Is there a menu?

Yup! For entrees they have roasted chicken with gravy or black pepper sauce, baked trout, or shepherds' pie, all served with bread, mashed potatoes, and seasonal vegetables.

He'll have trout, there's never fish at the Wound.

Very good.

Raafi consults a notebook while they're waiting for their food. "So, it's not quite true that the Archmage doesn't have a rule - you'll find abandoned dungeons in various places sometimes, and his church maintains those, in a sense, and if you were to start destroying them they'd eventually object. I'm not actually sure why they're doing that, I couldn't get them to give me a straight answer."

"...with the circumstances I'm familiar with maintaining a dungeon would be a reasonable way to have a single-chokepoint monster habitat available for people to fight in when they were trying to go up a circle, easier to live near one of those than a forest or something like the Worldwound, but since it doesn't even work that way here I couldn't begin to guess."

"Maybe I'll look into it someday but it doesn't seem very important."

"The rest - the various species' patron gods will object to you harming them, I wouldn't expect that to be a surprise - that's at a species level much more than an individual one, if you get into a fight with a halfling that's not generally more theologically significant than the same fight with a human - we don't have a patron, uniquely - it's more if you were systemically hunting down the caravans that you'd encounter it. The Laughing Rogue is similar but for thieves, and I've heard of Him objecting to people disrupting alcohol supplies but I'm not sure if there's a specific policy in place there. The Stern Lady - magic and death domains, Lawful Neutral - objects to undead again, but more directly - a lich who never leaves their lair would be fairly low priority to the Shining One but just as offensive to the Stern Lady as someone raising zombies, if not more so. - do you care about the Evil gods' preferences, I'm assuming you don't particularly, they're fairly easy to ignore."

"If they are not enforced and they are Evil then no, but do I understand you correctly to be saying that prosecuting theft is a problem?"

"No, that's - orcs are the better comparison than halflings, I don't expect it to be surprising that if you tried to wipe out orcs as a species their god would object to that, as much as some people might reasonably prefer to?"

"That makes sense for a species but thieves are not a species."

"Travelers aren't a species either and I expect if someone tried to implement a policy where everyone was locked up in cities for the rest of time Fharlanghn would feel just the same about it."

"I must not be expressing my confusion well."

"It's... the species' gods are more the exception than the rule, here, I started with Them because They're easy to discuss as a group but They aren't representative. Most gods care more about what people do than what they are, and it's important to Them that those actions be available to people - though that isn't universally true either. Punishing an individual thief doesn't do very much to make thievery unavailable to everyone else, so their god doesn't care very much about it, though I'm sure if He was more powerful He'd do more."

"Can you give an example of something He does do more about?"

"Particularly harsh laws or particularly harsh enforcement of them tends to be the main thing - I get the impression that His church thinks some amount of opposition makes things more fun, really, and it's when the authorities make things difficult enough that it starts affecting normal people that they really start objecting."

"So - He likes thieves, but it would usually only be enough of an issue that a state has every reason to dislike them, if a place were zealous to the point where they were also routinely interrogating innocents or issuing particularly disproportionate penalties for theft, that He'd intervene?"

"That sounds right. Also bear in mind that He and His clerics are Chaotic, they're not going to be following a consistent rule about when to act."

"I mean, yes, except in the aggregate if you have enough of any specific god's followers running around it won't matter if they're Chaotic, they will have an effect as a group, it'd just take more of them than it would for Lawful gods and their people."

"Mm, to a degree. I'd be a little surprised if that worked as reliably as you'd like, though."

"I wouldn't like it at all, I'm Lawful."

"That too."

Dinner arrives; they've made Raafi a stew of mixed meat, pickled vegetables, and river reed noodles, served in a small hollowed out pumpkin and topped with crispy chicken skin. "This smells delicious, thank you."

"The pumpkin is an interesting choice. I usually go with bread bowls when I have call to make edible dishes." The trout is tasty but less remarkable.

"Both are pretty common, here, I think it's mostly a question of whether they want the inside for another dish. Anyway, I still had the war gods to talk about, if you're interested? Again I don't especially expect it to come up for you."

"Please go ahead."

"Sure. So for Lawful Good we have the Arch-Paladin, He objects to most Evil but especially to mistreating the weak and unfairness in that sense. And then for Chaotic Good, the Brawler, objects to people fleeing from battle but more in a personal way than as a general principle, I haven't heard of His clerics going after anyone they didn't have someone complaining about, and even then they're strictly nonlethal about it. You might also run into a cleric of the Cudgeler somewhere; I'm leaving Him out because He doesn't have a policy like that, He's not Evil."