Of course we are! Your arrival here, of course. I'm tempted to throw a feast, you know...but that requires you actually getting here first.
That said, I wouldn't worry about not having a religious background, or knowing much of anything about the Church of Seiros. The way things were going under Rhea...the church needed a complete overhaul anyway. I think the most important things you need to know are all the problems that have been plaguing Fodlan - problems the church either created or were at least ignoring - so that you can use your power and position to address them. And you learned a lot of that through all of us, didn't you? At the end of the day, the purpose of a church is to make people's lives better, to give them support and structure and guidance. You can do all of that without needing to know how the church was doing things before. You might be the best candidate for being the archbishop precisely because you're not caught up in the way things used to be done.
Oh, of course he is. I think part of it is just that he never gives himself a break, between all his survivor's guilt and depression and his intense regret over losing himself for those five years or so and the things he did then, but...I think a decent chunk of the foundation is in the church's more repressive teachings, too. He spends way too much time thinking he's sinful for completely natural feelings and thoughts, or insisting he's not good enough because he's not perfect, or punishing himself endlessly for the harm he's done in the past while acting like the good he does in the present isn't just as meaningful.
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That said, I wouldn't worry about not having a religious background, or knowing much of anything about the Church of Seiros. The way things were going under Rhea...the church needed a complete overhaul anyway. I think the most important things you need to know are all the problems that have been plaguing Fodlan - problems the church either created or were at least ignoring - so that you can use your power and position to address them. And you learned a lot of that through all of us, didn't you? At the end of the day, the purpose of a church is to make people's lives better, to give them support and structure and guidance. You can do all of that without needing to know how the church was doing things before. You might be the best candidate for being the archbishop precisely because you're not caught up in the way things used to be done.
Oh, of course he is. I think part of it is just that he never gives himself a break, between all his survivor's guilt and depression and his intense regret over losing himself for those five years or so and the things he did then, but...I think a decent chunk of the foundation is in the church's more repressive teachings, too. He spends way too much time thinking he's sinful for completely natural feelings and thoughts, or insisting he's not good enough because he's not perfect, or punishing himself endlessly for the harm he's done in the past while acting like the good he does in the present isn't just as meaningful.