[ Horribly and repeatedly violent. Some of those scars overlap in a way that could only have been caused by a second injury months (or even years) after the first one. But he's a shinki now, and whatever crimes he'd committed as a mortal man have been washed away, isn't that right? ]

It is. [ He raises one hand to touch his crown, the gesture frankly religious. ] I serve Tot, called Antheia, whose provenance includes flowers and all the fresh growing things of spring, and crowns made from that bounty.

[ Also she is the one true god of the Far Shore and will rise triumphant over the corpses of the pretenders, praise her. ]

Would you like one?