Raising a protective barrier over Kamesh was required to keep the people safe and prevent outside interference, using some of my faith points in a divine decree to turn the place into a sort of holy city was definitely overkill. But the barrier itself contained the divine energy, so unless a god is inside the barrier, they wouldn't even know that this was made by a god.
With an unsteady alliance with Morrigan, there was no need for us to hear to the capital again, but as it stands it wouldn't be too smart to out all of trust in this obviously ungrateful and crazy bitch, So Teluna had gone ahead to scout the gorge she gave us directions to, while Rhea was doing some really weird earth Dragon king shit.