"You know how some people have different beliefs that don't make sense you put them all together, and you mostly don't? Well, imagine if those different beliefs could all talk to each other and do the thing you do with notebooks."

"...gosh! How are parts of gods like countries?"

"They make decisions for other parts of the god, and for the clerics, and they worry about making sure the god will have enough- divine magic budget- for all the important projects the god wants to work on. Like a country would decide to spend on roads, a god might decide to 'spend' on getting more worshippers, or on trading with another god."

"Cooooool. Where does their magic come from, what makes them have more or less?"

"...wrong question. Not sure what the right one is. Their magic is just their magic, it comes from them. They come from belief, sort of, maybe it's something about that."

"Do the ones with more followers have more magic?"

"Sometimes followers are wrong about which gods are the same. Gods change, they trade with each other. Sometimes a god cares about one thing and another god cares about a different thing and then they trade or mix them up. That's why The Lord of Three Crowns lies so much. He traded away all his honest parts. Or Marthammor Duin and Celestian- they traded because of you. Wow, that's intense. I wonder why. I don't know that. Marthammor Duin never used to protect sailors and navigators, just travelers on land, but now he does. Celestian gave those up to him, and now he cares only about the stars and the great empty spaces between the planes."

"...Mahli said something about Celestian going to all the worlds and then ceasing to exist."

"Yup! That sounds about right. Celestian just wants to see all the stars in all the worlds now, there's- not much else left to him."

If mimirs could shudder...well.

"Shudder," her mimir says out loud, in lieu of better options.

"Is there any way we could stick you on a body so you could move?"

"-oh, I know this one but I don't think I should tell you. Not because you would do something bad with it, but what if an evil wizard was spying on us right now?"

"Oh, is it an evil way? Like having to steal somebody's skeleton?"

"-no not really. It might be something bad if it got out though, I think evil wizards would do bad things with it. You're not protected from spying, just from mind stuff and getting hurt some kinds of ways. There's so many things that can happen to a person, especially if there are evil wizards. Arcadia's really nice but it's not immune to spying or to evil wizards."

"Okay. It's mostly just that it might be nice if you could actually shiver and stuff so if you don't want to tell me it's not going to bother me."

"It would be nice but I'm really afraid of what evil wizards could do with my knowledge and I'm just giving it all away here. Maybe if I'm sure they couldn't be listening. Thanks for thinking of me though. Anyway, you were asking about Celestian- it's kind of sad, but that's how gods are. It's like me, really. I used to be five people but- they never became me, you know? It's sad they're dead and they're not here. They're okay, you know, I can tell you which planes they're all in, but- it's kind of sad."

"I'm glad they're okay." Pat pat.

Her mimir is of course happy to answer any other questions about gods she has, but if she doesn't, they can just play evil wizard trivia until she goes to bed.

"Do you want, like, a nickname?" she wonders. "It's weird that I don't have anything to call you."

"You could make a nickname from my name. It's not really the name they wanted to give me, it's just how it translates. 'Achieve Unanimous Truth Pinnacle Researcher'."

"Oh, I kind of like that actually but it's long. How about just Truth?"

"It won't sound like a name to people from our world. If you're fine with that, I'm fine with it. It's the best part of my name besides 'Researcher', and that one's less accurate."

"It's like your job name."

"-oh, I like that! Yeah. 'Truth Researcher'?"

"Sure!"

Then they can do some evil wizard trivia!

For example, did she know that while about 30% of evil wizards are necromancers, there are plenty of enchanters, conjurers, evokers, and illusionists in there, but very few abjurers and diviners?

Evil wizards tend to prefer underground, enclosed, and inaccessible lairs, like cave systems, well-hidden towers, or a house in Ravenloft, while good wizards tend to prefer offices in larger universities, courts in major planar cities, and so on.

Evil wizards frequently have weird proxy wars with cults of demon lords, political federations, packs or troops of species that they use for spell components, librarians, and bardic colleges.