"She'll get to work on it."

"Alright, you can let me know if she has any questions."

"It'll be a few days before everything's ready."

"Alright, I very much appreciate you help. So, another question: how do people live in Ellayania's domain? How does that compare to those living in the domains of other Gods?"

"Gods vary in how much they get involved with their mortals. Most let whatever political structures people have stand. There's not really anything like that here, so Ellayania and I sort of mediate between communities."

"Alright, that wasn't quite what I was asking. Are they farmers? Do they have cities? How do their governments work when they have them? That sort of thing."

"Mostly small-town sorts of things here. Farmers, hunters, that sort of thing. This region of the world isn't heavily populated. There's one bigger city on the coast, that's where most of the imports come in. In more, uh, congenial places there tend to be more people and cities. Monarchies are fairly popular."

"Alright, that makes sense from what you've said of the technological level. Do gods tend to oppose technological progress?"

"Not as a rule, but they will if a specific thing offends them. Decay gods and refrigeration, for instance."

"That's a thing? There are gods of decay? Is that as unfriendly as it sounds?"

"Yeah, pretty much. Not all gods are nice; some get mortals to worship them through intimidation. That sort of thing used to be much more common, but there was a paradigm shift a few hundred years back and it's fallen out of fashion."

"It feels really uncouth to ask this but, can gods die?"

"It's not easy, but yes."

"So did it go out of fashion because the gods stopped intimidating people or because decay gods, and other similar gods, were killed?"

"It started with one nice god that got pretty big. A harvest god, nothing extraordinary but people liked it. Once that was prevalent enough, other gods had to change or they'd lose all their followers."

"Huh, that's surprisingly uplifting. Almost like a children's story. I assume the full series of events is more complex but it's good to hear."

"There was a bit of godly back-and-forth plus a whole other thing with competing mortal empires, but that gets a little complicated."

"So, do you know what most people die of on this world?"

"Mmm, mostly old age?"

"So there's enough gods with healing powers around that people generally don't die from illnesses?"

"More that gods limit the spread of the dangerous ones."

"Ah, I see. So on the medical front we can mostly help by improving your ability to deal with non-infectious diseases. That makes sense."

"Yeah."

"Has the existence of gods gotten you to understanding that living things are made of cells, or genetics for that matter?"

"No to genetics. We've seen cells, but they're basically an obscure curiousity."