Afterward they discussed some other matters, but as they were not particularly relevant to Lancelot, he did not listen closely.
His thoughts remained fixed on his hometown. The words of Alamir gave him much to ponder but left him with even greater confusion. The world from which he hailed seemed truly unique, as there, death was final, and the living could never understand what lay beyond; Elves were like deities, capable of immortality, yet they had scarcely made themselves known in human history; deities had never directly revealed their existence to mortals, a mystery that was equally confounding.
According to Kalalin and Alamir, the faith of mortals was one of the significant sources of divine power for the gods and even related to the very survival of a deity, which made it unthinkable for them to ignore a large group of unclaimed souls.
