"No. I was looking for a better partnership than that. In Civilization we have traditions about that sort of thing, looking for somebody where you can start a business venture with them and stick to that for years and years. People have proverbially better luck about that if they treat it less like the problem of finding an employer, or employee, and more like the problem of who to monogamously marry and have a kid with."
"So I asked myself the question 'Who is Keltham?' from a direction that seemed useful to matching up with a god ideally suited to me, and the exact form of that question out of dath ilan isn't exactly easy to explain, but - I asked myself what a world of Kelthams would be like, how Civilization would have been different if I'd been an average person there, instead of a relatively strange person for a dath ilani as dath ilani go."
"And because the thing that was different about me, in Civilization, is always that I was more selfish than the people around me - I asked myself whether a world of Kelthams would just fall apart, because of farmers stealing grain from each other. Goodness is something that helps to prevent that, that people won't damage others because they care about those others, even strangers, care about them as much as themselves. Then if there's a world of people less Good, doesn't it end up looking, as your goddess might say, a huge mess?"