"I wish I could talk to my god, or even any of my god's other clerics if they exist.  I'll mark it down for now as something that is not known to me to be imminently on fire, though - the whole thing you're describing - in dath ilan you could take anything large made by intelligent people, and ask exactly why it was the way it was, and get a sensible answer about the ways it was optimal.  To the point that I found it annoying.  Why is the city eight miles across but not nine miles?  Because the property values in the core would increase like so and the benefit of the edges would decrease like so, market forecasts et cetera et cetera, therefore this way was optimal.  The thing with the afterlives seems - not that."

"I wish I could talk to my god, or even any of my god's other clerics if they exist.  I'll mark it down for now as something that is not known to me to be imminently on fire, though - the whole thing you're describing - in dath ilan you could take anything large made by intelligent people, and ask exactly why it was the way it was, and get a sensible answer about the ways it was optimal.  To the point that I found it annoying.  Why is the city eight miles across but not nine miles?  Because the property prices in the core would increase like so and the benefit of the edges would decrease like so, market forecasts et cetera et cetera, therefore this way was optimal.  The thing with the afterlives seems - not that."

"I wish I could talk to my god, or even any of my god's other clerics if they exist.  I'll mark it down for now as something that is not known to me to be imminently on fire, though - the whole thing you're describing - in dath ilan you could take any large object or institution made by intelligent people, and ask exactly why it was the way it was, and get a sensible answer about the ways it was optimal.  To the point that I found it annoying.  Why is the city eight miles across but not nine miles?  Because the property prices in the core would increase like so and the benefit at the edges would decrease like so, market forecasts et cetera et cetera, therefore this way was optimal.  The thing with the afterlives seems - not that."

"I wish I could talk to my god, or even any of my god's other clerics if they exist.  I'll mark it down for now as something that is not known to me to be imminently on fire, though - the whole setup you're describing - in dath ilan you could take any large object or institution made by intelligent people, and ask exactly why it was the way it was, and get a sensible answer about the ways it was optimal.  To the point that I found it annoying.  Why is the city eight miles across but not nine miles?  Because the property prices in the core would increase like so and the benefit at the edges would decrease like so, market forecasts et cetera et cetera, therefore this way was optimal.  The thing with the afterlives seems - not that."