...so they both still exist now?

Seems so!

:Weird: she remarks.

:Isn't it weird? It...sort of makes it seem like They don't actually care about the doctrine at all? And, just, maybe the war was inconvenient for Them for some other reason?:

:I guess it could cost them some followers but I'm not clear what they want them for, they don't give them marching orders:

:Maybe the shaman would know why They care about having followers? I mean, it does seem like They must, or why would They bother doing miracles for people who pray about it...:

:Yeah, they must want them for something or I don't see why we'd know gods existed at all as opposed to sometimes unexplained magic happening. If that:

:Right, exactly. I don't know how much more we can guess from these books, it doesn't feel like they're trying to answer that question - this one is about the Star-Eyed, if you want to have a look, I didn't get to it yet: He passes it to Azabel. 

She will read the book on the Star-Eyed.

The Star-Eyed seems less into earthquakes and setting things on fire. She has spirit avatars that can travel around in the spirit world, and human priests and shamans can project their minds there and talk to them for advice, and sometimes convey messages or requests. The avatars apparently tend to be cryptic. There are claims of getting warning about natural disasters and such before they happened, but of course, human long-range Foresight can do this too. 

"She's less destructive and spends more - surface area on trying to talk, though I'm not sure how to cash that out in terms of effort or anything since she seems pretty bad at talking clearly," Aza reports.

"Mmm. I wonder if they'd let us talk to the spirit guardian things or if you need to be a shaman."

"Ooh, good question. Do you know how the spirit world works?"

"No, none of these books were that helpful, but I think I found the right references to look up in the library next time." 

"It sounds interesting, I wonder if there's stuff there besides god-avatars. Not that those aren't potentially interesting."

"It does seem interesting! And...maybe we could learn to go there, even if the avatars won't talk to us?" Shrug. "I'll look in the library and we can ask the shaman when we have a chance to go see them." 

"Sounds like a plan." She writes this down.

Ma'ar catches her up a bit more on the contents of various books he's skimmed, and then excuses himself to help Aala with her homework before it's time for her to go to bed. 

And the next day they can go see Summerhawk!

The Kaled'a'in temple to the Star-Eyed Goddess isn't much to look at on the outside; a simple, low stone building, with a garden out front. 

A youngster meets them and, when told they're here to see Summerhawk, ushers them in. 

Summerhawk is waiting in a simple stone room, its furnishings very basic; a rug, which she's kneeling on, and a low wooden table, which has a book on it. 

"Hello?" she says. 

"Hi, I'm Aza, Lionwind's Mindhealing student, and this is my friend Ma'ar."

"Oh, yes! Welcome. Lionwind told me that you two would be coming by - you have questions about our Goddess?" 

"I'm curious about gods in general, but Her as a special case, sure. I guess Her in particular because She's got a people who are Hers and most of them don't do that so much..."

"Also I cannot help so much with your questions about other gods, though I could direct you to Their temples if you wished. What did you want to know about Her?" 

"Why does she want to have you guys?"