Kiya...
Other than the name thing, all I meant to say was that Alrik has laid the groundwork for a lot of future stories with this one <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
I certainly would not expect a goddess of any kind to explain herself to her worshippers, nor is it needful for Alrik's story that she do so. As you say - it is a snapshot <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
The important thing is that
Alrik knows the reasons, which I'm sure he does <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
As you know yourself, writing any kind of story takes a lot of preparation and background building, most of which will never show in the actual story itself. I know I do enormous amounts of thinking about my characters and what motivates them before I ever put hand to keyboard. Any time a character runs into something new, their reaction must be instinctive and natural, else the reader will lose the necessary 'suspension of disbelief'. And world building is worse.
If it looked like I was criticising Alrik (Apart from the name thing) that was not my intent <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
