Mmyeah. They’re our priests, they worship the Lady specifically. So they read portents, bird bones and stuff, and they’re in charge of all our burials. We’ve also got shamans and augurs, they talk to the local spirits and get guidance that way; my uncle was augur for our hold. I s’pose still is, they wouldn’t get rid of him.

( It always feels so slightly odd, having to explain these everyday basic facts of life to someone else, when it was something she’d always taken for granted and knew that everyone knew. Abella might be a rifter, but even the other Thedosians have had to ask. The Avvar are simply so secluded. )