"Uh, well, it varies--different cities have different temples--but the big ones in this city are She-Who-Renders-Aid, Ciramorte of the Four Winds, Pelan the Star-Seer, and Golden Araita."

"Do different cities have different temples because the people in them believe in different gods?" 

"...'Believe in' is translating oddly."

"On my plane, people disagree on which if any gods exist. Some people think there's one god, some people think there are several, some people think there are none. I don't think there's any god-related statement everyone agrees on."

"...Uh, well, all the gods definitely exist. I mean, not everyone knows about all the gods, but I don't think there are any that get disbelieved in."

"I take it their existence is pretty obvious, then? If there are gods back home they don't do anything particularly noticeable." (Except possibly sending random high school students to alternate dimensions, she supposes.)

"Uh, yeah, they empower clerics and paladins and sometimes they show up and do stuff in person but that's pretty rare."

"Huh. Okay."

She notices she's making assumptions based on Earth games; she probably shouldn't do that. "What are clerics and paladins like? Both their powers and as, like, roles in society."

"Uh, clerics are...divine casters? Most of them aren't as nerdy as, like, wizards...some of them do ministry and most of them do miscellaneous magic both in the service of their god and otherwise...paladins use a combination of divine and naturalist magic and they go around hitting things with weapons that need hit."

"I guess if there are a lot of gods there'd be a lot of variation in what clerics can do . . . how much stuff needs hitting with weapons around here anyway?"

"Uh...not that much, around here, but around here's pretty civilized, you know?"

"And other places have, like, wilderness full of bears?"

"...Bears don't need paladins to sword at them. Less civilized places have, oh, evil warlords, or no sufficiently-strong government at all and marauding casters and naturalists, or violent intercultural conflict, or whatever."

"Ah. We have some countries like that on my home plane too; sometimes better-off countries send armies to try to do something about it but giving a country a stable government that didn't have one already isn't something anybody's figured out how to do."

"Sometimes empires conquer unstable places but that's only sometimes an improvement."

"Yeah, that sounds about right."

"We're a city-state, but we're close enough to the Kartan Empire that they'd probably annex us if something went horribly wrong with our government. They're okay, as far as empires go."

"Huh. My home world used to have a lot of city-states but doesn't anymore, I think the reason is that when long-distance communication became easy it started being more efficient to have larger countries."

"That's probably easier when law enforcement is more, uh, consistently enforceable."

"Yeah, I expect so. What is long-distance communication like here? At home it's pretty much instantaneous for most pairs of people."

"We can do instantaneous communication with magic. People who can't afford that send mail by courier--some places have teleporting couriers but we don't."

"Huh. Teleporting couriers might actually be faster than my world's solution for sending physical packages. Those can get anywhere in a few weeks; faster if you can afford to pay for it."

"I dunno how often teleporting couriers do their rounds."

"I'd guess it would vary from place to place anyway. Can they go between planes? Are there any other planes that are the sort of place you'd send mail?"

"Going between planes is a different spell from teleporting. People ever have business on other planes and probably some of that leads to mail but it's not the kind of thing where some random person off the street is going to correspond with someone from the elemental plane of air."